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So it needs a new license for each OS, but if I have the same OS (Windows) on two devices, can I get Affinity that I already payed for on a second device with the same operating system?

If anyone could help with this issue, it would be AMAZING! I'm having an issue where I created a master layout and applied it to a page in my document. When I went to edit some dummy text (all lowercase) in the pages I applied the master to, the text I input will only be entered in all capital letters even though none of my character styling settings are set to uppercase (and caps lock is not on). In this case, I am creating a calendar using Playfair Display font. The original master just had the dummy text "month." I went in to change it to "september" (editing the page detached from the master), but it just automatically inputs as SEPTEMBER. Has anyone ever experienced this issue? Any fix you know of? Thanks so much to anyone who can help!

Hi I've been searching all over this forum, and the internett, but I can't find any answers to my question. I'm creating the layout for a huge documents with several hundred pages (a book sort of), and I've created the masters to link the textboxes, but these masters only span across two pages, so my question is. Do I really have to link all the text boxes to the next page manually, or is there any way publisher can do this for me? Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I've been procrastinating the daunting task of linking all the textboxes, for too long now.

Hello I am having problems withe the font ligature in the Affinity Designer and Publisher. The program recognizes the Google fonts or Open Type fonts but it does not make the ligature properly. The file test.png was done with affinity designer. The tattvabodhah1 was done with online program Photopea. You can see the elements in the word are not put together in the image test.png (2nd down below). We are a institution for Vedanta and Sanskrit. We need to use devanagari fonts to our brochures and press material. Can you please help me to find a solution for that? We have acquired all the 3 Affinity programs. Thanks for the help.

Since updating to the subject release the program crashes in resource manager. This has happened with two documents. Is this a known problem? All other functions seem to be working just fine. Tom Elliott

Currently I am designing a marketing flyer. It is square, 148 by 148mm, 3 pages horizontal and folds inward (left page on top, right in between, middle page bottom). I have created a page layout with the measures, but find no way to make the 3 pages show continuously side by side like a brochure with 2 facing pages. Is there any way to define a layout with 3 facing pages (or even 4 of them) ? In total I need 6 pages, 3 front, 3 rear. The bleed is just around the total layout, 2 folding areas going through, where the printed content can be continuous. My alternative would be to create a page size with a dimension of 3 pages side by side. But for the upload of the design to the online printshop, I need each page as a single pdf. Any ideas ?

In the UK English version of the Help on ‘Vector content defaults’ (or ‘Object defaults’ in Designer and Publisher) the word ‘synchronise’ and other words with the same root are variously spelled with ‘-is-’ or ‘-iz-’. Photo: https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/DesignAids/objectDefaults.html Designer: https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/objectDefaults.html Publisher: https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/objectDefaults.html

I'm creating a book with various stories. Each story has a title with the same style in order to create a TOC. But when I insert or update the top, it adds additional lines for pages that don't have the style. What am I doing wrong?

I would like to add my voice to those calling for a word count feature. Once my books are laid out I will still spend time on them, and my even add or delete sections. So there is always a need to generate fresh word counts. Working with other people, especially when quoting for audiobook production, makes it essential to have an accurate word count. Please add this feature.

Hello! For our magazine, we switched to Affinity Publisher after years of using InDesign. In InDesign we used to layout each article/ad page/editorial etc. separately and in the end create a book, out of which we would then create the PDF versions we needed. The book option is not available with Affinity Publisher, so we switched to merging documents. I have created a 'master document' with the cover page and the four master pages we need for our publication. This is where I want to insert my individually layouted documents into. There are different paraghaph styles in the different layouted documents, but the problem also occurs when I want to insert documents with exactly the same layout, i.e. same paragraph styles (but different images/text ofc). So: if I want to insert these documents into my 'master document', I have to decide whether to replace the paragraph styles or rename them and keep both (image 1). - If I replace, the fonts and frames in the previously inserted documents are distorted (image 2) - If I rename and keep both paragraph styles, the fonts in the document I import are distorted (image 3) There seems to be no way around distorted fonts. Of course I could go through the whole document and redo it all manually, but our magazine is 90+ pages and we would usually get this task done in less than an hour. I assume this is a bug. Is there anything you could do? Will a book feature like the one InDesign has will become available eventually? Thanks! Anke (operating system: Windows 10)

I am exporting a Publisher file to psd and can't work out how to include the bleed in the PSD document.

I have two Publisher projects and I want to know how can I copy or move one page from one Publisher project to another. ? can I export one page then import it?

Hey guys, since I wasn't able to figure out if there's a thread about this, but for me scrolling through pages in Affinity Publisher takes ages – not performance wise but rather the sensitivity of the scrolling seems very off compared to anywhere else in the app. Has anyone else noticed this and gets bothered by it? Especially while working with documents that have a large numbers of pages I tend to broaden the panel so I can see more than a single column of pages, but that's not very convenient because the page in the workspace gets to small. Is there a tweak or workaround for this matter? An option in the burger-menu of the page panel to adjust the scroll speed for that panel would be nice. Or maybe adjust the scroll speed in the panel so it doesn't require two full spins to get to the next page? Cheers and have a great day! MrDoodlezz

Hi Folks, First time AF Publisher user here and I am just trying to get to grips with it. I have been using a few tutorial videos to get me up to speed. In one I have come across an issue... I have been trying to follow along with a video (Link posted below). However, I have an issue right at the start with the document setup. Here is the link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=BlhJFQNpLAY&feature=emb_logo Go to about 1:08 minutes in she creates her document. Now when the document is created she has a Master A, Page 1 and Page 2. All three are the same size. Now when I create it mine looks like the screen shot I have attached below. There is an obvious difference in the Master Page size and normal pages. When I check the document set up it is all correct. My master page looks like it is two of my pages stuck together when the one in the video looks like a single page. I have gone over the video numerous times and copied everything but keep getting the same result. Any ideas? It's driving me nuts... and I know it is going to be something simple that I am missing. Thanks folks in advance. Mark

quick question... I purchased Publisher for my Mac off your website. Do I need to pay for it again to also use it on my iPad?

Exporting to PSD, a checkbox in the extended export options is "Compatibility Mode." Compatibility with what, and are there tradeoffs to be aware of aside from compatibility with... whatever. Did look in the help file and did not find any guidance there. Cheers

I noticed my artistic text tool text has borders around it. I'm not sure if I've accidentally turned something on. I can try to redo the page... But I'd really like to know why it's happening. (FYI: Turning on the stroke style outlines the letters not the box the letters are in.) Any thoughts on how to remove these? Windows 10/version 1.8.4/Publisher The image attached with the toolbar on the side is Publisher with some details (i.e. no stroke width) The other image is an from an exported PDF. Thank you.

I can't for the life of me work it out. Affinity_Publisher_Text_Different_Size.mov

I'm designing a one-off magazine for a holiday gift project. I purchased a layout template from Creative Market, and the 50-page .idml file imported perfectly. Now I have questions about "What next?" By way of background, when Publisher was in beta I self-published a book, and was an occasional (3x/yr) InDesign user, so I can get around and get work done. But I feel like my questions are so basic I'm not even sure how to ask for help. I EXPECTED the workflow to be something like: Purchased .idml files are imported as master pages. I add document pages or spreads, and select which master page to apply. I build up the magazine, spread by spread, adjusting, re-ordering, etc as I go. INSTEAD, the .idml file imported as pages, and I'm not sure what the workflow should be... I could just start dropping images into frames and flow text into boxes, but I don't necessarily want their specific sequence of spreads, or this number of spreads, etc. Of course I can re-order the spreads, and add new ones by duplicating existing spreads, but is this the right way to start? I thought, Well, I'll create a new document, and copy pages/spreads from this purchased layout to my new layout, but it doesn't appear that I can copy a page/spread, much less paste it into a different document. I could leave all the new (template) spreads in place, and "build" the magazine with new pages added at the end of the document, and near the completion of the project delete all the unused blank template spreads. I could just start hacking at this imported .idml file and if I delete a page/spread I later want just import the .idml file again and delete the other 49 pages I don't need. None of these seem like the way to go. What's the clean, normal way to design a document based on a purchased layout file? I want to use it as a starting point, a collection of pages, as if they're modular elements, that I can apply to my own spreads. I seem to have a conceptual gap about what the normal workflow should be. The question seems so entry-level it's embarrassing to ask!

Issue/situation: In Publisher I've created a bullet list, but I am not sure how to keep a multi-line bullet-point indent so it aligns with the other entries. Question: Which settings do I need to change to make a multiline entry align with the other entries? Screenshots: See attached screenshot of the issue and my bullet point settings. Operating system: OSX Catalina 10.15.6 Affinity Photo: Version 1.8.4 Unusual hardware: Wacom tablet Intuos pro Any help or input on this matter is much appreciated. Thank you in advance. PS: if this post is in the wrong forum, then please let me know, and I will submit it in another.

Hello, I installed the new versions of all my Affinity desktop programs Photo, Designer and Publisher. Today I wanted to change a picture. I can start the programs, I can open the picture or a new project, I can use hotkeys, but I can't use the tools inside of the programs. There is no change. My system is PC, Windows 10, version 1909, 32GB RAM, Intel i7, Nvidia Geforce GTX 680 Driver version 451.67 Thank you for your help!

Can anyone help me? Finding this hard to understand. Affinity_Publisher_Grid_Baseline_Question.mov

Is there a way to change all the different font sizes across all pages by percent/multiplier? eg. Change all the type set in Arial by 78% I tried using find and replace, but the format function only allows a fixed point size. I'd like to use a percentage or multiplier (eg. 78% or *0.78) I use percentages/multipliers all the time for individual instances in the character panel, but here I want to make all the type smaller but in proportion to each other. There are just too many different sizes and pages to adjust all of them individually. Is there a regular expression I could use that searches the formatting? something like: Font size:.*? and then replace with something like: $&*0.78 Or is there a way to enter the format information into the replace box manually instead of the dropdown menus? eg. Instead of replacing the format with "Font: Arial; Font weight: Normal; Italic: Off; Font size: 12pt" manually type in "Font: Arial; Font weight: Normal; Italic: Off; Font size: 78%" So far using expressions I've only managed to search the actual text, not the underlying format information. Is there a list of the Publisher specific tags I could be using in expressions, or do regular expressions only search the text?

I'm trying to export a PDF file and can't figure out why the l's in my text keep showing up so thick. All of my text has been converted to curves. Any ideas- am I missing a setting?

After upgrading to Publisher 1.8.4, every time I try to open an .idml flie for the first time, the program just disappears. It seems to be working on idml files that I have opened previously in version 1.8.3. I am using system 10.13.6 and have sent several versions of the same crash report to Apple. I have also put this topic on the Windows forum as it seems to be a recurring issue on that platform.