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  1. Hi! Some of the following points are already said but the more things I try with Publisher the more I get dissatisfyed with the whole picture placing thing. The first time I opened InDesign I had no idea how to do anything but after a while you realize that you need a frame for everything. So you draw your frames and fill it with whatever you want. For the last six years I have done a lot of work with InDesign for university and got used to it and how it works. I have never seen any other DTP software and i do not want to say that Publisher should be exactly the same as InDesign but there are some things in Publisher that definietly confusing me completely PICTURE FRAME RESIZE Draw a picture frame in the size you want. Place a image into the picture frame. Select the image in the layers panel to manualy move an resize it (ID: just press 'a' for the right tool or double click within the frame for the right tool to move and resize the image within the frame. If you now change the size of the picture frame the placed image does automaticaly rescale, depending on the choice under 'Properties' Confusion Back to step 3 PLACED IMAGE INTO FRAME I tried placed an image via drag n drop but needed it within an image frame. How to do? Maybe just draw a picture frame and nest the image within the picture frame in the layers panel. The image is somehow within the picture frame now but somehow differend as if you would have directly placed it whitin the picture frame. So how can I bring a placed image into a picture frame? ORIGINAL SIZE It is already discussed in another topic but very important when you place scaled architecture drawings for example, too. CROP TOOL FOR PLACED IMAGES I realized that you can also use the crop tool for placed images and picture and somehow I got something that at least looks like what I opticaly want but with a strange behavoiur. Select differend things in the layers panel, check/uncheck 'lock children', ... All I am begging for is the possibility to draw a frame that fits into the layout (margin, grid, guides, ...) and place an image within the frame that I can move and scale the so that the right area is visible. But the easy way without a search for the right parent or child object or some automaticaly resizing that i don not want becaus a already have done this manually. Please tell me if I just got a strange workflow in InDesign or when there is a simple and logical workflow in Publisher that I have overlooked. Thanks! PS: I often missed something like the artistic text tool in InDesign. So thanks for this!
  2. When I place an image via picture frame, I see I can update it with "Replace image". I guess this is like linking a picture in Indesign? But is there an option to update all or selected linked images which have been edited/changed in another tool, like I can update links in Indesign? I tried and painted in an already linked image, saved that and looked at it in Affinity, and it wasn't updated. So I'm wondering how this is supposed to work. I also tried right click on the image in the picture frame (or it's layer) and looked for an option like "edit..." (in Photoshop, Affinity Photo or whatever). But I didn't find anything like that. Maybe I looked in the wrong places?
  3. Hey Serif + Affinity Team, Just chiming in to show support for a 3+ page spread option in Affinity Publisher. It's something I thought I could leave behind in Adobe InDesign but now I am sorely missing the ability to do a multi-page spread for a layout project. May we please have some clarification on where this feature is in the pipeline? I could create an obscenely wide sheet/page and then divide it up in Photo's Export Persona but other items have come up: The project is 10 pages (Instagram carousel layout) with overlapping content across each page. Almost like a mural of photographs and content. "Why not use Designer?" - I wish to retain the Picture Frame elements of Publisher for the photo layouts and cropping. Easier for me. I created a single super-wide page which would be divided up into 10 pages. This is where I discovered: We're limited to a maximum of 48 column and row guides on a page The original idea was to have 10 column guides per page to help with image and content layout. Therefore the super-wide page should have 100 columns and 10 rows. Finally just opted for 40 columns and 10 rows - 4 per page. Should suffice. Had to adjust gutters so everything lined up with the "page end" guides. This is a janky way of doing it with the following limitations: Can't use individual page/spread masters for each page or spread. Not a big problem as this layout will be custom. However for someone who wants to create a lot of these and change sections of the massive spread on the fly. Weird stuff happens when you add or remove spreads or pages (sizes change, masters change ... it becomes a hot mess). Action items to consider: Serif, please give us the ability to place pages side-by-side so we can overlap content over multiple pages. Will give you money in exchange for not having to do the above. Even create a plugin or an add on for a reasonable cost. Attachments: Apub-File with two-page spreads and the massive spread. Delete, add, or insert pages ahead of the massive spread, I dare you. See what happens. PDF of the Massive Spread. Sample.afpub Sample.pdf
  4. I may be suffering from noobie syndrome as I'm relatively new to Affinity Publisher and came from Adobe inDesign. So far I have been very pleased with the product and produced my first printed brochure over a weekend, so my complaint is in context that I think it is a great app and worth exploring for more complex projects. It is currently not possible to drag an image in an asset library into a picture frame in a document. I am scratching my head wondering what the point of the assets capability is, if it cannot be used to populate templates/master pages in documents. I have created a set of assets that I want to re-use in a variety of different documents and yet the only way I can find to use them is to do the following a) drag from the assets library onto the document b) convert the placed image using context-click -> Convert to picture frame c) manually resize the picture frame to what I need d) repeat for each asset I need to use. Instead I feel I should simply be able to drag the asset to a picture frame and have it follow the rules defined for the picture frame (re: sizing/aspect ratio). After all I can do this with a random image from the finder... maybe I'm using the assets incorrectly. Maybe I don't need them at all, though it does seem, convenient as a way of organising reusable content. I guess my expectations have been set by a variety of products I've used over the last couple of decades where this kind of behaviour is normal. It might not be me, but the behaviour is highly unintuitive and I would class it as a UX defect as such. Is it just me?
  5. I have also stumbled over this issue when trying to re-create a publication in Publisher that was previously done with InDesign. As previously noted, with ID when an image is placed, it always creates an image frame. These two objects can be manipulated separately, and this can be done in Publisher too. My publication is a conference guide, and consists of a number of exhibitor profiles. Each profile consists of a logo and some text. The logo goes at the start of the profile and the text follows. Therefore the logo image has to be anchored (in ID) or pinned (in Publisher). The logos are supplied to me in many different formats; some JPEG, some PNG, some PDF and some EPS and even some AI, and the native size and resolution may vary considerably. Also, some supplied logos come with varying amounts of white space, either above or below the logo, or sometimes all round. With the "image inside a frame" model, I can resize the frame to eliminate the white space very easily. I may have upwards of 50 logos in a publication, and therefore a streamlined workflow is highly desirable. With ID, my procedure is: Use File > Place to import the graphic into the layout. The graphic is imported and a frame is automatically created. (With ID, a graphic object cannot exist without a frame). Check the "Auto Fit" option on the toolbar, and then transform the graphic to have a width of 160 points, which is the width of my columns. (The "Auto Fit" option ensures that the image is transformed with the frame). Finally, I make the graphic an anchored object to ensure that the graphic moves with the text, and set the options to be "Above line" and "Centred". I can also set the "Space Before" and "Space After" at the same time if necessary. With Publisher I think I can achieve the same result, but it seems to take more steps and clicks, and is therefore more cumbersome. So far I've tried this approach: Use File > Place to import the graphic. The graphic is placed in the layout without a picture frame, and I therefore cannot use the frame to "crop out" any white space. I then use Layer > Convert to Picture Frame to place the graphic in a frame. (Note I can't easily create the picture frame first because I don't know the proportions of the graphic until I place it. I guess I could create a picture frame first, then place the graphic inside it, and then use the "Size frame to content" button on the context toolbar, but that's even more steps). Now I can use the transform panel to make the picture frame 160 points wide. I can now adjust the frame height to crop out any white space. Then I use the pinning panel to anchor the graphic to the text. Finally I have to open the Text Wrap panel and set the wrapping attributes to "Jump". This is quite a quite more effort to achieve the same result, and with a large number of graphics to place and limited time, it can be frustrating. Now it may be I am missing a trick with Publisher and there is a more efficient technique, but if there is I haven't found it yet. (We really need that workbook). So here's something to consider. When the File > Place dialog is presented, how about a check box at the bottom that says "Create Picture Frame". Make this setting persistent so that next time an image is placed, it remembers the setting from last time. Perhaps there could be a second check box to set the text wrapping options at the same time. Finally, something in Preferences that allows me to "Always create a picture frame when placing graphics" might also be useful. I believe that something like this would streamline the process, especially when placing multiple images with a single operation. Such an arrangement would satisfy those like me who always want their graphics in a frame, and also those who don't. With Kind Regards, Mike G.
  6. Hi everyone, I haven't used publishing software in many years (Indesign), but I do remember there was a way to resize an image's box without resizing the image itself. It basically then masks areas of the image that are outside of the picture frame. Can I do that in Publisher? thanks, James
  7. Hello good people. I'm thankful for having Publisher, and I hope to replace inDesign with Publisher soon. Right off the bat, with just8 linked images and nothing else, file size is 78Mbs, while the exact same InDesign file is just a couple of Mbs. Images are big 5k x 4k, and file size is big 2k pix x 15k pix. Now, I'm not saying that this is some sort of a big problem, but why does it make such big files, what for? Another thing is regarding sending images to AP for adjustments. I noticed I can't copy/paste between Publisher and AP. At this point we don't know what will Vector and Photo persona do within Publisher, but it would be nice to have some sort of tool/option that sends images from Publisher to AP or AD and opposite for fine tuning. In InDesign this feature is called "edit in..." and it gives you the option in which software do you want to open your image and you access it by right-clicking on an image. Now this is something important. What is unique in Publisher in comparison to other Affinity apps beside other things is Picture Frame tool. This tool behaves differently than usual item mask or clipping mask that we use in AP and AD. I wish there is an option that allows me to place or import or simply drop images directly in Picture Frame. In inDesign all images that get imported by any means are automatically within Picture Frame. Right now I have to manually place all images into Picture Frame which is fine for small amount of images but gets time consuming if there are many images. Picture Frame tool. It is a bit clumsy because as soon as I move the image within the Picture Frame, the frame itself resets the properties from auto scale to none. And from that point there is no way to scale the image, but I have to click again to the frame properties in the navigation bar at the top and change the scale option in order to continue scaling my image. This is way too complicated and unnecessary. Also, there is one option missing: fit frame to image. If you ask me the entire thing in the frame properties should be called image fitting and not scaling. Because why would you not want to scale the image. What you may or may not want could be rather about fitting the frame to an image and image to the frame as opposed to scaling it. Thank you for reading.
  8. The difference seems to be that InDesign places images in a way that is basically equivalent to Publisher's placing them inside of picture frames. Normally, just dragging a picture in Publisher will not put it inside a picture frame, but you can create a picture frame first and then insert an image into it. Personally, I have never liked the way InDesign handles images, so I much prefer Publisher in this regard. Perhaps a simple preference checkbox to create a picture frame when placing images is all that it takes to provide for both preferences.
  9. Oh, I'm also a user of InDesign since it's beginning and I agree they've got a nice way of doing things. But I think we're confusing the term "lock children." In Affinity "lock children" means the image within the frame is locked to the page/canvas. You can move the frame all over and the image stays put. What you're referring to, I think, is how an Affinity picture frame uses its placement properties to dynamically scale and position the image within the frame as the frame is manipulated. Which, as an InDesigner, I find frustrating. I've taken to not using picture frames at all, but rather just shapes as vector crops. There are limitations, but I feel like I have more control on how everything interacts. That might change if Affinity could give me some key commands for centering and resizing images in frames like InDesign does.
  10. I've been testing the app since the first beta, bought it as soon as it became available but there are still couple of things I would like improved: Using Hand tool while inside text frame? ID allows the hand to be active with ALT key, because you cannot obviously use H or Space bar while inside text frame The scope of the F&R panel? Is it full document by default, currently selected frame etc? Picture frames - this one is really confusing for long time InDesign user. You can import an image without picture frame - but you cannot crop it - it will resize as you resize handles. You can place image inside picture frame but it will scale along with the frame by default. Anybody who uses ID will use modifier key(s) to resize both frame and photo, but the default action is just cropping the photo inside the frame without changing it size. You can do it if you double click on the image inside and do some transformations. Then the photo does not scale nor moves along with the frame. I remember when ID version 1 came out - it was nowhere close the features we've received yesterday so I'm really looking forward the future of Affinity apps and will definitely support further development. I've seen other people mentioned features such as footnotes, mail merge, span columns - I'd sign my name on those as well and we will probably get then at some stage. It would be nice to get everything at the start but we to show some patience I guess.
  11. Hey Team from Affinity Publisher, ....I make a little wish list and I hope I am at the right place here... In the last month I worked with your publisher. I created a presentation out of architecture plans. The plans are made of a CAD program and they are a little bit bigger than the normal PDF or JPEG u normally use for a presentation or a layout of a book. After a while the data getting really big! Bigger that typical Indesign Date will be come, when I using it at the same way. I got a really well running PC, so it was a problem, but not the biggest one :) Its getting reallllyyyy slowwwwwwllllyyyyyyy So here comes my wish list. It would be great, when you could work my themes into your program. Every Architect will love this. First of all To find your scale percentage tool you really need a map! And then it feels more like you fill in an excel field then you scale a picture by a layout program… So maybe you could show a little sign where you can move button to scale the picture or you could make a field, where you can sign in the percentage number of scale. It would be perfect if the field could show the full time how much the picture is already scaled. As an example you got a plan in scale 1:100. It is to big in this scale for the side. So you scale it. (Maybe by the pulling edge scale ).Its fits on the side. Then you got 50 other plans in the same scale 1:100 which you want to place in the new scale on the side. So you just take a look and see how much you scale the first plan or even better u can scale the plan while you placeing the new plans! This would be perfect! I really missed the presentation view. Just push a button and the rulers will not show any longer and the layout getting bigger and will be shown over the full screen. Everything else will be hide. I love the system where you can place a plan with more sides and you can move throw over a button, even when you already placed it! This doesn’t work any longer, when you place it into a frame. Damm…. Normally when I am working with indesign I make a frame at the master page and at the normal page I can activate and unlock the frame, so that I can place a picture in it. And I can move the picture in this frame. I didnt find the system how I can fill the frame in this way. And also the way to move the picture in a frame and cut the picture is a little bit more complicated… The first help for this is to place the button more in the near of the two arrows, so you see at the first time that this three buttons belong to one family….. And I don’t know how I made this, but I duplicate a plan and I moved and cutted it, and after a while the link name got lost. So when I tried to replace this plan (Normaly I overstored it) this doesn’t work… This is really important, because at a competition we place the first plans and picture in process of working and after a while we want to put the revised plans on the same position only with one click! I really love your program and I really want to help your development. So Thx for listening to my advices and sorry for my DENGLISH Lots of Greets Linda (Lindus) from Hamburg
  12. There has been a lot of talk about image placement on this forum and I for one agree with the frustrating issue surrounding Image frames. I agree that affinity has some nice options especially for re-sizing proportionally and other nifty things you can do. ( Although I wonder about their interpolation policy when enlarging or downsizing, indesign has the option of changing the interpolation in the preferences panel depending which edit you want to do) Any, nevermind affinity is very good. Back to the picture frame business; An option to 'Fit Frame to Content' is something I desperately need and have spent a whole hour and two buckets of coffee and talking to birds to figure this out. My work-around went like this, this only FITS FRAME TO IMAGE', not the other way around: 1. Select the rectangular Shape tool. 2. Select the Layer drop down menu, and 'Convert to Picture Frame' Not Image frame. 3. Select place Image tool, yes select Image tool, not picture frame tool 4. Double click on your image 5. This step is important, otherwise the rest will not work, try missing thisstep and see what happens, You have to move that image a few mm, a microscopic mil to the left or right orr up or down whichever you want, just move the image slightly then return the image to its original position. 6. Now you can click ONCE outside the whole frame to de-select that frame. Now Re-select that frame by clicking inside it. 7. Now move the left or right handle on the frame and the frame can be moved independently of your image. OK, so why the fuss, well, I have to have two documents, one for all my content pages and another for the cover. So I have an inside back cover with half my image on the right and half my image on the left which happens to be my last page in my other content document. Naturally I need this image at actual size, and need it to be perfectly aligned when opening the magazine. Bt there are many other reasons why one needs to be able to do this. A fit frame to content would be a handy little button. So all I need right now is for some smart geeky know it all to tell me that he can move frames independently of the image in a couple of clicks and I have wasted an hour.
  13. @fde101 @Seneca @dominik @haakoo Okay, I thought this trough... It would be a premium solution to me getting some kind of option for the Picture Frame or a second Picture Frame Tool that behaves like in the videos. Ok, I made that clear and I also see that InDesign has not such a feature. This makes it likely that Publisher will not get it, too. Since InDesign is the role model here. Do you guys think, even if InDesign doesn't do that, we can agree on this (what I consider to be a bare minimum)?: If the Picture Frame is a rectangle make the Image edges snap to the Picture Frame edges (when it comes close). You may configure that in the Snapping Manager and supress it as with Alt ("ignore snapping") as you are used to, but there is a option you can put an image layers left top edge exactly onto the left top edge of the bounding picture frame (for example). Do you think this should be possible or not? If not, please explain. I really start to think that everything InDesign cannot do should not be able in Publisher as if most people here indeed want to have an exact copy with nothing change (beside the price and subscription model). EDIT: Added video: ZRP3ByADCi.mp4
  14. Hello. It is really mind boggling to me why frame tool doesn't allow non-fit scaling in the custom position that is not maximum nor minimum fit? The proportion option "maximum" and "minimum" fit almost never match my needs because the position is either centered or (if use anchor points) position is fixed to one of the sides. The "no scale" option in the frame properties should be no-fit scale, because why wouldn't I want to scale my picture? Also, Picture Frame tool and Vector Crop tool are conflicting one another. Vector crop is good for Affinity Designer but Publisher is supposed to centered around Picture Frame tool, no? Long story short, the point of this thread is: I need a tool that will allow me to crop the image the way I want and allow me to scale image with frame. Currently Image Frame tool can only do fit scaling and that is not useful to me. RIght now, if I want to scale the image, I have to do it seperately and then scale the frame seperately to get what I want. InDesign frame tool is perfect, it allows me to scale anyway I want, plus the fit to frame and fit to image.
  15. Hey everybody, As an hobby I write and publish material for TTRPGs, working mostly on my own. I usually prepare my publications using the Adobe suit, or sometimes Latex — which I use a lot, but mostly for other stuff — but some time ago I decided to give Affinity a chance, and bought Photo, Designer and Publisher. The suit would be perfect for my workflow: I do digital paintings and vector graphics and I like to be able to use them easily in my text editor of choice. What I have seen since of the softwares is really great. I especially love the consistency and integration between the three softwares. I would like to move my workflow from the Adobe suit to the Affinity one. However, there are some features that I use a lot in InDesign that aren't implemented in Publisher and that I wasn't able to replace with consistent and comfortable features of Publisher. I think that as a whole the three softwares still cannot replace my workflow — jet — even if they are amazing. I would like to suggest here some of the features that I would like to see implemented, that I believe would be a great improvement — at least for how I work. Copywriting persona: The ability to work on text passages in isolation is of the utmost importance in my opinion. If I am working on a complex layout I need to be able to work on the text alone, and only on it. It would also be useful to be able to control the single passages of text, like if they were layers; import and export them, work on the single sections and move them around. This, imho, would improve significantly the ease of use of the software. Link text and md files: As an addition to the previous point. I often write my texts outside the program I use to layout, and I would love to be able to import the text as a resource, keep working on it, and have the changes done in Publisher also in the original file. I work a lot using markdown, which I usually then have to convert to paragraph styles semi-manually, and support for it would be a great feature. "Nested Styles" and GREP styles: Here I am using the Adobe names for it, but I use this feature all the time. I use them to create dynamic paragraph styles — that, I will admit , are more relevant in my field of publishing. I especially use them to give specific character styles to some parts of text, either using specific separators/end characters, or searching for specific bits/tags. It is very handy to be able to control and change them and apply them to all the text automatically. "Object Styles": I think this is another feature I miss a lot in Publisher. The ability to assign settings to an object, be it a text frame, picture, table etc. and update them for all assigned objects. I use it a lot for pictures wrapped with text, because I am not going to know right away how much space in between I want. I may change my mind while working and having to go back to every single picture is a nightmare. Sure, Styles in Affinity sort-of do the trick, but they are not linked to the objects and it is not possible to modify them directly. I think it would be great to be able to do so. Having a collection of all setting related to an object. It would also be great to be able to treat them as text styles, and have base styles, and styles based on that. This are my thoughts right now on the suite. I still think I am going to try and work more with Affinity, because there are many many things to love. I have worked a bit with Designer, and found it very good. I like Photo for digital painting but I wouldn't mind paying extra for a dedicated "Affinity Painter" if it were to push out better features than PS for digital drawing. I decided to buy the softwares even if I may not use them as my main tools because I saw potential in them, and wanted to support this developing company. I can't wait to see were the next updates will lead them.
  16. Looks like this is the topic I was about to raise. Why? Why? Why can't we see the outline of any text wrap we have set? This is so fundamental! In the attached image, I've set wrap around the picture to 4mm in both InDesign and Publisher - spot the difference. What's more galling is that if I set a wrap value by hitting the 'Show Text Wrap Settings' button, then innocently click 'Edit Wrap Outline', I can't see the outline! The editable shape starts at the edge of the image or graphic or frame, NOT where it's been set earlier. Without ranting ;-), I do hope this is addressed. Or am I missing something?
  17. Yes, you're right. This can only work with rectangles. I think it can be implemented the way that I set the Picture Frame a property to behave this way and then it can only be a rectangle. Maybe there could be a second type of Picture Frame that is always a rectangle, so there is no need to deal with other shaped Picture Frames. I'm not yet quite sure what would be the best user experience here. As seen in the video the image is scaled with the picture frame when the frame gets to big. When scaling the picture frame the image always scales with it if it needs to. I think this is perfectly fine behaviour. There is always a moment when I check out new software and encounter a new thing where I think either "yes, makes totally sense" or "oh, this is surprising". Seeing how picture frames behave in software of Rossmann and Pixum is a clear "yes, this is logical" moment. In contrast I really wonder how professionals don't get mad using InDesign, QXPress and Publisher with a behaviour that you always need to fine-tune the edges. I even did not find a snapping functionality of some kind to help there. It's just fine-grained work with the keyboard to fit it in there and this is what me really suprises. Maybe trough the years as professional you gone trough so much pain that you don't see it anymore, but as a new user to desktop publishing I'm really surprised nobody sees that as a problem. But somehow as a software developer I started to oversee the problems of Eclipse also and sometimes trainees give a hint. I account it to that.
  18. Ok, so I've used InDesign for over 10 years, specifically for creating Wedding Books in the Photography industry. I love how Affinity combines all 3 of their software components into Publisher. But there are a few things that I think would be very simple additions that I actually rely heavily on but are difficulty in Affinity Publisher. 1. When using the Picture Frame rectangle tool and resizing stretching to fit a grid actually also stretches the image upon placement. in Indesign, I just create a box and divide it to as many images i need to place and just click to insert. But in Affinity Designer, you have to create each frame individually. If you create (let's say 3 frames) to go across a page, they have to be perfectly sized otherwise, if you create all 3 frames and then stretch to fill, once the images are placed, they will appear stretched. 2. Resizing Picture Frames AFTER you have placed the images the left side of the frame stays in place as the right side moves according to your pointer. this is annoying because then the frames overlap into each other. 3 Fill Frame Proportionally would also be a very strong tool, I don't see it available. I do however see "Size Frame to content" and a few more options under "properties," but none of which are usable for what i need it for. 4. Distribute Horizontal Centers would be a simple addition. I can see the align postilions, but something like this where I want to align my Images proportionally and centered is not available, and if it is, it is not easy found. 5. The "Gap Tool" is a very neat feature that would be awesome to see in Affinity Designer, that would solve many of my issues mentioned above. Maybe it's just me and as I keep using Affinity Publisher I will get used to the workflow. Just those simple items would make Affinity Publisher that much more stronger.
  19. If you're unhappy about the "intelligent" picture moving & resizing that goes on when you resize a picture frame, try this. Create a picture frame. Place a picture inside it. Double click the picture or select it from the layers panel. Move the picture by any amount with an arrow key and Voila! the frame can be moved without the picture changing. The setting in the Properties panel seems to not affect this. Maybe this is known but I've just discovered it so I'm happy and want to share it.
  20. Hi, It would be nice if, beside dividing text frame to columns, text frame can be divided to rows. Beside changing the column width, it would be nice if we can change the gutter width, too. There is very interesting feature in InDesign (see attachments). If you start drawing any object (text or picture frame, poligon...) and you press on right/left or top/down arrows -- before you release the mouse button -- you will multiply the object. Lets say, you press the right and top arrow twice, you get 9 objects in 3 rows and 3 columns that are placed on the same area of the starting object.
  21. Does this feature already exist (and I can't find it)? Is it possible to resize a picture's frame without the picture itself (like in InDesign where you can manipulate the picture frame or separately move and size the picture within the frame)
  22. Ok the Place of multiple images is a bit cumbersome. 1) If you just use File>Place and select 3 images, you can't place them neatly on the page 2) Pre-setting up image frames is different the File>Place of images, as if you place an image it is not automatically inserted into a Picture Frame. If you place into a frame - it's a different process. 3) It's not neat at all - placing images into a frame. If you move the image within the frame, then resize the frame, the original size and position of the image iside the frame resets - I've tried all the settings, locked layers, image properties box and all that - nothing works. Seems buggy. 4) It's not efficient - InDesign allows you to use FIle>Place and you can create a grid of images in seconds - https://tinytutorials.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/indesign-cs5-new-feature-grid-mode-gridify/ I think this Place feature is great - with the panel on the side - the large thumbnails etc. - but I feel it could do with a few options in the Place panel that appears. Like an option to place all images at once, select 1 row to get all 3 images in a row. Or if you have 10 images - you could select to have 2 rows, which gives a grid of 2 rows x 5 columns. Or alternatively, you could want 12 images placed, and use a grid of 3 rows, giving 3 columns. Power Duplicate! That's awesome, didn't know how to do that in Publisher - looks great! Is there going to be a Panel for this, so you could choose offsets, rotation, steps etc. with a preview before committing to adding 250 objects to the page? Gap Tool I find this useless, it's a feature from InDesign - I have used InDesign since about 2004 - and Gap tool was introduced in CS5 circa 2010, 8 years ago. I think I have used it about zero times! However, a quick onscreen option to adjust gaps, alignment, align to margins, spread, page etc. would be very welcome! Or even the control panel to throw up the option when multiple items selected. It would be a very powerful feature! Pages - spreads! Definitely need to have multiple pages stepped up - vital for tri fold, gatefolds etc. to have 3 or more pages in a spread. This could also give fold marks on the exported PDF or other file formats.
  23. First off: thank you for Publisher! I’ve been waiting for this and it’s been great to take a crack at building stuff. Secondly: apologies for the thoughts below. As I learned with Designer, there’s probably a way to do half of this stuff, I just haven’t been able to find it yet. Layout Guides - I’m not seeing a way to specify the exact placement of guides. It seems like this should be in the dynamic menu bar (the section that gives you font information when you click on a text box) or the Transform tab. I could be missing it. I Need the ability to lay out columns from a page level. A mode where I can set margins and page columns and see them updated in real time is a must. I’ve closed 98% of my Affinity Pub projects over this missing so far. The ability to quickly change document units. I can do this in InDesign by right-clicking on the rulers. The ability to switch from Inches to Picas (thanks for adding those!) and such would be huge. Typography The mixed text styles window is kind of driving me crazy. The ability to have separate character styles and paragraph styles, and to be able to sort them in folders and such would make this more usable usable. I’m not sure how I feel about “show samples” being on by default. My palette felt really chaotic until I discovered that. I could see it maybe being beneficial. Picture Frames/Images The ability to drag-and-drop images into picture frames. Along those same lines, a “Paste Into” ability for these frames. Some controls for the images inside frames such as “fit to frame” “fit frame to content” “fill frame (proportionally)” Misc Preview for ctrl-W is ok. I’m glad it was added, but I REALLY need it as W. I’m completely used to this from InDesign, and it doesn’t seem like “W” is currently occupying any sort of role. The ability to add hyperlinks to text. It sounds like this is on the roadmap and is more difficult than anticipated. Holding out for this. InDesign has a hyperlinks palette. I use this for interactive PDFs and my resume. Right now, only properly formatted URLs are rendered, but I I'm just another voice amidst a sea of them, pining for a way to import InDesign files (although I know that's being worked on). I’m a little unclear on how Publisher documents are actually handled. With InDesign, you’re able to design a whole document, and link out to content (images, vectors, etc.) you want to place inside, which keeps the file size quite low. At the end you can export a package that has your original file, fonts, images, a PDF, etc. When I place an image in Publisher, is it being linked? Embedded? Am I going to end up with a ton of huge Publisher files?
  24. An alternative is to forgo Picture Frames all together and just use vector masks. I can make a curve, "nest" the content inside, and then use any handle I want, with Shift held down, to scale everything. I can even click with Command held down to select the content inside, (like one would do with the direct select arrow in InDesign). Tricky bit with vector masks is having to click "lock children" if I want to alter the "frame" shape. To me, InDesign does it right. While they still have the concept of Frame vs Shape, those element function almost the same way for moving, scaling, and especially fitting content. I sure do miss those Fitting key commands.
  25. Dear Affinity Team, my daily business is the design of books and magazines (for photography and architecture). I prefer a fast workflow that allows me to easily and intuitively position, scale and select the image excerpt. Now that I've been playing around with publishers for some time (also long time in beta) to test the possibilities and post my opinion here, I'd like to address the biggest problem (that drives me crazy) for me so far, the handling of image boxes and their inconsistent variability (which is probably also due to the Studio link concept, but doesn't really work in the base yet). Also see the video that shows my points a bit. - the first and biggest problem is the different handling of different image types. With a JPG or Tiff I have the standard options I expect from a layout program. The whole thing changes as soon as I work with psd, eps, pdf. Suddenly I can't choose what I could do with jpg, like the percentage input of the image size, or the simple choose of the best image excerpt. This must be normal for every image type also for eps, pdf etc.: - next are the different image integration options that result in different operating options (context menu, positioning, dragNdrop, dragNdrop in a Picture frame etc. and each time different operating options afterwards). These are basic functions that should function as simply as possible and above all always have the same functions afterwards. - then selecting the image excerpt, once you have to convert the image into an image box, then sometimes it can not be converted with an eps or psd e.g. (if I have a logo overview, I have to laboriously make a mask using the layer tool) that must work everywhere the same. All pictures must always be in a picture box, otherwise it's like PowerPoint, where else do I need a layout program for? - never, never ever should one have the possibility to distort a picture without conscious intervention. That has happened to me now already many often by mistake and if one does not notice such a thing and one has a distorted logo, picture or plan, then the shit has hit the fan. - with the picture box I can only scale proportionally at the lower right corner, but when I put the picture. But when I position the image at the bottom of the layout, I have to move it back and forth forever until I scale it correctly, because no keyboard command allows me to scale it proportionally at another corner. - and a few other things that bother me a lot about the way publishers deal with pictures, but I don't have time for that today. I understand that you have already invested a lot of time in really good features and the program costs really nothing compared to Indesign, but you have the claim to appeal to professional people, there must be a more convincing tool than the image positioning of PowerPoint or Keynote, for example. I appreciate your work very much and that's why I take (a lot of) time here to explain the problem as good as I can (also with a video). If you want more details we can have a video call with screen sharing and I can try to tell you why this efficiency is so important for professionals, and how you can optimize it (for free ). Oh, and I don't want a workaround, I want a timesaving change, because I believe Publisher can be a game changer. PS and last but not least, why for heaven's sake is when I create a print document defined as standard color RGB? Videooos: the correct size (100% ) of an image is unfortunately not as easy as it should be jpegPsd_100pro.mp4 scaling of a image excerpt should be possible proportionally not only at one corner, best with a shortcut, but with Control everything turns uncontrollably with scale.mp4 image excerpt for an eps/PSD (logos, plans, etc.) is too complicated. Make it like a normal jepeg or tiff. ausschnitt eps.mp4 DragNDrop place many images, I wish it happened the same as when you placed images via the context menu dragndrop.mp4
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