SarahB

Bumping a suggestion that was made in 2019 for Publisher. In the Section Manager, it would be great to be able to double click on a section in the left hand menu and go to that section. At the moment, we need to use Section Manager to determine which page a section starts on and then use Go To and the page number to get there, which is clumsy. Original discussion here;

I guess we need to transfer this to suggestions for V2 since V1 won't be updated and it wasn't implemented in V2.

Thanks Mike!

Thank you for this. Fortunately there weren't too many of them so I deleted and reinserted, but this will be handy for when the documents have the inevitable updates.

Great, nice to know that I'm not going crazy! Do I need to do something with the crash report or are we hoping that someone from Affinity will see it? I haven't had much response with bugs I've reported in the past.

No special characters in the URLs I am trying to edit. I don't have the same problem in a new document and https://www.google.com. I've also created a brand new document based on the template I'm using, added the Google address to a hyperlink and no problems with that either. It just seems to be a problem with the existing documents.

I need to edit the URL in hyperlinks in several documents (client gave me wrong domain name for their new website). Doing so, following the steps below, causes V2 to crash every time, in different documents. All the affected documents were created in V2. right-click on hyperlinked text select 'Edit hyperlink' edit the URL click OK I'm having to delete all the existing hyperlinks and re-insert them. I'm using Catalina.

Perfect, thank you!!

Thanks Walt. Yes, I use a Mac. OS is Catalina 10.15.7. I've attached the screenshot, with xxx to disguise the email address, but I know that the email address is valid and have created hyperlinks to it in Publisher V1 with no issues. In this document the email address is in a bullet list (and the issue of not being able to use Ctrl+Alt+Cmd V to paste text into the hyperlink panel without styles still exists in V2), but I tried with the email address as plain body copy and still couldn't create an email hyperlink.

I've tried choosing different Character Styles and have just tried again with another email address I know to be correct, but the OK button is still greyed out.

I'm trying to create a hyperlink to an email address. I choose 'Email' from the hyperlink drop down menu, enter the email address, choose the Character style, but the 'OK' button to confirm everything is greyed out. In fact, it's greyed out as soon as I choose 'Email' from the drop down list. Any ideas?

Just bumping this a year later, working on the same project and the bug is still there – applying a hyperlink to text in a cell applies it to surrounding cells. No comment or update from Affinity.

Correction. The page wasn't blurry in the next PDF I made as long as it was a PDF of just this single page. In the PDF I made of the whole document it was blurry, in a single page PDF it was fine. The only way I could find to fix the problem was to delete the text box on that page and redo it.

No, and that page wasn't blurry in the next PDF I made of the document (or previous PDFs in fact). Just this one page, in this one PDF.

Any idea why a page would render differently from others in a PDF? One page in the 300 page PDF is blurred, screenshot of the blurred page and the following page attached. Both are in Body Text in the Publisher document and the blurred page has rendered properly when I've made a further PDF.

I'd forgotten I posted that bug last year!

Thanks for clarifying that. If the '+Hyperlink' in the Text Styles panel summary means that the text has an assigned link (rather than hyperlink style), it suggests that the website text in my original example file does have a link assigned to it, even though it it is not the source of any of the hyperlinks in the Hyperlinks panel. Either way, there are a lot of bugs when trying to apply hyperlinks within a table and I wish someone from Affinity would take notice!!

Thanks for pointing that out, I'll fix that. It doesn't explain why [No Style] paragraph and Hyperlink text styles are applied to the text when I apply the hyperlink though as I mentioned in my second post; So the Hyperlink text style is being applied to the web text, even though I don't choose it and even though none of the hyperlinks are applied to the web text!

You have described exactly the problem that I am calling a bug. I applied a hyperlink by highlighting the text www.skinners.org.uk/atwell/individuals, right-clicking and so on. The hyperlink was actually applied to the four cells that are highlighted in your video, the hyperlink that you can't delete. The other two hyperlinks in my example document appeared in much the same way as the extras that you ended up with in your video. If I try to delete them, more appear. I know, as I mentioned in my initial post and hence me logging this as a bug in the first place. "When I check the source of the hyperlink in the Hyperlinks studio the source is the two rows that contain Cell A, not the text I highlighted (Cell A is in the final column of the table)."

No response to this at all from Affinity? Is it a bug, am I doing something wrong?

Any idea when this might be fixed? It's still not possible to paste without formatting in the URL field and this leads to other issues like the one I posted last year; https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/123872-copying-url-from-bulleted-list-includes-bullet-in-insert-hyperlinkurl/

Indeed. Much of the hyperlink functionality in Publisher is buggy!

Preflight doesn't warn of any issues with hyperlinks. While PDF Logging might, why do we have to run something through terminal, why is Publisher not able to specify what the problem is and where, either through Preflight or through the error message which currently just says 'there is in error'?

Incidentally, when I apply a hyperlink I choose [No style] from the Character style options in the hyperlink dialogue box, since the text already has the paragraph style I want. You can see in the file above that the styles for the web address are now Table body copy + [No Style] + Hyperlink. Why are [No Style] paragraph style and Hyperlink character style being applied when I choose [No Style] character style?

MacOS High Sierra/Publisher 1.10.1 I am working on a document that has a number (200+) of websites in tables and I want to hyperlink all of them. I have a problem doing that when the website address is the only text in the cell. My normal process would be to double click on the text to select all the text in that cell (called Cell A), right click, Interactive/Insert Hyperlink. However, double clicking on the text also selects the > hidden character (presumably that denotes 'next cell'), and therein lies the problem. When I check the source of the hyperlink in the Hyperlinks studio the source is the two rows that contain Cell A, not the text I highlighted (Cell A is in the final column of the table). The resulting hyperlink can't be deleted from the Hyperlinks studio, nor from the Text menu which only has the option to insert a hyperlink. Rightclicking on the highlighted rows does not give any hyperlink options so I can't delete that way. Rightclicking on the originally highlighted text doesn't give me the option to delete the hyperlink. Deleting the two rows from the table and reinserting them doesn't work, this may be because the comes from a master page. The only solution seems to be deleting the entire table and starting again. It seems that I have to zoom right in and carefully select the text using click & drag, to avoid selecting >. This seems unnecessarily fiddly, especially since I can select/copy the web address to use as the URL by double clicking with no problems. but the bigger pain is that the resulting hyperlink can't be deleted. In a couple of instances, in trying to delete it I've had two more appear, one whose source is the text in the cell to the left of Cell A, one whose source is the text in the cell below Cell A. I say the hyperlinks are incorrect – they work in a pdf, obviously you can click anywhere in the two rows rather than just on the website text, but they are a mess in Publisher. I've attached a single page of the document I'm working on that has this problem. To create the hyperlink, I double clicked on the web address in the second row down – the hyperlink has been applied to all the surrounding cells, but not that text. Hyperlinks.afpub