Pedrober Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 I have sent feedback about the matter. See: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/170422-footnotes-support-in-idml-import/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJWHM Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 Took the plunge ad bought the suite (can't resist bargains), and have played with the Publisher brefly. It is giving footnotes, and they do migrate as text changes, so that is good. Not exactly intuitive interface, but then Aff never has been for me: e.g. clicking and dragging an element doesn't move it as with other programs - you have to click an arrow and then do it. But I may be where I have been wanting to be, so a tentatice 'well-done' to the firm, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedrober Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 Footnotes support, in my first tests with the Windows version, is better than in PPlus (as far as I remember). Good news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfbt Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Version 2 installed an up and running. FINALLY ... delighted that footnotes and endnotes are in. I would love to have known that they were in development, but given the extraordinary offerings in the announcement, I can see why they were keeping quiet about what they were up to. It's been a long wait ... Haven't played with v2 much yet, but it looks like the wait was worth it for my purposes, at least. Thank you Serif. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor A Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 This reviewer says that footnotes are her favourite new addition to Affinity Publisher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR6j0ioY64I&t=0s However, she does not say if footnotes in a WORD document can be imported. Acopalico and garrettm30 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllanP Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 I did a very quick test with placing a Word .docx file containing footnotes into a Afpub document and the foitnotes were transferred across. I did then have to make appropriate adjustments via the Notes panel to stop the numbering restarting on every page, etc. But it all went well. From what I've seen so far, I,'m very impressed and pleased with Affinity v2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garrettm30 Posted November 10, 2022 Author Share Posted November 10, 2022 23 minutes ago, Trevor A said: This reviewer Thanks for the video link. There were a couple tricks I missed or forgot about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor A Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Allan Thank you for the helpful information. It looks as though I may be at risk of spending some money with Serif. Garrettm30, you are welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Slade Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Quote I bought Publisher but have not been able to use it due to the lack of footnotes and separate files. I did not ask for a refund. Even though I could not use it, I figured I was making a small investment in the future. It sounds like my investment has paid off. The only major item left on my list is paragraph composition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor A Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Jim I am sure that Serif appreciated your investment, along with those of others (including me!). Trevor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amontillado Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 48 minutes ago, Jim Slade said: The only major item left on my list is paragraph composition. Curious - what is paragraph composition? I see there is a new style picker that will apply a style to words or paragraphs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllanP Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Trevor A said: Allan Thank you for the helpful information. It looks as though I may be at risk of spending some money with Serif. Glad my comments were useful. I'm looking forward to making more use of AfPub now that the footnotes/endnotes/side notes feature is implemented. Take a look at the Serif/Affinity YouTube channel videos for views of the new fearures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor A Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Thank you. I hope to be able to do this soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Slade Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 34 minutes ago, Amontillado said: Curious - what is paragraph composition? I see there is a new style picker that will apply a style to words or paragraphs. That would be layout (largely justification) based upon the entire paragraph, rather than line-by-line. LaTex has done that forever. InDesign does it. But most don't. Justified Word documents look funky because it justifies by line by inserting space. Beyond better look, a benefit of paragraph composition is that relatively small paragraphs do not cause the paragraph length to change much. If you have a document with manual references (e.g. legal work with a table of authorities), fixing a few characters in a document does not cause much text shifting to pages that throws you references off. Amontillado 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramon56 Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 5 hours ago, AllanP said: I did a very quick test with placing a Word .docx file containing footnotes into a Afpub document and the foitnotes were transferred across. I did then have to make appropriate adjustments via the Notes panel to stop the numbering restarting on every page, etc. But it all went well. From what I've seen so far, I,'m very impressed and pleased with Affinity v2 Did the same test, using a Word document with quite a few footnotes. Import was flawless. I have not tested more advanced footnote aspects, but this test shows that at least it covers the minimum that I expected when I purchased V1, so I am happy. I have taken the reduced price offer and will now explore other capabilities. For the moment I am happy, as this was my biggest stumbling block; hopefully I will be pleasantly surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllanP Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 2 hours ago, Jim Slade said: That would be layout (largely justification) based upon the entire paragraph, rather than line-by-line. LaTex has done that forever. InDesign does it. But most don't. Justified Word documents look funky because it justifies by line by inserting space. Beyond better look, a benefit of paragraph composition is that relatively small paragraphs do not cause the paragraph length to change much. If you have a document with manual references (e.g. legal work with a table of authorities), fixing a few characters in a document does not cause much text shifting to pages that throws you references off. There is some control over Justification available via the Paragraph panel allowing some configuration on the Justified Left, Justified Centre, Justified Right, and Justified Right options. Are these of any help? Minimum Word Spacing—sets the minimum gap allowed. Desired Word Spacing—sets the preferred gap between words. Maximum Word Spacing—sets the maximum gap allowed. Minimum Letter Spacing—sets the minimum tracking allowed. Desired Letter Spacing—sets the preferred tracking (spacing between letters) within words when a paragraph has a justified alignment. Maximum Letter Spacing—sets the maximum tracking allowed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwellborn Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 On 11/8/2022 at 8:24 AM, Ralph said: ... though I still can't help comparing Publisher with my car: My car has so many "features" that, after a year, I am still discovering the nuances of the parking sensor feature. It also has all four wheels. My previous car had few features, but it also had 4 wheels. I could use my old car, perhaps with a touch of envy for my neighbour - whose car had lots features, and 4 wheels. I wouldn't envy my neighbour even if his car could fly, if it had a wheel missing. Afffinity, to me, can orbit the Earth - but Publisher has a wheel missing,It is SO frustrating !!! Was the missing wheel footnotes/endnotes? Publisher 2 has them! Quote 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.3. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 53 minutes ago, AllanP said: There is some control over Justification available via the Paragraph panel... But APub still uses line by line justification only. As does QXP et al. InDesign offers both types of justification and with those and more options to control justification. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Slade Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 1 hour ago, AllanP said: There is some control over Justification available via the Paragraph panel allowing some configuration on the Justified Left, Justified Centre, Justified Right, and Justified Right options. Are these of any help? Minimum Word Spacing—sets the minimum gap allowed. Desired Word Spacing—sets the preferred gap between words. Maximum Word Spacing—sets the maximum gap allowed. Minimum Letter Spacing—sets the minimum tracking allowed. Desired Letter Spacing—sets the preferred tracking (spacing between letters) within words when a paragraph has a justified alignment. Maximum Letter Spacing—sets the maximum tracking allowed I am talking about something different. That is, the system formats the entire paragraph (as you type), rather than each line individually. Publisher does not do this [yet?]. Most word formatting applications do not. I do not even believe QUARK does it. Indesign and LaTex do. A technical article in the subject: http://www.eprg.org/G53DOC/pdfs/knuth-plass-breaking.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amontillado Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 The notes panel allows for customizing the setting for a particular footnote, and also has document-wide settings. I can't find a way to change the document-wide settings. Anybody know how to do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amontillado Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 1 minute ago, Amontillado said: The notes panel allows for customizing the setting for a particular footnote, and also has document-wide settings. I can't find a way to change the document-wide settings. Anybody know how to do that? I may have figured this out - if you are focussed on a text frame, you can't set the document-wide options. If you are not focussed on a text frame, you can. I think... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Slade Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 9 hours ago, Trevor A said: Jim I am sure that Serif appreciated your investment, along with those of others (including me!). Trevor I have an ancient copy of Creative Suite. It's 32-bit so I can only use it my old macs. I would have upgraded but for Adobe's taxation model under which usesr pay Adobe so they don't have to upgrade the program. It looks like there is more improvement in Affinity in the latest release thank Abode has made to Creative Suite in 15 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedrober Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 I would be very grateful if someone could confirm that footnotes are not supported yet in IDML import by the recently published Beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted December 9, 2022 Staff Share Posted December 9, 2022 I can confirm the recent Affinity V2 betas (2.0.3) are almost entirely fixes and improvements to the apps, unfortunately there are no new features implemented yet, including IDML footnote import, my apologies. Quote Please Note: I am now out of the office until Tuesday 2nd April on annual leave. If you require urgent assistance, please create a new thread and a member of our team will be sure to assist asap. Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedrober Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 Thank you very much for your answer. IDML footnotes import is essential for me. I hope it will be implemented as soon as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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