ManiacClown

Update: I just figured it out. Very strangely, it was the font I was using, namely Aref Ruqaa, a Google font. I've never seen behavior like that before.

Yes, I do find the breaking words when searching for them. I'd already turned special characters on and I don't see anything where the words break.

I'm on Affinity Publisher version 1.10.5.1342 and I've created a document into which I've set up master pages with text frames. In the layout I've pasted the text of multiple Google Docs files and it seems that when a word would cause a line break, instead of flowing entirely to the new line the word breaks in the middle of itself, such as "s[break]haded", "can'[break]t", or "sto[break]ps". I haven't enabled any sort of hyphenation, automatic or otherwise. If under Character→Positioning and Transform I check "No break" the text line flows out of the frame. What's causing this and how can I stop it?

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one.

I right-click in the Pages panel and click Add Pages. I then tell it where to insert the new pages. I make sure Master Page lists Master A. I'll mention that I didn't link the Master Page text frames because I wanted to be able to insert those special pages that go between regular pages, like full-page illustrations or full-page sidebars.

Despite the 1.8.5 update, a problem I'd reported before is still happening. If I add one or more pages, it's very likely (a near certainty, in fact) that I will experience broken layout for the rest of the document. Some pages won't have all elements of the master page while some will have the master on the wrong layer order. If I try to simply reapply the master, this breaks several pages in bizarre ways such that it's better (or at least was when I encountered this months ago) for me to fix each affected page manually. Now, though, I'm encountering some problems that seem impossible to fix, such as a text box that disappears if I try to bring back the picture frame behind it that had itself disappeared. What's causing this and what do I do to fix it? I've attached the sample file (part of the full file, which as I recall exhibited the behavior despite being only part of the original) I submitted back in April. I will note that even trying to recreate the entire document from scratch back in April caused this same problem to manifest, so it appears to be either a bug in Publisher or some kind of corrupted formatting that's somehow pasting over in the frame text, which I think I filtered through Notepad first though I did also try to copy standalone frames. METAL WORLD diagnosis sample.afpub

These are clear for commercial use, correct?

Bug reported! Thanks.

As detailed in this thread, I have a ≈180-page document with a single master page. At some point, I began experiencing inconsistent glitching when I add or move one or more pages. Sometimes it simply moves the Z-index of the master page on all even or odd pages after the insertion point and I have to simply reapply the master to those pages and it's fine. Sometimes I have to do it individually because selecting all even or all odd (or all pages) causes Publisher to crash entirely. Sometimes reapplying the master doesn't work and I have to Edit Detached on each individual page's master page layer to fix the layering and make everything visible again. I have zero idea why it's doing this. I'm using 1.8.3, originally upgraded from previous versions but I've also tried an uninstall/reinstall of 1.8.3.

I'll definitely look into the smart master pages. Thanks! As for the Z-order, that's definitely one way the bug manifests. What sucks is having to do it for several dozen pages individually. Is there a way to report this as a bug?

Update: I just noticed it's glitching out even in the new file I just made. Just to be sure, I linked the text frames in the master before deleting a page I'd inserted earlier.

I think I need to attach a couple more screenshots to better illustrate the problem. In one of these you can see the pages beforehand, which are fine. I used to be able to reorder and insert without this being a problem. In the second image, you see what happens after I insert or move a page. After that point in the file (in the current manifestation of the glitch) the Master disappears from the even-numbered and won't reapply correctly. The layering is off on the odd-numbered pages so that the text frame is at the bottom. Other times this glitch has manifested the even pages are fine and the odd pages are broken, but I could reapply the Master. Sometimes I could reapply it to all even or all odd but now even trying to do that crashes Publisher. The glitch is inconsistent as to how it manifests.

Yes, that's the problem. It had been applied to all pages before I inserted a page. This time around, the glitch manifested by removing the Master Page from half the pages (as it's come to do). It also moves the Master Page layer on pages where it's still there above some other things so it hides them. It does that as soon as I insert or move a page. If I don't do that, it's fine and everything appears normal.

All right, here are some pages. I had the first couple be the two where it started this time. METAL WORLD diagnosis sample.afpub

"Upload a sample section" how? Delete all the pages in the duplicated file except the ones I'm showing? If so, I just tried to do that and it triggers the glitch.

I've got a (currently) 180-page book I've been working on. Recently, I've noticed that when I insert or move pages the entire file after that point will usually be broken somehow. Maybe it's just that the text frame for the page numbers has gone to the bottom or the layer for the Master Page is above others. Sometimes if I just Apply Master to a particular page to reapply the Master Pages that'll fix it. However, I just had to go through every odd-numbered page to A) delete a mystery text frame that shouldn't have been there (and wasn't in the Master Page) and B) make sure the page number text frame layer was where it should be in the stack order. Trying to Apply Master to all odd pages or to all pages crashed Publisher every time. It was tedious but I fixed it page by page. Now I'm trying to insert another page and it's happening again. Layers aren't right on some pages, the Master isn't applied correctly on others, and if I try to do a mass Apply Master Publisher crashes. Did my file corrupt somehow such that I need to paste everything into a new one? The attached file is a zoomed-out screenshot of what it does. The very first page (which if you can see is page 84) is pre-insert. 85 is the newly-inserted page. The border has disappeared from what is now 86. The text frame on 87 is now under the picture frame that contains the page border. Trying to Apply Master to 86 and 87 moves the 86→87 text flow to be 86→88. Once again, Apply Master to all pages crashes the program. I'm about at my wit's end with this. Please help.