Is there a way to print out the History Panel in Affinity Publisher?

[Robert Gibson PWES]

Usually when I'm doing editing/proofreading, I use MS Word because of the Track Changes feature, which highlights every change I make within the document.  The History Panel records all the changes I make and I just realized I can toggle the 'Save History with Document' so that the History panel doesn't refresh every time I shut the document. What I'm wondering is - is there a way to somehow show the client all the changes made in the History Panel in sort of like a separate document or addendum to the finish file, if I export it as a PDF? Can I export the History panel's contents somehow as well? I'm currently doing a proofread after the layout and I don't want to do the proofread in the client's original Word document, because it will force me to redo all the work of laying it out again. If I can show all the changes that were made to the document after I've finished editing it, it would make things a whole lot easier.

[walt.farrell]

No, there isn't. 

And even if there were, the data shown in the History panel does not have enough detail for your purpose.

[Robert Gibson PWES]

Thanks!!  I didn't see one, I was just curious as to if there was something that I was missing.

[MikeTO]

Acrobat Pro and PDF Expert can compare two PDFs so you could use one of them to help communicate changes to clients.

[Robert Gibson PWES]

Thanks! I'll look into that!

[loukash]

4 hours ago, Robert Gibson PWES said:

Can I export the History panel's contents somehow as well?

Recent versions of MacOS have OCR built in. You can enlarge the History panel as tall as possible and make screenshots of it. Then view them as QuickLook or in the Preview app. Click the blue button in bottom right-hand corner to convert the text pixels into real text which you can copy and paste into a text document.
Works great:

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Raster crop
11-11-2023 21:48:02
Unsharp Mask 0.5/0.5
11-11-2023 21:48:08
Canon8800v3
11-11-2023 21:48:32
Set Document Metadata
11-11-2023 21:50:59
Set Document Metadata
11-11-2023 21:51:02
Set Document Metadata
11-11-2023 21:51:17
Set Document Metadata
11-11-2023 22:03:48
Set Document Metadata
11-11-2023 22:04:32
Set Document Metadata
11-11-2023 22:04:35

^ from a scan I was editing earlier tonight and that was still open in APh while I was typing this.

[loukash]

2 minutes ago, loukash said:

the blue button in bottom right-hand corner

That said, I don't remember if the feature is on by default. It could be a MacOS system setting that needs to be turned on somewhere, I just forgot where.

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[NotMyFault]

Another way to to quickly show what work has been done is doing a screen recording and scroll through history from start to end, with document visible in canvas.

[lacerto]

Obsolete.