Belhouse Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Simply, where can I find the word count in publisher? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Welcome to the Affinity forums @Belhouse! There is no word count feature yet in APublisher. There are already some feature requests about this function. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belhouse Posted February 1, 2021 Author Share Posted February 1, 2021 Thank you. I hope soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 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 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 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. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 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 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 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. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: I tested in Publisher and there is no number of found instances... Pity, it would have been useful. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belhouse Posted February 1, 2021 Author Share Posted February 1, 2021 Thanks, Bruce. Affinity Publisher doesn't have that function yet. I hope soon though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Workaround on Mac: Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 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. > pdftotext myfile.pdf - | wc -w Online PDF word counter here and here etc. Export files and open them in an office suite ... 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! Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 On Windows, free version of PDF-XChange could be used. It has pretty impressive word count tool: ...and it also works for text selections: NilsFinken 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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