larsh Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 1. let me ask: is there a way to make a file new using the formating of an existing book? 2. it´s fine to copy a text into a new file. Is there a comand to float to all pages? Thx, lars Quote all Aff 2.2: Capture One+ 23 pro; MacBook Pro, OSX 10.15.7, Fuji X-Pro2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 1. yes, sort-of: you delete styles in an and you can import styles from an afpub document. –> hamburger menu (text-) "Styles". 2. yes, it's called "auto-flow". –> shift-click on the text-flow triangle of a full frame will auto-create new pages and their filled frames. 3. yes, the command for asking questions directly within Publisher is called "Help" Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsh Posted April 28, 2019 Author Share Posted April 28, 2019 Ja, wenn wir die Deutschen nicht hätten mit dem erhobenen Zeigefinger! Kölle Alaaaf. I did not ask only for the text styles but the whole formatting, Masterpages etc. Shift-click fills text only to right OR left pages. Quote all Aff 2.2: Capture One+ 23 pro; MacBook Pro, OSX 10.15.7, Fuji X-Pro2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 9 minutes ago, larsh said: I did not ask only for the text styles but the whole formatting, Masterpages etc. I might misunderstand you: To carry all settings of one document incl. masters to a new document you can delete all document pages and save as new document. Otherwise you can save a document setting ("Page preset" in menu "New") but it does not include individual spread settings (like masters) or styles. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 32 minutes ago, larsh said: Shift-click fills text only to right OR left pages. How did you do this? - To me it works on facing pages (left + right). Notice that it wants to generate both pages AND text frames by itself. Means: don't create empty text frames an your master. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 4 hours ago, larsh said: Shift-click fills text only to right OR left pages. Not for me. I just created a new Publisher document, setup for Facing Pages, but with 1 page. I drew a Text Frame on page 1, then Placed a .docx file into that Text Frame, then shift-clicked to flow the text info more frames. Here's a screenshot of the Pages panel after that: It seems trickier to do that with a Facing Pages document where the document page inherited its Text Frame from a Master Page. I started out drawing the Text Frame directly on the document page [Edit: and that worked]. I am still experimenting with that [Edit: autoflow using text frames on Master Pages], and (in .305) facing either errors in how I'm trying to do it, or bugs. I haven't figured out which, yet. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 2 hours ago, walt.farrell said: I started out drawing the Text Frame directly on the document page. I am still experimenting with that, and (in .305) facing either errors in how I'm trying to do it, or bugs. I haven't figured out which, yet. The Help says you can't use auto-flow to fill existing text frames. Means – similar to InDesign – you can layout auto-flow only according to the margins defined in your document or master spread. Indeed a pity. It would be nice to be enabled to define a particular area on a master for auto-flow – a footer for instance, or a text box aside articles. On the other hand, honestly, auto-flow is necessary for a long text only. So it makes sense to decide it as sufficient to enable auto-flow for the complete spread only, like a book page. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 59 minutes ago, thomaso said: The Help says you can't use auto-flow to fill existing text frames. And that's true. Sorry, I accidentally merged two lines of thought in the part of my earlier post that you quoted. Autoflow is working fine sa long as you start with a Text Frame drawn on a document page. But I'm having trouble getting it to work properly for a Facing Page document with the Text Frames drawn on the Master. I think it's supposed to work as long as you draw a Text Frame on each facing page of the Master, and link them. But I haven't found the way to actually get it to work in .305 (and I didn't try that in earlier betas). thomaso 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 Walt, this: 12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: think it's supposed to work as long as you draw a Text Frame on each facing page of the Master, and link them. ... and that: 12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: The Help says you can't use auto-flow to fill existing text frames. And that's true. are contradictory, aren't they? So, imho, this: 12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: But I'm having trouble getting it to work properly for a Facing Page document with the Text Frames drawn on the Master. must fail because of that: "the Text Frames drawn on the Master." Simply do it without any text frame on master pages. On a virgin document place your text on page 1. Then shift-click the flow marker and see it happily happen. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 22 minutes ago, thomaso said: are contradictory, aren't they? Not really, but you need to play with it a bit. For example, after more experimenting, this works: Create a Facing Pages document, and in the file creation dialog specify 2 pages and starting on the left. On the Master Page, draw a Text Frame on the left page, and on the right. Link the bottom right of the left-page Text Frame to the top-left of the right-page text frame. Here's a sample:Empty-two-page.afpub Switch to page 1, and click in its Text Frame. File > Place a long text document (.txt, .docx) into that Text Frame. It will flow from page 1 onto page 2, and overflow page 2's Text Frame. Shift-click on the red overflow icon on page 2. Publisher now creates pages [3,4], [5,6], [7,8], ... for as many pages as needed, properly filled with the overflow text, and all based on the Master Page. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 Sounds good, well done Walt! I haven't tried such yet because I still have one painful difference in mind from InDesign: between "paste" and "place" for using text flow. You write "4. File > Place" whereas this topic is about "paste": 8 hours ago, larsh said: copy a text into a new file. Is there a comand to float to all pages? Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 33 minutes ago, thomaso said: You write "4. File > Place" whereas this topic is about "paste": Text overflow should work the same, no matter how it occurs, so Place vs copy/paste should not matter. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
World View Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 What if you copied the file of the existing book, and deleted the text in the pages - and so using the exact same master pages as in the other project without dragging master pages across? Would this work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 4 minutes ago, World View said: What if you copied the file of the existing book, and deleted the text in the pages - and so using the exact same master pages as in the other project without dragging master pages across? Would this work? That could work to satisfy @larsh's first question, I think. You'd probably want to delete all the document pages (not just the text in them), leaving only the master pages, text styles, etc. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 14 hours ago, thomaso said: To carry all settings of one document incl. masters to a new document you can delete all document pages and save as new document. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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