Paul Mudditt Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 The new Publisher on iPad is completely hamstrung by not being able to open PDF files in a sensible manner, the desktop PDF Option, "Group lines of text into text frames" should either be controllable in preferences or set to TRUE to allow PDF files to be imported in a sensible fashion as text frames not simply lines of text. There is a way to achieve this on the iPad but makes the user have to jump through hoops and use embedded layers to enable this basic function, which also causes many crashes of the app so is the non-ideal way of importing PDF files correctly. As a desktop publishing app, I consider this a bug. DM1, loukash and iuli 3 Quote Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on macOS 15.0 Beta Sequoia on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on Windows 10 Pro. (revived !) Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18(22A5326f) https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mork handley Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 AGREED!! Hamstrung is the word. As PDF is the bigggest document format in the world, the inability for Publisher to edit them properly seems like a major oversight. As others have expressed, the app is useless to me until this is fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff NathanC Posted December 2, 2022 Staff Share Posted December 2, 2022 Hi @Paul Mudditt, The lack of PDF options (including this function) on import is currently logged with the developers, I've passed your comments along. Mork handley and Paul Mudditt 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ash Posted February 15, 2023 Staff Share Posted February 15, 2023 We have now added the options available when importing a PDF on desktop to the iPad versions in the 2.1 beta. It would be great if you wanted to try it out in the beta and let us know what you think - you can sign up to the beta program here. Paul Mudditt 1 Quote Managing Director Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) / Apple M1 Max / 64GB / macOS 12.0.1 iPad Pro 11-inch 3rd Gen / iPadOS 16.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 On 2/15/2023 at 11:31 PM, Ash said: It would be great if you wanted to try it out in the beta and let us know what you think Thanks Ash, the addition of this new feature makes the importing and editing large PDFs on the iPad much, much better. Paragraphs do tend to have paragraph marks at the end of each line of text but these are relatively easily removed with search and replace. Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mork handley Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 Any idea when 2.1 might be released? Agree with DM1: being able to import PDFs, in a way which allows you to actually edit the text, will make this app useful to a great many more people. Thanks for including this important feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 On 3/9/2023 at 9:47 PM, Mork handley said: Any idea when 2.1 might be released? The public beta with this feature is available to users now.🙂 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mork handley Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Thanks very much DM1. If there’s no approx date for the release of 2.1, it would be good to know if files created on the beta will be compatible with the full version? I’m really keen to finally start using this app, but it’s of little use until it can import documents to work on. Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 2 hours ago, Mork handley said: If there’s no approx date for the release of 2.1, There usually isn't. 2 hours ago, Mork handley said: it would be good to know if files created on the beta will be compatible with the full version? They should be, but there are no guarantees. 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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