Wishlist: Pro Features (Unique Selling Points)

[JeffreyWalther]

1) Ability to insert global text variables in a text frame.
Reason: Sometimes you want to share a piece of information several times in the overall document, or even over several Publisher documents. Once a change is needed, you only have to change the single source.

2) Ability to create text/table snippets that can be re-used (and also edited for a local version).
Reason: See 1), think of "WARNING" boxes or similar that you want to style once, but use very often.

3) Ability to have global Master Pages/document settings/styling over multiple Publisher documents.
Reason: If you need to change the style (e.g. CI change), you only have to do it once.

[AshTeriyaki]

1 hour ago, JeffreyWalther said:

3) Ability to have global Master Pages/document settings/styling over multiple Publisher documents.
Reason: If you need to change the style (e.g. CI change), you only have to do it once.

Importing and exporting master layouts would be interesting.

[Aammppaa]

1. Fields exist as a concept in APub, but in the initial version are limited to fixed number of document related fields, such as filename, page count etc. Affinity will introduce user defined fields in a layer version. 

2. Assets already exist in all Affinity products. Build your warning box, make it into an asset. Reuse to your heart's content. Also look into symbols. 

[JeffreyWalther]

23 minutes ago, Aammppaa said:

 

2. Assets already exist in all Affinity products. Build your warning box, make it into an asset. Reuse to your heart's content. Also look into symbols. 

But you cannot change it, once added to the asset panel.
You also cannot apply any changes to all the places at once, where the assets have been added (without being locally changed).

For example:
You have a warning box that you want to use in 5 Publisher documents.
Now, for corporate design reasons, you need to change the warning box.
Those changes won't be updated in the assets that have been added on the pages.
I don't want to do that on all pages and all 5 documents manually. :-)

 

[mac_heibu]

Why not place a extern Publisher document into your documents, and  „unembed“ it? If you modify the linked document, you can update it in Designer.

[John R]

Where is the Mesh Warp Tool? It isn't in Affinity Designer either! Amazingly it is in PagePlus X9. I would also like to see a feature that would allow shaping artistic text within the bounds of a geometric shape. Thanks

[padre2]

9 hours ago, JeffreyWalther said:

1) Ability to insert global text variables in a text frame.
Reason: Sometimes you want to share a piece of information several times in the overall document, or even over several Publisher documents. Once a change is needed, you only have to change the single source.

 

There is one thing that would be kind of cool, I think we are talking the same. Have a style, make sure it can't be changed, and then provide the writer with a textbox that you can automatically import into the layout so that it automatically lays out your document based on a template? Thus, you can provide others with a text box that they can add or remove text from, but no one ever changes the layout, only the text?

[hawk]

9 hours ago, JeffreyWalther said:

2) Ability to create text/table snippets that can be re-used (and also edited for a local version).
Reason: See 1), think of "WARNING" boxes or similar that you want to style once, but use very often.

I think this is what Symbols is for.

 

[JeffreyWalther]

3 hours ago, hawk said:

I think this is what Symbols is for.

 

Thanks, it is the right way. Have to check this.
But it would be great to have those "symbols" globally so you can use it as single source in other Publisher projects. And all get updated at once.
 

[Petar Petrenko]

Hi,

third feature you ask for is completelly unacceptable. By changing global style you can destroy previous documents that use it.