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Apple Services should show Text entries not Development


catgarf

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Hiya,

Was looking to mass remove some artefacts from a converted PDF text boxes, when I noticed Publisher2 is showing me "Development" entries - not WordService or anything "text" related I have installed... Heres a shot from Publisher 2 vs a comparison of VSCodium, it *very* occasionally (i.e once), under random circumstances showed a tiny selection of WordService options... Just checked and Publisher 1.10.5 (on MacOSX 10.13.6) is the same (shows Development Services, Not Text)

Mac Studio, macOS - 12.6.1; Publisher2 - 2.0.3

Kind Regards,

JasON...

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As much as I'd also love to use CalcService, WordService et al in Affinity text frames, unfortunately it won't be possible because Serif is not using standard MacOS text frameworks. That's obviously for a reason: 1) to enable features that the MacOS text framework doesn't support, and 2) ensure that text frames behave exactly the same on Windows as well.

What you can do though is to set up your own Affinity-only services in Automator.

Or use a 3rd party macro utility like Keyboard Maestro. For example, last year I have set up a global Character/Word Counter macro in Keyboard Maestro (now obsolete for Affinity v2) that will count the clipboard text content. 

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

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In other words: This is not a bug but - unfortunately - "by design".

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

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Yea, but why "tease" with leaving the Development services in; this and all the other Affinity apps started as Mac apps - and the reason I chose VSCodium as a comparison is its a Microsoft App started on Windows - now across Windows/Mac + Linux - its the same across all three - don't think this uses native Apple Text frameworks either but I've not checked the code, though its Electron based, so possibly

You would have thought that as a smallish local dev house Affinity would welcome additional features - essentially for free - e.g Bibtex for endnotes/citations

Though my InDesign 2023 doesn't have a "Services" menu at all - but then it has a mountain of text manipulation options built in and its (now) focused on Windows...

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