Paragraph composer in order to avoid “rivers of white”

[Kambro]

Good morning,

Thank you for receiving me in your forum.

I'm an avid user of InDesign for book publishing, and I'm about to switch to Publisher. I have charged the trial version, but after the 30 days, I still have some questions.
Do you know if Publisher offers a paragraph justification option as good as InDesign? In InDesign, it is called Adobe paragraph composer. This option avoid to have  “rivers of white” in the paragraph.

Thank you in advance.

Kambro

[firstdefence]

Welcome to the forum @Kambro

Not sure if the Paragraph panel is what you are looking for, it's a start.

https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/pages/Panels/paragraphPanel.html

Also there is an alignment option called Align towards Spine on the main menu.

[walt.farrell]

No, there's no "paragraph composer". Justification is on a line-by-line basis in the Affinity applications.

[Kambro]

Thank you for your answer, @firstdefence.

No, I didn't mean the Paragraph panel.

In InDesign, when you use the Justified option (on the panel for example) this option has a default functionality who adjust not only line by line but all the lines of a paragraph in order to avoid  “rivers of white” i.e. cracks in the loop of the Paragraph. So, sometimes, the second line of a Paragraph changes of justification when we add a word at the latest line.

 

 

 

See this articles : Text composition and Paragraph composer.

The next time I encounter a text where the use of paragraph composer is obvious, I'll send it to you; so we'll compare the results of InDesign vs Publisher.

Best regards.

Edited January 14, 2023 by Kambro

[Kambro]

1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:

No, there's no "paragraph composer". Justification is on a line-by-line basis in the Affinity applications.

Thank you @walt.farrell ; It's a pity; I'm waiting for version 3.0...

[Gouveia]

Um Abraço para todos os Amigos deste encontro. Agradecia de todo o coração uma explicação para manter o texto com os espaços entre palavras igual ou perto disso. Espaços muito abertos entre palavras fica feio na edição. No Adob In Design exste também esta função que muito ahuda a resolver estas situaç~oes. O meu pedido de ajuda é: no "nosso" programa existe alguma ferramenta parecida? è que mesmo afinado os espaços encontro sempre "rios" entre palavras. Obrigado pela vossa paciência e ajuda.