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With placed text in Affinity Publisher, how can I retain hyperlinks that appear within body copy when applying a paragraph style? I need to format the paragraphs but don't want to lose my links in the process. (I tried applying a character style but that only affects the look of the text; the link disappears.) -
I'm editing text for a book, and after I'm done, the new text boxes apply the text and font styles I used before, and make it difficult for me to reformat. Sometimes turning off text style is enough, but sometimes [No style] is not enough. There are times when parameters like No wrap or Superscript are left on, and I could go on and on. Where could I turn off the option to use a raw style for new text and textboxes, instead of inheriting previous styles, colors and others? -
I would like a custom TOC structure. I have two paragraphs: an Author Name, followed by a Title 1. When I create the TOC, I want it to be in the format Author Name - Title. If I use Line break in Title this working, but should be the hyphen between the name and the title in the TOC. The reason I would use two paragraph styles is because there is a different font and layout for the title and author name. How can I make the TOC not see it as a separate paragraph and include the hyphen after the name?
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Hi, When inserting a page break in my document it so happens that it also creates an unexpected gap in the document a few paragraphs before the inserted break. See the text 'CHAPTER II' in attached document. Removing the break also removes the extra gap. I discovered it when making a textstyle for chapternumber. Starting on a new page it gave extra gaps but not always, on every chapternumber... Regard, hans Scholte Nordenholt.afpub -
Hello, I've exported my book as a pdf but the pdf links aren't working as intended. The bookmark list (that shows up in side-panels) sends me to the correct spread - it lands with the anchor at the top of the page, however when clicking on TOC entries, it seems to land on the previous spread or with the anchor at the very bottom. I've been able to recreate this on different pdf viewers. I'm not sure if I've missed a checkbox somewhere when I export or something... Any ideas? -
To my surprise, I didn’t have to install the colour profile ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI) on a new Macintosh (M2, macOS Ventura); it already shows up in Publisher 2.2.1. I want to verify if the existing profile matches the one my printer (Flyeralarm) recommends. But the existing .icc file is nowhere to be found, so I can’t double-check this. Maybe this isn’t an issue, but I’d rather be sure than mess up an expensive print job. The .icc file isn’t in one of these places: /Library/ColorSync/ /Library/Application Support/ ~/Library/ColorSync/ ~/Library/Application Support/ Publisher’s app bundle (which contains several other .icc files) So, I ran a system-wide search with Spotlight (using the “System files are included” setting). I found several other .icc profiles, but not the one I’m looking for. Here’s what I like to know: Are there different versions of ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI) in circulation, or is it always the same .icc file from 2009? Where does the mysterious profile come from? Is it preinstalled with the Affinity suite nowadays, or does it come from an existing .afpub 2.2 document (that uses this profile) that I moved from my previous Mac? Where can I find this .icc file on my computer? Thank you! -
Hello everyone, I have a problem with Affinity Publisher’s PDF export that makes it virtually impossible to generate print-ready PDFs. The images in my exported PDFs often—though not always—appear “glitched”, with distorted or black bars appearing mostly in the upper half of the image. I have included a comparison screenshot that shows you the faulty result of the PDF export vs. how it should look like. I have also attached both the faulty and correct PDF. I do not know exactly what causes this problem to happen, but here is everything you might need to know about it: I only encounter this problem on my Macbook Pro (2021) with M1 Max. When I export the same document through Intel-based Macs or Windows machines, the problem does not occur. I’m running the latest version of macOS and Publisher 2.2.1. However, I’ve had this problem ever since I got this Macbook in late 2021, meaning this problem also existed in Publisher 1.x (I finally got around to posting this here 🫠) Not all images are affected. On some documents, none are affected at all. I played around with the PDF export settings quite a bit and different settings do lead to different results. Exporting a PDF for screens, for example, made the problem go away … but only on one document that I tested. Weird. My guess would be that this problem is caused by PDFlib, which to my understanding is the library used by Publisher to generate PDFs on macOS. Maybe there is a bug related to PDFlib on certain Apple Silicon machines? Though the problem might be something completely different and this may just be a shot in the dark. Any help on this is greatly appreciated! Right now, I have to export any PDF that I need to have printed through my secondary Windows machine, which is obviously far from ideal. Thank you, Niklas correct.pdf faulty.pdf
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Hi, I created a gradient and saved it in swatches but I need to apply this gradient vertically (from row 1 to row 10) as a table fill. Here's an example... given a gradient (from left to right: yellow - green)... how do I apply this gradient to a table column so that the first row of the column would be yellow and the last row of the column green? Basically that would mean rotating the gradient at 90º. I know how to apply the gradient to a row. I just don't know how to rotate it at 90º. Thanks! -
I don't know if the creator of the video already reported the bug or is going to report it soon, but I saw it and did the test, and yes, the selection marquee does not work as it should in AD2.2 (nor in AF 2.2 or AP 2.2). Thanks!
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Hello! No matter what I have selected, the "Align to Option is greyed out. I just want to be able to align to my margins. I'm not seeing any other discourse on here about this problem so maybe it's just me? Thanks!
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In Publisher (2.2) is it possible to set child layers so that they inherit visibility from the parent. I have a number of circular designs for which it is helpful to use a series of concentric circles as guides. I would like to group these under a parent layer and have their visibility inherited from the parent so I only need to toggle the parent layer visibility to hide/unhide them all. -
Whenever I select something on a masterpage, be it a text frame or a picture frame that resides within the master of the page, new content gets added inside the masterpage folder. This means that if I want to make edits, I have to tediously select the master folder, hit detach, drag the placed object out of the folder and then do the edits. Video 2023-10-20 10-29-00.mp4 Steps to reproduce 1. Create a masterpage with some text frames and picture frames (doesn't really matter as long as there are some nested items, it is easier to see how items are placed). 2. Select a piece of text, or a picture frame that resides within the masterpage 3. Deselect or click off the spread 4. Create a new object (e.g. a rectangle) 5. Notice how the rectangle is not created on top of the masterpage group as it would if you hadn't selected something on the masterpage, but instead inside the masterpage folder. This makes it so that you have to detach the masterpage to continue editing the object or to organise it in a group, which is really annoying, considering you'll be editing text frames inside masterpages to paste or type text and add all sorts of decoration, images and other content to the page in parallel. -
These are some projects done in Affinity Publisher, but took it just a step further to see what they'd look like placed into mockups. The three projects are "Aurelie", "Jovan" and "Komodo". Affinity's built-in stock images feature really helped, especially with the amount of iterations I had to make. "Aurelie" "Jovan" "Komodo" "Komodo" View 2 All the books together
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I am trying to export a project in Affinity Publsher and everything looks fine, also when I share it to Books in order to proofread, but now I wanted to save it in order to send it to the publisher, but then I checked the preview and just one detail looks very wrong. The words come out completely illegible - it should read “collected works” but as you can see it’s just like a big blob. I’ve tried deleting it and using other fonts etc, but to no avail.
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For my headline style, I want to draw a wavy line, which I wanted to do with the Decorations styling, but I can't find a wavy line. For some titles it would be nice to have a different kind of decoration (like an image or a special/ornamental character), but I can't find a way to tie it to the style either. How can I add title-related images, ornamental characters to a style?
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When working with cross-references, I find it annoying that I have to search for the references that I placed on a spread when I move through the document. Therefore, I would like to propose for the panel to scroll automatically to the active page when a text box is activated. This means that when I click inside a textbox to edit text, the cross-references that are most appropriate are already visible to me.
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Publisher 2.2.1 ~ Mac App Store ~ macOS 11.6.2 iMac ~ Acceleration ON ~ Hello... I am re-making a digital planner for next year - last year was a manually edited of 700-ish pges. The file was 29Mb finished. I am using the same master pages, and this year I am data merging and making the merged pages as I go, and at only 10 pages, the file is 163Mb. The key difference is last year was using Publisher V1, and not data merging with the same OS and hardware. I have a Master page with a Data Merge Layer (created with the Data merge layout tool with 4 columns x 31 rows). The merge layer has 4 fields mapped - each in a text frame. The data merge works sucessfully, and generates an untitled publisher file with the resultant page populated. This is saved as untitled.afpub. I add the merged page into my publisher file [Document | Add pages from file]. This is also successful. I add another master page to this (header, footer and left index). This works. This makes a month summary page. save... 3 Observations: Importing the merged page also adds a duplicate of the master page [exact same name as the original] image attached. The file size doubles after adding a new merged page. The file started as a 5Mb file, and is now 163Mb with 9 pages. There are no images, backgrounds or heavily filled tables. Each of the 31x4 fields is turned into a group in the merged page. The save and open times are getting exponentially longer as the file grows - making it impossible to keep adding pages via data merge. The plan is to add the 12 month pages manually with data merge (got 10 done), then a month of daily pages with one daily merge Master... It may take me until 2024 to get this done. Add Page from file Correctly merged page added to publisher document Applied added Master page . This is OK. : ) File Size Increase : (
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On creating my photobook in Publisher, frequently I wanted to change the frame size while maintaining the white space between each photo. However it seems we have no choice but to make full use of alignment panel and snap features in Publisher. On the other hand, Adobe InDesign has a solution for this case, called GAP tool. Tried it immediately and was amazed at how easy it was to resize, and I can't give it up now. There should be the ability to resize based on the blank space, not the object. I hope you will consider😋 FYI:https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=u0oZBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT49&lpg=PT49&dq="gap+tool"+indesign&source=bl&ots=_li1ZN1Gj7&sig=ACfU3U01v1AdyEAdmOpwE1HCjdYyYm_I8A&hl=ja&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjZhpT0jIqCAxXciFYBHd2bAzA4RhDoAXoECAUQAw#v=onepage&q="gap tool" indesign&f=false
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Hello! I have opened a Publisher file, where some PDFs have been relinked. Names of linked PDFs are the same and we can see them in Resource Manager. Unfortunately, pages with these linked files are empty. Embedet PDfs are of course in the file. All layers are on and it does not help if I relink. I can drag and drop PDFs again inside, but this would not be a long-term solution. Has anyone experienced similar and can advise how to troubleshoot? Thank you
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Hey, ...and sorry if my post is duplicated, but I was unable to find on the forum the list of modifications and other changes made to this new version 2.2.1. So, where can we find the list of improvements and fixes for this new version?... Thanks. 😉 -
EDIT: It's officially been solved! Thanks to everyone who downloaded the project to try and help and special thanks to Stokerg for finding the data merge layout I had left in the wrong spot. I'll leave the fixed version of the project here for anyone who might find it useful. I will also probably put it in "Share Your Work" with a guide. Thanks again! Hello friends from the Internet. I have been working on a calendar-generating tool in Affinity Publisher that has the following pages: A front cover page to be adjusted in post A page set up for data merge with a picture and text for the month, a grid of days with holidays setup to merge A back cover page with a data merge layout that shows each month's picture on the back Right now, if I go into the data merge manager and step through each record on the included excel sheet, everything appears to look normal, but when I click the merge button, I get the font cover page, a single month page for January, and a back cover page with the image for every month on it. I can't seem to get the data merge to give me calendar pages for each month. I've already checked the excel sheet for blank cells and can't find ones that should matter. I would love it if someone could help me figure this out. Thanks friends! Calendar Project FIXED.zip -
I'm making a catalog in Publisher and I think it would be done quite fast if some Flexbox functionalities were implemented, many things from the web can be applied to the print world as well, to name the two best ones: flexible buttons and self-adjusting layouts. I take this space to ask if there is any plug-in to use Flexbox in Publisher.- 4 replies
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Now there are two form groups. One with "Custom", one with "Selbst definiert". The latter appears after creating the first custom field: Furthermore the two groups flip panel position after deleting at least one custom fields: 2023-09-04_2.2.0.1986-beta_fields-panel-double-group.mp4 After deleting all custom fields the "german" group disappears and now the tooltip for the plus-button has a wrong label:
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Color selection bug when selecting a color using controls with numeric text fields on Color Chooser. Turning OpenCl on and off has no effect. Win10 / Publisher/Designer/Photo V2 color chooser bug.mp4
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I don't know if this has already been reported. At least, I could not find an entry on this particular issue. If this is already known, I apologize for the double entry. My observation is about color settings in the Paragraph Style, Character Style and Group Style dialogs. There, the dialogs with the sliders do not accept any keyboard input. It is only possible to make settings with the sliders. I can reproduce this behavior * in Affinity Publisher 1.9.2 * inAffinity Designer 1.9.2 * with the RGB color sliders * with the CMYK color sliders * in each case in the color settings for paragraph styles, character styles, group styles * on my MacMini 2020 on macOS 11 Big Sur * on my very old MacBook Pro 2008 on macOS 10.11 El Capitan. For clarity, I've included a short screen video that also shows my keyboard input. Color_Sliders.m4v
