Mandoleer Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 It's that Luddite again. I'm trying to import text styles from one document to another. In the source document, they are fine. Leading is set to %, and sizes are right. When they come through, something that was 16 pt is now 5.3 pt (and simillar weird alterations to other sizes), and leading is back to 'exact'. The look of the style is OK - caption is italic, and HEAD LEFT is bold. But a heading in 5.3 pt is not very much good. Except perhaps on A8 for pixies...... BTW is there an easy way to delete in one go all the styles that are provided? I don't use any of them in normal work (I have my own HEADINGS) and the only one I might like to use is 'box' (but I can always always draw one). When I've got mine in, it's hard to find them if I just import without clearing first. Quote
Old Bruce Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 6 minutes ago, Mandoleer said: BTW is there an easy way to delete in one go all the styles that are provided? I don't use any of them in normal work (I have my own HEADINGS) and the only one I might like to use is 'box' (but I can always always draw one). When I've got mine in, it's hard to find them if I just import without clearing first. I am going to assume you are using Publisher. There is a dropdown menu from the Text Styles panel that is accessible from the "hamburger / ClubhouseSandwich" menu. If you choose to you can have [no style] for Character and Paragraphs as the Default. That is what I have done. 11 minutes ago, Mandoleer said: I'm trying to import text styles from one document to another. There are many ways to interpret this statement. Are these both Publisher documents? There is a menu command that you may find useful. Text > Reapply Text Styles. Choose the bad text and use this. One more thing is you should get used to checking to see if there are any overrides applied to text. Use the Text caret and the Text Styles pane, see it the name of the Style and check for a + after the name, then you can expand the listing. after hitting the triangle... 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.
walt.farrell Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 48 minutes ago, Mandoleer said: something that was 16 pt is now 5.3 pt (and simillar weird alterations to other sizes) Do the source and target documents have the same DPI? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.2.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Mandoleer Posted February 11, 2022 Author Posted February 11, 2022 Yes, all Publisher docs. I didn't bother trying to import from PP. (Just looked - you only get the option of Publisher files.) No overrides. No actual text in the doc being imported to. I set the text styles myself in the doc the pdf was opened in. I never thought to look at dpi as I've never changed it. It's always on 300 for laser and copier work. But, I've just looked at the dpi in some dummies I've set up now and they were on 144. The template I've used is on 300, and is set to our text styles. (Originally my colleague's styles designwise, but actually set as text styles when I took over about 5 yrs ago finishing up on PP X9). Migrating two projects now to Publisher via pdf - one quite successful and the other just getting sorted. I've binned the dummies with 144 dpi and imported successfully to the others. Thanks to both of you again. I still don't know how this happened, but I'll be keeping a careful watch on it. Quote
walt.farrell Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 Good that the reason is known, even if you don't understand the workflow that caused it yet Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.2.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Mandoleer Posted February 12, 2022 Author Posted February 12, 2022 I had a bright idea this morning, remembering that my mouse has a dpi button. These are apparently for gamers, but as I only play FreeCell not much use to me. Seems to come with it being a 7 button mouse. I insist on at least 5 buttons (there don't seem to be 4 button ones) as I copy and paste a lot and having two preset buttons saves time. Unfortunately, in a test this morning, the dpi button doesn't seem to change the dpi setting of Affinity Publisher. If I do find out why this happened, I'll post here. Quote
R C-R Posted February 12, 2022 Posted February 12, 2022 5 hours ago, Mandoleer said: Unfortunately, in a test this morning, the dpi button doesn't seem to change the dpi setting of Affinity Publisher. I could be wrong but I think that button is used to change the sample frequency of the mouse, not to set DPI of anything. Check the mouse manual to see what it says. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Mandoleer Posted February 13, 2022 Author Posted February 13, 2022 Sorry, can't find the manual. It was only an idea. Just discovered that when you press the button, you can advance from one green flash up to four green flashes. What that means is beyond my ken. Not noticed any difference in anything yet. Probably won't if it's a gaming thing. Just been searching and worked out that it affects mouse speed. Thanks for that. I now know why my mouse speed drops occasionally. It's quite easy to catch this button, and I hate working with a slow mouse. Quote
Old Bruce Posted February 13, 2022 Posted February 13, 2022 6 hours ago, Mandoleer said: I hate working with a slow mouse. Only ones I can catch. Kliban... Love to eat them mousies Mousies what I love to eat, Bite they little heads off and nibble on they tiny feet. 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.
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