William Overington Posted March 9, 2019 Posted March 9, 2019 Will Affinity Publisher allow the Author and Subject fields of a PDF to be set by the end user of Affinity Publisher, and neither left blank, as at present, nor autofilled, please? William Overington Saturday 9 March 2019 Adriandw 1 Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England.
Adriandw Posted April 14, 2019 Posted April 14, 2019 On 3/9/2019 at 10:21 AM, William Overington said: Will Affinity Publisher allow the Author and Subject fields of a PDF to be set by the end user of Affinity Publisher, and neither left blank, as at present, nor autofilled, please? William Overington Saturday 9 March 2019 +1. I am working on producing a booklet PDF from someone else's text (sung File/Export). At present (Beta 1.7.0.292) the PDF Author field is automatically filled with my own name and the PDF Title field is filled with the filename. If (on a Mac) instead of using Export I do File/Print/Save as PDF, I am prompted to enter the Title and Author Name. The author name is remembered if I do another File/Print/Save as PDF. It would be good to be able to set document title and author name using File/Properties, as is possible in MS Word. Adrian Quote
dominik Posted April 14, 2019 Posted April 14, 2019 28 minutes ago, Adriandw said: I am working on producing a booklet PDF from someone else's text (sung File/Export). At present (Beta 1.7.0.292) the PDF Author field is automatically filled with my own name and the PDF Title field is filled with the filename. Hi @Adriandw, I may be wrong. Look for menu 'View > Studio > Fields > Document Information'. There you can type in values for 'Author' and 'Title' and those get exported to PDF. Is this what you are looking for? d. William Overington 1 Quote Affinity Suite on Windows (V2) and iPad (V2). Beta testing when available. Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil
William Overington Posted April 14, 2019 Author Posted April 14, 2019 @dominik You are not wrong. I had forgotten about this thread as I seem to remember asking about this in another thread as well and there was an answer much along the same lines as your answer. I have since tried it out and it works fine. I mention @Adriandw here so that there is a notification message for him. I am now going to try to find that other thread and put in a link to it. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England.
walt.farrell Posted April 14, 2019 Posted April 14, 2019 1 minute ago, William Overington said: I mention @adriandw here so that there is a notification message for him. You can't just enter an @ and someone's name. You have to enter the @ and start entering the name, then wait for the forum to prompt you and select the name from the list. what you did just gets the name as text, not as a "mention" and no notification is sent. William Overington 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
William Overington Posted April 14, 2019 Author Posted April 14, 2019 @Adriandw I have now found the post. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/82216-affinity-downlod-is-366-megabytes/&page=2&tab=comments#comment-433066 I was looking for it the other day and @Dan C kindly found it for me. That was in the thread https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/83347-my-first-picture-using-affinity-designer/ William dominik 1 Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England.
Staff Patrick Connor Posted April 14, 2019 Staff Posted April 14, 2019 Since build #238 You can change the contents of the Author field used in your documents "Fields Author field can now be overridden by supplying default with no documents open" All new documents should populate Author with this default set when no document is open. All existing documents will use the current default when the document is saved. It does mean that you need to change it manually for existing documents. Set the default with no document open (if you are needing to hide this field in a public document, set it to empty or a pseudonym) Change Author manually on any existing document Save the document and the default will be written to "last edited by". Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon
William Overington Posted April 15, 2019 Author Posted April 15, 2019 14 hours ago, Patrick Connor said: Set the default with no document open (to empty or a pseudonym) Why "to empty or a pseudonym"? Why not to the name of the author please? William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England.
Staff Patrick Connor Posted April 15, 2019 Staff Posted April 15, 2019 18 minutes ago, William Overington said: Why "to empty or a pseudonym"? Why not to the name of the author please? William Quite right William, I copy pasted that from a reply where someone wanted to share the files "anonymously". So my reply was about that case. I have edited the post to provide more clarity. William Overington 1 Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon
Adriandw Posted April 18, 2019 Posted April 18, 2019 On 4/14/2019 at 3:23 PM, dominik said: Hi @Adriandw, I may be wrong. Look for menu 'View > Studio > Fields > Document Information'. There you can type in values for 'Author' and 'Title' and those get exported to PDF. Is this what you are looking for? d. Thanks, that's great. I'm still adjusting to AF Publisher's dialogue structure and hadn't investigated the Studio>Fields settings. dominik 1 Quote
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