Interior Book Design Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 Importing a Word document into APub now seems to work quite nicely, even paragraph and character styles are preserved. Well done! However, Word's default paragraph style Normal becomes [No Style] which means: You can't edit it any more. It is lost! I ask you to kill this bug and maybe map Normal to, well, Normal. Thanks. Workaround: Name your body copy paragraphs differently, a workaround I'm using with QuarkXPress which also seems to have a Normal style importing weakness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted May 14, 2019 Staff Share Posted May 14, 2019 Hi Interior Book Design This should be resolved in the next build! Thanks for letting us know. Interior Book Design 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interior Book Design Posted June 15, 2019 Author Share Posted June 15, 2019 (edited) This bug has not yet been fixes (build ... 384). But it is very important. Furthermore, the whole import of styles seems to malfunction. See my other post. Edited June 15, 2019 by Interior Book Design Added more information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted June 17, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 17, 2019 Have you tried creating a text frame first and then using File > Place with that frame selected? Doing it this way does import the styles correctly, however doing it without a frame selected first is doing it incorrect. I'll get that passed on. I should add that despite the Normal style being included it wasn't actually applied to the text that was using it. Again I'll pass that on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interior Book Design Posted June 17, 2019 Author Share Posted June 17, 2019 Sean, I've tried what you've said: still an issue In 399 In fact, styles disappear completely if I importing .docx. They do appear, if I import .rtf, except Normal, of course. Seems to be extremly difficult, QuarkXPress used to have the same problem long ago. So, at the moment, the workaround is: Import Word files in RTF only and rename Normal beforhand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted June 17, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 17, 2019 Any chance you can attach the docx file? The file we are using to test here seems to import them correctly Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interior Book Design Posted June 17, 2019 Author Share Posted June 17, 2019 35 minutes ago, Jon P said: Any chance you can attach the docx file? The file we are using to test here seems to import them correctly Don't ask me, why, but out of a sudden it works fine (with some short documents). However, with one long document of mine, a novel, at least the Normal style stills turns into [No Style] again and this document you can get. However, I'd rather like to send the doc by mail. I'm not attaching it to my post. So, please send a PM, Jon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted June 17, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 17, 2019 If you upload it here then it will only be viewable internally. Thanks Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interior Book Design Posted June 17, 2019 Author Share Posted June 17, 2019 Okay, done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted November 13, 2019 Staff Share Posted November 13, 2019 We have made improvements to this area of the program in the latest Affinity Publisher beta. If you would like to try these changes the beta software is available in the forum posts listed below. Once Affinity Publisher has been through a full beta process the change will be released in a future free 1.8.0 update to all customers. The 1.8.0 builds are in links at the top of these forum posts Affinity Publisher 1.8.0.502 for Windows Affinity Publisher 1.8.0.502 for macOS 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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