William Overington

First of all, I think your software is very good.
But the support for Chinese is poor. I think it can be optimized.

Hi everyone.
For some time I started using the Affinity publisher (my previous experience is with In Design that I use without any difficulty) and for the lack of knowledge of English I struggled a little. I believe that some measures are not possible with the beta.
I write because in the Forum I did not find any questions on some tabs of the paragraph styles menu. Under the heading typography there is alternates and variant: two cards that I did not understand their functionality.
I ask: how are the variants and the alternates created?
Greetings and good things to everyone

Thank you.
I have now added that information.
I was intending to post this to try it out, but I have since noticed that it has acted retrospectively on my previous posts already.
William
 

To avoid having to remember to include that information when you post, you can put your system specs in your forum signature. To do this, go to your Account Settings page where you’ll find a ‘Signature’ link.

I can see that "italic" character in the All list.
It is Glyph 213.
 

The software will inform you when an update is available when you start it. Then....
* On Windows that prompt also has a link that gets you to the new build (or rather to a webpage with a link to the new build).  When you download and run it, the new version replaces the existing one.
* On Mac the software prompt suggests the app is closed and then the update downloads and installs itself.

Hi,
Because we knew we would effectively be down for two weeks over the Christmas period we gave the last beta (206) an extended expiry time of 45 days, so it will expire round about 26th Jan. We hope to have a new build out in the next few days with some updates if you really are stuck. I know its not much help but my builds, Mac and Windows, are fine.

Hi William Overington,
We usually provide a new Beta before the previous one expires so a new one should be out soon even if just for renewing the expiration date.

Here’s the definition from the Printing dictionary at Prepressure.com:
So the thicker the signature, the more uneven the margins will become if you don’t adjust for creep.
Yes, that should work OK for APub. As I indicated earlier, in AD you can use one artboard per page and then export to PDF to create a single document comprising a collection of pages.

I am looking at making a comic (standard comic book size) as a test before I try out the real thing. But I am confused on how to do the page set up with trim and actual size.  I have seen singe page sheets and double wide so that it has a fold.  If you did the double-wide doesn't the center margin have to change size since the outside pages need to be bigger than the page at the centerfold?
So I guess what I am asking can someone please make me a blank comic page (No panels) with the trim marks, and space for the header, page number etc?  And can that also be used for the cover? 
Thanks for any help
 

Hi fde101. That´s what I mean

Hi William.
When exporting as PDF.
I think it would be a nice option that the several pages of a document can be saved as individual PDf files during export. Page 1 as page_1.pdf, page 2 as page_2.pdf, ...
Best, Thomas

He means that if he has 8 pages in the document he wants 8 PDF files of 1 page each.
Others have already asked for this elsewhere on the forum.

Would be a nice feature having the abbility to save all spreads as single PDF files.
Publisher is great :o) Best, Thomas

(sigh)... yet another thread for a common topic that we have a bunch of existing threads for...
 

Hi
I just love Affinity Publisher! But please add Hyperlink support. Being able to add links in documents is a dealbreaker for my customers.
 
Anders

you activated a lock icon, please "unlock" it in the layer
 

Dominique and William..

Both of you... have many thanks.. i tried it.. here are the screenshots..  as far as i see it worked as you have eyplained... 
I tried to go to the Export settings of the pdf export and in "More" i tried two export options..   i checked and unchecked the option... subfonts..

this was the produced pdf claimed the fonts one time as subset one timen not..

thanks ... 

Tom

I wouldn’t really think about not embedding fonts, only because one assumes, that the viewer’s machine has it installed as a standard font. First, these fonts may not be installed, what causes use of fallback fonts. Second there are differences between font versions, which may cause fonts to be wrongly displayed. This is especially true for kerning.
In other words: Don’t even think about not embedding fonts!
Generally spoken, embedding the complete font instead of a subset isn’t necessary (any more). It  simply enlarges the PDF’s file size. Normally, editing text in PDFs doesn’t depend on a font being embedded completely or as a subset: Since Acrobat 6 (July 2003) for copyright reasons a PDF text only can be edited, if the exact same font (name, version, format) is installed on your machine –regardless wether the font is completely embedded or as a subset. You may want to read this little statement of Enfocus (developer of „PitStop“): Enfocus
If the font is converted to vector, every „character“ is present as a graphic of its own. But this isn’t the main issue. The main issue is, that the font’s hinting values get lost, what may cause distorted glyphs when outputted on lower resolution devices like laser printers or digital printing machines, which work with lower resolution than offset printing.

I see that @MEB has solved the problem. Good to see.
It takes some time to get accustomed to a new user interface. APub offers many options everywhere.
This happened to me, too 
d.

Hi William Overington,
Please check my reply here.

Hi William Overington,
After clicking the More button on the PDF export dialog, it's possible you are not seeing all the options available. There's a scrollbar on the right, make sure you scroll it to the bottom. You should then see the Embed fonts dropdown.

Hi @William Overington,
are you by any chance on a Mac? Maybe this feature is not implemented there?
d.

> 
A PDF document carries information to allow the display that you want to be produced on another computer.
There are various options.
When it comes to fonts, you may opt (I think that it is possibly on by default in Publisher - I have just tried to find where one may choose the setting, but I cannot find it at present) to embed a font that you are using so that the font is thereby available when the display is produced. As a side-issue of that, if you do choose font embedding you may choose to subset the font so that only the characters actually used are embedded. So, for example, if you write a poem and it does not have some of the letters and digits and punctuation characters in it, then they will not be embedded in the PDF. For example, a poem might not have, say, B, M, Q, X, Z, 1.. 9 and ( and ) in it, so if subsetting is used, that part of the font will not be embedded. Thus, for a large font that has characters for all of the languages of Europe and you are, say, using only English in the document, the information for all of the special characters for the languages of Europe will not be placed into the PDF. However, some fonts have flags in them that do not allow that to take place: also, even if it can be technically done then the End User Licence Agreement for the font may not permit it, either totally or only if an extra fee is paid, or maybe allowed for sending a copy to an external printshop for making hardcopy prints but not for placing on the web.
Your questions:
1. I do not know at present. In Serif PagePlus it is on an option panel when exporting the PDf document. I have tried to find something similar is Affinity Publisher but I have not found it today. I may have seen it the other day but I cannot be sure as I have also been using PagePlus.
2. Open the PDF document in Adobe Reader (which may now be called Acrobat Reader). then
File
Properties ...
Then on the panel choose the Fonts tab.
There is then a list of fonts. It states so if they are embedded.
A PDF that I produced using Affinity Publisher on 5 January 2019 is attached for you to test if you wish.
Please note that the font is listed as Embedded.
When I tried the same test with a PDF that I had produced using PagePlus it listed the font as Embedded Subset.
William
 
poem_with_ligatures_and_alternates.pdf

That could well be it.  I'll do some experimenting.
Thanks for the reply.