William Overington

Wow, that's great. Thank you. Affinity Publisher is a top class product. William

Suggestion for adding OpenType hist and hlig capability It would be good if Affinity Publisher could include facilities for handling hist and hlig tables please. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/typography/opentype/spec/features_fj#a-namehist-idhistatag-39hist39 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/typography/opentype/spec/features_fj#a-namehlig-idhligatag-39hlig39 It would need an appropriate font to be used so I am not sure to what extent Adobe Publisher would need to be altered. For example, the cascaded menus from Text Show Typography and Text Ligatures would need changing to allow for selection of facilities. Yet I have no idea how much would need to be added or changed within the software so that it all would work. It would be a good addition. Affinity Publisher is a top class product and it would be good to have such facilities included within it please. William Overington Monday 7 January 2019

It would be good if Affinity Publisher could include facilities for handling hist and hlig tables please. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/typography/opentype/spec/features_fj#a-namehist-idhistatag-39hist39 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/typography/opentype/spec/features_fj#a-namehlig-idhligatag-39hlig39 It would need an appropriate font to be used so I am not sure to what extent Adobe Publisher would need to be altered. For example, the cascaded menus from Text Show Typography and Text Ligatures would need changing to allow for selection of facilities. Yet I have no idea how much would need to be added or changed within the software so that it all would work It would be a good addition. Affinity Publisher is a top class product and it would be good to have such facilities included within it please. William Overington Monday 7 January 2019 The above suggestion now has its own thread as well. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/76353-suggestion-for-adding-opentype-hist-and-hlig-capability/ .

> And I sincerely doubt this capability will ... ever be available. Well, why please? Affinity Publisher is already showing itself to be a top class product with support for all of the Universal Character Set (ISO/IEC 10646 / Unicode) and having the facility for a user to copy from a PDF where glyph substitution of ligatures has been used and get the underlying plain text pasted into WordPad, so why do you doubt that Affinity Publisher will ever have the capability to produce a PDF that can carry an attachment within it > And I sincerely doubt this capability will (or even should) ever be available. Why do you consider that this capability should not be made available? Affinity Publisher is a top class product. I opine that it should not have restrictions needlessly placed upon the capabilities that it can have. William 

Does that mean that my font is fine or is it both a bug and that the font has a problem? William

Thank you. I would appreciate help on the High-Logic forum please. I have started a new thread there. https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7824 William

Here is the font and a test publication made using it. The poem has the word 'at' added into it compared with the earlier version. This is to test the a_t ligature which is included as a discretionary ligature. Two discretionary ligatures are used in the PDF document, one of them twice - some readers might like to try to find them. They can be found from the PDF document without any need to open the font in a font making program. The whole poem from the PDF document copies and then pastes into WordPad to show the whole original plain text of the poem, which is just what I want so as to be able to publish text with stylish typography yet from which the underlying plain text can be recovered. I tried pushing the envelope relating to the c_t ligature in that I have included in the font an alternate glyph for a c_t ligature. I wondered what would happen with ligatures switched on, whether I could then use an alternate glyph for the ligature. It appears that that will not 'go' but the glyph is listed within Affinity Publisher as a glyph variant of the c_t ligature, but I cannot get it to become in the document. Please look, inAffinity Publisher, using Text Show Typography when the ct ligature is selected but please note that standard ligatures need to switched on (which they are by default) in order for the alternate c_t ligature glyph to be dispalyed. I realize that that was really trying to push the envelope, but as it is recognized by Affinity Publisher, could it be made to work please? William poem_with_ligatures_and_alternates.pdf A poem displayed with both standard and discretionary ligatures and glyph alternates ligaalts.otf Ligatures and Alternates OpenType font

I am making a font, Ligatures and Alternates, for use with Affinity Publisher. It is an extension of the Ligature test 3 font that I posted in the forum. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/75641-copying-text-out-of-a-pdf-document-when-the-font-has-opentype-ligature-capability/ My intention is to publish the font (free). At present I am using the liga table for some ligatures, but I would like to add some more in a dlig table. For example, I have c_t and e_t and s_t and the five f ligatures and p_p in liga and am thinking of having a_t and some others is dlig so that the default display is not too 'ligatury' but that the full effect is possible. This is partly for fun, partly for testing and partly for art. Will Affinity Publisher pick those up please? I note that Text Ligatures has three options, default, none and all. Could you clarify which tables are in default and which are in all please? For example, as well as liga and dlig there is hlig for historical ligatures. William Overington Saturday 5 January 2019

Well, it could be an option that an end use could use or not use as he or she chooses. An author could draw attention to the presence of the attachment if he or she so chooses. William

I have now added a PDF document that I produced using Affinity Publisher to the web. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/white.pdf The PDF document is also linked from the following web page, near the end of the page, together with a link to the font used in it and there is also a transcript of an original forum post. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/library.htm The font is one of my own so no intellectual property rights issue over my publishing the font on the web. William

I have now added a transcript of my post of 27 December 2018 to my webspace. The font and the PDF are also available. The transcript is near the end of the following web page. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/library.htm William

Thank you. > Sounds like you might have some server space somewhere. Yes I do. I am about to provide a link to it in another thread. The thread is as follows. Copying text out of a PDF document when the font has OpenType ligature capability William

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Are any fonts bundled with Affinity Publisher beta? If so, what are they please and will they have become installed on this computer? William Overington Friday 4 January 2019

Is it alright to publish PDFs made with the beta version on the web please? I often publish PDFs that I have produced with PagePlus on the web, and indeed deposit many of them with the British Library. However, I have a paid-for licence for a production version of PagePlus. What is the situation for this free-to-use beta version of Affinity Publisher please? William Overington Friday 4 January 2019

How do I get my name as author into a PDF please? I am used to using PagePlus and adding my name into a .ppp document so that I am listed as the author in a PDF document produced from the .ppp file. However, I am trying to be listed as the author in a PDF document produced from a .afpub file. I have searched in Help and think that it might be something to do with Fields accessible from View > Studio but I have not yet found how to achieve the desired result. Is the facility to add author information implemented in the beta version and if so, how do I get to it please? William Overington Friday 4 January 2019

I am just putting this thread back to the top as Serif staff are due back today. William

Ah, I have found it. https://emojipedia.org/shrug/ I tried entering the into Google Translate and it detected Japanese and gave To as the translation. Bing translate detected Japansese and gave Star as the translation. William

I do not understand your post! William

That has never arisen for me, but I would not do it. I have always respected books and handled them with care. William

Thank you for posting. Interesting, but I would never cut a book myself. William

mac_heibu wrote:: > Is there anything else, what you are expecting from an initial(!) release of a publishing application? I am expecting nothing, but I have already been pleasantly surprised by what I have found. PDF/A capability would be nice if that is possible please. > 3D models — why not. Indeed. > But what about cooking coffee? No. > Or playing guitar? Whenever I read of a suggestion I like to think it through, just in case it is a serendipitous springboard for a novel train of thought that might lead to something interesting. I tried to play guitar but I could never move my hands fast enough, even for strumming along. I see people strumming along, quickly moving their fingers from chord to chord, yet I never managed to do that. So, thinking of what you wrote, I wondered if Affinity Publisher could have a facility with, say, six panels, each of which react to a mouseover. One panel, at the left, could be for start recording, and one panel, at the right, could be for stop recording, and another panel a bit further to the right could be for replay recording. Recording is to a .wav file, which can be exported within a PDF document direct from Affinity Publisher. In the middle are three panels, labelled C, G and F if I remember correctly, such that if, while in recording mode, there is a mouseover event, an acoustic guitar strum in that key, an electronic feature built-in to Affinity Publisher, is copied into the .wav file, with a gentle decay that is only overridden by the next strum. So with just a mouseover an end user could 'play guitar'. In PagePlus Serif included the facility to be able to insert an externally generated .wav file and produce a PDF document that contains the .wav file. For example, I produced the following in 2014. It is deposited in the British Library. www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/the_mobile_art_shop.pdf In order to play the sound it may be necessary to download to local storage and then use Adobe Reader. > Ok. Playing guitar may be postponed to version 2, if the Affinity coders are THAT lazy. But cooking coffee … Well, I am sure that they are not lazy. The suggestion for the Guitar Tool suggested above could possibly happen. For example, maybe there is a new programmer in the Affinity team and the person is to be given a learning project, something not needed as such, but done so that the person learns how to produce software of the required quality under the guidance of experienced staff. So if the person were given the Guitar Tool as a project then if he or she did get it to work well then maybe it could be included in Affinity Publisher. > I am sure, we‘ll find lots of other „must haves“ for our vendor‘s tray. Well, if we are all creative. The fact of the matter is that if you had not suggested playing guitar then I would not have mused on the idea of Affinity Publisher playing guitar and my idea of the Guitar Tool would not have happened and it would not have been published in this thread. > In other words: Why, oh why should a publishing application integrate and allow building all kinds of thinkable elements, when it is so easy to create them in a different, more specialised app and place it in „Publisher“? Because they can then be included in a PDF document that can be published and then deposited with the British Library. > The whole world in one app — nice idea, but who wants, needs and finally is willing to pay for such a dinosaur? The idea of a Dinosaur Tool sounds good, like the polygon can have different numbers of sides there could be different types of dinosaurs all in outline. I remember that DrawPlus 7 years ago had some Quick Transport and some Quick Woodcuts. Here are links to a couple of PDF documents that I produced years ago using some Quick Transport items. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/cars.PDF http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/electric.PDF It would be good if it were possible to have a Tree Tool which produces a variety of outline trees like those in the architectural designs part of DrawPlus and have the ability to fill the trunk one colour and the foliage another colour. William