TOC Line Breaks & Fillable Areas

[rt_johnson]

Hey Everyone,

Loving Affinity, really great program and fairly straight forward to pick up.

I've a couple of questions/suggestions if anyone can point me in the right direction or whether these are features anyone else would find useful. 

 

• TOC - Line Breaks - The Ability for the table of contents to not add a line break into say a Header 1 on the TOC page. ( attached a screenshot as reference ) If I wanted it visually like that in one text box so on the Table of Contents it reads - Chapter 1 Getting Started at the moment I don't see a way of doing this as it breaks the line and creates another TOC entry for Chapter 1 and Getting Started. Not sure if I've missed something here if there's a work around?
• Linking images - Is there going to be an easier way to link images? I know we have the Text -> Interactive - > Insert Hyperlink and you can drag the box over, would be nice to be able to right click somewhere and link it up. 
• Fillable areas - I am guessing this has been requested before but make it so you can mark a fillable area when exporting as a PDF.

If anyone can point me in the right direction or if you think these are good suggestions, let me know!

Many thanks

Ryan

[Old Bruce]

4 hours ago, rt_johnson said:

TOC - Line Breaks - The Ability for the table of contents to not add a line break into say a Header 1 on the TOC page. ( attached a screenshot as reference ) If I wanted it visually like that in one text box so on the Table of Contents it reads - Chapter 1 Getting Started at the moment I don't see a way of doing this as it breaks the line and creates another TOC entry for Chapter 1 and Getting Started. Not sure if I've missed something here if there's a work around?

According to your screenshot you apparently have two text frames "Chapter 1" and then "Getting Started". Are they linked and is there a line break in there instead of one line "Chapter 1 Getting Started". 

One line (Paragraph) should give you one ToC entry for that Paragraph Style even if you have it over two text frames.

I do need more coffee but if I think of anything else which is useful to you I will report back.

[rt_johnson]

2 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

According to your screenshot you apparently have two text frames "Chapter 1" and then "Getting Started". Are they linked and is there a line break in there instead of one line "Chapter 1 Getting Started". 

One line (Paragraph) should give you one ToC entry for that Paragraph Style even if you have it over two text frames.

I do need more coffee but if I think of anything else which is useful to you I will report back.

Hi Bruce, thanks for the input.

I am afraid even when I tried it in one text box and styled it in this way it did the same thing as there was no way of sizing the text box to make Chapter 1 appear on the top line and The title on the next. It always split funny and the only way seemed a line break which broke it onto the next line in the TOC too.

Any ideas?

Thanks again

[Old Bruce]

4 hours ago, rt_johnson said:

Any ideas?

Having played a bit all I can say is this appears to be unintuitive in that I would expect one Paragraph to be listed once in the ToC, not on a per Text Frame basis. All I can suggest is to use one text frame and delete the line return in the ToC, you will have to do this after every update to the ToC.

Also maybe report this as a bug. 

I include the file I used and you can see what happens when you update the ToC, you'll just have to go and fix it each time. I hope you don't have a hundred chapter publication to deal with.

ToC bug.afpub

[rt_johnson]

59 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Having played a bit all I can say is this appears to be unintuitive in that I would expect one Paragraph to be listed once in the ToC, not on a per Text Frame basis. All I can suggest is to use one text frame and delete the line return in the ToC, you will have to do this after every update to the ToC.

Also maybe report this as a bug. 

I include the file I used and you can see what happens when you update the ToC, you'll just have to go and fix it each time. I hope you don't have a hundred chapter publication to deal with.

ToC bug.afpub

Yep exactly the same issue I was having, there is not too many Chapters as there is sub sections. Not the best way of doing but also the way I found around it for now.

I'll get it reported as a bug and see what's said.

Thanks for the help document.

[MikeW]

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

Having played a bit all I can say is this appears to be unintuitive in that I would expect one Paragraph to be listed once in the ToC, not on a per Text Frame basis. All I can suggest is to use one text frame and delete the line return in the ToC, you will have to do this after every update to the ToC.

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I include the file I used and you can see what happens when you update the ToC, you'll just have to go and fix it each time. I hope you don't have a hundred chapter publication to deal with...

If I update your TOC, having added a few more "chapters," each chapter is listed once. So maybe I don't understand what is meant by once.

I don't know what y'all expect. But having a line break in the text to be picked up by generating a TOC, having the line break in the TOC is what I would expect. You can, once finished, use find/replace to remove the line breaks. It isn't onerous.

[Old Bruce]

28 minutes ago, MikeW said:

If I update your TOC, having added a few more "chapters," each chapter is listed once. So maybe I don't understand what is meant by once.

I don't know what y'all expect. But having a line break in the text to be picked up by generating a TOC, having the line break in the TOC is what I would expect. You can, once finished, use find/replace to remove the line breaks. It isn't onerous.

If we use two text frames, linked so the text flows, one for "Chapter 1" and sized for that bit and the second for the the "Getting Started" we get two separate ToC entries

"Chapter 1Getting Started     page 2"

"Getting Started                      page 2"

I would expect one line because that is what is on that page, one line once spread out in two text frames.

The best I could do was the single text frame with the line break carried over into the ToC. And you are correct "It isn't onerous.".

[rt_johnson]

Just an update working around this now by deleting the Chapters as Bruce suggested. Not ideal but not the end of the world for now either. 

Another thing I noticed that would be great is the possibility for the Table of Contents Text to link to the page rather than just the number on PDF Export,  again could be something I am missing?