Gianni Becattini

I have a document with two facing pages. I am trying to force a section to start on the number 2 in the left page. I use the Section Manager and it should work, but it continues to force that left page to "3". I wish: Section 1: page 1 and 2 Section 2: page 2 and 3 Is this impossible? Thanks

It works, thanks!

I tried, but it does not appear.... The right set of controls remains stuck to the margin.

Table cell margins have 4 controls for top/bottom/right/left. But they are linked (increasing one = increasing all). Ho can they be separately changed? Thanks

Congratulations, Walt, you won! Almost every chapter developed a second section with "start from page" option. Don't ask me why, certainly I didn't create them. But having removed them, things seem again in the right direction. By the way, I believe I find often chapters which changed from "continue numbering" to "start from". But the important is that I am again in the race... thanks!

They are crazy and change. For example, I noted this strange situation on the fourth file after Update Page Numbers (the numbers start even and finish even - impossible!) It was enough to open the file, and they immediately changed:

This is the window of Apub. Note the page numbers: 427, 428 (not shown), 429, 430: This is the produced pdf file. Note that we jump to 437 without any visible reason. This seems to happen without a logic. Page numbers seem to jump backward and forward, even from an export to another. Is it my fault or a bug?

Mhhhh... I am sure that "something" remains in the text frame... I lost too time on this point and now I must recover, but when I can I will make a video. Thanks for the advice for anchors, I will follow it!

NEWS: today I had a long fight with the cross-references. Now that I fixed it (see the long thread), at least on book does not crash anymore. Maybe the problems are linked together? I will be back if I have new problems. Thanks

See in attachment the performance settings (that with more RAM is the iMac i9). Next I post the crash report. For the color profile, could you please tell me how to check?

In addition: if you clear the target style and then apply it again nothing changes (KO) if you just delete not the text frame but just the text and then you type it in again, it often works OK the CR naming behavior is very strange; see the attachment. Sometimes it include the text after the dash, other times it doesn't - the naming seems to be connected with the problem. If you get a wrong name, it is a sign that something will go wrong. In my cases, it got often the name of another CR. I tried also to delete the pointed text AND the CR. Often, when you try to re-create a new one, the old name is retained even if you change completely the text. In other words, it seems that when you create the CR, some hidden info is retained in the pointed text frame, where probably the problem is. another bad sign is when you get no chapter number in the table in conclusion, to be safe, when you have problems like these, it is better to delete the destination text frame and create it again. In this way I never had problems again (until now 😁). I have verified more times what I said.

The item pointed by the cross reference is inside a text frame, containing just a title in style Main Section Title. I delete the text frame, create a new one (identical) and then I can create a new working cross reference.

I believe I found something... I created a new file with just my TOC: same problem I added a true TOC: it worked OK Eventually I discovered that the wrong information is in the referenced paragraph (Main Section Title in my case). Deleting them and creating new ones, the cross-references return to work. But why have they got damaged? And why the "true-TOC" can see them correctly? A reference should be a reference....

Some information, don't know how useful. I created a brand new book (by the way: it is very annoying that as default APub sets "start from page number" for each chapter instead of "continue numbering". I could not find a way to set them all, you must go along with each of them). I did not add the "500-Series" chapter, but... even destroying all the references and creating new ones, again appears always the "500-Series" cross reference. So the wrong information must be stored in the other chapters. Perhaps the first one with my pseudo-TOC?

So now the only way is to create them manually?

I normally open them from the book panel. I made other tests, also deleting all the C-Rs... but no change, it takes always the same point.

I tried also with the other C-Rs. Whatever I do, (also with the other C-Rs) I get only and always page 500-Series/page 12 and not what it should. So, for what I see, it is that not only I lost the links, but it seems impossible to recreate them. No problem uploading all you want...

In (1) you can see the current situation. On the left you see the book and in the page there is something like a hand-crafted TOC. On the left, you can see the C-R list. Until yesterday, they were all OK. Now the ? says that they cannot be found. I already noted that the Name is often wrong, but the page number is however OK. In (2) you see the target page (the paragraph "The 300-Series" in Main Section Title style: In (4) I open the C-R in Edit In (5) I deleted the C-R and try to build a new one, like it was before. Surprise! The new C-R says "Page 12" instead of "Page 96", as it was expected, and also the C-R name is wrong (both are from another chapter, that in addition is currently closed). Or I made another mistake inside my mistake, or it is another bug inside a bug, I believe... (not ironic, really asking). I add another post following this....

Thank for replying, this point is very important for me, because I am fearing that also the iMac could fail... I am abroad for work, when back I check everything and come back. Thanks again

I have two rather complex books that systematically crash when exporting on MacBook Pro M2, 16G RAM) and systematically succeed when exporting on i9iMac i9, 64G RAM; same operating system, up-to-date, no other big difference in configuration or installed programs. Is possible to do something?

My APub book often lose the cross-references, and I am forced to rebuild them. Just another bug or may I be wrong in something?

Thanks, but having many different pages with many text layers it would be unpractical to add a layer only for this. Perhaps I could have relied more on master pages, but, on the contrary, today I am removing them, which created more problems to me than solved (probably because I misused them, but not only, I believe). Thanks however.

Always very kind as always, Walt, and thank for the answer. So APub, since now!

One of the most annoying features of AP is the color used to enhance the found text in a search (or in preflight), that results about invisible. Is it possible to change it to a light color, e.g., a nice well-visible yellow? Thanks

Yesterday was terrible for me and for more than 40 times I had to kill the stuck Affinity Publisher (mainly when I synced settings or cross references across a book). But I strongly believe that this time AP is only partially guilty, or completely innocent. The Public Danger N.1 is, in this case iCloud Drive. First: it made a sync error that I am not able to explain. I closed my work at office, switched my home computer on, waited to be sure that the sync was completed and noted some strange behaviour in the file dates/times. I checked tho other computer, noting that it had not finished the sync. I waited, and I could see the new files to be synced to the old date. 6 work hours lost. I am sure I made no mistakes (no save) but it happened. However, I think it is only a sporadic event, and this is not my caveat here. Second: I could understand that, when you have less free space on your HD (120G in my case), iCloud starts to "optimise" a lot of files, removing them from the disk and leaving them in the cloud. It should do that with files that are not accessed since long time, but it is not so (at least in Sonoma). So AP tries to download a file that it needs and waits... if the files are many and large, you think it is stuck and you kill it. Maybe that all is working perfectly, then iCloud changes the situation under its feet, and, a little later, what before was going well is stuck now. I could prove it in almost two cases. You can inhibit this behaviour switching off the iCloud Drive optimisation, but in this way you loose the possibility to remove the download for the folders that you want to keep only on iCloud. I appreciated very much the new suggestive animated backgrounds... and also the new merry emoticons in the latest version of MacOS.... but from time to time they should also try to fix the old pitfalls of a service that you, in addition, pay each month for, and which always used to generate troubles since many years. All that to warn other unlucky users or to be warned if my conclusions were wrong.