Pwl Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 It would be nice to see more template add-ons, that could mate this Desktop Publisher, all round for all types of publication documents, for this well-designed Affinity Published. Which since from all your Serif PagePlus editions did have and were made for doing "greeting cards", which I feel is a great shame that you have abandoned from this from your New Publisher. So, it would be very nice from your team to have a re-think of making new templates that would be very useful and I also, think others too would here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Even if you were not born creative (like me), it is easy to make your own creations. The internet is full of pre-designed templates. Not at all in native Affinity Publisher file format, but usable. AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3085) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.3.1 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Need a system wide color picker? Try Microsoft's (New) Power Toys Need a robust PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF There's nothing you get used to faster than working slowly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Welcome to the forums @Pwl Various people have asked for similar things. Have you looked in the Resources section of the forums? It’s worth remembering that a template for, for example, a birthday card, will be of a specific size and will need to be manually re-worked to fit on paper of a different size. The same thing goes for an A4 report template which someone else wants to use with Letter paper, or an A5 landscape flyer which someone wants to have in Portrait, etc. etc. Every user has their own needs and a single template cannot cater for every need. Templates are great for doing some things quickly but they can soon become limiting and awkward to use once your needs differ from those of the person who created the template. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwl Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 10 minutes ago, N.P.M. said: I guess it will not be added(but could be wrong of course) It would mean paying designers to create>adds to the program pricing. License out the designs created >adds to the program pricing. You can find templates around the net free or paid. Or you can create them yourselves. Thanks for your info' which I would be glad to pay for template set-up for A 4 cards size, for using on greeting cards. Which like in Serif PagePlus X9 and with set-up guidelines within and made it easy to work with! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwl Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 3 hours ago, N.P.M. said: But not everybody would like a higher price because of added stuff they maybe never use. You can export these as pdf and use them in Af~ A good idea, but unfortunately you cannot export any set-ups or files from Serif PagePlus X9, as a PDF format to A/F. All PagePlus files have their own format stampings and will not export to another format. A/F does not recognise the file format of any PagePlus files. Also, PagePlus and A/F cannot Import other formats, apart from their own! That's a pity. The only way, like the other ones on here, are sayings, is to make your own template, which I have been looking at on YouTube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwl Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 4 hours ago, Komatös said: Even if you were not born creative (like me), it is easy to make your own creations. The internet is full of pre-designed templates. Not at all in native Affinity Publisher file format, but usable. Yes, I agree with you here, and it looks like the only way, is to make your own creations. Which I have seen and been watching on YouTube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 5 minutes ago, Pwl said: A good idea, but unfortunately you cannot export any set-ups or files from Serif PagePlus X9, as a PDF format to A/F. All PagePlus files have their own format stampings and will not export to another format. Go to Page Plus; Open the Page Plus document; Export the document as a PDF document; Go to the Affinity application; Open the PDF document; Save as an Affinity document. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwl Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 4 hours ago, GarryP said: Welcome to the forums @Pwl Various people have asked for similar things. Have you looked in the Resources section of the forums? It’s worth remembering that a template for, for example, a birthday card, will be of a specific size and will need to be manually re-worked to fit on paper of a different size. The same thing goes for an A4 report template which someone else wants to use with Letter paper, or an A5 landscape flyer which someone wants to have in Portrait, etc. etc. Every user has their own needs and a single template cannot cater for every need. Templates are great for doing some things quickly but they can soon become limiting and awkward to use once your needs differ from those of the person who created the template. Thank you for welcoming me, which I have been looking over in the resources section of this forum and found that most of them make their own creations. Which seems the only way to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwl Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 5 minutes ago, GarryP said: Go to Page Plus; Open the Page Plus document; Export the document as a PDF document; Go to the Affinity application; Open the PDF document; Save as an Affinity document. It will not allow you to make a PDF or export the document as a PDF document in PagePlus or even import one too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 I haven’t used Page Plus since very early on in its lifetime so I don’t know how it works in its latest incarnation, but Serif’s official recommendation for getting documents from Page Plus to the Affinity applications is via PDF so I feel reasonably confident that Page Plus will export to PDF. If you can tell us what you are trying to do, how you are trying to do it, and how it’s not working, then someone can probably advise further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwl Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 8 minutes ago, Pwl said: It will not allow you to make a PDF or export the document as a PDF document in PagePlus or even import one too Plus, PagePlus has its own stamping file format and will not export or be saved in PDF format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 I don’t know what a “stamping file format” is so I’ll leave this to one of the Page Plus experts (of which there are plenty in the forums). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwl Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 Just now, GarryP said: I don’t know what a “stamping file format” is so I’ll leave this to one of the Page Plus experts (of which there are plenty in the forums). Thanks for your info' here, Garry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted September 28, 2022 Staff Share Posted September 28, 2022 @Pwl - We no longer officially support the 'Plus' range of software, here on the Affinity Forums or on the Legacy 'communityplus' site. I can confirm that PagePlus is able to export the Template documents to PDF, as I've just had a colleague do this, and then import the saved PDF into Publisher. If you're still having trouble with the PagePlus software, please see the below FAQ: Any further discussion or requests for support regarding the 'Plus' range will result in this post being locked, many thanks for your understanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 7 minutes ago, Pwl said: Thanks for your info' here, Garry. You're welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwl Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 46 minutes ago, Dan C said: @Pwl - We no longer officially support the 'Plus' range of software, here on the Affinity Forums or on the Legacy 'communityplus' site. I can confirm that PagePlus is able to export the Template documents to PDF, as I've just had a colleague do this, and then import the saved PDF into Publisher. If you're still having trouble with the PagePlus software, please see the below FAQ: Any further discussion or requests for support regarding the 'Plus' range will result in this post being locked, many thanks for your understanding. Thanks for your info', but what you have sent me on this link: Is for Legacy Unlock Codes for the software, for one to be able to move from another computer to another. Nowhere does it show me or explain on how to create a PDF file. Sorry to say to you here? - You cannot and will not from PagePlus make you an export PDF file for a Template to be exported. So, I am confirming here? - It cannot be done in PagePlus! So, I would love to know how this colleague managed to do this? One can click on a normal PDF file, and then choose to open up with A/P or PagePlus to see and work on it. But sadly not the other way around of opening up PagePlus file format to be exported as a PDF file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Note, I have never used PagePlus but... I have to ask this. @Pwl do you have PagePlus running on your computer? Can you open a PagePlus file with it? Could you show a screenshot of the Export Dialog window from PagePlus. There has to be some item that allows you to export the file in different formats. Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.2 Affinity Designer 2.3.1 | Affinity Photo 2.3.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.3.1 | 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...
Staff Dan C Posted September 28, 2022 Staff Share Posted September 28, 2022 Please read the first post of the FAQ I have provided carefully, as this confirms the following: Serif no longer sells or supports the Plus range of software. These forums are provided for Affinity customers to ask questions about Affinity software. Please do not create forum accounts here to ask Legacy Software questions. Any threads created here on the Affinity Forums requesting support for these products will be locked by our team and you will simply be pointed back to this thread, as we wish to keep these forums for Affinity support only. If you require assistance that the posts below do not provide, a dedicated member of the Plus range community has created their own unofficial legacy forums to help to continue to support users, but please note this is not directly affiliated with Serif - https://punster.me/serif/ 18 minutes ago, Pwl said: Nowhere does it show me or explain on how to create a PDF file. You will not receive an official response with support for the PagePlus software on the Affinity Forums. This thread is now locked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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