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On suggestion from a friend, I may have fixed it - apparently they had similar issues before. I linked dropbox to the app within the settings and it seems to have solved the issue. I had no idea that option was there and have no idea what it's doing in the background, nor do I know what none of my other projects seem to have needed that loving touch, but it does appear to have solved my problem!

Hi, I have one specific afpub file that, since upgrading to 2.3.1, will no longer open - or rather, it opens, then after 5-7 seconds, crashes and closes Publisher entirely. I have tried multiple other files I'm working with and I can't recreate it with any others. I sent the file to a friend who is still on 2.3.0 and they were able to open it fine (be it with missing resources etc). They resaved under a different file name and sent it back for me to try, but I get the same outcome. I was able to open this one long enough to open the resource manager and update two art pieces that had been modified, then save - but a few moments later the same issue kicks in and Publisher crashes. Anyone have any clue what could possibly cause this? Thanks in advance!

Thanks - I didn't even know that was a thing! ha. Having just checked, yes, I can confirm this suffers from the same issue. You tick it, but it will not show until you toggle the UI text size or light/dark settings.

Hi! I've just checked - Yes, toggling the light/dark user interface also solves the issue (again until the application is quit and restarted). Re: rulers, excuse my ignorance, do you mean the small pop up box that tells you the H and W as you drag your text frame? If so, then this displays normally from the point of the application being opened. Thanks!

@stokergjust wondering if there has been any headway on fixes either of the 2 issues raised here? - The missing table row headers (temp fix by toggling the user interface font size on each restart) or the hang over of thumb nails after closing a project and subsequent Mac lock up if you click them? Thanks for the support!

Sure it's an unorthodox solution, but I'm only in Derby, so if it helps to swing by and give you all my MacBook to see if something specific can be highlighted (and to let you see the issue at play first hand), just let me know.

This doesn't solve the issue for me. It has however highlighted some other strange activity. If I close Publisher (red dot in the corner) with a document open, then reopen it from the dock (on Mac), it opens as a blank project (as I'd expect), though the pages view panel down the left still shows the thumbnails of the pages from the doc that was open before I closed it. If I click any of these pages though, the whole thing freezes and eventually times out, forcing me to force quit in order to use it again. If I instead just go to recent and open a project from there, it opens up normally (no table bars still though).

MikeTO was kind enough to point me to this solution as I was having the same issue. So that issues have the information one place, I can report that the fix of toggling the UI font size worked for me, but like Steaming T, above, the fix only lasts until I close the application. Upon opening it again, the bars are gone and I have to toggle the settings again to cause them to return. I have tried saving various settings, as well as adjusting other settings that force a restart, in the hope that such action would make this fix 'stick', but nothing has done so.

Yep! This has fixed it immediately. But only until I close the application. On restart, I have to toggle that setting again to make them come back. Still, it works for now!

Yep - I've been using Publisher for a few years now so I'm used to this behaviour, hence it seeming so odd. It's clearly a glitch though as they are actually there. I can over over where they should be and have the cursor change to drag the row width etc... I just can't actually see them!

No idea what's going off then. Like I said above - they are there, but they are invisible, which implies some kind of graphical issue. I went back and checked V1 Publisher - still functioning perfectly for tables. No idea why V2 seems to dislike my machine!

Upgrade to Ventura complete - still no table reference bars No chance that this could be because I'm running it on the free trial (was just poking around with current projects before I jumped in for the upgrade) is there?

So, they're actually there, but they are invisible. If I hover in just the right place outside the table, the cursor changes, allowing me to drag table width, and it I click in just the right location, I get the option to change the number of rows etc... I just can't physically see the reference bars!?

OpenGL was already the selected default, however I have tried each of the 4 options, along with deselecting Metal and none of them did anything to resolve the issue. I'll try upgrading to Ventura in a bit to see if it's a Monterey specific issue.

Nope!

I'm on Montery and can't get those reference bars at all... unless I've toggled something off by accident that I can't find.

This is not the case on my Mac - these options work fine. However, when I select a table, I no longer get the bar along the top and side with the row/column numbers. As such, I have no way to manually dragging rows and columns to be the size I want, which feels overly annoying.

@DWrightjust wondering if you've had chance to take a peek at the issue? Thanks!

Hi! Many thanks for this. I've uploaded the package for you. Please let me know if you need anything else. I've also included an exported PDF, that will show certain book marks appearing out of order (i.e. the book mark appears before or after other bookmarks that would appear in the reading order of the text. Cybernetics > BioWare is one example of this. Implants is another, though there are a few others as well). Many thanks.

Hi all, I've finalised a book layout and have used anchors to create the PDF bookmarks. This is something I've done multiple times before without issue (though the Anchor pane being in a jumbled order is agonisingly annoying!), however this time, when I export the PDF, some of the bookmarks appear in an incorrect order. I've tried multiple PDF viewers, all of which have the same issue. Most bookmarks are correct, but a few are in odd places. I've spent some time trying to investigate why this could be, but can't find anything in Publisher that allowed me to determine an order for the anchors. Can anyone advise what's happening on export that would cause this? Probably worth me asking if there is away to have anchors in the anchor pane display in a remotely sensible order as well? Thanks!

Hi Dan! That seems to have sorted it - the image in question is a little larger than page size and so is contained within a Picture Frame. It is actually the picture frame that I applied the anchor to, but that moves into the bleed area, which I assume is where the issue came from. I've just removed that bookmark and all is well! Thanks!

Thanks from the reply. Yeah, I wanted the actual PDF to start with page A after export (so it recognises the 3rd page of the exported PDF as page 1). As for the other set up, yes, I have those settings in place - thanks. I was just hoping they could be represented in the exported PDF too. Not to worry! I can work around it. Thanks!

Hi all, I'm trying to export a PDF from Publisher, but have the page numbers in the export appear as they are in the section manager. In this instance, the flow of page numbers is A, B, 1-288, C Effectively my front cover, inside front cover and back cover too not have a page number. I have a number of PDFs that have opening pages as i, ii, or A, B etc, but I don't seem to be able to recreate it myself. Currently my doc exports as pages 1-291 regardless of what the section manager says. Any ideas? Thanks!

Hi folks, I hope you don't mind me hijacking this thread, given that I have exactly the same issue! I've been through the process above step by step and come to the same output: trying to export with bookmarks kills the export (though hyperlinks are all okay!) - here is my pdflib file. Does anyone have any insight into what's going off before I file this over to support? Thanks! PDFLib.log

My settings mirror those shown here. It is continuing to do it today as well... Effectively, pressing any of the 4 direction arrows just adds a space (as though I've pressed the space bar). Additionally, the delete button will not work and cannot delete the spaces that have been added (I need to undo instead). I'm needed to regularly close and reopen the doc to undo it. It seems to start happening after I have change an element, such as a text style or inserted an image. EDIT! - This behaviour begins to occur after I edit a table - my document contains a number of tables that I imported from InDesign (this started as an idml file). Between InDesign and Publisher, some elements of the table design changed, most notably, the bottom line of the table, which is a row of small diamonds, as opposed to an actual line. The shape and size of these had distorted. After playing around, to bring them back in line with the original design, I need to select the bottom line of the table and change the size to 6.5pt (from 5) and click the 'Scale with object' from the cell stroke menu. This makes the table look lovely, but also triggers the odd behaviour with my direction keys and disables my delete/backspace button!!? Image attached of the 2 settings I change. Surely this is a glitch or something odd? Again, once this keyboard behaviour occurs, I have to close and reopen the document to resolve it. EDIT TO MY EDIT - Doing ANY table editing causes the off behaviour with the arrow keys and backspace button to occur.