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  1. Ok, thanks. Now I have a different problem.

    On the publication page where the problem appeared, the text frame baseline grid sub-panel was inactive. So I looked on the Master Page concerned and found it active.  Turned it off. Things looking much better there.

    Problem now is that none of the publication pages have updated. They still show the text frame baseline grid. Do I have to delete them all and create new ones? Rather negates the whole point of master pages if so.

    I am also foxed as to why allow distinct baseline grid in any text frame when surely the whole point is to align text between frames.

    Programming_Period.afpub

  2. I have been attempting to reproduce InDesign typesetting prior to migration. Latest problem is with the baseline grid. I hope we all agree there should be only one such grid in any single document. Publisher seems to create more than one and then misalign them, on each side of a spread. (MacOS 10.9.5 + Publisher 1.7.1)

    Having auto flowed text into my new document, I noticed misalignment at the base of the third page (RHS of first spread after a single page starting a chapter). I was then astonished to see a second baseline grid appear within the RHS text frame, misaligned with the document one. Screenshot attached.

    Have to say also that 1) it is far from clear to what entity the grid belongs (it appears as an optional attribute, with setup, to document and text frame), and 2) display is similarly confusing since it appears covering whole page when start from Top Margin is selected.

    I'm afraid this is damning. It renders the package unusable for the typesetting of any book. If it is down to an older version of operating system then fine, but please don't claim to support it. I cannot upgrade the system, losing InDesign, unless I know issues like this, and the other two I've posted (failure of Insert Section Name, odd behaviour of tab) are resolved in the later version.

    You guys at Infinity should know there's a lot of people looking over our shoulders out here, as early adopters. Speedy resolution at least of the fatal flaws will make a huge difference to take up.

    Affinity_Baseline_Grid_Problem.tiff

  3. I inserted the filler text (into the master page main text frames) just this once, not on previous occasions.

    Did not try to insert field into this text, but into the (master) header frame on RHS.  With the frame text tool and text centred, I first typed "centre" then TAB then attempted to insert Section Name.  Two curious things happen :  first, after hitting TAB, the typed text leaps to the LHS;  second, while no Section Name appears, the cursor is displaced (about an em) as though something is there but not displayed.

    Only want Insert to insert a 'field', with default options.

    As I mentioned before, I suspect it is the ageing (six whole years old!) Mac OS version.

  4. Thanks for this, but afraid it's definitely a Master Page I'm using for the text frame in which to insert Section Name.

    Have taken care to add an extra section and to name both.  No joy.

    Have looked on publication pages in both sections but found no trace of any section name applied.

    Rather suspect it's the ancient (six years old?) Mac OS I'm using (10.9.5), though am hard pushed to believe it's the bluetooth trackpad.

  5. Yes. Frame Text tool selected, with cursor in text frame and able to type text directly.

    Can recreate after choosing File/New and then the single Master Page thus renderers.  I then choose Frame Text tool and make a new frame at top.  View/Studio/Fields then dbl-click on 'Name:' under Document Sections in Fields panel.  (Also tried dbl-click on '<Section Name>').  Admittedly, only the default Section 1 exists but have also tried creating two more sections, with three pages each.  No difference.  Dbl-click on Page Number also fails.

    Section Name does not appear in menu option Text/Insert/Fields. Page Number does exist there and works.

    Only other 'strange' thing am doing, other than staying with Mac OS 10.9.5 for now, is using a Bluetooth Apple Trackpad.

    Many thanks for responding. Sorry for delay.

  6. Publisher 1.7.1 on MacOS 10.9.5.  Apple TrackPad.

    No joy with new or old document. Follow exact procedure portrayed in Sections Tutorial :  dbl-click on Field name in Fields panel.  No options shown in Text/Insert/Fields menu other than page, next frame and previous frame number.

    Must also add that for book production, hierarchical sections are very highly desirable, allowing display of both chapter and section title in header.  Rank almost as highly as need for foot/endnotes.

  7. Am a beginner with Aff Publisher and preparing to move a book over from InDesign.

    Cannot find any replacement for InDesign's ability to compile a book from multiple chapter documents.  Therefore no page/chapter numbering continuity.  (Please do tell me if I've missed something.) So I move on to attempt creation of suitable master pages…

    In Document Setup, I choose 'Facing' pages and "Start On Right", and in Spread Setup 45p x 55p6 (DemiOctavo) and margins 4p6, 6p9, i.e. smaller inner than outer.  I then setup a "Chapter Body" Master Page with guides to suit.  It's when I try to add a master for a chapter start page that things go dicky.  I select page (not facing) and then have to swap the left and right margins, so that the narrow margin lies to the left (i.e. inside edge).  I'm then presented with a page with these margins inverted, i.e. wide on left.

    I then notice that page 1 in the content (not masters) section also has these margins inverted (wide on the left/inside edge). I can find no way to correct this.

    Hate to tell you but this is all about as standard an expectation as it gets, when it comes to books. Yet I'm stuck!

    Help!

  8. Like all technical writers, I must have a way to include mathematics – your chance to improve on ID!

    Ideally, this would mean typesetting from LateX source but inclusion of PDF/postscript insertions inline is all I get with ID CS3. Some integration with MathType would be great.

    Whatever, you need to be very clear right now what kind of support you offer. I have a diminishing list of requirements to move over from ID.  This is topmost.

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