RNKLN Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 Good to read how AD solves a problem for Jason ... https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/05/restyling-numbers-charts-in-affinity-designer/ Quote Affinity Photo - Affinity Designer - Affinity Publisher | macOS Sonoma (14.2) on 16GB MBP14 2021 with 2.4 versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 I did this a lot with Excel charts, to give them more modern and interesting designs than the average charts done by accountants, and to replace fonts by the ones used in the magazine. It was the fun part while working on a magazine too technical to be fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 23 hours ago, RNKLN said: AD solves a problem for Jason Hm… Quote Here’s the workflow: First, I exported my Numbers spreadsheet to a PDF. […] Once the PDF was exported and I had removed extraneous pages […] Jason, Jason… why so complificated? Copy & paste, man! MacOS native PDF clipboard makes it happen. 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...
RNKLN Posted May 20, 2021 Author Share Posted May 20, 2021 It looks like there is a difference. When I do a copy-paste from Keynote or Numbers, an image is pasted into AD. When I save as a PDF and place the document, it becomes an embedded document (on which I can double click to open all layers in another AD-tab and change individual colours as Jason also intends to do). What am I missing? Quote Affinity Photo - Affinity Designer - Affinity Publisher | macOS Sonoma (14.2) on 16GB MBP14 2021 with 2.4 versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 14 minutes ago, RNKLN said: When I do a copy-paste from Keynote, an image is pasted into AD. No idea about Keynote, I don't use it. 14 minutes ago, RNKLN said: What am I missing? Alright, it could also be that I may be "missing" something (not really, but in a metaphoric sense) because I'm sticking to iWork 09 (!) until they will pry it from my cold, dead hands. And copy & paste native PDF objects from Numbers v2.3 to Designer is literally just a matter of copy… and paste. All copied text and objects intact and instantly editable. So… no idea how far Apple went on their holy mission of simplifying their office suite to death, and breaking the PDF clipboard exchange along the way. I may need to reboot the Mac from the Catalina partition first to find out… 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...
Murfee Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 59 minutes ago, RNKLN said: What am I missing? Right click on the chart and copy as PDF It's nice to see that Designer is used for this...it can be done directly in Numbers, no workarounds just a simple case of changing the Plot Series to rows from columns, the same as swapping data rows in Excel, just a different route to find it. RNKLN 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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