AFPub: While deleting colors, styles etc.: Question for replacement style

[jweitzel]

Hello out there!

As far I see, that may be implemented (at least) in AFPub:

When deleting a color swatch, a paragraph style or text style which is already applied to elements in the file, AFPub just does it – and nothing happes, exept that I'm loosing that format.

It would be very useful, if AFPub would gave me a hint "That [style, swatch] is already used in that file, what do you want to do: ..."
• just delete it
• choose a replacement style/colour etc. ...

Often I delete a color swatch, because there is already an other, analog color in use, AND I want, to apply "blind" those elements the already given color, etc.
Especially usefull would that be while importing textfiles, which are already formatted via "own" styles: Theses styles are imported, too, into the book layout, and when I delete those imported styles, I would be asked, which already defined style should be the replacement.

 

Johannes

[MikeTO]

Agreed. This has been requested before and it would be a nice improvement for those cleaning up imported styles.

[jweitzel]

Hello volks!

As I can see from the feedback on this aspect, there are at least three of us And this may show, that there are not very much real pro-users here in the forum. (Perhaps they are still with the competitors?).
I consider the feature of a feedback from AFPub: "You want to delete that style/color? What should serve as a replacement?" for a very important feature in everyday life: For example, you import an extensive Word text marked with style templates together with those styles into a prepared book layout. If you now delete the Word templates and are asked these questions, you can immediately give the book the desired formatting without hazzle. The same goes for (imported) colors: you can clean up and redesign by deleting items and replacing them.
At the moment, unfortunately, all this ends only "in a dead end". And I'm afraid, by the time this feature gets an ear on Serif, the Affinity Suite will be hundreds of dollars more expensive too, and a subscription...

Johannes

[MikeTO]

7 hours ago, jweitzel said:

Hello volks!

As I can see from the feedback on this aspect, there are at least three of us And this may show, that there are not very much real pro-users here in the forum. (Perhaps they are still with the competitors?).
I consider the feature of a feedback from AFPub: "You want to delete that style/color? What should serve as a replacement?" for a very important feature in everyday life: For example, you import an extensive Word text marked with style templates together with those styles into a prepared book layout. If you now delete the Word templates and are asked these questions, you can immediately give the book the desired formatting without hazzle. The same goes for (imported) colors: you can clean up and redesign by deleting items and replacing them.
At the moment, unfortunately, all this ends only "in a dead end". And I'm afraid, by the time this feature gets an ear on Serif, the Affinity Suite will be hundreds of dollars more expensive too, and a subscription...

Johannes

Hi Johannes, I don't think it means there aren't lots of pro users here, I think it just means that we've all found workarounds. Also, many users don't need to merge styles, their workflows don't necessitate this.

But when scripting is available it might be possible to write a script to merge styles. I'll make a note of this and look into doing it.

Cheers

[jweitzel]

Hello Mike!

Let's be honest: How can software delete an item without comment if it even "knows" that it is in use? Before I clean a file from the hard drive, I am asked twice! As I said: At such points, I wonder how old and how experienced the developers at Serif are in many cases. And *if* the software already knows that the item is in use, it can also ask by which to replace it with.
I don't think much of such "workarounds", scripts, "side solutions" etc. These solutions are the privilege of the 18-20 year olds in our department. They are used to "diddling" instead of strict work.
By the way: There were also times when I had awonderful knowledge of AppleScript and, for example, had Quark completely transformed into new software (database publishing! setup of word lists and registers). I was always fascinated by the extensive AppleScript libraries that the developers "back then" implemented in the softwares. There is no longer any talk of that today.

Best regards, Mike
Johannes