lmartins Posted February 16, 2015 Posted February 16, 2015 Are you planning on any feature to build grids of data? Im recurrently needing this for data sheets, price tables, etc, so I was wondering if it is something you have considered. sldx 1
Staff TonyB Posted February 16, 2015 Staff Posted February 16, 2015 This will be a feature of Affinity Publisher. Markus Dierolf and vonBusing 2
Quarian Posted February 19, 2015 Posted February 19, 2015 May I suggest the open source layout and design application Scribus for your task? Affinity Designer and Scribus use the same color management system and Scribus will have most of the typographic features that Publisher will have once it comes out of alpha. It's the vehicle I'm currently using in conjunction with AD. Hope this helps.
Quarian Posted February 22, 2015 Posted February 22, 2015 In reference to my earlier post, here are two links that may help if you decide to use Scribus. This is the basics of bringing a csv file into Scribus as a table (please ignore all the python code unless, of course, you are a programmer): http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Create_tables_out_of_csv_data This will help you create styles for formatting the table: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Help:Manual_Styles Hope this helps.
rcousins Posted June 30, 2015 Posted June 30, 2015 For anyone still looking for a *relatively* painless solution to this, here's a decent workaround: 1. create & format your table in Excel and print to pdf 2. Place newly created pdf in a new Affinity doc & double click table to 'edit' 3. select table and Convert to Curves (this will prevent the formatting from going haywire when you copy/paste) 4. group the converted table elements, copy, and paste into target document The downside is you can't easily edit the table contents, formatting, etc. once it's pasted, but this will at least allow you to resize and position and you can pretty quickly/easily cycle through the steps again. In reality, table formatting is probably better left to a program designed for that purpose (e.g. Excel)... Hope that helps! -Ryan vonBusing 1
rchrdnsh Posted April 15, 2016 Posted April 15, 2016 booooooo! put it in designer as well! need it so bad right now! :( ramonbuzon, David Edge and sldx 3
vonBusing Posted April 15, 2016 Posted April 15, 2016 If you save a table created in Excel/Pages/HTML as pdf, you can simply open/import it in AD for editing. Then you can adjust fonts, sizes, colors, make smaller text edits. Looking forward to the table tool in APub. ramonbuzon 1
createsean Posted March 31, 2017 Posted March 31, 2017 booooooo! put it in designer as well! need it so bad right now! :( Me too.. would love to have a simple tables.. I'm working on a web design where one sectoin will have a long table with several columns. ramonbuzon 1
pruus Posted April 1, 2017 Posted April 1, 2017 Perhaps you could use this, its not great, but... http://app.responsify.it/save it as a png. Make a background layer with this png and add then the gridlines.
ramonbuzon Posted May 21, 2019 Posted May 21, 2019 Hi! I agree with @rchrdnsh Looking forward to the table tool in Affinity Designer! Cheers!
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