Footnotes/Endnotes

[Arte]

For those coming late to the footnote/endnote discussion "party"... a workaround for footnotes mentioned many pages ago (no it is not about starting a fairytale😉) is to create endnotes by using a text editor to create endnotes and then import/paste them into Publisher.

I don't need footnotes/endnotes a lot but when I need it I really do need it so hopefully it will be included in the upcoming V2 release that is supposed to be (again hopefully) coming out later this year.

[PaoloT]

11 hours ago, carl123 said:

The DA6 crashed because both engines shut down

(Now I understand why some manufacturers prefer the single-engine design…)

 

[Ramon56]

13 hours ago, carl123 said:

 

The DA6 crashed because both engines shut down !!!

I don't think Serif adding a "basic footnote/endnote capability" that crashes all the time is going to go down well with its users

If/when they release it hopefully it will be more stable than the DA6. Publisher does not have ejection seats

I regret to say that you are badly informed. the DA6 engines did not shut down, they WERE shut down on purpose. It was a test flight, and restart of the engines was tested. First they performed the test by shutting down one single engine, and it worked. then they tried the other engine, and it also restarted correctly. Then they shut off both engines, and it did not work because they had installed two engines of different versions, and THAT had never been requested as a requirement, so the software did not know how to handle this.

It's more or less as if Publisher was supposed to work under Windows and MacOS at the SAME time.

Oh, and I wish Publisher HAD ejection seats - I've lost twice my work because Publisher crashed and was not able to recover it.

 

P.D. MY software worked perfectly!

[Ramon56]

2 hours ago, PaoloT said:

(Now I understand why some manufacturers prefer the single-engine design…)

Nonsense. With one single engine, if it fails, you crash. With multiple engines, you continue flying. Why do you think passenger aircraft have two, three or four engines? Even with one single engine you can stay in the air.

I had once a fire on the right-hand engine of my plane when returning from Munich. It looked really scary. The pilot shut it off, pulled the fire extinguishers to get rid of the fire, restarted it, and continued flying. We were not even halfway, but we landed normally on our destination airport. Most passenger didn't even notice that anything had happened, just those looking out the window at that time

BTW, modern computers have multicore processors for the same reasons that aircraft have multiple engines. It's safer, quicker, and if one fails, the others continue working.

They call that redundancy.

[Trevor A]

10 minutes ago, Ramon56 said:

P.D. MY software worked perfectly!

Congratulations, Ramón!

[garrettm30]

Wow, we've taken quite a turn, but at least it is something we haven't covered before in this 43-page thread!

[Alfred]

32 minutes ago, garrettm30 said:

Wow, we've taken quite a turn, but at least it is something we haven't covered before in this 43-page thread!

Don’t forget to tune in for the next exciting episode…

[DesignerUSA]

On 4/24/2022 at 2:01 AM, Arte said:

I don't need footnotes/endnotes a lot but when I need it I really do need it so hopefully it will be included in the upcoming V2 release that is supposed to be (again hopefully) coming out later this year.

Looking forward for Footnote options tool in Publisher.

Btw, how do you know that V2 will be released this year?

[Old Bruce]

17 hours ago, DesignerUSA said:

Btw, how do you know that V2 will be released this year?

No one knows that, We also don't know if Footnotes will be added.

[cyberlizard]

we can always live in hope.

[PaoloT]

20 hours ago, DesignerUSA said:

Btw, how do you know that V2 will be released this year?

The iPad version has been announced (semi-officially?) for this summer. So, maybe the desktop version will come around the same time. Or, they are totally different projects, and they will come when it is time.

No word about the addition of footnotes in either of them, though.

Paolo

 

[Arte]

22 hours ago, DesignerUSA said:

Btw, how do you know that V2 will be released this year?

There was mention of an article earlier in this thread and/or another thread about how Affinity (Designer) was making inroads into the AEC world, in that article it was said that dwg/dxf import was being tested and that V2 is supposed to come out later this year.

Maybe it is better to replace supposed with assumed but I'd be a bit surprised if V2 would not come out this year given that V1 has been released some 5 years ago and new releases/beta versions  are really slow to appear at the moment which makes me think they are focusing on getting V2 ready for release.

[iuli]

3 hours ago, PaoloT said:

The iPad version has been announced (semi-officially?) for this summer.

Not anymore. The release date quietly changed from “this summer” to “coming soon”, which could be tomorrow or who-knows-when.

Edit, erased the rest

[iuli]

12 hours ago, Arte said:

Affinity (Designer) was making inroads into the AEC world

Thanks for the heads-up; I found the article (published February 7) you’re talking about here

https://aecmag.com/technology/serif-affinity-for-aec-firms/

At some point the author writes Version 2 of the suite is due out in 2022 and promises to bring a slew of new capabilities. One customer who is beta testing V2 told me it will also make the switch from Adobe ‘even easier’ (…)

[DrBob53]

If there is a chage to upgrade to v2, I hope there is a generous upgrade offer for those who have posted in this forum.

[iuli]

4 hours ago, DrBob53 said:

If there is a chage to upgrade to v2, I hope there is a generous upgrade offer for those who have posted in this forum.

Hmm, I don’t think would be fair; some users here will get V2 for free 🤔🫣

Edit - this is obviously a (bad) joke. I support the 2.0 paid version with all my heart. 

Edited April 28, 2022 by iuli

[graphandwriting]

21 minutes ago, DrBob53 said:

If there is a chage to upgrade to v2, I hope there is a generous upgrade offer for those who have posted in this forum.

 

2 minutes ago, iuli said:

Hmm, I don’t think would be fair; some users here will get V2 for free 🤔🫣

Nothing that is written about hopes for upgrade offers here in these forums will ever change, not even so slightly influence, the pricing policy of Serif and what they decide about it. Wasted energy by creating such posts.

[Patrick Connor]

5 minutes ago, graphandwriting said:

Wasted energy by creating such posts.

Once a thread gets to 44 pages long most posts are unlikely to add anything hugely significant, yours for example. I think that users are being pragmatic that this feature is so popular that many would be willing to pay for it to be included in a future version. To that end they are hoping there would be some discount. It is just a bit of fun.

[graphandwriting]

8 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

Once a thread gets to 44 pages long most posts are unlikely to add anything hugely significant, yours for example. I think that users are being pragmatic that this feature is so popular that many would be willing to pay for it to be included in a future version. To that end they are hoping there would be some discount. It is just a bit of fun.

Honestly, I don't really understand what you want to say. Your post does not seem to carry any hugely significant meaning either. Which is fine in my case, but since you are staff, it for the first time starts to make me wonder how Serif staff is using their time... Should you not rather be programming or something to help to company and software move foreward?

[Patrick Connor]

3 minutes ago, graphandwriting said:

Should you not rather be programming or something to help to company and software move foreward?

Perhaps, but I am having a day off today. Sorry to disappoint. I will get my nose back to the grindstone soon enough

[graphandwriting]

3 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

Perhaps, but I am having a day off today. Sorry to disappoint. I will get my nose back to the grindstone soon enough

Ok, didn't have that on my radar. Learned something new. Then I wish you good relaxation from work while reading the Serif forums. 😉

[Jim Slade]

If there is a charge to upgrade V2, I hope there will be come inexpensive upgrade path.

I have not been able to use V1 at all because of a lack of footnotes and the inability to merge separate sourxce files. I bought V1 in the hope that these deficiencies would be fixed soon.

[walt.farrell]

22 minutes ago, Jim Slade said:

and the inability to merge separate sourxce files. 

Merging separate files works, so I'm curious what method you're trying, and what problems you have.

[Jim Slade]

To merge from several separate source files; not to combine files into one big one. When I try to import my separate book files, I get a lack of resources dialog box then publisher crashes.

[Old Bruce]

6 minutes ago, Jim Slade said:

To merge from several separate source files; not to combine files into one big one. When I try to import my separate book files, I get a lack of resources dialog box then publisher crashes.

You should post a bug report in the relevant Publisher Bug forum.