richh

Thanks for the explanation. I kinda wish there was an option to have them come in linked to Designer and have them converted when one does anything more elaborate than just pushing them around on a page. Fortunately with Publisher and its Designer and Photo personas I have what I need. -Richard

Is this the way things are supposed to be? I have the latest version (1.82.630) of the 3 Affinity apps. I started off in Designer, created a 7.5x9.5 (300 dpi) page and placed 5 little JPG files (each a max 1200 pixels wide with a file size of about 200k) and 3 frame text objects on it. I exported an image from it and then saved the .afdesign file. I looked at that file’s size and saw that it was about 6 MB! Rasterizing the images into pixel layers, of course, made the file larger (11 mb). Just for grins I tried similar things in Xara (1.2 MB), Corel Draw (11 mb) and MS Publisher (1.2 MB). I held off on Affinity Publisher till last figuring it would be similar to the .afdesign result. It turned out that the .afpub file was only 800k in size. Why was the .afdesign file so big even when images were placed? Why the difference between .afdesign and .afpub? -Richard

Thanks. I didn't look closely enough.

Is having the option to automatically include "continued on page…" or "continued from page…" at the top or bottom of linked text boxes or frames unusual in DTP programs? I've done a 15+ page monthly club newsletter for more than 10 years with MS Publisher and that is a feature I use regularly. It saves me the coordinating effort that would become necessary when last minute changes force me to relocate a text box to a different page. Don't know if it's a must-have feature but to me it's one that's RNTH (real nice to have). That's usually one of the first things that I look for when I look at different DTP programs and I can't recall a modestly priced one, including AP, that has it. Is it hard to implement or is it rarely used or is manually updating page numbers just something that people are accustomed to doing?