Greg T Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/full-feature-list/ I'm looking thru the list of features and it seems to be able to import many options, but can't export the same back? It would be so much easier to create a HTML webpage, if it could export to Microsoft® Word® DOCX as Microsoft Word can export to HTML. I have Microsoft Word 2010, and it can export to HTML. (edit: don't get me wrong, I do buy upgrades of products. depends on the product. I feel if I do buy Affinity, I will buy upgrades). I'm very curious why Publisher can not export back to Microsoft® Word® DOCX? I'm struggling in reasons to buy the Universal License. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 1 hour ago, Greg T said: I'm very curious why Publisher can not export back to Microsoft® Word® DOCX? Probably because Serif haven't wanted to implement that function, or haven't had time. 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...
Greg T Posted January 14, 2023 Author Share Posted January 14, 2023 51 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Probably because Serif haven't wanted to implement that function, or haven't had time. I didn't think about Adobe Acrobat Standard DC 2015 that I got free with ScanSnap ix500. It can create HTML from PDF! So that helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 5 minutes ago, Greg T said: I didn't think about Adobe Acrobat Standard DC 2015 that I got free with ScanSnap ix500. It can create HTML from PDF! So that helps! You can also Open a PDF in Word, can't you, and export as HTML from there? 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...
Greg T Posted January 14, 2023 Author Share Posted January 14, 2023 1 hour ago, walt.farrell said: You can also Open a PDF in Word, can't you, and export as HTML from there? Microsoft Word 2010 can not open PDF.... maybe newer versions, but I do not wish to upgrade to a subscription. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Sorry; I thought it could. Pretty sure Libre Office can, and it can also export to HTML, so you might try that route. 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...
Greg T Posted January 14, 2023 Author Share Posted January 14, 2023 1 minute ago, N.P.M. said: Open office does too, with an addon when I looked it up just now. Office/word supported pdf since version 2013. But nonetheless why working with such old tools beats me in this day and age And the expectation that more modern tools should work with and support such old tools. Also there are numerous tools online to convert to and from docx /pdf,........................ The only bad thing about converting online is they'll have access to your stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 If you just need text, maybe copying from Publisher and pasting into Word may work. I've done some tests. Copying from Publisher V1 and pasting into Mac Word 16, all the paragraph styles are preserved. Character styles are not applied, even if the character appearance is there (you can ask Word to select similarly-formatted text, and apply the character styles from the list). Images are not pasted. Accented character are not pasted. Tables are not pasted. With Apple Pages 10, nor paragraph or character styles are pasted. You have to select similar text and create the styles again. No image or table is pasted. Accented character are pasted. With Nisus Writer Pro 3.3, all the paragraph styles are preserved. Character styles are not applied or imported, even if the character appearance is there. No image or table is pasted. Accented character are pasted. Paolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 5 hours ago, Greg T said: I'm very curious why Publisher can not export back to Microsoft® Word® DOCX? I think Publisher (and InDesign) should let you export a selected story or range of text to docx for user convenience but exporting a complex document to docx would be a tech support nightmare since Word lacks things like masters and multiple stories. Simple docs might export okay but complex ones would look terrible and users would complain. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.0.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 5 hours ago, MikeTO said: I think Publisher (and InDesign) should let you export a selected story or range of text to docx for user convenience but exporting a complex document to docx would be a tech support nightmare since Word lacks things like masters and multiple stories. It would suffice if Publisher did as InDesign: export a story in a linear way, with all the styles applied and the images in the text, converted to a format that RTF can support. But I would greatly appreciate if Publisher could export linked images, at least as an option, as links that it can then rebuild when importing the same file. If RTF, now a rather obsolete file format, can't do it, DOCX could maybe do it, or be able to be adapted to do it. This way, one would be able to export the story as a DOCX file, have it edited or translated, and be able to have the linked images reappear in the text when one imports it into Publisher. Paolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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