New user questions - demo version 2.04: text box color, paste spreadsheet content, export individual pages to pdf

[Wolf-z]

Hi!

Intro: I am a new user of Publisher V2, working with the demo version under Win11. My goal is to use Publisher to make a collection of technologies available for interested parties in a virtual and real display area. Publisher will help me to make individual info sheets and write newsletters on specific items. The item's information is available as image files, text docs, pdfs, excel sheets etc.

I enjoyed using Publisher and the succinct training videos as well as browsed the forums - the following may just be me missing a step - thanks for your patience, Wolfgang

Questions:

1. How can I change the background color of an existing text box.
2. Pasting LibreOffice spreadsheet multiple-cell content into a Publisher table: Publisher always reverts to TimesRoman and a default paragraph format. How can this be a predefined Publisher style, like table-body?
3. Some changes to Master pages will not ripple through to the document pages (for example style changes)
4. Hyperlink to file does not seem to work (file not found in MS Edge) the way I included it - any suggestion?

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Wolf-z said:

1. How can I change the background color of an existing text box.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

For this, use Window > Text > Text Frame and you should find the options you need.

1 hour ago, Wolf-z said:

2. Pasting LibreOffice spreadsheet multiple-cell content into a Publisher table: Publisher always reverts to TimesRoman and a default paragraph format. How can this be a predefined Publisher style, like table-body?

Unless you Paste Without Formatting, Publisher will always use the Text Style information from the text you copied when you paste it.

 

1 hour ago, Wolf-z said:

3. Some changes to Master pages will not ripple through to the document pages (for example style changes)

If you have already populated the Text Frames on the document pages with text, then changes you make to the formatting information on the Master Page won't carry through. It's not clear what kind of style changes you mean, but in some common cases you can either:

• Select the actual text and specify a different Text Style in the Context Toolbar; or
• Leave the Text Style name as it currently is, but edit the definition of the Text Style using the Text Styles panel.

1 hour ago, Wolf-z said:

4. Hyperlink to file does not seem to work (file not found in MS Edge) the way I included it - any suggestion?

Hyperlinks to Files can work, but they are tricky and will depend on where the file is placed in respect to the PDF, and how you created the link, and how the PDF Viewer operates. So it can be tricky. There are some existing topics about it that you might be able to find with a forum search for hyperlink file and see if they help (that will find you too much, but there will be a few relevant topics).

[Wolf-z]

Walt,

thanks for the prompt reply! I will spend some time learning more about file hyperlink  - the only question I can not figure out is the table-insert:

An example table in Publisher2 below shows the header from the master in row1, a simple paste (Ctl V) in row2 (which is in Times Roman - the cell style is set to none, the source cell is Arial) and Paste Without Format in row3. Row 3 is actually not in the Table, but this paste generated a separate ArtText box for each cell in the paste buffer. I tried the other paste options with different results, but none would fill the table with the table format (TableBody).

Of course I can re-apply the style in row2, but was hoping not to have to for each item in the collection.

Appreciate your input, Wolfgang