cubesquareredux

Just an FYI, I don't know any design program that has that feature. It's a coding thing, CSS/HTML, not a design thing. Certainly not offered by InDesign. Definitely not in something more basic like Excel.
You can select a column and tell it how wide to be. When you adjust other columns, it won't affect the size of the column you've specified a width for. So simply set each of those dummy columns to your preferred width, and you're good to go.

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still waiting for reflowing embedded content like images ....
it's really critical for any DTP workflow .. I know Affinity say it's on the to-do list but it should be a higher priority than some of the things on that changeling list ...
let's put it plainly - DTP is not Designer with Pages - it's for working with documents of many pages .. changes to layout, styles, margins, boxes, .. will cause text to move .. and you want anchored content like diagrams to also move intelligently .. you don't want to do that manually for documents of more than 5 pages.
that is pretty core. 
 

Thanks to the Affinity Team! I am in the first beta version since! Version 1.7.0.257 is almost perfect for me.
Excellent!

Frid
73 years

Text Wrap Borders - You're welcome. Sorry it slipped out in the first place.

THANK YOU! 

Thank you @AdamW! You and your team deserve a nice weekend!

Status: Public Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: Mac OS 10.9 or above
Hi,
We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher build 257 is now available as a manual download from the link above and on auto-update.
As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity where you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. 
We hope you enjoy the product, and as always, if you've got any problems installing or running up, please don't hesitate to post in this thread.
Any problems actually using this version please make a new topic in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Please feel free to leave general suggestions and comments in the Discussion Forum. 
Many thanks for your continued feedback.
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Arrowheads!
We have Arrowheads for Line Styles from Designer. The best place to report any issues is probably the Designer Beta Forum.
Assets
We have removed the placeholder Assets from Publisher. Publisher will release with an empty Asset Panel.
Other Improvements and Fixes
Main Frame UI
No more duplicate empty panels (!)
Option for large thumbnails in Layers Panel. Layer colour tagging added
Column guide default options are now saved
Adding content with linked images to Assets will switch them to be embedded
Reintroduced Rotate View on context menus
Added command entry on Text Styles combos to create a new style
(Mac) Fixed overlay issue when entering font name into Text context toolbar font control
(Mac) Fixed crash using arrow keys in Pages Navigator on High Sierra and earlier
(Mac) Toggle Unicode shortcut is listed only under Text Menu
(Mac) Find and Replace panel icons missing from Panel on El Capitan and earlier
(Mac) Line Break shortcut is <Shift>-<Enter>
Pages / Master Pages
No longer draw guides from hidden masters
Fixed scroll into view in Pages panel
Fixed crash when pasting a Master into itself
Fixed crash moving items in Z-order having done detached edits
Text
Fixed application of Text Wrap borders (!)
Placing text with a frame selected now populates the frame and replaces the current content
Fix for positioning of path text
Formatting a specific text selection no longer updates text defaults. Formatting at the insertion point still does
Text tool selection improvements. <Alt>-<Click> forces select in front / behind
Long / nested style names in the Text Style panel are now displayed with elllipsis if necessary rather than shrinking
Fixed crash reading text attributes near Drop Caps
Fix for Character Variants for some fonts failing to show up in Typography panel
Fix for erroneous spell check warnings when languages switch within text
Paragraph Leading control not using localised decimal separator
OpenType - Accept newer versions of GSUB / GPOS tables. Used by e.g. Bahnschrift
(Mac) Fixed underline position for e.g. Univers Ultracondensed
(Win) Fixed issues with the Paragraph Decoration dashed stroke UI
Tables 
<Ctrl>-A / <Cmd>-A now selects all text in a cell rather than all cells in text context
Fixes for Table Tool when Table is nested inside layers etc
Fixed issue setting Table Cell insets
(Mac) Fixed glitch changing Table Format names
Find and Replace
Replaced character escapes in Find results with 'User Description' glyphs
RegEx fix for Find with trailing '\b', '\>' not highlighting results and Replace not working
RegEx fix for Replace All for empty search ranges 
RegEx fix for lookaround (?=regex) etc
Hyperlinks
File based Hyperlinks now have an option to copy the linked file to the output folder
Insert Anchor fails on text frames promoted from Master Page
Add Interactive > Insert Hyperlink to customisable keyboard shortcuts
Import / Export / Print
PDF Import - Fix for layers not importing
PDF Import - Improved detection of redundant clips
PDF Export - Use document colour space for transparency blending
Export - Fixed issue rendering image nodes with transparent regions with fills applied on raster export
Export - 'Pages' entry box isn't always enabled correctly
(Win) Fix for CMYK Printer Profiles not showing in Print dialog
(Win) Stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects
Index
Sort index entries by page number
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Earlier Release Notes Beta 249

The following is not a bug report. It is an appreciation.
I have to say that the quality of Affinity's beta software is better in many respects than "finished" software sold by certain other companies.
Three simple examples (just FYI, I'm on a Mac using OS 10.13.6):
1. It may be that I am a lousy beta-tester – perhaps I am not pushing these betas to their limit – but I swear that not one of them has ever "hung" or "crashed" on me, not even once! I have no idea how you people do it but I have to admit to a certain amount of amazement.
2. When I use Affinity's betas to open a file that was created in an older non-beta version, I get a sensible dialog with careful and clear options. Small details like this can be extremely important!
3. Tiny details are fixed in the betas that are not even detailed in the release notes. For example in Designer, text boxes "usually" have 8 re-sizing handles, but two of them on mid-points can vanish if your zoom is set "too low." In previous betas, the work-around was to zoom in, at which point the "missing" handles would re-appear. In recent betas, you can re-size the text box even if you can't see the "missing" handles. I presume the latter (new) behaviour is intended and I, for one, certainly notice and appreciate it!
These are just three examples. I could go on but … in short … THANKS FOR MAKING GREAT SOFTWARE!
 

Thank you for your help. It was a new install of the most recent beta and a newly created document. I will restart my Mac and try again. It’s not an urgent matter, I just wanted to let the Affinity Publisher team beware of the issue. 

I know, @Worthy Image!. My reply refers to cubesqareredux.
But did you try to restart Publisher and try this in a newly created document?

I would like to be able to copy a master page from one document to another. I've made a similar request previously about standard pages.
There are three ways this could be done in my mind:
Copy and paste Drag and drop Choose insert from page panel and select document to insert from I don't really mind which but ideally all three would be an option in due course.

Yeah, why bother with copy and paste generally. Or for that matter, any kind of convenient feature. If you aren't suffering you aren't doing it properly.

The current Affinity Publisher Mac public beta #249 has all UI locales available, (and is no longer restricted to UK English since #238).
In the app menu, Preferences > General you can choose any of the 10 languages, restart the application and experience Affinity Publisher in that locale.
We do not expect to have got all the localisation correct yet and possibly we are not using the standard terms, so if you see any words or phrases that are out of the ordinary, or are clipped/cropped short in the MacOS build PLEASE report them in this thread, stating the language and version you are running and what OS you are seeing the problem on.
Use this thread (Do not make new threads) unless you are seeing a bug that does not happen in English, so Bugs in new threads, localisation issues in this thread

Well, that’s not entirely true, of course. You can always use a transparent rectangle beneath your image that serves as a spacing element. Set Distance to Text to zero in order to ensure upwards compatibility. You certainly don’t want your document get messed up when this bug is fixed in the future … 
Alex 

I can see the Symbol Studio via an assigned key-stroke but not otherwise.
UI language: US English.
Thanks.

I can't see that line - probably to do with being colour blind it fades into the background.
Switching to the dark UI I can see it. (although I prefer the light background on the workspace).
So looking at a dark background I can see the line appear either on the left, right or in the middle.
Might be a problem for other colour blind users...
Thanks

First of all I want to say I LOVE Affinity Publisher! I've been using DTP software since the days of Pagemaker in the early 1990s, but only continued with inDesign up to CS2 (with a year of the subscription model being used also, around 2016; but never again, if I can avoid it). I've just completed my first project using Affinity Publisher, after making do with Adobe Illustrator CS6 for a number of smaller projects; and I have to say that the one thing I consistently noticed myself thinking while using publisher was: Instead of often thinking, "Why doesn't this work properly, or as expected?" I instead found myself thinking: "Wow, that's a smart way to implement this feature; it's easy to find, easy to use, and works very simply and very well!"
So well done Affinity Publisher! I can't wait for you to come out of Beta testing, whereupon I will be purchasing all three of your software offerings!
Anyway; one issue I did notice (and it might not be a problem at all): when exporting a PDF (which worked fine, and again I like the way you've implemented that export feature), I needed to reduce the end file size as much as possible so I decided to try the "export a flattened PDF" option, at least to see the projected file size (great idea, by the way, to give that feedback before the export is committed). However, the projected file size never resolved and instead my 15" MacBook Pro (2017; 3.1 GHz i7 quad core processor; 16 GB RAM; 1 TB SSD; Mojave 10.14.2) started spinning its cooling fan (I purchased this laptop last year and I think this is the first time I've ever heard the fan engage; well I suppose it's good to know it works) and after an appreciable time with no estimate of the end file size,  exited out of the dialogue and went back to exploring other export DPI options.
 
Well that's all; wonderful program for desktop publishing, though — I am thoroughly impressed! 
   
5a_UNIYIL.afpub

That’s a great and useful improvement, really. Love it. 

Hi Oval,
Yes, this was improved. The middle handles don't need to be visible anymore for you to adjust the width or height of the boxes as long as there's enough space between the corners handles for you to place the cursor in the middle (it should then change to reflect you can adjust the width/height). In the current retail you can only adjust the width and height when the middle handles are visible over the bounding box.

Is this really new? And you mean it resizes only the width/height of the box? – No, not only of text boxes.

The following is not a bug report. It is an appreciation.
I have to say that the quality of Affinity's beta software is better in many respects than "finished" software sold by certain other companies.
Three simple examples (just FYI, I'm on a Mac using OS 10.13.6):
1. It may be that I am a lousy beta-tester – perhaps I am not pushing these betas to their limit – but I swear that not one of them has ever "hung" or "crashed" on me, not even once! I have no idea how you people do it but I have to admit to a certain amount of amazement.
2. When I use Affinity's betas to open a file that was created in an older non-beta version, I get a sensible dialog with careful and clear options. Small details like this can be extremely important!
3. Tiny details are fixed in the betas that are not even detailed in the release notes. For example in Designer, text boxes "usually" have 8 re-sizing handles, but two of them on mid-points can vanish if your zoom is set "too low." In previous betas, the work-around was to zoom in, at which point the "missing" handles would re-appear. In recent betas, you can re-size the text box even if you can't see the "missing" handles. I presume the latter (new) behaviour is intended and I, for one, certainly notice and appreciate it!
These are just three examples. I could go on but … in short … THANKS FOR MAKING GREAT SOFTWARE!
 

Yes please, I would like to add my vote for footnotes and endnotes facilities.
Thank you for all your good work so far on Affinity Publisher Beta.

In case you missed this comment in another thread:
 

We all hope that.
Ver 1.7 will not have this feature. Serif have not said what features will be in 1.8 or other updates to 1.X. I would rather not think about a "final version" ... that feels very far off for this fledgling product.