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Hallo Anton, I know, this is how it SHOULD work. I have had no problems before with changing and updating text styles, but this one particular style applied specifiaclly within a box in the Master page gave me a headache. All solved the olde fashioned way

Hi Bruce, I have changed everything by hand so to speak. Thanking you for your input. Nevertheless 'reapply text styles' seemed a pretty scary command that I did not want to use having read the Help menu, I was more confused than ever about what it really is going to do having read all the instructions - so I avoid it. Detach styles speaks for itself, but the rest is just too complicated to grasp.

Hi Walt, thank you for replying. I will go ahead and change it all manually, It will take 6 or 8 minutes, but I have spent over an hour trying to solve it - so logic dictates the absolute silliness of worrying about a little piece of software that has not changed a font size. However Please could you, Walt, explain this sentence, you have lost me. Changing a text style will not update the field but the text would update - I am sorry - you have really lost me on this one. What on earth is the difference between a field and text? All I see is a field containing text, definitions needed here I think. Thank you Walt. I have changed text styles before globally, and the context tool bar has reflected those changes when I have clicked on the relevant text, so what on earth do you mean?

EDIT, sorry, I have affinity One still on Windws 10 Hallo Walt, here are two screenshots. My original header was 16 pt, I simply went ot 'Edit Style' and changed the font to 14 pt. This is the only change I made. This first screen shot is the manually applied Header style AFTER the edit. The second screen shot is what the Header Style became AFTER the edit and remains at 16 pt, nothing changed globally. Have no idea why I have TWO 'no style' styles? They have been there forever.

Hallo, I simply could not believe that I can not find this in the affinity help, anywhere. I updated one of my text styles to a very long documnent. Yet the update does not automatically take effect. I still have to go through each paragraph to update it, and right now I have stopped because this will take forever. I am sorry, but I seriously can not find this in the Help menu anywhere. I actually assumed this would have been such an easy an obvious thing to do. Thank you

Hallo DMI, I appreciate you taking the time to do this. The fact that you printed from your IPAD tells me that something is very wrong somewhere. After many trials I can not figure it out. The one reason why I never use the IPAD for anything in life is because it is useless for printing, it never has access to printer drivers like normal computers do, therefore you have no control over all sorts of options that one gets from a computer to the printer. The fact that I print the above document normally from my laptop yet it is messed up from my wife's IPAD is ridiculous considering she has exactly the same settings as you. Not to mention the fact that I have been printing for 20 years so I know what to look for. I think the problem must be a corruption somewhere in something? Maybe something is carried over from procreate, for the same thing happens when she prints directly from procreate, but when she downloads it to my laptop everything is hunky-dory. Also since this started happening around the same time as she was getting corrupt JPGs when exporting something tells me this has nothing to do with printer settings. Guess that's it folks! No idea. Thanks DMI.

ADESIGN Version One. Hallo, TWO Issues: for many many months and without any obvious consistent recogniseable pattern when my wife exports her design from ADesign the jpeg becomes corrupt. We see this when we put the USB into the laser printer. Also in like manner when there is no corrupt Jpg and it exports fine, the design size of the image gets reduced by about 60% on printing. First Issue: Corrupt Jpg - What have I tried: As far as the corrupt jpg goes, I am in no mood to start downloading a hex editor. Plugging the jpeg into my laptop shows it is corrupt. Second Issue: Reducing the size of her designs - As far as the Re-sizing goes this is a mystery, when I plug the jpg into my ADesign on my microsoft laptop it prints fine. Unfortunately we deleted the corrupt jpg before I decided to come to the forum, since being sick of this problem I never bothered putting the issue here. But now it s getting ridiculous. The jpg that I have uploaded is NOT corrupt, but printing from the IPAD reduces its size to something stupid, yet prints fine from my laptop. Any advice or tips would be welcome. This is a problem we have been trying to navigate for at least 6 months now.

Ooooh unbelievabubble - I kept teling myself I bet it is something so simple - thank you Murfee.

Hallo NPM, thank you for this I will take a look at it and see if it is more complicated than my own solution, if your idea turns out to be quite easy I probably won't use it.

Windows ADesigner - for the first time imported brushes from Frankentoon. Searched everywhere - the help says that they should appear in their own category in the list of brushes. Well they are nowhere to be found. Thank you.

Hallo Garry, nce of you to add this, I actually was thinking about this as a very last resort - but I thought I would go the complicated route first😊

Well that was a new one to me, I remember checking this box and not knowing what on earth it did, last night.

A strange thing happened in my publisher document, as per screenshot you can see that every single name of each one of the text styles is different. Not only that, what was called "Box Indent left and right' has now changed to simply being the colour of the box. This is the first time all this happened, all the typing and sizes have changed also.

Well in the process of trying out both suggestions I discovered something that can not be done by inserting measurements in the text wrap settings, no matter how hard I tried. I attach screenshot where I could manipulate the second sentence independent of the first sentence and so achieved what I needed. But without either of your suggestions I would not have discovered this so another thank you.

These are great suggestions - thank you both of you. I will try both - thank you.

Here is the situation as seen in screenshot: The 'F' of 'After' is too far away from the Drop caps 'A' of 'After'. Bring them closer through a negative value brings the 'S' of 'Should' obviously too close and underneath the Drop caps 'A'. I simply can not figure a method to bring the F of After subtly closer to the Drop caps. I tried creating a manual text box with the Letter A inside and using text wrap but that did not succeed either. I wonder if anybody has any suggestions please?

Hallo Old Bruce, Please forgive my confusion here: 1. """"Give the first three pages None for a Master/Parent page""""" How? One cannot type anything into the section manager, in this particular context. So I do not know what you mean here - I am sorry. 2. So I created a new master page and got lumbered with this again, as seen on the screenshot, (it really would be so logical to be able to delete the the first section). Every time I create a new master page it lumbers this at me instead of defaulting to what one should expect - a clean slate. I am sorry Old Bruce but I find this page numbering system a little confusing.....odd as that may sound considering other things I do on the rest of the affinity suite. What seems logical and sensible and intuitive is to be allowed to DELETE or at the least be able to EDIT section One and NOT have everything greyed out????? EDITED Have just solved the issue; 'Clear Masters' and no need for another master page. That was it, first three pages now have no page numbering. I missed that in the drop down menu. However I would still appreciate an answer to the above please, if you have a moment sometime, I would like to know what you meant.

The attachment shows how the first three pages are NOT to be numbered. I have created a new section to start page numbering from the 4th page success here at least. I expected ??? to be able to simply delete section one, edit it or something very obvious because I do not want any page numbers on the first three pages. Reading instructions just confuses what I thought was an obvious intuitive thing to do. Sorry for the question.

You are right - I was not reading this carefully enough. I was linking the text frames in the document not on the master pages themselves. Thank you Walt.

....then make sure one prints as a single page and not as a booklet - yes I get that - and I set this up, but I still have the same problem, I have to go through every single page of either the odd or even page and manually adjust the text frame of the odd or even pages in order to print back to front (on both sides) as individual A4 pages. Screenshot 01 - I am not aware of any method where you can set up a seperate master page - one for the left side and one for the right side of this spread? ALSO, Shift + click on that red arrow does NOT work even here, for it sends ALL the text to one side of the page throughout the whole document. The ONLY way to do this is to click normally on every single page and flow your copied document individually onto every single page. Screenshot 02 - AUTOMATIC flow does not work in this particular case, it will not flow into text frames that are positioned differently throughout the document ie onto odd pages AND even pages with different margins. Walt thanks for your help I guess I shall just do it the long way and copy paste everything and manually adjust each text frame accordingly. Convenience is nice when it works but I am not going to spend anymore time figuring this out - Thank you. Kind Regards Chris

Hallo Walt, I attach a screenshot. It shows page 1 and page 2, each with their own masterpage and different margins, with text Frame box set up on both master pages. These will be printed as 'Print Both sides', and therefore require these settings for binding purposes, they are not facing pages. I tried importing text and doing exacty what you said before posting, problem was that when I clicked the red triangle on the first page it created all 90 odd pages BUT ignored completely the masterpage settings for the even pages. In other words - it created all the pages (Text frames) exactly the same.

I set up a brand new document and have alternate odd/even page master pages applied throughout. I have set up the text frames and page numbers and the odd/even pages have their different margins. One slight problem I do not know how to solve is this: How do I paste 90 pages of text into my new document WITHOUT having to link every single page individually? Thank you Chris

Thanks walt, well I never touched it, so my system can not support it as you say. So I will just leave everything as is. Thank you.

I have no idea what you mean here, sorry. I have 4 GB ram and both Publisher photo and designer work perfectly, never a problem never a crash never slowing down. ONLY SINCE I UPDATED has publisher crashed so many times, but not in the last week so far. I would not know where to find out if I could enable the HAceleration, the specs are as follows: Intel i3 2.0 Ghz, running everything on the laptop, no peripheals involved at all. (If I were doing heavy duty Photo editing and using designer like a professional I would invest in a brand new Apple mac by the way, but an enemy microsoft laptop will do for the moment).

I just noticed my RAM usage in preferences/Performance says 4096 Mb when I only have 4000mb - could this be a problem, should I lower it to say 3800 Mb?