skadhu

thanks!

I'm posting PDFs created in Publisher (Mac desktop, OS 10.14) to a website for download and have run across a problem I don't know how to fix/avoid. The PDFs themselves are fine when opened, but the Wordpress interface puts a black background behind everything on the page. This shows in the thumbnails and also in the WP interface for the file itself (and results in black text disappearing altogether if it's not on a differently coloured background). I've never had this happen with PDFs before, but it's a problem with any I create in Publisher. I know it's not serious in that the PDF itself downloads just fine, but it's just... really bugging me. Does anyone know why this happens or if/how I can avoid this problem?

Thank you all! I was hoping for a preset but this at least lets me control the dimensions.

Hi all, I've dug and dug and so far I can't find a way to do something very simple... What I want to do is preset the dimensions of a frame by inputting them somewhere, not by watching the dimensions change as I draw it. I want to do this for a variety of reasons, one being so that I can easily create multiple frames of the same size. All the information I've been able to find relates to setting the dimensions of an image within and relative to the frame, which is not what I need. Is there a way to do this that I've missed? thanks!

Honestly, I can't see why there's so much resistance to this idea, it is so fundamental to so many programs. I am very fussy about typography. That means I create a set of styles and then oftern modify them slightly to adapt them so that they are optimized in very specific usage contexts. In many cases that means a modification is only used two or three times—it's not worth creating a whole separate style, figuring out what to call it so that I can distinguish it from the other other variations of the style, and then doing the whole thing again and again. I would end up with a really cumbersome and unusable list of styles and I would spend more time creating styles than applying them. This is such a basic and important function for my workflow—and NOT something that creating styles is a viable alternative for—that if Indesign didn't use a subscription model I wouldn't even consider Affinity products. As it is I simply get pissed off every time I need it.

It doesn't have to be that complicated as there's an easy workaround for the problem: if whatever is in the text formatting at the beginning or the paragraph formatting at the end affects things, select a different word/paragraph format to copy. It's when formatting already exists and can't be copied that it becomes a problem. All the programs that I use copy text formatting if I select a word, a paragraph if I select a paragraph. That's a pretty basic function. It's the paragraph format copying that is most essential to me, because I often apply styles in ways that are slightly customized to context.

Thanks! I will try all this and update.

Another update... I ran Disk Repair just in case the problem was there. Then I tried creating a whole new aPub file (see attached), detached and deleted all existing styles, and discovered that I can’t specify a style colour using the sliders I can’t change a style colour using the sliders The colour picker works just fine I am baffled. I am wondering if I need to trash Library Prefs but I see that Publisher has two—no idea why. Would I need to trash both? I've attached a screenshot. Or are there other files I could try trashing? testfile.afpub

Update: I spoke too soon, it didn't work. Yesterday I also had problems with a Designer file sent to me as a PDF: when I reduced the size of the artboards, text wrap wouldn't accept the change and insisted on wrapping to the original artboard size. Sigh. Anyway, I am going to try a full reset back to default settings by holding down the CTRL key while launching the app and see if that works.

I tried relaunching Publisher a couple of times, also restarting my computer with no luck. However I just reset Object Styles and I think that may have fixed it. Thanks!

Using Publisher 1.9 on Mac OS 10.14.6. Nothing has changed recently except updating Publisher. I tried to change a text style colour in an existing document to a specific brand colour (as I did a couple of weeks ago in another file) and although the colour picker still works for randomly choosing a colour none of the sliders work. I can go in and manually change the colour of text and then update the style (my current workaround), but I can't edit the text style colour using the sliders. I tried creating a new style with a new colour using the sliders and that doesn't work either. I created a new document with a new style and it won't let me specify a text style colour using the sliders. I have attached the test file and a screenshot showing what I see when I try to edit a style colour. It allows me to select a setting number (apparently) but I can't change it. Thanks. text style colour change test.afpub

I would like to add my two cents that this is really, REALLY important. When I do a complex document I do create a set of styles, often a fairly complex set. BUT there are always typographic fine-tuning adjustments necessary depending on the actual layout and how things come together. If I created styles for each adjustment I would be dealing with a frighteningly long list of styles: "heading 1" and "heading 1 when (a)" and "heading 1 when (b)" and "heading 1 when (c)"... you get the idea. It's just not practical, and I would lose all the time saved by using styles in searching through them for the one tweaked for a particular circumstance. It's much quicker and easier to copy/paste the format. Please add this feature!

Restarting seems to have solved the problem. But thank you Polygonius!

It seems to be working now that I've rebooted the computer and started everything up fresh. THANK YOU!

I've just installed the Publisher beta, but haven't been able to figure out how to manage my fonts in it, and it is largely useless to me until I do. I'm on a late-2013 iMac running El Capitan. I have thousands of fonts stored in a folder in my User folder. I use Font Explorer X Pro to manage them. Publisher only sees the fonts in Font Explorer's "system fonts" folder, which is only a tiny number of the fonts Font Explorer manages. It does see other my Font Explorer font set classifications, it just doesn't see fonts within those sets that aren''t in the FEX system folder. Does anyone know how to set things up so I can get Publisher to see the other fonts? Is the problem Publisher or Font Explorer?