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Hi, I reported this in the past, but I see this has not changed, and I will request again for the new version. When opening IDML files, pictures frames containing composite images are shown with a cross inside. I guess this should mean that this is a picture frame. But, contrary to an inserted image, the cross remains there even with some content. This is extremely annoying when editing, both for the interference between the cross and the content, and for the sense of something going wrong caused by the crossed frame. I would like an option to avoid this behavior, and make the cross disappear. Paolo

Hi, I described the issue here: I'm forwarding it here, because I think this can be filed as a bug, more than a feature request. - The top-level frame in a composite picture is considered empty, even if it contains several elements. - Dan says that the frame is "technically empty", since it doesn't directly contain an image. But the frame is not "actually empty", since it contains images (and other elements). - The crossed frame indicates an empty frame. In this case, on the contrary, the frame contains several elements. Therefore, the symbol showing it as empty is not correct. If needed, some other symbol should be employed (not interfering with the image display). My guess is that the external frame should sense that other frames nested at its inside are not empty, and consider itself not empty. The current behavior communicates the wrong message of the the frame being empty, when it indeed contains images and other elements. Paolo

In Publisher, I noticed that the image names of images placed in image frames are not truncated, which cause the entire context toolbar to shift.

I am annotating a book that already has some footnotes. Not many, I think 9, but I want to differentiate them from my own footnotes (of which there are over 1200). In the book, the 9 footnotes use an *, and then have the note at the bottom of the page, but there's no simple way to add those and my numbered footnotes. One solution I came up with was to have a different master page for pages with footnotes, and make the text block a bit smaller, with a separate text block on the bottom to put the original footnote. My footnotes then appear automatically and the original one shows up below it. The problem with this is that the original footnote is now below my footnotes, so it's separated from the original text. That's kind of backwards. It would make it harder for the reader to understand that those note were written by the original author. Another solution would be to stop and start the numbering of the footnotes, and insert an * in between the numbered footnotes. This, however, would mean the * is in the middle of my footnotes, and it's a very complicated way to do it, and would likely break if any changes needed to be made. I'd really like to find a simple solution that allowed me to insert the footnote below the text, didn't mess up the flow, and allowed my footnotes to be shown below the original footnote. Anyone have any ideas?

Hi, When copying text from Publisher, the text in the clipboard seems to be formatted as RTF text. RTF should support character styles, but it seems Publisher don't export them to the clipboard. I would like character styles were considered when copying text. This would let one export text will all the needed styles. I don't know if this would be possible, but I would also like all the advanced features (xrefs, variables, index marks) were transferred when copying text. Paolo

Running Publisher 2.4.2 on Windows 11. I have a reasonably large document ~600 A4 pages with ~200 linked jpeg images. The application regularly freezes/hangs (Windows reports app not responding) when document is open. The hang does not appear to occur in response to any user action. e.g. I can leave the app unattended for a few minutes - sometimes when I return it has hung, sometime not. Once the app has hung it does not recover (I've left it for extended periods) and has to be terminated. Looking at task manager when app hangs I see the Publisher application is at 0% CPU and total system CPU at ~7% or so. System memory is at 66%. This seems to be happening after last upgrade. Not sure how to diagnose further. Couldn't see a recent report of this problem

I purchased all 3 softwares in the microsoft store but can not find the download links to the given apps. The links in my purchases brings me to a whitescreen page. This are the links in from my orders: https://www.microsoft.com/is-is/store/p/affinity-designer/9nblggh35lrm/0010 https://www.microsoft.com/is-is/store/p/affinity-publisher/9nblggh35lzr/0010 https://www.microsoft.com/is-is/store/p/affinity-photo/9nblggh35lxn/0010 When i download the Designer/Photo/Publisher Software from here (e.g. https://store.serif.com/en-us/update/windows/publisher/1/) it requires a product key wich i can not receive, because its not in the purchase mails or in the order list from microsoft purchases and the links don't work.

A massive selection of vintage and retro color swatches for Affinity, inspired by the fashions and culture of the 20th century! Get 20% off until 11.59pm, 8th May (UK time). Simply use the discount code 'century' at checkout to redeem. >>GET IT NOW!<< Finding the right vintage or retro color palette for a project can be time-consuming so, we created these Affinity color swatches to help make choosing classic color schemes quick and easy. Drawing from the art, fashions and culture of the 20th century, we’ve created three color swatch sets representing each decade. There are also 15 bonus vintage and retro color swatch palettes included (not shown in the preview). Use them for your vintage and retro designs and illustrations! The retro color swatches are compatible with Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher. To use the vintage swatches load them into the swatches panel and you’re good to go. Add it to your design arsenal today and get the classic look just right! The download features the following files: 30 vintage Swatches – for use with Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo & Affinity Publisher. 15 Bonus Vintage and Retro Swatch Sets. A Quick Reference Guide – Navigate the color swatches quickly and easily. Instructions for Affinity Desktop and iPad. >>GET IT NOW!<<

Hello, I am fairly new to Publisher but I'm a convert over from InDesign. I have some questions relating to data merge. Is there a way I can map images to a document using data merge? For example: I have a CSV File that looks somewhat like this... images/file1.png, images/file1.png, images/file3.png, images/file1.png, images/file5.png, images/file7.png, <WHITESPACE>, <WHITESPACE>, images/file2.png So on and so forth. It would essentially be a grid of values of varying sizes in each different file. I may have file1.csv look like the above, which would be 3x3. file2.csv may be 50x50, etc. I need to be able to merge in such files and have say, the images in question map to the page. General question - with data merge - why does it seem to insist on creating many pages, say, 10 pages, if I have 10 records across in my CSV file? Essentially, I have a computer program that I wrote that outputs values into a CSV file and I wish to quickly be able to map the values from said CSV file out to a document using Publisher, with having to manually intervene as much as possible, at least for the central component of what I'm trying to do here. If this is not an option, instead of displaying images, I would display whatever characters may come back in a CSV, say, 1,3,5, etc. But I can't have the comma splits like this to show up on the page, I would want all "cells" to be within grid squares. At the end of the day, whatever I do, needs to essentially be in a fixed grid, but I prefer to display what I'm doing via custom images, rather than plain text in a grid. I hope this makes sense. Thanks.

Big problem, surely a bug?: Any gradient on any object will render all selection boxes invisible in the entire Affinity suite. It happens 100% of the time, on all files. I can select objects, but there are no visual cues in the Document View window. I've had the problem since I bought Affinity in December last year. It took me a long time to figure out what was happening. I haven't found any solution on Google or in existing forum posts, so I decided to write my first post here. I hope someone can help. Please read my explanation and watch my screen recording. * Recipe: Just add a color gradient to any object, e.g. text or a picture frame. After that, no selection boxes will appear when selecting one or more objects. I can still select objects with my mouse or using the Layers panel (Right Studio). I can see in the Layers panel that one or more objects are selected. And if I use, e.g., the move tool, I can easily move them. But there are no selection/bounding boxes around the selected object(s). This obviously makes it difficult, confusing and frustrating to edit files with many objects and layers. Please note that removing the gradient will make the selection boxes reappear! In short: Any gradient on any object will render all selection boxes invisible in Publisher, Photo and Designer (in both 2.4.2 – the newest version – and 2.3, which I installed back in December). * Screen recording (50 sec) using a new demo file: The demo file has two text frames and one picture frame, all having solid fill color. When I click on and select one or several of them, a selection box appears. So far, so good. As you can see, if I then change the color of one of the objects (the blue text) to a gradient, the selection boxes disappear. As you can see, I can select any of the three objects, but there is no box or outline around any of them. In the last step in the video, I remove the gradient on the blue text and select a solid color instead. Since there are no gradients in the document anymore, the selection boxes are again visible. 1. What Application are you using? Affinity Publisher, Photo and Designer 2. Are you using the latest release version? Yes, 2.4.2 (also happened in 2.3). 3. Can you reproduce it? Yes, 100% of the time on all files using any of the three Affinity programs. 4. Does it happen for a new document? Yes (see demo file and screen recording). Machine, operating system and extras: macOS Monterey (12.7.3) on a 5K iMac (Intel) with 16GB of RAM and plenty of internal storage. No additional hardware, just standard keyboard and mouse. No font managers or display managers. Hardware acceleration? I tried both ON and OFF. The problem persisted. Note: My iMac is working well and I don't have any issues with other programs. I did a fresh install of macOS Monterey in December, just before I bought Affinity. I have very few third-party programs installed: just Affinity plus Firefox, FileZilla and Stellarium (planetarium). Irrelevant background info: I've been following Affinity and cheering for them since 2018. I finally bought the V2 Universal License in December 2023, and I have spent the last few months testing the software and watching a lot of YouTube videos. I've previously used Adobe's software for editing photos, making illustrations, and designing books, but I decided to switch to Affinity. I like many things about Affinity! Sadly, I can't use Publisher for designing books (the text justification is absurdly poor, even with the Norwegian hyphenation dictionary correctly installed and activated). But I really want to make it work for my upcoming wall calendar as well as posters and other "simple" projects. If Affinity is able to show which objects and layers are selected also when using gradients, Photo and Designer will become very useful to me as well. I like both the features and the performance of Affinity. Screen_Recording.mov test.afpub

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Add the ability to set global gradients so we can modify the gradient once and have it cascade rather than reapplying the gradient swatch over and over again.

The problem is quite simple. I am not able to use variable fonts installed on my system. I have attached screenshots showing that my computer properly recognizes the font however, none of the programs, Photo 2, Designer 2, Publisher 2, correctly recognise my font. And yes, this is the case with other variable fonts as well, not just one. Fonts were downloaded from Google Fonts. Running Windows 11 22H2. Downloaded all programs from Microsoft Store. If you need any other info, I'll be happy to provide. P.S: Sucks to not be able to create something on the first day itself. But I guess launching a software has its share of challenges.

Will there be any value of including Variable Fonts accessibility in Affinity products? I see this as being a great time-saver when working on projects requiring a single font in various weights. ** Not heard of Variable Fonts? reads here: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/design-and-ux/typography/variable-fonts/ https://v-fonts.com/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Fonts/Variable_Fonts_Guide https://medium.com/variable-fonts/https-medium-com-tiro-introducing-opentype-variable-fonts-12ba6cd2369

The printer returned the cover saying that the black colour strength is too high, the maximum CMYK fill rate is 280%. I am using FOGRA39L_VIGC_300 profile, but this is too much. I am currently using Soft Proof Adjustment with ICC 260, but in some places this goes up to 280%. Where and how can I control the black fill ratio in Publisher (like in Acrobat) so that the printer doesn't send my cover back? How can I check which is the darkest point in an image? In the meantime, I found this option in Preflight (it wasn't in version 1.x), so I'll see how much and how it helps. It seems this is really useful Prefligfht tool. Then the question is: if I use the FOGRA39L_VIGC_300 profile, why does the value go above 300% and Preflight does not report an error?

I checked the specs of this new version of Publisher. There are many nice features in there. What seems to be missing is the export of a tagged and accessible PDF (PDF/UA). Also I don't see how I could publish a digital book (EPUB3) with this app. I really hoped for some competition for Adobe InDesign which is capable of such output. Even Word produces such accessible PDFs and EPUB (with WordToEpub plugin). With the output of Publisher still focused on print only I don't have many reasons to use it. All digital documents for governmental institutions and, within a few years in the EU, for many commercial companies as well, need to be accessible. Besides, I don't want to exclude anyone from using my documents. I don't mind if I need to do some extra work with a tool like Adobe Acrobat for PDF or Sigil, Calibre, Ace by Daisy for EPUB3, but now I need Word, InDesign or some other app to create the document or book when I really would have liked to use Affinity Publisher.

I'm having difficulty with text wrap. I'm using a rectangle that expands as a header and "pushes" the content of the main box away by a set distance. However despite having no style sheets using baseline grid, no baseline grid set and Ignore baseline grid selected I cannot get the offset to match my chosen distance. What happens is the text moves away relative to the leading of the text regardless. Pushing the offset up and up nothing will move until the next full line of leading value is exceeded, and will then jump. If you look at the two sample files you will see the difference Affinity orange header boxes has only 2 outcomes, InDesign file (Green headers) Outcome I was after is that of the InDesign file with the text beneath being exactly as the wrap is set – is this a bug or chosen way of working? has incremental increases.

After watching a couple of Ocean documentaries I was deeply intrigued by the endless number of sea creatures that exist. Eventually I got tired watching and got inspired to create this Ocean inspired Deep See art. Enjoy. Tools: Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher Let's connect: https://www.behance.net/bah-is-life https://www.instagram.com/bah_is_life/

I see this was discussed a lot before v2 was released, but I don't see that it's possible yet. Some way to have a hanging indent (where all lines after the first one are indented). In the older discussions people wanted to allow a negative indent on the first line, for things like moving an opening quote before the beginning of the line. I could see that being useful when you have a drop-cap paragraph that begins with a quote. For myself, I'm looking to get a hanging indent for footnotes, so that the footnote numbers are to the left of the text. This is possible by setting Left Indent to a number, then moving the First Line Indent back to 0. The problem is that if you have more than 9 footnotes, then the number needed in the Left Indent changes from footnote 9 to footnote 10. Also, unless you set the Figure settings to Tabular, or you're using a monospace font, the number for the Left Indent can be variable between all numbers especially 1 and 2. So is there a way to having a hanging indent in a footnote, where the text is aligned separately from the number?

I would like to suggest some things which could be beneficial added to affinity publisher: - QR code generator - watermarking

The "Go to page..." command could be improved by showing a page range as default, grey input (i.e. 1-224) and a page preview, so you know you hit the correct page in advance.

I'm trying out whether the bugs in the release version are fixed in the beta and noticed that transferring settings from the release version of Publisher do not transfer cross-reference presets. Is there another way to get the presets over? I've got quite a bunch of them.

I'm currently working on a document in publisher and I would like to maintain a regular 100% zoom while working on the document but no matter what when I change pages it goes to an 84.4% zoom to fit the entire page on screen. Is it possible to turn this feature off or to set a 100% zoom default?

When working with the vector tool, its great that the pressure can be recorded when using a graphic tablet. But when only using the mouse, you have to use the pressure controls inside the stroke-panel. For short curves this is pretty ok, but if my curve gets too long, the precise configuration of the pressure is near to impossible. To improve the usability I suggest an seperate pressure-edit mode or something like that where you can specify the pressure value directly on the actual curve (maybe by adding points similar to those handlese on bézier-curves). This should be additional, so you could also edit the pressure on the old way.

Vector brushes are cool but when they are applied to long curves, many of them break because they get streched. On the other hand with vector curves are perfect for geometric or very precice shapes because they can be reajusted afterward. Pixel-based brushes don't have the downsides mentioned before. So it would be cool to have in addition to the normal vector brushes the option to use the rasterized brushes for curves. The curve represents the mouse movement when working with the pen tool. Other advanages inclue: You could change the the brush size afterwards You could also vary the brush pressure (because this is an already existing feature in vector brushes) Have a great day!