Gianni Becattini

I hope I understand your request. In the picture n.3 the cursor is in the selected word (see this one, the red circled word).

Hi Walt, sorry for delay, honestly I forgot it. I post three pictures: 1) before TOC update 2) after TOC update 3) you can see that the style has been modified, but nevertheless the text did not change accordingly: the text is still indented even if the indent is set to zero. However, the "Update" key resets the things as they should.

Should it be useful for others, I noted that you can "tempt" iCloud Drive to synchronize by opening Photo. If you find that sync has been suspended, press "reactivate". Then double click the small round icon on the right of the iCloud Drive in the Finder window side list. I am not sure if this has a real scientific base or just the luck... but for me the luck is enough 😁... and in many cases it worked for me.

😁 can someone help me please? It is rather important for me and I am not able to find a workaround. Thanks

Maybe that I was not clear in my description. In two words, when you export the palette, the colours in the destination file are not changed. You need to double click every palette colour to make them effective.

Thanks, it's enough to know... 😁

It seems absolutely repetitive and replicable.

In Publisher and Photo (did not check Designer), when you move the gradient mid point, the mid point moves as expected. But if you reach 100%, the midpoint cursor disappears and you cannot recover it (or I cannot find a way to do it).

I created a palette with global colors. When I edit them in a chapter, all the items using in that color change accordingly (good). I synchronized the palette with other chapters, and I used them. Again, when I edit the palette in the chapter, all changes accordingly (good). When I change the palette in the master chapter and synchronize the palette in the other chapters, these palettes are modified accordingly (good). So I thought "wow, everything works!". But... even if the palette in the slave chapters change as expected, the items using the palette colors DON'T change (bad). To make them change, I must right click a color and select Edit Fill... When the miniwindow closes (without any change) all the items change as expected. This makes the feature almost unusable: I should every time edit each color to make them active. Did I miss some "update all" command? Thanks

By the way, I found very useful the book. I expected the typical book where you can find the most obvious things. On the contrary, it is really useful and well done!

Thanks for replying. It would very useful, also for search and replace text styles.

Is it possible or must I search each chapter separately? Thanks

I spent a couple of hours trying to understand something better. So I did: I deleted the TOC the file where the TOC is is very short; I cleaned it up as I could, leaving only few styles I created a new TOC. I was expecting that the default styles were related to the headers styles; I got something better, but that let me think that however something has not been cleared. E.g.: the heading styles were very big, while the TOC were about 12 the "problem" is simple and repetitive. When I change the TOC styles, sometime they are applied immediately, other times I need the magic button apart from that, the situation is however manageable I will post this evening the pictures you asked me

I believe not, because I had the Optimise flag already turned on, and the article says that the bug is only if off. Even not sure, in my opinion, they improved in some way the process, that, from time to time, sets all the disc content to "in the cloud" and then very quickly checks and update the real file status (local or clouded) accordingly. I don't know what triggers this event, maybe some incongruence they find, but until now it seems more an improvement than a problem. It could fix the old stuck condition "Uploading 0 byte of 34 Mbytes (or whatever)" with no progress. I can only suppose that mi problem with AP files was connected to an iCloud error condition, that, after this sanifying process, has been fixed. Surely I confirm what I said: impossibility to open AP files, precess triggered, problem solved -- obviously I cannot say if they are really related. Thanks for the information, I will update this post if I have news.

Thanks for the manual, I will study it. This is the screenshot. It seems that no special character is there.

Update. I suspect where the fault is. These days Apple updated MacOS. The most exciting news are new screen backgrounds and new emoticons.... But probably not all the girls and the boys who work there are brainless, and there is also some more concrete innovation inside. One, even if not declared (for what I know), is related to iCloud Drive. It seems that from time to time something happens that hangs on some file synchronization. They say "in this case disable and re-enable" iCloud Drive, but nobody does it because it takes almost two or three days to resync everything. In the new version, probably, when a problem arises, a complete scan of all the files starts automatically. All of them are marked as not present on the disk, but remain present on the disk and iCloud check them all saying that it is downloading them, but really they aren't (it is too fast). I can only imagine that is like disabling and re-enabling, a complete resync but without the physical file transfer. This morning I tried again and the AP file again didn't open. After ten minutes, the process I told you automatically started, and after some time all the AP file opened again normally, without actions by me. Now it works. Just for information, a single time I got the message "The file is in use by another application". So I restarted the Mac, but again the file did't want to open. That could explain also why the copy of the file worked normally. Don't ask me why the file could however be opened from inside the book, I don't know. But what I told you, apart from my comments, is what exactly happened. So, now all is OK, thanks for the prompt reply.

I understand I am abusing of your patience, but currently I am using Publisher twelve hours/day and you are my only beacon... Since yesterday, some files don't anymore open when I click on them (both on i9 and M2) (nothing happens). I already tried to restart the computers. The files open normally when I click them from inside a book. If I copy the file, the copy starts normally. I believe that this is a side effect of the many crashes but I don't know how to fix it. Any ideas? Thanks

I posted three images: 1, 2 and 3. Screen 1: the starting situation. A TOC has been generated. Screen 2: the TOC has been updated. The level 1 has been wrongly indented, disagreeing with the TOC style. Screen 3: if I change the level 2 indent, it works as expected (note the difference with the other screenshots). But for level 1 it does not work properly. You can see the style (already saved, believe me please), with the left indent set to zero, but the TOC does not changed accordingly, and so, whatever I do. To reset the situation, it is enough to select all the TOC and press the Update Styles button. However, with the button trick, all is OK. Maybe good to know for others.

Yes, sure. I will try to rebuild a demo fragment to demonstrate it. It will took me a while, but I do.

I am not sure that this is the right place to post this; forgive me if not. Even if much better than before, Publisher is still not very stable. Or better, for what I use, it is rather stable now, less than two situations: TOC generation book export (probably the two of them are connected). For a large part of my life, I used also to be a software developer, so I understand the problems of such a complex suite, but I ask a little modification that could greatly help us. REQUEST: please add an even simple logfile which could tell us which was the last chapter of the book processed before the crash. The crash dump says very little to us common users, and this forces to an endless "try and try" to understand the offending file (when you know it, you can start cutting pages until you find the problem zone). By the way: today I have a book that is always correctly exported on a iMac i9 that systematically crashes on a MacBookPro M2.

Thank you for replying, Walt. I believe I am doing correctly what you explained me. I try to mentally rebuild some of the incongruences I met. Example: I create a TO and try to edit the resulting TOC styles. I used the way you suggest (style editing) and also modifying the text style style on the screen and then "Update style"; it seems that the two methods should be equivalent (and seem to be); when I have a number of rows which have the same style (and no character style in addition), I imagined that changing the style, all the text with that style should change accordingly, and this is the normal behavior outside the TOC; inside the TOC, this does not happen. I change a style, and only the line where I am working changes. So, for example, the paragraph style "Subtitle" says font 15 and the text in the TOC does not change accordingly (I repeat: without any character style that could justify the override). in addition, when you update the TOC, you have unpredictable effects on the already existing TOC styles. With all that above, I was extremely confused (also for the almost continuous crashes). But then I discovered the magic "Reapply styles" button, which fixes the situation. Now, I update the TOC (and get the unpredictable results that I told before). Then I select all the lines of the TOC and press "Update styles" and the TOC returns to look as I would. In other words, it seems that inside the TOC, the defined styles don't work "automatically" but you need to force them with the magic button. This method has a limit: when I export the book, a new update is done automatically, and so you cannot press the button. But if I: update the TOC; apply the button; save the file The problem disappears; probably if the new update is like the former, no change in styles happen (or I don't know why.... but it works). I would like to see if there is something that I did not understand or it is just a bug for which I casually found a workaround.

I recently had a harsh discussion with Publisher for creating a TOC of a book. Apart from this part being still very unstable with continous crashes, I could not decode the logic of the way the stiles are created/updated by the TOC update process. I tried every way to create the styles as I would with no success (sometimes it worked, others the not) and I was even going to give-up and write it by hand when I discovered the small button "Update styles" shown in the attachment. Clicking on it, after the update, the styles return as I decided they had to be. But which is the logic beneath? And why must I press a button to do what normally happens? If there is a document explaining it, don't loose your time answering, I can try to read it. By the way, for your information, often searching the Internet I can find a topic from the help but it jumps just to a first page of an old 1.1 help, not to the specific topic. Thanks for any help

Thanks, Walt, in the future I will follow this suggestion.

I still edit these documents very often (one of them is going to be printed). If used the jpg format, I had to make about 3,000 exports (so many are the images), and then redo the process for every edit. Or there is a better way that I missed?

Thanks to you, I appreciate your help. By the way, with the last 2.2, Publisher has greatly improved, so I no longer regret having used it for my books instead of InDesign (that I have, however). The most critical point, for me, a small author more than a professional, was the lack of page references, so now I have almost all I want. Also the stability problems, if not disappeared, are no longer a continuous worry. My books are are rather big, with 8-10 chapters each and very many images; all of them are Affinity Photo files, often rather complex, no simple jpeg, for a total of more than 2,000 pages. That to say that if AP works for me ...it is a good test bench for Publisher. Thanks again for the help I find here, that is almost fifty percent of the Affinity products value.