Gilescooperuk Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Well maybe not a problem but an odd behaviour. Below are two documents on the left Affinity Publisher, on the right Swift Publisher. Both are using for the body text Helvetica 9pt standard text, and the pages are both set the same. The text spacing between letters is the same, however I cannot see how to get the spaces between lines down in AP to the same level as SP. Both programs should (I think) be able to look the same with the same font but I am puzzled here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon K Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 11 hours ago, Gilescooperuk said: Well maybe not a problem but an odd behaviour. Below are two documents on the left Affinity Publisher, on the right Swift Publisher. Both are using for the body text Helvetica 9pt standard text, and the pages are both set the same. The text spacing between letters is the same, however I cannot see how to get the spaces between lines down in AP to the same level as SP. Both programs should (I think) be able to look the same with the same font but I am puzzled here. Have you just copied and pasted the text out of your old newsletter into Affinity Publisher? I found the same issue copying text in from an InDesign newsletter. If you highlight the text and go to the Paragraph panel, then there is a leading or line-spacing section. I found that it was set to "(13pt)", and on clicking it saw that it was set to "At least" "13pt". I changed it to "Exactly" "13pt" and then my lines were spaced as I wanted them. Does that answer your question? (I'm writing this from memory without Publisher in front of me, so the exact words might be very slightly different, but hopefully enough for you to get the gist.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryLearnTech Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Hi @Gilescooperuk I think what you want to experiment with is the "paragraph leading". My screenshot below shows the same text with two different leadings applied… —— Gary —— Photo/Designer/Publisher: Affinity Store, v2.4.n release Mac mini (M1, 2020), 16GB/2TB, macOS Ventura 13.4.1(c) • MacBook Pro (Intel), macOS Ventura • Windows 10 via VMware Fusion • iOS: current release Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilescooperuk Posted September 6, 2018 Author Share Posted September 6, 2018 OK I think this one might be a bug - to do with the small font size I am using The document is A5 format using 9pt text for the font. Have a look at the screenshots - anything smaller than 11 point doesn't respect the line spacings but larger seems to work fine. I have attached the afpub document as well... Curious.... Giles eatoc new test.afpub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Bug? That’s a good one! No bug at all. You have activated the baseline grid. (You can see the difference very clearly in your first screenshot compared to Swift Publisher.) Gilescooperuk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilescooperuk Posted September 6, 2018 Author Share Posted September 6, 2018 OK I see that now - as I didn't have it set to display I didn't realise what the icon did in the first place. Thanks for pointing it out to me. Giles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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