tallulahlucy

Can confirm it will not work. I recently made that same mistake and there is absolutely no way to use those brushes if you don't already own Adobe Illustrator (which I think most of us don't, otherwise we wouldn't buy Designer) in order to convert them manually. I wish there was some kind of tool that could extract them and let you convert them, but there isn't.

Thank you for taking an interest in this, I too find it very curious. I do feel a bad for hijacking the thread though and I'm not sure how helpful I can be with answers since it was a few days ago and I'm not sure how many saves etc I did, but I will try my best to provide as much info as possible below: I can't remember if I copied and pasted the text in. Now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure I placed it. The total document now has 442 pages (so that's 442 linked frames) with 3 different master layouts (But I think at the time the file was that size it would have been at about 263 pages). I solved the overflow by a series of clicks - frame by frame - because I needed to apply different formatting for the chapter pages so chose to do this as I went. Two of the master layouts are chapter header pages. I didn't use images here though, only symbols and same for the ornaments which I know some authors use images for. In terms of the number of styles, I was working with two main styles - one for the body text, and one with a dropcap for chapter pages. Then a single character style for italics. The placed text should all have been in Adobe Garamond Pro with no ornaments or decorations of any kind, and no style changes. However I did do a find/replace to apply that italic character style as soon as the text was placed. In terms of number of saves, I tried to save after every chapter. At this stage I would have been at about Chapter 30. So maybe that's the issue? I had I think two formatting related crashes which were reported by someone in another thread so is a known issue to do with styles. Other than that I would have opened/closed about four - 6 times? So I guess 6 - 10 loads, one place, no deletes, 30 saves? After I deleted the unlinked text, everything came right. That was already much further in though. For the remaining pages I pasted them in one by one and all was fine.

It is very weird! I did do a Save As and it was 3.12gigs as well. I copied the text straight from Pages into my first page and then created pages and cared for the overflow as I went as you guessed (linking text frames as I formatted each page). I guess that maybe "storing" a book-length amount of overflow somewhere might have created the issues somehow. I don't know where it gets stored in Publisher as there is no story mode or way to access that text that I could find. And without that, it's impossible to know what the contents were. It was supposed to only be 130k words of text, but maybe I accidentally pasted it multiple times or copied something I shouldn't have somehow? I can't imagine how much text would be needed to make up that filesize but definitely more than 130k!

Yes it went down to 30.2 MB and the load/save time dropped to nearly nothing. I have no idea why this made such a huge difference, but in future I will add a chapter at a time.

I seem to have solved the problem by deleting all overflow text and adding again. I used an Indesign command to select all overflow text (Cmd+Shift+End after my last sentence)

I am having a similar problem but am using no photos at all for my book. The page count is over 300 though. It hasn't caused a crash yet (possibly because I have more RAM than the OP?) But saving or loading the file takes about 20 minutes (last load: 16:34,46). I am MacOS Catalina 10.15.2 and running version 1.7.3 of Publisher. The file is 3.12 gigs - again I have no images, just styled text. I have 40 GB of memory and it uses between 30 and 35 gigs just to run. Something seems fishy to me even with the large number of pages. As with OP, I cannot upload files of this size on my connection. It would take too long and be too expensive. But please let me know if you require any other details.