skmwrp Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 This is about impossible to search, so forgive me if this is already addressed somewhere else. With AP, is there the ability to add a note/comment/annotation to a document (one of those terms). That is, mark up a document with something that doesn't actually get outputted (?) or printed without having to work around it all by using regular text boxes that then need to then be specially handled. Sticky note like thing. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 You could create a text frame out side of the printable area and pin it to a word. https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/pinning.html https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/Panels/pinningPanel.html skmwrp 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 34 minutes ago, skmwrp said: the ability to add a note/comment/annotation to a document (one of those terms). That is, mark up a document with something that doesn't actually get outputted You mean metadata?affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/Panels/fieldsPanel.html Alternatively you can switch to the Photo persona and use its Metadata panel to add even more fields. You can also use a spare Master Page as a non-printing notepad. skmwrp 1 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...
skmwrp Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 2 minutes ago, loukash said: You mean metadata?affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/Panels/fieldsPanel.html Alternatively you can switch to the Photo persona and use its Metadata panel to add even more fields. You can also use a spare Master Page as a non-printing notepad. No, more as in comments/notes/reminders to fix things over a multi-page document, each with multiple inked comic panels and text. Something that can be searched quickly, doesn't appear or print. Though I'll look into the metadata. Maybe there's something there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skmwrp Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 14 minutes ago, firstdefence said: You could create a text frame out side of the printable area and pin it to a word. https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/pinning.html https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/Panels/pinningPanel.html Thanks. I found the video about pinning and hopefully I can create an asset that serves as a sticky note. firstdefence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 (edited) 54 minutes ago, skmwrp said: I'll look into the metadata. Maybe there's something there. It's because you've literally asked for "annotation to a document", "mark up a document". That's what Metadata [panel] is about. So what you need are annotations to layout objects. (Terminology matters… ) Yeah, InDesign has stuff like that. I've rarely used it but it's nice to have. What I've been using more were text frames on a non-printable layer. Not available in Affinity either, yet. The idea with pinned objects outside the spread is a nice workaround. Edited April 7, 2021 by loukash sigh… skmwrp 1 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...
skmwrp Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 1 minute ago, loukash said: What I've been using more were text frames on a non-printable layer. I need to look into this. Sorry, we just got Publisher yesterday, so we're trying to come up to speed as quickly as possible because we have to actually get our actual work done. Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 Added a feature request here: loukash and skmwrp 1 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skmwrp Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 32 minutes ago, firstdefence said: You could create a text frame out side of the printable area and pin it to a word. https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/pinning.html https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/Panels/pinningPanel.html Well, I watched the video and tried it, but as soon as I pin the text box, all of the text and background color disappear. I'm trying to figure out what I've done wrong, but if you have any help, it would be very much appreciated. The pinned text box became a sub of the text it pinned to. I'll load a video as soon as I can to hopefully better explain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 17 minutes ago, loukash said: It's because you've literally asked for "annotation to a document", "mark up a document". That's what metadata is about. Nope! - Annotations and the strict term of metadata are different things here. Meaning color marking, visul encircling, adding scribbled notes etc. aren't really metadata in it's common sense. 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...
loukash Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 25 minutes ago, v_kyr said: Nope! What a drama a forgotten capital M can cause… v_kyr 1 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...
skmwrp Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 43 minutes ago, skmwrp said: Well, I watched the video and tried it, but as soon as I pin the text box, all of the text and background color disappear. I'm trying to figure out what I've done wrong, but if you have any help, it would be very much appreciated. The pinned text box became a sub of the text it pinned to. I'll load a video as soon as I can to hopefully better explain. Okay, figured out the issue, which makes the pinned text to the side a non-starter. We have a tier of four panels (this is all done in Designer) and the inking and text bubbles are subs of their respective panels so that lines don't extend beyond the edges of the panel. Pinning makes the note a sub of text in one of those panels, because you can't attach it to the panel itself (a rectangle shape), and as soon as the comment is moved outside the area of the panel, it disappears. So much for that. Workarounds. \o/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 If you are using Publisher and not Designer then you can place a Text Frame on the master Pages, name the layers NOTES TURN OFF and turn off the visibilty and then when you want to add a note use the Edit Detached and turn the note on, write what ever and leave it turned on. You'll have better luck if you use a Paragraph style called Notes and then you can search for those using find and replace to be certain that they are all turned off before you export. If you are wanting this so people can further mark them up then I think I would use a PDF export and just mark that up, folks could then further mark them up in the PDF viewer of their choice. All in all I think a Notes Function would be useful and should be added only if it is something that can be turned off in the Export Panel. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | 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...
walt.farrell Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 9 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: If you are wanting this so people can further mark them up then I think I would use a PDF export and just mark that up, folks could then further mark them up in the PDF viewer of their choice. Note, though, that if you Open a marked-up PDF file in Publisher (or any other Affinity application) you won't see the annotations. You would need to use a PDF viewer with annotation capabilities to see them. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skmwrp Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 Walt Farrell in the above feature request thread points out Preflight User Comments, which gets a lot closer to what we're looking for because it can be attached to any object, shows up in the Preflight Panel, and doesn't get printed or exported. (We switched User Comments from red to yellow, so it won't stop it from printing. Now if they were only searchable, but….) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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skmwrp Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 Just now, walt.farrell said: Note, though, that if you Open a marked-up PDF file in Publisher (or any other Affinity application) you won't see the annotations. You would need to use a PDF viewer with annotation capabilities to see them. We simply marked up PDFs using a red marker, but then it got to be a pain, have to continually clean our iPads. Then we discovered Apple Pencils. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skmwrp Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 4 minutes ago, Lagarto said: If you have Designer, you could link the Publisher pages there and then use additional arbitrary-sized and placed artboards as note containers, group them to add them category-like properties and then use Export Persona to gather related comments and print them as PDFs. Probably takes time before a really useful commentboard, but it has the benefit of having the source documents editable on a double-click. Boy, I never realized until now how weird Designer looks in light mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 19 minutes ago, skmwrp said: how weird Designer looks in light mode And I barely even used Affinity apps until the Light UI was implemented. I can't stand dark UI for any longer that perhaps ten minutes. Then my eyes begin to hurt. To each their own. Isn't it great to have options? sfriedberg 1 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...
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