Document Word Count

[Belhouse]

Simply, where can I find the word count in publisher?

[Joachim_L]

Welcome to the Affinity forums @Belhouse!

There is no word count feature yet in APublisher. There are already some feature requests about this function.

[Belhouse]

Thank you. I hope soon

[v_kyr]

Since I don't use APub, I don't know if the APub regular expression search function does show up the amount of matches as number too? - Otherwise one could try out to misuse a reg expression for word counts over text areas then.

[Old Bruce]

6 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Since I don't use APub, I don't know if the APub regular expression search function does show up the amount of matches as number too? - Otherwise one could try out to misuse a reg expression for word counts over text areas then.

Not sure I understand exactly but no, there is no number of found instances in find and replace. Good work around if it did do that though.

[v_kyr]

8 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Not sure I understand exactly but no ...

I meant to try to misuse reg expressions then as a workaround, so something like this here ...

• Simple word counter

 

[Old Bruce]

2 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

I meant to try to misuse reg expressions then as a workaround, so something like this here ...

• Simple word counter

 

I tested in Publisher and there is no number of found instances. I have to say that that omission bothers me far more than the missing word count function.

[v_kyr]

3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I tested in Publisher and there is no number of found instances...

Pity, it would have been useful.

[Belhouse]

Thanks, Bruce. Affinity Publisher doesn't have that function yet. I hope soon though.

[loukash]

Workaround on Mac:

 

[v_kyr]

Well there are possible workarounds, but most of them aren't very elegant in contrast to by an app own offered and build-in wc functions.

1. > pdftotext myfile.pdf - | wc -w
2. Online PDF word counter here and here etc.
3. Export files and open them in an office suite
4. ...

Also those are somehow counterproductive and silly if a document is possibly very huge, meaning here to export as a PDF or other none plain text format in order to determine with other tools then how much words the whole doc might contain. - All in all APub isn't very useful for these things, since it can't tell how many words, or how often a specific word occurs inside longer docs!

[lacerto]

On Windows, free version of PDF-XChange could be used. It has pretty impressive word count tool:

...and it also works for text selections: