Peter Green Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 I produce paper-based newsletters, articles and talks which I need to repost to other applications and web pages. I have done this for a long time using Adobe InDesign with very few problems. I also very occasionally want to republish a document in InDesign, mainly if a printer won't accept a PDF or an APUB file. Most of these files would be of 1500 - 3000 words. Because other programs handle the relationship between text and graphics very differently, I think it would be accepted that any graphics to transfer into a new application will need to be placed manually. The way Affinity Publisher creates paragraph breaks is a considerable nuisance when repurposing any document of more than a couple of hundred words. Many applications ignore the paragraph break (LF/CR) symbol entirely, so that 3000 words are turned into one long paragraph, or the symbol is read as a non-searchable "graphic" as shown: . Either way, the only export solution is a lengthy re-edit of the exported file. It is quite a nuisance! The solutions seem to me to be either that a more standard method of creating an LF/CR be adopted in Publisher, or that some exporting filter be created, perhaps as a plug-in, which will detect the Publisher symbol and replace it with a standard LF/CR character within a text or RTF file. Wosven 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hauber Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 The way that paragraph breaks are (not) pasted into other applications surprised me just a couple of hours ago. I didn't find a quick workaround yet (like inserting Shift+Return or lines with whitespace; those won't appear when I paste the text). Does anybody have an idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 Copy-paste works (almost) as expected from Publisher to Word. Paragraphs behave as like they should. What is unexpected is that scandies get translated to ‰ and ˆ. That is good old fashioned encode error. I would think all apps would understand UTF8. This is with OS X Mojave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 Copy/paste also works into LibreOffice Writer. 57 minutes ago, Fixx said: scandies Is that an odd auto-correct problem, or a term I don't know? 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...
PaulEC Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Scandies Is that an odd auto-correct problem, or a term I don't know? I always thought it was someone from Scandinavia! Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 scandies = öäåøæ vonBusing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Green Posted August 26, 2019 Author Share Posted August 26, 2019 Word/ Writer are the two I rarely use. Thanks for pointing out that it works there. I see it also works in PagePlus 9 It doesn't work in Notepad, InDesign 5.5, Thunderbird, Mail for Windows 10, Facebook notes, Quora or, indeed, in this comment field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 2 hours ago, Peter Green said: Word/ Writer are the two I rarely use. I would think that if you want to get large amounts of text out of Publisher you would want to move it to a word processor. Gotta tell I also tried Libre Office which works perfect, no problems with either paragraph marks nor scandies encoding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hauber Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 I have similar paste destinations as @Peter Green. (Mostly) plain text that is not processed in a design/publishing kind of way. It doesn't work for that. Other examples: Spelling and style checkers (like Grammarly and Duden). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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