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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.

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.

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?

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

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/

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.

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!

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?

If you have 2 consecutive paragraphs (subtitles) set to "Start on Next Page" and you want in some cases to keep them together, you can't achieve this even if you set "Space between same styles" to 0.

Hello. I have received JPG files from a customer that need to be placed in a Publisher document. The JPG files contain an (invisible) clipping path so that they can be placed either with background or clipped. When I open this JPG in Affinity 2 Photo, the transparent background is displayed. If I place the JPG in Publisher, it is always placed with a white background. However, I need it clipped. I am missing an option in Publisher where I can choose whether it should be placed normally or clipped. Is there a trick that I may not know about? Best regards Martin

Hi, While the Alignment commands are available under a single icon, the ones I listed in the subject are not. It would be handy to have them compacted, to make more room in the toolbar (and make it cleaner looking). Paolo

Hi all, I am laying out this book with 320 live band images as per the attached shot. Each one has to have its filename (exc .jpg) as a title added. I don't suppose there's any way to have Publisher source file names and slap them on the images as in the in the attached image? Like I say, long shot. Obviously I could then rotate all the names to make them punk rock and wonky! As I say, long shot but thought I'd ask. Thanks! Phil

Add top, right, left, or bottom stroke options including weight in pts. Add corner radius options. Add default line types for the strokes and ideally mirror INDD defaults.

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.

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?

When I try to change the fill color opacity of a text frame in Apub, the color changes from white to black. When I get to zero opacity it finally shows zero opacity. Affinity Publisher version: 2.4.2 macOS version: Ventura 13.6.6 | 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 | Radeon Pro 575 4 GB | 40 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 Publisher Text Frame Fill Opacity.mov ADC Celtic Celebration Flyer 2024 v2.afdesign

Is there a way to get photo credits after downloading stock photo to Apub so I can add them as notes? What is Apub resource manager for? I downloaded photos and imported excel to Apub, but nothing shows in Resource manager.

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 was going over my footnotes, and I noticed that on a page with four short footnotes, the last one had extra space between it and the previous one. When I went to investigate, I noticed something else, which is that I can't always change the document-wide Footnote settings. That's actually something I've noticed before, but haven't asked about yet. I'm obviously missing what causes it to get greyed-out. I've attached a video which shows what I'm talking about. document-wide-footnote-settings.mp4

I copied mine .CSV file in PANTONE directory in all three 2.4.1 apps just about an hour before 2.4.2 appeared. Now, it dissapeared from all 3 apps. Why are you deleting files that are not part of Affinity apps? Do we have to "reinstall" them after every update / upgrade?

Affinity Publisher has started outputting distorted vector elements on pages when exporting to PDF. I'm flummoxed as to why. Only two weeks ago I exported the same documents, using the same preset (that I've used dozens of times) and the resulting PDFs were absolutely fine. I'm exporting to PDF using PDF/X 1a. I can get the elements to be output correctly if I check 'JPEG compression' on export (should that have an effect on vectors?), but then the resulting PDF is 10x the size, at 900MB!, the same file two weeks ago was around 92MB. I've tried rasterizing the vectors before export, but they're still distorted in the PDF. Am I missing something obvious, or is this a bug? I'm on macOS 14.4.1. UPDATE: I've just tested my PDF export preset on Windows using a virtual machine on my Mac, and it outputs correctly. So it's an issue with the Mac version, macOS, or my Mac? UPDATE 2: A complete uninstall and reinstall hasn't helped.

Hi folks! I'm having trouble getting the Author field to correctly export to PDF. I can change the title successfully, but the author remains "Serif Affinity Publisher 2 2.4.1". Any ideas on how to fix this? What other info would we need?

A friend of mine is struggling with the problem that the PDF files she exports from Affinity Publisher version 1.10.5 for our neighborhood magazine do not contain any text information. The PDF only contains the graphic image of the finished page, not the corresponding text. Where / in which settings should she look for enabling text export?