Affinity Publisher - Footnotes on the end of the side

[Riko]

Hello everybody,

i am currently transferring my thesis from word to Publisher for publication. It has a lot of text, Figures and footnotes, so i copy it step by step (didn`t find a proper tutorial to make it faster).

My Problem is now, that i got two text frames and Figures on one sheet. so the first textframe is beneath the figure 35, the second below. In the first text frame there is a footnote and the footnote appears on the textframe next to the figure, but it should appear on the bottom of the sheet. It is not possible to move the footnote since it is protected. But how to move it and how to unprotect it?

As you can see on the screenshot, the footnote number 43 should be at the bottom of the sheet directly above the footnote 44.

Does anybody know a solution for this?

Thanks in advance,

Riko

 

 

[firstdefence]

Look at the Layers Panel look for the footnote that is locked, it will likely have a small padlock to the right of the layer icon, click on it to unlock that layer and enable moving. The screenshot is odd because there is no lock showing and the text is set to float with text.

[Riko]

5 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Look at the Layers Panel look for the footnote that is locked, it will likely have a small padlock to the right of the layer icon, click on it to unlock that layer and enable moving.

thanks for your response, but unfortunately this is not the case. As you can see in the screenshot there is not such a padlock. There is an icon like a "pin" but i have no options by clicking on it.

[firstdefence]

Have you pinned it yourself and has clicking on the padlock at the top of the layers panel to enable and then disable a lock been attempted?

 

[Riko]

3 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Have you pinned it yourself and has clicking on the padlock at the top of the layers panel to enable and then disable a lock been attempted?

 

No i did not pin it myself. As soon as i create a footnote it pinnes it itself at the end of the textframe. Also to enable and disable the padlock does not change anything. 

On the bottom of the Program Window it just tells me that the selected thing (the footnote) is protected, as you can see in the attached screenshot.

 

[walt.farrell]

Footnote positioning is controlled by the Notes panel, and unfortunately you only have a few choices:

Thus, that footnote will be positioned in some way relative to that text frame.

Do you really want or need that text frame to be separate from the one below it? That seems to be the cause of your problem.

As for easily getting your Word document into Publisher, did you try simply Placing the .docx file into an empty Publisher document? That is probably easier than copying/pasting in chunks, and might avoid problems like this.

 

[MikeTO]

I agree, I think this is the hard way to lay out the page especially if you're using footnotes. I think it would be much easier with a single text frame.

• The top bar chart should be pinned inline - the caption below it could be regular text or a text frame grouped with the bar chart
• The pie chart below it should be pinned floated with wrapping enabled

Then the footnotes will just work as they should.

Cheers

 

[Riko]

9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Footnote positioning is controlled by the Notes panel, and unfortunately you only have a few choices:

Thus, that footnote will be positioned in some way relative to that text frame.

Do you really want or need that text frame to be separate from the one below it? That seems to be the cause of your problem.

As for easily getting your Word document into Publisher, did you try simply Placing the .docx file into an empty Publisher document? That is probably easier than copying/pasting in chunks, and might avoid problems like this.

 

Thanks for your answer. Yes, there are just a few choices, and also they affect all the footnotes, but i just want to change this one footnote.

I do not really want the two textframes separate, is there a possibility to merge the two textframes together, this would be perfect. It would look more elegant and solve my problem with the footnote. Just the text should flow beneath the figure...

 

Concerning your advice by placing the whole document: i tried this, but i had big problems then, when i wanted to change the position of Figures and the Figure Text. This was not really working, so i decided to copy and paste the chunks one after an other.

[Riko]

10 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

I agree, I think this is the hard way to lay out the page especially if you're using footnotes. I think it would be much easier with a single text frame.

• The top bar chart should be pinned inline - the caption below it could be regular text or a text frame grouped with the bar chart
• The pie chart below it should be pinned floated with wrapping enabled

Then the footnotes will just work as they should.

Cheers

 

Yes thank you! I tried with just one textframe and put the figure inside, with floating and wrapping it looks now like i want!

 

Thank you very much!

 

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, Riko said:

and also they affect all the footnotes, but i just want to change this one footnote.

With the Footnote selected, you should be able to choose Custom rather than Document-wide, and affect just that Footnote. But there's no choice that will work for your existing setup of Text Frames.

6 minutes ago, Riko said:

I do not really want the two textframes separate, is there a possibility to merge the two textframes together, this would be perfect. It would look more elegant and solve my problem with the footnote. Just the text should flow beneath the figure...

You would have to copy the text, and delete at least one frame, and maybe move/change the other one, and paste the text again. And it's difficult to describe exactly how to do that without having the document in hand because we can't see the text flow (View > Show Text Flow might help) and the exact layer arrangement.