MrCourtney Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 Someone help save my project. I have been building a cookbook for a non-profit. It was being done in InDesign but Affinty Publisher is so much better so I started over. Today I had to add a paragraph of text to it so I did it in notepad then copied and pasted into the Affinity page. Everything is jammed into one column on the right side. This has worked for the past couple of days with once or twice this doing it but it then stopped. I can't see any paragraph or character setting that looks out of whack. Picture attached. This is a time critical project so any help would be appreciated. Quote
walt.farrell Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 Please include a screenshot of the Character studio panel, the Paragraph studio panel, and the Context toolbar, as those contain the settings that could cause that. 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
Staff DWright Posted July 4, 2019 Staff Posted July 4, 2019 Can you please try using the 'Paste Without Format' from the Edit menu to strip any text formatting imported from Notepad Quote
Alfred Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 21 minutes ago, DWright said: Can you please try using the 'Paste Without Format' from the Edit menu to strip any text formatting imported from Notepad Doesn’t Notepad only export plain text? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
MrCourtney Posted July 4, 2019 Author Posted July 4, 2019 (edited) 4 hours ago, Alfred said: Doesn’t Notepad only export plain text? Yes it does - straight text with no formatting. Weird. Yet, I can copy and paste from a Word document without this mess. Edited July 4, 2019 by MrCourtney Quote
Old Bruce Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 16 hours ago, MrCourtney said: Someone help save my project. I have been building a cookbook for a non-profit. It was being done in InDesign but Affinty Publisher is so much better so I started over. Today I had to add a paragraph of text to it so I did it in notepad then copied and pasted into the Affinity page. Everything is jammed into one column on the right side. This has worked for the past couple of days with once or twice this doing it but it then stopped. I can't see any paragraph or character setting that looks out of whack. Picture attached. This is a time critical project so any help would be appreciated. This text frame looks to have a huge left indent applied. Check the settings for it in the Text Frame Studio. firstdefence 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
MrCourtney Posted July 4, 2019 Author Posted July 4, 2019 Thanks, that was one the first thing that came to mind but everything is zero across the panel. Quote
walt.farrell Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 If you create a new document, and copy that text frame from your current document and paste it into the new document, does that same thing happen? If so, can you save the new .afpub and attach it here for us to look at? In any case, if your goal is simply to fix that frame: with the frame selected does clicking the Revert Defaults icon (or using the menu Edit > Defaults > Revert) fix it? (Please save a copy of the document before you do that, in case Serif wants it for to diagnose the issue.) 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
Old Bruce Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 Make a new document with a text frame and the problem text in it and attach it along with the file from Notepad, I have limited ability to help with only a screenshot of the result. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
JimmyJack Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 If you can paste from Word, and it's time critical, figure out the why later. Copy from Notepad into Word then copy from Word into Affinity. Quote
MrCourtney Posted July 4, 2019 Author Posted July 4, 2019 Okay, we can call off the dogs with my sincere appreciation for all you that jumped in to help. Writing the extra paragraph in WORD and copy and paste from there works, but it's a work around. Work around's bug me and I couldn't shake the feeling this was operator error. So I went back to create a paragraph in Notepad again and copy/pasted it to Affinity. Yep, there's that text mess again. This time I see the left indent was set to 24. Well that explains that. This is repeatable so something buried somewhere in the Notepad plain text is forcing that. That's for a later time to chase down. Again - thank you everyone! Alfred 1 Quote
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