Copied text only partially pasting into an Affinity Publisher document

[bobdobbs]

I have text in a docx document. I want to copy it into an Affinity Publisher document.

In LibreOffice I select all text and perform the 'copy' operation. Then I select Publisher and do 'paste' into a text frame. The result is that the Publisher page that I'm looking at is filled with copied text.

However, if the volume of text exceeds the capacity of the page, then the remaining text is simply not copied into the Publisher document.

Initially I had created a single page in Publisher. So I could see the logic to an incomplete copy operation: new pages are not created automatically to carry the pasted text.

So I deleted the body of text, created new blank pages and started again.

My expectation was that the pasted text would be pasted across the pages that I had created. Unfortunately, this didn't happen.

When I paste in a body of text, and the text exceeds the capacity of the current page, the remaining text is not copied to the newly created blank pages. The text is simply cut off

How do I paste a body of text to a Publisher document, where the body of text exceeds the length of a single page?

[PaulEC]

https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Text/linkingTextFrames.html?title=Linking text frames

[walt.farrell]

Please see the Help: https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Text/flowingText.html

 

[bobdobbs]

@PaulEC, @walt.farrell: thanks for these answers.

What might be a sensible default workflow for someone laying out a work that has a large body of text? Like a book perhaps?

I'm just doing short documents at the moment: roughly two pages each.
Using the documentation on linking text frames, provided by Paul, I was able to lay out my text content across two pages. But I think that this method would become unworkable for more than two pages.

I read the documentation for linking text frames and tried to experiment with it a little, but didn't quite understand it.
Would the user be expected to repeatedly manually create and link text frames when the user wants to insert a multi-page body of text?

[PaulEC]

Check out the link Walt posted, that explains how to Autoflow text. You create one page, add a text frame then just shift-click on the red triangular Flow button and it will automatically add new pages and text frames for whatever text is overflowing.

[Old Bruce]

14 hours ago, bobdobbs said:

Would the user be expected to repeatedly manually create and link text frames when the user wants to insert a multi-page body of text?

You may want to use Linked Text Frames on an Actual page with the applied Master Page. 

[bobdobbs]

On 1/4/2024 at 1:39 PM, PaulEC said:

https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Text/linkingTextFrames.html?title=Linking text frames

With my body of text and following that documentation, I've been able to link two text frames.

However, the second frame can't hold the entirety of the remaining text.

I've linked the second frame to a third frame on another page.

However, the remaining text doesn't show in the third frame.

 

[PaulEC]

Sorry, I've no idea why linking the second and third frames is not working, but as I said, if you follow the link that Walt posted, that explains how to use Autoflow, which will create enough pages and text frames for all the text, rather than adding all the pages and frames manually.

As Old Bruce mentioned you can also create linked text frames on Master Pages, rather than on individual pages. 

MikeTO has produced a very useful manual for APub, it might be worth having a look at that to find out more about using text frames. 

 

[walt.farrell]

10 hours ago, bobdobbs said:

With my body of text and following that documentation, I've been able to link two text frames.

If you followed that documentation, and Shift+Clicked on the linking triangle on the first frame, you should have gotten multiple additional pages, with the same layout, and as many as you needed to hold all the text.

Perhaps you could confirm exactly what you did?

[MikeTO]

There is a learning curve to AutoFlow because the Text Flow Out control is small and must be Shift clicked so it's not discoverable - you have to read/watch instructions or ask in this forum or you will never find the feature. People keep asking about this so I entered a suggestion today to improve discoverability.