Affinity publisher 2 iPad custom bullets

[Sun86]

Hi everyone, 

I’m new to affinity publisher, I have a question regarding making custom bullets using glyphs from a font. So far I was able to make the custom bullet appear, problem is whenever I try to change the following text font it disappears, what I’m trying to do is use a font for the bullet and a different font for the following text, is that possible ? Please note that I tried creating a paragraph style for the bullet and a character style for the text with no luck.

Thanks in advance, any help would be much appreciated.

[MikeTO]

Hi @Sun86 and welcome to the forums. Yes, this is possible.

1. Create a bulleted paragraph - the button in the Context Toolbar is the best option if you're just getting started because it will also set a reasonable indent which you can adjust later.
2. In Paragraph panel > Bullets and Numbering, click in the Text field between the bullet symbol and the tab token. Backspace to delete the bullet symbol - the live preview will cause the bullet to disappear from the document.
3. Click the More (...) button to the right of the Text field. Select the font you want to use. Double-click the bullet symbol you want to use to insert it into the Text field.
4. Click back into the Text field and press Return/Enter - this is very important and many people forget to do this. Without doing it, you are not actually applying the change to the paragraph.
5. It should work fine now and at this point it would be good to create or update the paragraph style.

Good luck

[Sun86]

Hi MikeTO,

thank you for your reply to my question. 

I tried the method explained above, it’s working but when I want to change the font to anything other than the font with the custom bullet it disappears right away, it is as if the font of the bullet and the text after the bullet have to match or the bullet won’t appear, only a space in its place. 

Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong here? 

Thanks and regards

[MikeTO]

I'm not sure but if you can copy and paste one paragraph of the bulleted text to a new document and share that test document here, I'll take a look. In the meantime, here is a test document showing how to do it. The body text is Arial, the bullet is the word "Bullet" set in Times.

bullet.afpub

[Sun86]

Thank you so much for the quick reply 😊

just to make sure, I downloaded the file above, I’m attaching a screenshot of what’s appearing to me, please check it. I want to know if it’s appearing correctly to me. Thanks again and apologies for any inconvenience.

[MikeTO]

Yes, that's correct.

But I hadn't noticed that you'd posted in the iPad forum. I created this document in the desktop version and when I tried to recreate it in the iPad version it did not work. I set the bullet text font to a different family than the body text and even though it accepted the font family I selected, it still displayed the text in the body text font.

There does appear to be a bug in the iPad version. I don't use it often so perhaps somebody else who is more experienced with the iPad version can duplicate this, too.

[Sun86]

I tried to follow the instructions as best I could because the iPad version is a bit different.

Thanks again for your kind help and for taking the time to answer my inquiries, really appreciate it.😊

[walt.farrell]

You first create the Character Text Style for the bullet, and then assign it using the Bullets and Numbering section of either your Paragraph Text Style or the Paragraph panel, as the Help mentions briefly at https://affinity.help/publisher2ipad/en-US.lproj/contents.xml?page=pages/Text/text_bulletsAndNumbering.html&title=Bullets and numbering

It will look like this in the UI:

 

[Sun86]

@walt.farrell, 

Thank you very much for the solution really appreciate it, it’s working now ☺️

best wishes

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.