PaoloT Posted January 17, 2024 Posted January 17, 2024 Hi, Publisher is a very locked program, when coming to interfacing with anything outside of the Affinity world. However, copying and pasting a document in a Microsoft Word document preserves all the text styles in the style sheet (as far as I can see). It only preserves paragraph styles in the text. Character styles are converted to local formatting. No linked images are preserved. If the amount of data copied could increase, compatibility with Word would be more satisfactory and usable. For example, preserving the file path and size of linked images; and the applied character style. While waiting for a more complete set of export options (whenever they arrive), this could be an intermediate solution. Paolo Quote
Affinityconfusesme Posted January 22, 2024 Posted January 22, 2024 +1 I really want the ability to export the DOCX format as that I what my college wants, and I would rather use publisher over Word. Quote New hardware dell inspiron 3030 i5 14400/16GB DDR5/UHD 730 graphics Acer KB202 27in 1080p monitor Affinity Photo 1.10.6 Affinity photo 2 2.5.3 Affinity Designer 2 2.5.3 Affinity Publisher 2 2.5.3 on Windows 11 Pro version 24H2 Beta builds as they come out. canon 80d| sigma 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM | Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di LD | Canon EF-S 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 IS STM Autofocus APS-C Lens, Black
MikeTO Posted January 22, 2024 Posted January 22, 2024 Paolo, you will have a lot better results if you choose File > Place to import text from MS Word instead of copying and pasting. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.5, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
PaoloT Posted January 23, 2024 Author Posted January 23, 2024 On 1/22/2024 at 9:44 PM, MikeTO said: you will have a lot better results if you choose File > Place to import text from MS Word Only, I want to go into the opposite direction: Publisher —> Word! Paolo Affinityconfusesme 1 Quote
Affinityconfusesme Posted January 23, 2024 Posted January 23, 2024 Same! 1 hour ago, PaoloT said: Only, I want to go into the opposite direction: Publisher —> Word! Same! Quote New hardware dell inspiron 3030 i5 14400/16GB DDR5/UHD 730 graphics Acer KB202 27in 1080p monitor Affinity Photo 1.10.6 Affinity photo 2 2.5.3 Affinity Designer 2 2.5.3 Affinity Publisher 2 2.5.3 on Windows 11 Pro version 24H2 Beta builds as they come out. canon 80d| sigma 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM | Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di LD | Canon EF-S 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 IS STM Autofocus APS-C Lens, Black
fde101 Posted January 23, 2024 Posted January 23, 2024 I don't think exporting a Publisher document to a Word document would be practical. Exporting the text of an individual story, sure, but not the entire document. The structure of a DTP document is just too different from that of a traditional word processing document - it may be possible to export something which loosely resembles the Publisher document, but it would not be practical to work with in Word and some of the formatting would be very likely to break during the export. On 1/22/2024 at 2:52 PM, tzvi20 said: export the DOCX format as that I what my college wants Convince them that what they really want is PDF. DOCX files make for a *very* poor distribution format, however much some people might wish to pretend otherwise. loukash and Catshill 2 Quote
PaoloT Posted January 23, 2024 Author Posted January 23, 2024 12 hours ago, fde101 said: structure of a DTP document is just too different from that of a traditional word processing document It depends. If the page layout document is something like a narrative book or a manual, and not something like a brochure, the structure is the same: an uninterrupted flow of text and images going from start to end. One may want to export a Word file from Publisher for several different reasons: - reusing the text for different types of document (advertising, video script…) - converting the project to an eBook via an external tool (Apple Pages, for example, is excellent, and can read Word files very well) - reusing the material for a web site - proofreading the text by removing all the distracting graphic elements Exporting to PDF is the worst way of doing it, since the desired structure (based on the style sheet) is not preserved. Some of us, in particular Publisher users, are not dealing with graphic-prevelent documents, but with text-prevalent ones. Hence the need for exchanging file formats dealing with text and structure. Paolo Affinityconfusesme 1 Quote
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