Bugs and improvements

[Radediciones]

Good first impression, but...

-It is necessary to import Word and Excel files.

-Add footnotes and endnotes.

-Subscript fails.

[Patrick Connor]

@Radediciones

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums  Thanks for your suggestions.

Can you give a recipe where "subscript fails" please?

[Petar Petrenko]

Hi,

I don't think Word files have to be imported. RTF is quite enough.

Footnotes and endnotes are obligatory..

[Seneca]

To be a spoil-sport here the more importing options in Publisher the better.

[dth]

I completely agree with requiring the ability to import Office Suite data like Word/Writer texts or Excel/Calc tables.

In fact, good old Page Plus has what for me is a crucially necessary component: the ability to create Excel-compatable tables right in the layout program itself. As it is, having to type in information in Affinity Publisher that one already has in another form (Excel) is a waste of time, energy and money.

[Petar Petrenko]

Excel files import are supposed to be able to import, but I think RTF is much easier and covinient to work with. For example, I have problem importing .DOC(X) files saved in Word, but I can import .DOC(X) filed saved in SoftMaker (rather strange). It is absolutelly the same for RTF files.

Talking about tables:

• tables should be inline (inside text box) with added repeating header/footer on each page if table span on multiple pages.
• in the future Publisher should introduce (simple) math in tables with references to another table(s) in the same document or even to table(s) from a closed document [(Papyrus (now known as PapyrusAuthor) can do this].

[Radediciones]

To Patrick:

Superscript and/or subscript fail in Character/Typography menu, selecting one or more characters, or combining both attributes.

[Radediciones]

Examples

All words selected to superscript.

 

All words selected to subscript

[Patrick Connor]

@Radediciones

Affinity Publisher is currently only supporting typographical features like subscript and superscript where the font itself has it is supported and so Affinity Publisher is not faking it for other characters or fonts without those typographic elements supported , which is what you are perhaps expecting.

If you change the font I expect you will see that the subscript /superscript feature is normally supported by the whole font or not at all. Your font says it supports superscript and subscript but then only has a few characters defined for each (t,m,p,s,a,o,e,h,n,l for subscript and only n & i for superscript) which is very odd indeed. I do not think this will be true for many other installed fonts.

This is currently By Design (until we decide whether to fake the superscript and subscript look for a font which does not support these typographical features).

As the first 3 requests were feature requests (Word import Excel import and footnotes) would you like this moving this to the suggestions / feature requests forum or do you still think there is a bug I am overlooking?.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Patrick Connor said:

This is currently By Design (until we decide whether to fake the superscript and subscript look for a font which does not support these typographical features).

Thanks, Patrick.

I'm curious whether that would also apply to "faking" italic and bold for fonts that don't supply italic and bold variants? The Affinity applications are the first ones I've encountered that don't do that.

[Petar Petrenko]

5 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Thanks, Patrick.

I'm curious whether that would also apply to "faking" italic and bold for fonts that don't supply italic and bold variants? The Affinity applications are the first ones I've encountered that don't do that.

You can use "shear" for fake italics and character "outline" for fake bold.

[Alfred]

11 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I'm curious whether that would also apply to "faking" italic and bold for fonts that don't supply italic and bold variants? The Affinity applications are the first ones I've encountered that don't do that.

My understanding is that InDesign doesn't do it.

[Patrick Connor]

10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Thanks, Patrick.

I'm curious whether that would also apply to "faking" italic and bold for fonts that don't supply italic and bold variants? The Affinity applications are the first ones I've encountered that don't do that.

@Dave Harris has said something about this a while ago (about Designer I think or perhaps in our Serif only internal QA forum[yes we do have one] ) but I cannot find it just yet, sorry. Perhaps he will take a break from programming Publisher and help me here

[AdamW]

Please check out the bottom right combobox in the Position and Transform section of the Character Panel for synthesised Super / Subscript. 

We have chosen not to synthesise italic / bold - there is a lot more to creating for instance, a good quality italic than just applying a shear transform to the regular outlines.

[Radediciones]

AdamW solution is fine.  But I find the behavior of the different places / buttons in which you can work with sub and superscript contradictory. I tried with my big collection of fonts and until now I did not find any that behave like they do in Adobe Indesign with respect to this item.

[MikeW]

On 9/4/2018 at 10:44 AM, Patrick Connor said:

@Dave Harris has said something about this a while ago (about Designer I think or perhaps in our Serif only internal QA forum[yes we do have one] ) but I cannot find it just yet, sorry. Perhaps he will take a break from programming Publisher and help me here

Neither ID nor QXP do (well, it can under certain circumstances). Nor will AI or XDP. Nothing should. 

For faux italics, ID can slant/shear. Works decent on sans serif fonts as many are really just slanted, some are slanted and optically corrected. No serif font should be, though.