some useful ideas....

[eluengo]

some useful ideas to accelerate working with afpub

(if some of this items/procedures exist, I haven’t found them!)

• could be interesting in providing some procedure to put some master text containers into the master pages that can be activated from the effectively created new pages, that facilitates (through some command, gesture or popup button appearing on the same text frame) to activate it and [always] have a text box-container in a precise position (modifiable?), providing also ways to atomatically receive text flow from other, yet existent, text boxes-frames, inheriting the text characteristics either from de master textbox or the flowing text when is activated in a page.
   
• also it is interesting to provide some way to automatically create pages with certain master when a text overflows at the end of a document. So when creating long text files (books or similar), provides a quick way to have a basic structure to work with (....surely a such a beautiful app is not provided only to make 3-page flyers...)
   
• the methods to handle inserted or linked (graphic) files is a bit cumbersome.... probably is better to have a palette or someting in the context-command-bar with this capability.
  The same applies to guides, section and spread managing.
   
• it is important to try to simplify method to manage TOCs with all its styles, procedures and so on
   
• and a half-bug: in this first version... styles: how to create them, edit, apply, modify etc ... I think is confusing, surely will it be simplified and focused in the future
   
• also that some structures like the context-command-bar is only thought for use it with a big monitor.... bad redraw and distribution with small screens like a portable computer (MBPro or the like): editing its content and distribution?
   
• could also be interesting a better “zoom to selection” capability.... when keying [command+] the zoom centering to the selected item (now, like in afDesign and afPhoto, “zoom” zooms to the center of the viewed window)

And congratulations for this good piece of software

Emilio