Another topic which could fit in P3 or in the Techie section!
Some of us - not professionals as such - have to produce documents including text, graphics etc. from time to time. It is amazing how stupidly difficult this can be sometimes.
Recently I wanted to produce a document with images and text - directions to a party. "Obviously" I produced the text first, and then tried to add the images, and other features. Right - that's what I did at first.
Did that work? No!
How did I eventually do it?
I actually did write the text first, but then when I'd got the text I wanted I converted it to an image file. I then used Affinity Designer to put all the images - including the text image(s) which I could then place anywhere on the page, and rotate at will.
Why did I do that?
It wasn't the only way I tried. I did try OpenOffice, and Pages, and a few previous attempts with Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. Pages wouldn't let me import the images without getting them into Photos first - then seemed to get in a mess. It also wouldn't let me resize the images - I've no idea why.
I also used Preview quite a bit with Grab to cut out bits of text and convert to images.
I was very surprised when using the Affinity tools that I could import PDFs directly - including text, but I was also surprised and somewhat horrified when I discovered that it was dissassembling the text and reformatting it - and also unpacking the layers of images which I'd done using layer techniques.
So - in the end I just made each component an image (which I feel sure is not ideal), and then just put the whole shebang together.
I didn't want to produce text and convert to images, but it did the job, and seemed to be the only reliable way - sadly.
Sometimes I wonder if old fashioned methods using paper, scissors and glue to fix everything, then photocopying would be better!
Some of us - not professionals as such - have to produce documents including text, graphics etc. from time to time. It is amazing how stupidly difficult this can be sometimes.
Recently I wanted to produce a document with images and text - directions to a party. "Obviously" I produced the text first, and then tried to add the images, and other features. Right - that's what I did at first.
Did that work? No!
How did I eventually do it?
I actually did write the text first, but then when I'd got the text I wanted I converted it to an image file. I then used Affinity Designer to put all the images - including the text image(s) which I could then place anywhere on the page, and rotate at will.
Why did I do that?
It wasn't the only way I tried. I did try OpenOffice, and Pages, and a few previous attempts with Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. Pages wouldn't let me import the images without getting them into Photos first - then seemed to get in a mess. It also wouldn't let me resize the images - I've no idea why.
I also used Preview quite a bit with Grab to cut out bits of text and convert to images.
I was very surprised when using the Affinity tools that I could import PDFs directly - including text, but I was also surprised and somewhat horrified when I discovered that it was dissassembling the text and reformatting it - and also unpacking the layers of images which I'd done using layer techniques.
So - in the end I just made each component an image (which I feel sure is not ideal), and then just put the whole shebang together.
I didn't want to produce text and convert to images, but it did the job, and seemed to be the only reliable way - sadly.
Sometimes I wonder if old fashioned methods using paper, scissors and glue to fix everything, then photocopying would be better!
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