Some remarks on grids, view, import, xref

[uswd]

Hi,

I've been playing with your beta and it looks very promising. As a long time user of TeX, InDesign, and QuarkXPress I'm really interested what you have created.

Grids: I would like to have a grid setup on page spreads which can use the origin point between the two pages (this is already possible) but begins the grid on the zero point defined. At the moment it begins just on the left side. It is useless then because most document formats are in millimeters but grids are in points (normally). E.g. setup up a doc with 170 × 240 mm page size and facing pages. Define a grid with 12pt horizontally and vertically. Put the zero point in the top middle of the spread. Then define the inner margin to be 36 pt. Now you can see that the grid -- because it is put in from the left the grid and the text frame do not align properly.

I would like to have a "preview" view where all grids, baseline grids, spelling underlines etc.pp. are gone and I can see the spread with text and images as it will look like when printed.

One of the most important thing when seriously working with typesetting is the ability to import Word files with styles applied (I must say I like the way InDesign offers even a style mapping). When using your RTF-import it will not respect footnotes (they are just put in as "normal" paragraph text).

For long documents a powerful xref (and book management) possibility would be very helpful.

That's for now my first impressions.

Best regards,
Ulrich

[Patrick Connor]

Ulrich

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums

Thank you for your input on this early beta. I have moved your helpful comments to the suggestions forum as we are trying to keep the other forums to be bugs and support for now. Hope this is OK