Ray57

Hi MEB, so if I understand your feedback correctly it is "you are using it wrong"? Seriously? One needs to know more on how to tackle errors as he needs to know about how to use the program? - </sarcasm> The more I work with it the more it appears to me as a conglomerate of parts of code just glued together somehow... Coming from many years of QuarkExpress and then even more years of InDesign it gets more and more obvious that Publisher is a mess what stringency and intuitively is concerned. And what I find even worse is, many things I'm looking for, I can't even find in the manual... eg: where to edit the order of paragraph styles and how to define which paragraph style should come next (after a CR)... a hint is very much appreciated! Back to the Unicode mess. "Regarding the Toggle Unicode, I haven't been able to reproduce what you are describing. In your video above however it seems to be working as expected. Note you must place the cursor at the end of the unicode or select the whole unicode to turn it again in to regular text." um... the Unicode Character (in my case) causes a preflight error! - Publisher does not find this very character which obviously shouldn't be there at all, so why should I want to turn it into regular (?) text again? I mean it was placed by... accident/chance/mistake... and caused problems... And how to tackle the "missing dictionary for language..." ? No hint in the manual, it doesn't even find 'language' or 'dictionary' Ray

why did you then previously state that you don't get any preflight error? ("I do not get any Preflight errors...") The Missing Dictionary is nothing I worry about, although it is a bothering list because it tells all frames in which the same font(family) is used... And that's what I find clumsy as well, it should at least be intuitive and easy to be edited the moment one forgot to assign a dictionary... but yet it isn't... as in almost all functions of Publisher (and Photo and Designer)... this is pretty unpractical to my mind (and compared to other programs...) And WHY do you not stay with the real problem, the unwanted and hard to find special character which cause the problems?! Neither the missing dictionaries nor the overflowing text frame are the reason for the error message! And what about the weird habit of inserting further special character when clicking the <Toggle Unicode> button ? These are the real questions I want to be answered

Have you tried to print this document? Because that's what evokes the error on my side... and yes, Preflight is active! and NO, I don't use multiple monitors But your question concerning the "Preflight Active or not" alone makes me wonder... when I click <Open Preflight> in an error message, the very least I can expect is, that Publisher activates and opens it if it was set to active or not! I mean, we run Apple, not Windows BTW, I run it under MacOS 11.6.5 due to good reasons...

Topic moved to here. It may well happen that one inserts a special character without being aware of... this causing <Preflight Warning Your document has unresolved preflight errors> The <Open Preflight> does nothing but closing the popup menu When trying to find the culprit Publisher gives no help whatsoever for it obviously just shows the Font family... and interestingly it may show it as "OK". So no way of finding it in a long document. It is of help to toggle the visibility of Unicode Characters, which BTW is also not always working, here you need to select the text to find it... but it is somewhere in the wild... Toggling even inserts new additional characters as well. And even if you manage that, it is still a PITA because now you have to scroll through dozens of pages and hope to find the unwanted(?) character(s). Best Ray Publisher_SpecialCharsBug.mov Publisher_SpecialCharsBug2.mov Publisher_SpecialCharsBug.afpub

OK, but honesty, I couldn't care less about this information! And you totally miss the point! The point is, that Publisher neither shows the right frame nor does it show the origin of the problem! And due to that one is wasting a big lot of time in searching (and hopefully finding) the culprit which would be a lot easier if Publisher would work as expected (even you expected Publisher to show me the "evil character" which it doesn't! And BTW, I would be more than happy to find a short cut for <PageBreak> which I frequently make use of. It is clumsy and cumbersome and longwinded to always crawl in the 3rd nest of the text menu to select it. Thanks Ray

I seemingly should do this for as I now even deleted the frame and rewrote it.... Now it shows the next frame which I didn't change at all and it contains just the "page of Pages" information with the respective fields 😕 It seems, that Publisher creates some weird behavior over time... (and the way the relevant data is spread all over the place s just "clumsy" to say the least. I would like to find all important information in one place, especially all data which is Character Style and Paragraph Style is concerned... publisher does it a pretty weird way what I am concerned, you never find all information for as it is spread all over the place... 😕 Ha... I found the "unsupported Character" by chance... it was a blanc (!) after a tilde character... but this character was on a totally different place (somewhere in the text) and definitely NOT in the displayed frame! Enclosed please find the file with the relevant text I will now change o some other work, I probably will get back to you sometimes tomorrow Best Ray UnsupportedChars.afpub

sure View > Studio > Show Left Studio is ticked I already did all that, and I have all necessary parts open... the only "thing" which is "highlighted" is the frame... see screenshot

I already did that, but apart from seeing the selected frame it doesn't show anything at all (in the beginning it didn't even do that, means it didn't show the frame)

Hi Carl, I meanwhile could get rid of it... although it happened without me being aware of what I did exactly... But all f a sudden another bug(?) occurred... the moment I want to print a document it displays an preflight error... when I click <Open Preflight> nothing happens. A check of the Fonts shows "unsupported characters used" which is ridiculous because there are none... at least none which can be seen and none I entered willingly. Best Ray

Obviously this bug still exists (since 2019) and now it's 2022... How to get rid of these "locked" frames? - BTW I did nothing which could cause the frames to be "locked".... and no, they are not on the master page. BTW, it's not possible to draw a table in a text frame, you first need to draw it somewhere outside the frame and then place it in the text frame... ??? Why?!! Best Ray

Same here !!! and it's 2 years later and it obviously still exists 😕