valerie1 Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 Hi I'm a graphic designer and use extensively InDesign. I therefore need to be able to place a photo into a publisher doc - and be able to fit image proportionately and all the other ways that InDesign has. I need to be able to place text from doc, docx and txt. Etc. I was hoping for great things with Publisher and hoped that it would match InDesign. I am a Mac user. Also, I really wish that Affinity Designer had a curved pen tool and an image trace, if you had this I would use that program all the time, as it is I have had to get Illustrator back, which is terrible as it all costs a fortune and I am a volunteer! Designer is good, but Illustrator is better. Thank you HOPE I JUST GOT IT ALL WRONG!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 3, 2018 Staff Share Posted September 3, 2018 Hi valerie1, Welcome to Affinity Forums Regarding placing a photo, you can place it as an Image layer using the Place Image Tool or using the Picture Frame Tool which gives you a few more scaling options (check the Properties button in the context toolbar with a picture frame selected). Check this video tutorial for more details. Currently docx/doc files are not supported. To insert text from .txt or .rtf files create a text frame then go to menu Text ▸ Insert Text from File.... Affinity Publisher is an application being developed from scratch. It will take a few years to match InDesign functionality which is being developed for quite some time. Note: I moved this thread to the Discussions and Suggestions for Affinity Publisher Beta on Desktop section as there's no bug reports to track/follow here but improvement requests. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Martin Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 I need to place and edit text and it is almost always going to arrive in a docx file. I know this ie Beta, but shall I just go away until support has been added for Word documents? I mean, seriously, who ever uses rtf for more than a few words lifted from the 'net? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valerie1 Posted September 4, 2018 Author Share Posted September 4, 2018 Yes Paul Martin I agree - its not looking good I'm afraid, I am gonna have to continue with InDesign, its already cost me a fortune over the years but I daren't leave it now!! I will need to text flow multiple docx pages, insert photos and expect it to text wrap properly, all the usual stuff you do with ID. I am not spending any more time with it I will download a trial when the beta is completed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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