William Overington

I always like to have the screen brightness of a computer turned right down. I find that the white (light grey?) upon black of the lettering on the menu bar and cascading menus of Affinity Publisher difficult to read. I find that sometimes I need to turn up the brightness, which I don't like doing. With PagePlus X7 the black upon light grey of the menu bar and cascading menus is ideal for me with the screen brightness turned right down. The colour scheme for writing this post is similar to the PagePlus X7 colour scheme and is ideal for me. I appreciate that the colour scheme for Affinity might well be all part of the design and the marketing and that I am quite possibly in the sigma2 proportion of the population who has the brightness turned down like that and that Serif may well not want to change the format for the new product. However, could you possibly have an option that a user could set please so that the user may choose for himself or herself to have the colour scheme used for PagePlus X7? Also, on the start up panel, the word Affinity is to me not legible as it is one shade of grey upon another shade of grey. I am using a Lenovo ideapad 510 laptop computer (a portable device, yet in fact permanently located on a desk and plugged in to an ethernet connection) running Windows 10. William Overington Wednesday 19 December 2018

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Yes. 384.47 kilobytes. William

10.17 kilobytes

Yes, please find it attached. William test001.afpub

I am thinking that this has something to do with the PDF being produced using the PDF (for print) choice because when I produced a later PDF, that include two more characters from different fonts as well, using he PDF (for web) choice, the result is 17 kilobytes in size. William

Thank you. I got it to work. I even tried the Segoe UI Emoji font and found that I could insert a character, in fact I used 1f335, the cactus. Not only that, when I produced a PDF document (in fact, a 'for web' PDF) and then copied from the PDF document to WordPad, the character then pasted across. This was as a character, not as a glyph, which I proved by then copying it from WordPad and pasting it into the Edit Search facility of the High-Logic FontCreator program and got the 1f335 as the result. I repeated that with a character from an experimental font of my own and got back a code point of f9008, which is correct. Gold star to the Affinity team for producing Affinity Publisher using all of the Universal Character Set and having the character codes go through to a PDF document and having them able to be copied out. This is a major step forward. William

I am new to Affinity Publisher. I have produced an A4 document with the following text in 36 point Goudita SF and then produced a PDF document. This is a document produced using the Serif Affinity software package. Yet the PDF document has a size of 384.95 kilobytes whereas whole chapters of my novel produced using PagePlus X7 are around 25 kilobytes typically. The text appears to be in characters as I did a copy and paste from the PDF document to WordPad and then deleted the some of characters one by one, then changed the font of the rest. Any ideas why the PDF document is so big please? William

I am new to Affinity Publisher, though I have been using PagePlus for many years. I have been trying to insert a character other than one of those listed under Text Insert. In PagePlus I simply use Insert Symbol Other and it is then straightforward to select any character available in the chosen font from a panel that becomes displayed. Is there a similar facility in Affinity Publisher please? William