Publisher: convert a text to a table

[Pyanepsion]

Hello,

How to convert plain text with a separator, for example tabs or semicolons, into a table?

[Joachim_L]

There is no option for this right now. Hope (sure) this will come later. But you can copy a tab and return separated text into an existing table.

[carl123]

If you have something like Excel, you can open a text file containing separators (e.g. tabs, commas, semicolons etc) then copy and paste the data from Excel into a table in Publisher

[Pyanepsion]

Thank you, Joachin_L and Carl123.
It is indeed a second best. We have to copy the text in Word or Excel, create a table on Publisher, select the number of cells and lines corresponding (in fact more than one cell), delete the added column, readjust the table.
That said, if I had known that, I would have saved a lot of time on my new desktop publishing.

Let's say it's a basic feature, and that's where QuarkXPress and Indesign advertise.

[Joachim_L]

6 minutes ago, Pyanepsion said:

That said, if I had known that, I would have saved a lot of time on my new desktop publishing.

Let's say it's a basic feature, and that's where QuarkXPress and Indesign advertise.

Do not forget, that the initial release of Publisher was in June 2018. If you look at the history of e.g. Indesign some "vital" features came in a later version. In fact Indesign 1.0 was a mess compared to the first version of Publisher.

[Pyanepsion]

The argument obviously can not be retained even if it partly explains the thing.

Regardless of this, let's not forget that Affinity started the development of its software for 5 years and that Publisher is the replacement of PagePlus created in 1991 by the same company.
That said, I think we can be accommodating, because as PagePlus was mediocre, so Publisher seems to want to achieve perfection.

[R C-R]

12 hours ago, Pyanepsion said:

Regardless of this, let's not forget that Affinity started the development of its software for 5 years and that Publisher is the replacement of PagePlus created in 1991 by the same company.

No Affinity app is intended as a feature-equivalent replacement for any of Serif's Windows-only Plus apps. The Affinity apps are the result of a "clean slate" approach to application design.

In fact, Affinity began as a research project codenamed "Persona" at Serif to explore the feasibility of creating "a memory management system capable of high-end photo editing on an iPad with only 80MB memory available to the App” (quoted from the “Affinity Review #1” iBook.) After 3 years of R&D & the addition of other technologies like asynchronous processing & serialization, the first Affinity app was released, the Mac version of Affinity Designer.

Anyway, the point is the Plus & Affinity codebases are entirely different, so it is not as if they can just bolt on features from a Plus app onto an Affinity one.

[Pyanepsion]

it's even better.

[stevemf]

i have been an InDesign user almost since its inception - i was looking for new program to replace it
as i feel Adobe is abusing us with their monthly subscription. I wen an purchase the Affinity suite. Have
been testing Publish - VERY DISAPOINTING and will more than likely stay with InDesign. Too many
short comings in format and import options plus very cumbersome in the layout of tools. Very sorry
to say this - was hoping for a lot more!!!

[Joachim_L]

Welcome to the Affinity forums @stevemf!

If you were with ID almost since its inception, you have to be honest, V1 was crap [PERIOD]. Against ID v1 APu 1.7 was gold. Perhaps if you stay a little bit longer with APu you'll experience progress (and we had some since 1.7) like ID was doing over the years.