DaleC Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 I placed a pdf in a new Publisher document and found that one of the text blocks had been adjusted (perhaps in the original but it doesn't look like it in Acrobat) so that its tracking was set at -110%. That's an easy fix in the Positioning and Transform preferences. Just select the text, and change Tracking to 0%! But wait, when I click anywhere else on screen, it resets the tracking for that block to -110%. I don't want that! I think it's a bug, but it may be that I just don't know how to lock my new choice in. Actually, if I choose 0%, then click the up or down arrow to change it to +/- 1%, and then back to 0%, it seems to stay there then, but that's just weird! By the way, while Publisher does import PDF files, it imports them as many, many one-line blocks of text. This is a pdf created by InDesign, so maybe that's unique to those pdf files, but I'd find it much better for future edits if it came in as one text block. I'd also really, really like to see Publisher import both Word and InDesign documents. Until then (I hear those imports are coming), this is a great start; thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 27, 2018 Staff Share Posted September 27, 2018 Hi DaleC, Welcome to Affinity Forums Sorry the delay getting back to you. Do you still have the PDF document with you? Do you mind attaching it here for us to take a look? When importing PDF there's an option to Group lines of text into text frames. Do you have it ticked? A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaleC Posted September 28, 2018 Author Share Posted September 28, 2018 Oh, my gosh; what a difference that makes! I had created a New document and then Placed the pdf. That worked, but at the cost of literally every line being its own block of text. When I tried to recreate it in response to your support, I couldn't find "PDF Options." The same thing happened as I attempted to "Place" the pdf in a new document... Then I realized that PDF Options appears when "Opening" a pdf!!! That may be perfectly obvious and evident to anyone else, but it was not to me. Opening the PDF, with "Group Lines of text..." does very well indeed at grouping lines, though there are still a few blocks in each column. The graphics and so on are placed with great fidelity. Then when I also click "Favour Editable text..." I get one block of text per column, and while I have to move a couple of the graphic elements, that's easier than trying to combine multiple text blocks... I don't know if anyone else would "Place" a pdf rather than "Open" it, but perhaps these options could appear when placing a pdf as well as opening one??? It certainly would have helped me! I did go ahead and upload the file for you to test; it was really just a test file for me to see how pdf import works. It's a flier for a training event back in 2009 created in InDesign and saved as a pdf just before I dumped InDesign (CS6) in anticipation of Publisher :-) 2009 brochure.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaleC Posted September 28, 2018 Author Share Posted September 28, 2018 One more thing--when I Opened this pdf, the glitch of a text block with letters crushed together did not appear. For that matter, when I create a New document and Place the pdf, this glitch does not appear--I'm guessing that was a bug repaired in the most recent beta! Thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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