Ron Broach

I'll add my voice to this thread, and say tables spanning pages would be a wonderfully useful feature. I frequently use tables in business quotes (Item/price/function lists) and this would be most helpful.

One more follow-up before the weekend. I had a chance to look at my other computer this morning. It did have the Hardware Acceleration enabled, so I disabled it. We then worked with both laptops for 5-6 hours today with no problems. It's kinda strange, but here are the changes I made: HP Omen computer with Intel i7-9750H processor, 64GB memory, and two 2TB SSD's (one for the operating system, one for data storage). It also has Windows 10 Home (ver. 20H2). On this computer the Hardware Acceleration (HA) was not enabled. After enabling the HA, there have been no crashes in about 10 hours of use. Dell Latitude computer with Intel i7-8550 processor, 16GB memory, and a single 2TB SSD. It has Windows 10 Home installed (ver. number not available). On this computer the HA was enabled and I disabled it. At this time it has operated for approximately 5-6- hours with no crashes. I'm not sure how this fits into the grand scheme of things, but it seems to have helped both of my computers. Thank you for your help and suggestions!

Just as a curiosity, I wondered if switching the Hardware Acceleration would make a difference, so I turned it on. So far, I've worked for about an hour without a crash. It's not conclusive, but it is better than yesterday. I'll try this on my second computer when I get a chance later today.

Gabe, thanks for the suggestion, I checked Hardware Acceleration and it was not enabled. Do you have any other ideas?

Since updating to Publisher version 1.9.2.1035, both of my laptops are having the same problem. I can either be working, or simply reading through a file and Publisher simply closes. There is no warning, no error log. I'm just suddenly looking at my desktop. I use publisher to format novels which are usually around 120,000 word/420 pages in size. I've used Publisher for maybe a couple of years and this has never been a problem until this update. Please advise on what I can do to help isolate this problem.

My printer has specified that I should provide files with a CMYK/8 but no ICC profile. Specifically, they say: "SPOT COLORS/ICC PROFILES: Please do not include Spot colors or ICC profiles in your file as these can produce unexpected results during processing." Is there a way in the Affinity applications to do this? It seems to default to US swop (2), and I don't see an option for "no selection". Thanks!

Fantastic! Thanks for the explanation in simple terms. I've found the folder, it is on my C: so no cloud storage issue. I can't open the file, but I'm guessing that's because I don't have developer tools. :-) Also, I tried re-copying chapter 4 into the Affinity file and spell-checking before changing the paragraph style. For whatever reason, it wouldn't learn words in this way either. I also noticed that in Ch 1-3, there are no red squiggles, so something has let it accept the words I've tried to add there. One more note - just out of curiosity, I opened a new file and copied Ch 4 into the new file. That did allow me to add new spellings, and then when I reopened the original book file, all of the new words were accepted. I think, for now, I'm happy with this solution since I was able to import the last few chapters of the book and spellcheck/format with no problems. I have 5 more books to convert in the next few weeks, so this will be a good test to see if maybe it is just something in this one transfer process.

I found a dictionary folder at this address on my hard drive: C:\Program Files\Affinity\Publisher\Resources\Dictionaries\en-US. It didn't have the file mentioned above, just the 3 files attached in the attached picture. I couldn't find the file listed above, nor was my directory structure the same as the example. I did a standard installation and just let the installer put things where it liked, so there isn't any customization. At this point, I'll just recopy the information and do the spell check before changing the paragraph style to "body". That worked fine for the last half of the book. I did customize the "body" paragraph style, so maybe something there is glitching? I'm not sure why the paragraph style makes a difference, but it seems to be the point where the "learn" command works or doesn't.

I've tried right clicking and selecting "Learn word" or "Learn spelling" I don't have it installed on this computer so forgive the vauge reference to terminology. I've also tried selecting the word and going through the Text>Spelling>Learn word menu. Neither will work. I suppose a worst case scenario is that I recopy these chapters and start from scratch. So far, I've had Affinity Publisher for three days, and I'm loving it. It is a lot more intuitive than InDesign!

This document has been copied/pasted from an Adobe InDesign book file. I am working in Windows 10. The problem is that sometimes the spell-checker will learn words just fine. Other times, it will not learn words at all. Since this is a sci-fi book, there are lots of names & places that need to be added to the dictionary. I have found a workaround, but it is tedious. I can copy the word into a new document and learn the word in the new document. When I come back to this document, I can add a letter to the word and then backspace to remove the letter. This has to be repeated on each occurrence of the word. I have found that if I spellcheck immediately after pasting, when the paragraph style is set to "none" spell-learn works better. It is more problematic after the paragraph style has been changed to "body". Am I missing something, or is there an easier way to do this? DM_Affinity_Test.afpub