Ademanda Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 Hi. This is my first day of using the beta. I'm looking to close my Adobe CC account and switch over to Affinity - provided the tools can meet my needs as a graphic designer. Looking at the Publisher Beta today and my first niggle is that there is no way of putting a negative value on left indent. When I do bullet points or numbering, I always use negative first line indent with an equal positive left indent so that the whole bullet point is indented. Any way of getting this to work? I'm sure I may find other things - but that's all for my first day. Thanks. Quote
thomaso Posted May 18, 2019 Posted May 18, 2019 17 hours ago, Ademanda said: When I do bullet points or numbering, I always use negative first line indent with an equal positive left indent so that the whole bullet point is indented. Any way of getting this to work? I might misunderstand your approach but it sounds to me it can be achieved without negative indent but simply assigning different values for indent and first line indent. Is that what you want?, intended bullets: Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
Ademanda Posted May 18, 2019 Author Posted May 18, 2019 Hi thomaso Yes - it can - but not if I want the first bullet point alignment inline with the paragraph above and all lines within the bullet points aligned indented from the bullet point. Does this make sense? Quote
walt.farrell Posted May 18, 2019 Posted May 18, 2019 Have you tried using the bullet styles that exist already in the Text Styles list? They should automatically do what you want, I think. If they don't, please provide a screenshot showing what you want to achieve, using your Adobe application if needed. 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
thomaso Posted May 18, 2019 Posted May 18, 2019 2 hours ago, Ademanda said: all lines within the bullet points aligned indented Hi Walt, I guess I don't understand. To me your "all lines within the bullet points aligned indented" occurs in my screenshot for the words "line" and "item" in the selected frame. And imho "the first bullet point alignment inline with the paragraph above" can be set by the first line indent. A "real" negative indent would mean that an element would sit exterior of the text frame, wouldn't it? – Curious, too, what Ademanda's screenhot will show. Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
walt.farrell Posted May 18, 2019 Posted May 18, 2019 17 minutes ago, thomaso said: Hi Walt, I guess I don't understand. To me your "all lines within the bullet points aligned indented" occurs in my screenshot for the words "line" and "item" in the selected frame. And imho "the first bullet point alignment inline with the paragraph above" can be set by the first line indent. That was Ademanda's statement, not mine 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
thomaso Posted May 18, 2019 Posted May 18, 2019 @Walt, sorry! @Ademanda, might it be you simply ask for a "negative first line indent" because you know it this way from InDesign? If yes, you might have not noticed yet that in AfPub the values in the indent fields are absolute and independent – whereas in InDesign the first line indent needs to become written as a substraction of the other (paragraph or left indent). In InDesign I always felt disturbed by that sort of backwards thinking. Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
Ademanda Posted May 20, 2019 Author Posted May 20, 2019 Hi thomaso - and thanks for all who commented. Yes, the 'negative first line indent' was indeed something I used in InDesign and I was trying to duplicate this so that the first bullet wasn't indented. See attached pdf of a page from a magazine I worked on. I can see now that 'Bullet 1' in the text styles does exactly what I asked for - thank you. Quote
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