CarlM

In PP the transparency tool works on all objects including pictures. It doesn't seem to work on images in picture frames in AP for some reason but does an all other objects. Inserting a picture using the place image tool works fine though so the only way to create a graduated transparency effect on an image that has been placed using the Image frame is to create a shape over it and add the transparency to that.. Is it likely that it may be implemented at some point for image frames as well?

Kieran
If you click on the Resource monitor button at the bottom you should be able to view CPU, Disk, Network and memory usage graphs in Win 7.

It would be more helpful if you explained what is wrong with the widow and orphan function. Footnotes - well I understand that's on  the horizon but many designers I know that use InDesign don't use the footnote function at all and prefer to create them manually, but that's not a reason for the function not to be in Publisher. What do you want from a Book function? As for speed - I'm at a loss. Publisher is extremely fast and makes InDesign look like a snail in comparison. What computer are you using?
You say you test Publisher from time to time but it was launched less than 6 months ago at a price level less than 10% that of Indesign or Quark Express. That's not to say that we shouldn't have high expectations but we should cut our cloth etc. It took Adobe with profits in the billions and an unlimited access to programmers and developers in their budget years to get InDesign to the same level that Publisher has already achieved.
Constructive criticism is helpful, and positive. This just sounds like an InDesign fan bad mouthing another product.

Exceptional! I use Photoshop and Lightroom as a professional photographer but bought Affinity Photo last night so I now have the full set. Also much easier to use it as part of Studio Link than dipping in and out of Photoshop to effect changes to images.
Thankyou for your support to the community. Every bit helps.

Do the Serif staff live on site and work 24/7 given the times of night you all seem to post?

Do the Serif staff live on site and work 24/7 given the times of night you all seem to post?

Hi Fritz
There is a similar resource use moving an image around a blank sheet in Photoshop 2020. Photoshop uses both the CPU and GPU and the combination of both comes to approximately the same amount. In other words Publisher isn't alone - every application that deals with images faces the same issue. Moving an image around may seem simple but to do so smoothly requires an enormous amount of processing. I'm not sure why you consider this a problem though. It's not as if you're constantly moving the image while doing something else, for example and from your video there doesn't appear to be any impact other than the CPU loading while the image is being moved.
regards
Carl

more than "may be".... I'll get my coat

It would be more helpful if you explained what is wrong with the widow and orphan function. Footnotes - well I understand that's on  the horizon but many designers I know that use InDesign don't use the footnote function at all and prefer to create them manually, but that's not a reason for the function not to be in Publisher. What do you want from a Book function? As for speed - I'm at a loss. Publisher is extremely fast and makes InDesign look like a snail in comparison. What computer are you using?
You say you test Publisher from time to time but it was launched less than 6 months ago at a price level less than 10% that of Indesign or Quark Express. That's not to say that we shouldn't have high expectations but we should cut our cloth etc. It took Adobe with profits in the billions and an unlimited access to programmers and developers in their budget years to get InDesign to the same level that Publisher has already achieved.
Constructive criticism is helpful, and positive. This just sounds like an InDesign fan bad mouthing another product.

It would be more helpful if you explained what is wrong with the widow and orphan function. Footnotes - well I understand that's on  the horizon but many designers I know that use InDesign don't use the footnote function at all and prefer to create them manually, but that's not a reason for the function not to be in Publisher. What do you want from a Book function? As for speed - I'm at a loss. Publisher is extremely fast and makes InDesign look like a snail in comparison. What computer are you using?
You say you test Publisher from time to time but it was launched less than 6 months ago at a price level less than 10% that of Indesign or Quark Express. That's not to say that we shouldn't have high expectations but we should cut our cloth etc. It took Adobe with profits in the billions and an unlimited access to programmers and developers in their budget years to get InDesign to the same level that Publisher has already achieved.
Constructive criticism is helpful, and positive. This just sounds like an InDesign fan bad mouthing another product.

Have you never heard of the need to be polite if you want something done? Bugs occur and do get fixed. Given that Publisher is like its competitors primarily intended to generate files to be sent to print houses to professionally print I'm not surprised that a relatively minor bug relating to home duplex printing isn't being dealt with as a fast tracked number one priority.

Our "Collect for Output" workflow. To send to printshop/collaborator in a different company/client etc...
1. Open original Publisher file and open Resources Manager at the bottom of the 'Document' Menu.
2. Select all . and click Embed. 
    * Why the button might be greyed out when you select all:- 
       - there is a linked item(s) that cannot be found in the items you selected. You will need to go find it..
       - you have selected already embedded item(s)
3. Save As new file. We stick the word EMBEDDED on the end . 
This will give you a larger file.  Send to the other Affinity Publisher User you want to share your doc with. Dropbox, YouSendit, Firefox google drive blah blah....
we see 100page magazines come in about 3-5Gb. 
4. At the other end . open the file and open Resources Manager at the bottom of the 'Document' Menu.
    - Click 'Make Linked.' a box pops up to say where do you want to save all these links. 
5. Save As new doc . Potentially without the word 'embedded' on the end.
- some gotchas we have noticed. 
- There are some files that get embedded even if you have set them as linked. i.e placing a PSD, PDF, AI EPS, .afdesign    all make the the file size of the original bigger. So using those formats to link will give you really big files but keep the link 'live'. So it the original afdesign file is updated your Publisher file knows and lets you know.
- These particular (psd,ai, eps etc..) embedded files that say they are 'missing' can actually be saved out.  but you need to edit them in place. And save them out as 'new' versions of themselves.  Double clicking a .PSD  file for instance will open a new tab with the embedded version of the file. You cannot 'save' it you need to EXPORT it.! then you get your file back.
- This process doesnt include fonts. 
Use the 'font manager' to get yourself a list. This is also in the 'Document' Menu. Then collate them to give to your printshop. 
The same font, from different font foundries are different. Caslon used on one computer can be different to another Caslon on your Printers Prepress Department's computer. 
Hope this give some people some ideas.
Great work Serif. Keep going... dont give up.
 
 

Whilst Serif is essentially the same company, Affinity is a totally different concept from the previous line of products. None of the range of Affinity products is backwardly compatible for quite obvious coding reasons.  I also had a large number of Pageplus & Drawplus files and simply converted them to appropriate formats (PDF, SVG) so I could import them into the Affinity products. Serif isn't the only company that has been through a similar change in product architecture that has resulted in their having to abandon backwards compatibility. I also recognise that I no longer have any use for the majority of the documents I created in the past and if I'm simply retaining them for archival purposes then keeping a pdf version of a PPP document is absolutely fine for me especially knowing that I can always import it into APub and work on it. When Pass through is eventually sorted that should make the process even easier.

InDesign comes with Free Artist made Templates and given that it is intended for professionals I can't see any reason why there shouldn't be some for Affinity Publisher. At the very least some blank templates for common document types would be useful.

Are you using the latest release version because it's working fine and as it should in release 1.7.3.481

Have a look at this site. It looks as if you may have a corrupted cldflt.sys issue which is fairly well documented. The most recent Windows update might be a factor - it has caused some users problems.
https://www.exefiles.com/en/sys/cldflt-sys/
 

Create a new document and then create a table and add some text. Select a Row, right click and select "Autofit Row to contents" and Publisher crashes every time. Randomly, the same occurs with Autofit Column.

You're fed up of waiting? For what? Publisher was only released two months ago! you may have accessed the pre-release betas - but that's exactly what they were - pre-release. Mswift is right - InDesign took a couple of years to equal Quark Express and 20 years to reach the level of maturity it now achieves but Publisher has only been around for two months.

But what if the text frames aren't connected? How would Publisher decide what you want to see? That's the difference between a Word Processor and a Desktop publisher. Pages in a DTP are individual elements whereas in a WP the document pages are simply divisions or breaks in a continuous stream of text.

You’re joking right?
you Are comparing 20 years of development with 2 years. I remember the first version of InDesign didn’t equal its opposition (Quark) until about version 3.

Fantastic! The Pin to Text issue is resolved

A bit of clarification is needed, I think, @Catshill.
First, you seem to be using AP to mean Affinity Publisher in your second paragraph, but in your third paragraph you're using it to mean Affinity Photo. It's important to use the full names, or abbreviations that uniquely identify what product you're talking about
Next, it's important to specify the kind of content you're talking about. I think in this particular case you're probably referring to PDF documents as you mentioned fonts. Embedded or linked documents (PDF, .afpub, .afdesign, .afphoto, SVG, EPS, ...) behave differently (today) than embedded or linked image files (JPG, PNG, TIFF), and so one's workflow may need to be different depending exactly what kind of content one is dealing with.
For a linked image file, an edit made in Publisher by opening the file in a separate tab (regardless of the Persona one uses) will be applied to the original file.
For a linked document file, the edit will be applied only locally within the Publisher document. So, yes, if that's the kind of content you have, and you want the original file to be updated, you would either Open that file directly in Photo or Designer, or you would open the linked document in a new Publisher tab using the Edit Document button, and then use Edit in Photo or Edit in Designer.

True for image files (JPG, PNG, TIFF), but not true for linked document files (PDF, SVG, EPS, .afpub, .afdesign, .afphoto, ...).
 
You're not alone.
Personally, I would like the ability to edit embedded files, not just linked files. And I would like the option of whether editing a linked file also updates the original, or simply embeds an edited copy in the Publisher document.
But, really, at a minimum all linked file types should be treated the same, and all embedded file types should be treated the same.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @Phen.
Publisher runs on Windows 7, 8.1, and 10. As far as I know Windows 7 does not have a spellchecker, so Publisher would not be able to spellcheck on Windows 7 at all if it depended on the Windows 10 functionality. By using Hunspell instead, Publisher is able to do spellchecking on all the Windows releases that Publisher supports. I don't know for sure if that's the reason that Serif chose not to use the Windows 10 function, but I think it probably is.
If you want Publisher to spellcheck in a language it doesn't currently support, and that language has a Hunspell dictionary available, you can download it and install it yourself. If you search the forum for the word Hunspell you will find several discussions of installing Hunspell dictionaries.
But specifically for your need for Russian, you should be able to download the Hunspell Russian dictionary files for LibreOffice and install them. You need these 3 files: hyph_ru_RU.dic, ru_RU.aff, and ru_RU.dic.
If you open Publisher's Preferences, the Tools tab has an entry at the bottom showing you the directory where you can put additional dictionaries. Click the Open... button. In that directory, create a new directory named ru_RU (or, if that doesn't work, try ru-RU) and place the 3 dictionary files in it. Restart Publisher, and you should then be able to specify Russian as a spellchecking or hyphenation language.

I think you might possibly be confusing the color space conversion with color matching which is done because of the differences between display colors, printer inks, etc.
Not all ink is created equal.  Starting out with CMYK 100/50/0/0 against some particular standard and printing to a specific printer will cause the values to be adjusted based on the characteristics of the ink that printer uses, in order to try to closely match the color of that standard based on the characteristics of the particular ink.  If you turn off the color management then you might use the specified amounts of ink but the actual observable color won't match what you expect.
I can send a purely black document to my color laser printer and it will still mix a bit of color into the black ink because the black ink is not "true" black as per its profile.
High-end printers are more likely to have higher-quality ink that more closely matches some standard or another, but even those go through calibration against some profile and the ink that comes out may not be an exact match for the CMYK values coming in.
 
While having a swatch book could certainly help if the printer is actually calibrated accurately, the benefit of the "color bridge" set is that it is designed to provide colors that have similar matches in both process and spot color spaces, selected for being printable.  Even without the swatch book, restricting to that set of colors means using colors that should be possible to reproduce somewhat closely on any given printer, so you don't wind up choosing screen colors that a printer is not capable of reproducing.
If the calibration of the screen and printer are off, then swatch book or not, it will never quite match up.  For that level of matching the proper hardware is essential.  The profiles that come with the screen or printer will give a better match than not having a profile at all, but any two of the same display or the same printer will not have exactly the same profile, and the profile changes as the devices age, requiring periodic updates to those profiles.  If someone is using 3rd-party ink with their printer (a very bad practice for numerous other reasons also) then that ink is unlikely to match the characteristics of the manufacturer's ink and will thus require a different profile, which they are unlikely to provide.
If choosing screen colors that are out of range for the printer, then it will never match up quite right with or without calibration - you would be seeing colors on your display that the printer would be incapable of matching.  This is what restricting to the pantone color bridge set can help to avoid, as the colors should be at least theoretically possible to reproduce, though the match will still only be as good as the device profiles being used.