BugsJane

The zoom feature may have been at fault for a while, but everything is back to normal now. Thanks for all of your input. I appreciate your willingness to help!!!

Ventura 13.5.2 MAC OS I can't provide a photo because nothing will show up to help you. I click on a text box with the selector arrow. The text box will not show up. There are no corners to grab. I click again and the cursor appears. I can type, delete, and move the box, but I can not see the actual text box. The same goes for photos inserted. In the last half hour the program has been jumping on and off with the corners. Sometimes everything is normal and then it isn't. There is a BUG here with the new update!

Since the 2.2.0 update I can not see evidence of text boxes and others. No corners appear. I can drag the item, but cannot see the text box to resize it. Toggle preview mode shows nothing when I toggle.

Thanks for the question, Walt. It is now easier to copy the number without the pop-up telephone number interfering. The other good news is that even if the white letter in front of the black numbers is copied, the website, findagrave, recognizes only the black numbers. That works even with shorter numbers of which some had the same problem. It now works to find the memorial of the deceased person. Hurray! For now this seems to be the best solution short of placing hyperlinks. I will keep exploring alternatives. Later edit: I broke down and started using hyperlinks. I just discovered that color-coding for generations can be used with them. Well, I keep learning and enjoy the fun of problem solving and discovering what I didn't know. This program is more powerful than the previous one I was using.

Something clicked as I was reading all of your posts. I solved the problem! I typed an alphabet letter to the left of the number and then changed the black letter to white. It disguised the number! Yay! In fact, I can put a single column of white letters to the left of the numbers all the way down the page and it takes away the "phone number identity" of those numbers. Thanks to all of you for your persistence and attention to this problem.

v_kyr, thanks for your effort. I tried this, but it didn't give the results I wanted on the numbers.

h_d, I just downloaded Adobe Acrobat and it does work for me, too. I will suggest that option for those who receive my pdf. I couldn't find a way to turn off the telephone number pop-up in Preview either. I have been working all day on this problem that has been puzzling me. h_d, you have been very helpful.

Thanks to both of you for your input. No, I have not tried a different viewer. Are you suggesting Adobe Acrobat Reader for Apple Mac?

Thanks, Brian. I found it under View ... Studio ... Transform. I so appreciate your help. Thank you. I will update to v2 soon.

Brian, I do not find Transform under Window in the menu. I have not updated to the newest Publisher.

I have lost the x,y coordinate boxes that once were in the right hand space in Publisher. They showed the location on the page and also allowed minute changes in the size of objects. How do I bring them up?

Yes, I have the most recent version. I can't reproduce it. It randomly happened twice. I can't make it happen again. I changed nothing as far as what I had been doing. I used Preview on my iMac to alter the color of a photo. After saving and then dragging it onto my document, it snapped back to the folder. I could not use it or any other photos as they were rejected and snapped back to their folder. The document then became '"corrupted" and could not be reloaded. See attached screen shots. I had to go to the previously saved copy of the document, loaded it and it readily allowed the photos to be added. Draper 8.afpub

A picture is altered in Preview outside of the program. In the last week "sometimes" the program then refuses to allow that picture and ALL other pictures to be added. Somehow it then corrupts the program. When it is saved to the desktop, af.pub is added to the name which is not ever with the name. It then can not be loaded back up into Publisher.

Thank you all for responding to my inquiry. I finally understand. I had not noticed that the toolbar changed at times depending upon the selected item. Now that I have been doing multiple grouping of items, that must have thrown me off. Thanks for the input from all of you. I am slowly learning more of the complexities of this great program. I LOVE IT! Today I used hyperlinks for the first time in genealogy work I am doing for a friend. I wish this program had been around ten years ago. I have produced around 800 pages of genealogy using a very simple desktop publishing program, Ready,Set,Go with very few of the capabilities of Affinity Publisher. Again ... thank you!