Matt Hall Posted May 16, 2019 Posted May 16, 2019 Thank you very pretty powerful search/replace feature, changing from paragraph break to line break is pretty easy. Can we add an option to limit the search to given element, instead of the whole document? I'm thinking of options: * Selection * Text element * Page * Whole document PaoloT, Intuos5, thomaso and 4 others 7 Quote
garrettm30 Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 I second this request. The Find/Replace feature as it is now is a good start, especially with regex. The ability to limit scope, and, I might add, save frequent searches, are two improvements that I would like to see as the software matures. Quote
thomaso Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 Agree +1 Though it has been requested already – It still is quite disturbing if one wants to replace just a few, particular occurences of the found results. That can be both time consuming and risky if in the list an unwanted result gets replaced. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
fde101 Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 Add to that list the story (series of linked frames) being edited. Quote
thomaso Posted May 18, 2019 Posted May 18, 2019 9 hours ago, fde101 said: story (series of linked frames) I hope that would already become covered by the option "Text Frame" (possibly named "text elements" in the topic). In case you rather want to search within one frame only of a linked series the option "Selection" would work. md_germany and fde101 2 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
cableguy Posted October 11, 2019 Posted October 11, 2019 +1 from me! Just doing my first project with Affinity Publisher and it's great, generally. Coming from InDesign, I'm amazed that Afinity Publisher search/replace has all these cool things like regex search etc., but something so basic as limiting your search to the text / table / text frame selected is missing. Old Bruce, Daniel Gibert, RalphGL and 1 other 4 Quote
Daniel Gibert Posted August 13, 2020 Posted August 13, 2020 I'm all in for this.Doing a lot of catalog with product references. I'd love to be able to replace a part of incorrect references in a table without risking to destroy all references in the document. Old Bruce 1 Quote
Lothar_SA Posted August 24, 2020 Posted August 24, 2020 I second it too, and would like to add one more feature - search / replace in all open documents. Quote
Bob P Posted October 21, 2020 Posted October 21, 2020 Not being able to specify the scope for Find and Replace is a major omission. Daniel Gibert 1 Quote
loukash Posted January 19, 2021 Posted January 19, 2021 On 5/16/2019 at 6:45 PM, Matt Hall said: add an option to limit the search to given element, instead of the whole document +1 Wait. Strike that. +1000! uneMule and Daniel Gibert 2 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2
MorporkUK Posted February 12, 2021 Posted February 12, 2021 This issue has not been addressed in Publisher 1.9.0 so I'm adding my name to the growing list. It really is a major fail in Publisher that you can't limit find (and replace) in this fundamental way, especially since InDesign has always had it (you can limit your searches to Story – i.e. linked text boxes) and, if I remember the dim, distant days aright, so did Quark Express. Having to create a new document just so you can get rid of all the superfluous paragraph breaks in an imported PDF document strikes me as counter to the Affinity ethos. If, using Personas, I can tidy up a pic in Photo or create some simple artwork in Designer without leaving my Publisher document, why do I have to leave that document (and create another one) to do a simple find and replace in one article? Quote
AdrianB Posted February 19, 2021 Posted February 19, 2021 Yes, I really would like to do this too. I hope it's on the internal roadmap. Quote
uneMule Posted June 7, 2021 Posted June 7, 2021 + 1... Damn, i don't have enough numbers on the keyboard! Quote Toujours pas !Windows 10 Pro 21H2 - Intel Core i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz - 16 Gb Ram - GeForce GT 650M - Intel HD 4000 Affinity Photo | Affinity Designer | Affinity Publisher | 2
Rabari Posted December 9, 2021 Posted December 9, 2021 Limited search as suggested above, is a must. thomaso 1 Quote
cadudesun Posted December 30, 2021 Posted December 30, 2021 +1 limiting search to the text / text frame / page / table Intuos5 1 Quote
thomaso Posted August 17, 2022 Posted August 17, 2022 This recent thread about the missing ability to clear the found search results (which can cause unwanted changes) makes bump this request thread about options in Find & Replace to limit a search by Selection –> Frame –> Page –> Story / Section –> Document. Since I did a forums search already to get here I add this related discussion from the Questions forum: Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
Ideagonal Posted September 25, 2022 Posted September 25, 2022 +1 Quote Mac mini M1 / macOS Ventura / 8 GB ram / Wacom Intus pen & touch / Affinity suite v1 & v2
Intuos5 Posted December 4, 2022 Posted December 4, 2022 Yes please, would really like to set options for filtering by chapter/ page/ frame/ text column. Quote
MikeTO Posted December 4, 2022 Posted December 4, 2022 +1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
thomaso Posted December 4, 2022 Posted December 4, 2022 Since this thread has been getting new votes recently: Does anyone know if Serif's decision to separate/rename this subforum to "Feedback for Affinity V1 products [ARCHIVE]" will affect feature requests for V2? Interestingly, the Bugs subforums have also been separated, even though various known, logged and tagged bugs from V1 were never resolved and thus may appear in V2 – whereas the Questions subforum continues to handle both versions unseparated, even though certain answers can not work for both or may confuse without a literal distinction between V1 and V2. The fact that Serif announced in various recent posts that V1 would not receive another update to fix existing bugs (but only those that will occur in the future due to changes in the operating systems), suggests to me that neither further "bumping" of bug reports nor feature requests for V1 makes any more sense. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
Bob P Posted December 4, 2022 Posted December 4, 2022 Do Serif actually look at these posts? This has been an active thread for over 3 years and nothing has happened. Quote
walt.farrell Posted December 4, 2022 Posted December 4, 2022 17 minutes ago, Bob P said: Do Serif actually look at these posts? This has been an active thread for over 3 years and nothing has happened. Yes, they do. But the length of a topic, or the number of requests made, do not control what gets implemented. Our requests influence Serif's plans, but there are many factors that determine what gets done, and when. 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, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Intuos5 Posted December 4, 2022 Posted December 4, 2022 46 minutes ago, thomaso said: Since this thread has been getting new votes recently: Does anyone know if Serif's decision to separate/rename this subforum to "Feedback for Affinity V1 products [ARCHIVE]" will affect feature requests for V2? Interestingly, the Bugs subforums have also been separated, even though various known, logged and tagged bugs from V1 were never resolved and thus may appear in V2 – whereas the Questions subforum continues to handle both versions unseparated, even though certain answers can not work for both or may confuse without a literal distinction between V1 and V2. The fact that Serif announced in various recent posts that V1 would not receive another update to fix existing bugs (but only those that will occur in the future due to changes in the operating systems), suggests to me that neither further "bumping" of bug reports nor feature requests for V1 makes any more sense. I specifically asked the moderators on whether or not to continue in these threads or to create new ones for V2. They say they still look at these threads and said there was no need to create new ones for V2. So I presume they have them tagged to internal feature requests/ bugtracking software the way other software vendors tend to do. thomaso 1 Quote
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