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rufus

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  1. Publisher does not have the facilities to construct a book in separate chapters, in the style of PagePlus. I just completed a book that contains over 500 pages and over 1000 images. Being a little nervous about running into capacity limits, I originally constructed it as 25 separate files, one per chapter. The original intent was to assemble the whole thing into a single file using Add Pages From File at the last minute, and generate the TOC and index. If that failed, I intended to generate TOC and index by hand, export each chapter to individual PDFs, and then combine the PDFs with Acrobat. It turned out that combining the chapter files using Add Pages From File worked fine, except for a bug that rendered some cells of some tables empty after their files were added. The resulting single file was quite manageable, to the extent that if I were to start another similarly-sized book project I would not bother using separate files. General performance of the software was very responsive, not at all sluggish. The only real issue with dealing with a file that big is that the scroll bars are too tiny to offer fine control. Just for the record as far as software performance goes, my book contained all linked images, and my machine is a PC with i5 quad processor and 16G of RAM. Overall I was very pleased with the software. It performed very well for this project. If the software had facilities to efficiently deal with a multi-file project I would definitely use them, but I did not find dealing with a single file to be much of an issue at all.
  2. Additional information: To be clear, the problem does not always show itself, but seems to mostly happen with top level topics and less often with sub topics. I was in the middle of indexing when I made the original posting here, and hoped to have additional information, but unfortunately I have finished indexing this book and don't have anything else to report on this bug. The workaround is a pain in the butt, but it is basically to add two topics of the forms "topic" and "topics", find all instances of each in the document, drag the latter into the former and then delete the latter topic.
  3. The following sequence is followed: - select and copy text in document, where the bound of the selected text does not fall on a word boundary ( like "high priority bug" selected out of "high priority bugs". - add topic (+), or select existing topic in topic list. - paste into topic name, OK. - select topic, find in document. It is generally the case that, if the topic is top level, that find in document will not locate the text. But sometimes it does, and I have no idea under what conditions. However, if the topic is a sub topic at any level, the text seems to be reliably located. Note that the text example given is a common indexing case - you generally want to index the singular form of a word or phrase, and expect that the plural form (with trailing 's') will be found as well.
  4. Publisher crashes regularly during indexing of a large (500p) book. It appears that most of these occur as a result of the following sequence: - select text in the document - click on add topic (+) - past text into topic name field and click on OK - right click on topic in topic list and select find in document It seems to crash with more regularity when the selected text string is longer than a couple of words. I can upload crash dumps.
  5. Correct. Oh, I did say "re-type" in my original post, sorry. Scrap that part. The current facility requires two clicks each to retrieve the last used search and replace strings. Just leaving those strings in place in their respective fields would require no clicks to retrieve them.
  6. I have 10 files loaded and need to do the same search and replace in all of them. As I go from loaded file to loaded file I have to re-type both the search and replace strings. Please retain search and replace strings. Also it would be very nice to be able to search and replace in all loaded files, without having to do each one individually.
  7. This is a minor annoyance, but when I export I am doing more than 20 files at a time. file->export->pdf->Area: always defaults to All spreads. Since I always want All pages, this has to be set for each invocation.
  8. Figure captions in my book make use of the field <Section Name> to identify the chapter number: "Figure 2-57" is really "Figure <Section Name>-57" There is no to search for this string. Using either: Figure 2 Figure <Section Name> yields no search results.
  9. Oops. Important detail, maybe. These are two page spreads, not single pages. So here are four pages total. otherwise all is as I originally posted.
  10. You have a three page document. Each page contains a single page size text frame. All text frames are linked in page order. Add a picture frame to page 2 and text will flow around it as expected. Add two picture frames to page 2 big enough to take up the whole page, and text will not flow around them.
  11. I work at higher magnification. A number of operations of the software reset magnification to base level as a side effect. Please fix this. The operations include: - adding or removing pages from the document; - navigating to a page in the document via double clicking on a page in the left hand pages display.
  12. I tend to work with the software running for weeks at a time, loading and unloading files as I work on them. After some amount of time, performance gets sluggish to the point where the software really can't be used. I close the program and invoke it again, and all is fine for a while but this will happen again in some number of days. it does not appear to be related to any particular file(s).
  13. I have independently verified everything h_d has written here. This is exactly what causes the problem and also the fix.
  14. OK, some more on this ... 1. If the image frame is selected (single click) the toolbar button Replace Image invokes a modal file selection dialog, which contains a radio button group {Embed Picture, Link Picture}. The selection always defaults to Embed Picture, even though File/Document Setup/Image Placement Policy is set to Prefer Linked. 2. If instead the image itself is selected (double click) the toolbar button Replace Image invokes the selection dialog with the radio button default selection set to whatever is the placement of the current image, ignoring File/Document Setup/Image Placement Policy. So, because Placement honors File/Document Setup/Image Placement Policy, I believe I am seeing in 1 an outright bug; and in 2 the manifestation of different placement and REplacement semantics. The bug of course should be fixed. If different placement and replacement semantics is intentional, that fact should probably be documented because it appears to be a source of confusion.
  15. Correct as far as I can tell. If I delete the image first and then place the new image it works fine. The file selection dialog associated with the place doesn't even have the {link, embed} menu. And when replacing the image, for me it does not *may* default incorrectly, it always defaults incorrectly. To your question. 1. Limitations of the asset library. The project is technical documentation. There are three standard photo sizes, three standard figure widths, each with their associated caption frames and credit frames. There are two standard placements for each of these, each with their text wrap settings. Prototypes for all of this are in the assets library. Finding what asset I'm looking for in a hierarchical text list it too tedious and time consuming. Asset location is quicker when an icon display is used, but the automatic icon generation facility is, simplistic. An icon of an empty image frame is invisible. So my image frames have color coded dummy images in them, which makes acquisition fast. But now I have an image which must be replaced for each asset dragged in. 2. Frame arrays. The smaller size photos are regularly grouped into frame arrays. All the permutations specified above in terms of caption and credit frames, placements, and text wrap settings apply, but in addition the arrays are of varying numbers of rows and columns. It is far quicker to copy an entire array from somewhere in the book and reuse it than it is to construct a new one from its component elements. Of course all possible permutations of the prototype arrays could be placed in the asset library, but persistent bugs that cause the product to crash and burn when (maybe) big things are dragged out of the asset library have shaped my usage as specified here. So the upshot is, I always end up replacing an existing image. Even with the Replace Image link/embed defaulting bug, it is quicker to work this way.
  16. I don't know about initially placing images Walt. In my workflow I am always replacing an image, usually via the toolbar Replace Image button.
  17. Sigh. Yes, I posted a feature request months ago about this issue. On the multi document book project I am currently working on I am about to add the 2000th image to the book, and I had to manually select link for every one of them even though preference for linked images has always been set. The good news (for me, and this project anyway) is I am running out of images that need to be inserted. 8-)
  18. This is a small thing but I would very much appreciate it if the nag dialog on startup when there is a new version available was not modal. Surely there is someplace that a visible notification of a new release could be placed that would not require user confirmation to get rid of it. I bring this up because 1.9.1.979 introduced more bugs than it fixed in my use of the product, so going forward I will want to hold off taking any new release until well after early adopters fully vet it and pronounce it stable enough for professional use. Since that could take some time the nag dialog just wastes my time. And oh BTW while I'm on the subject, backing out a release should be possible, unless of course there is a backwards compatibility file format issue, in which case that should be made explicit. Under some circumstances I'd be much more willing to be one of those early adopters if I knew I could (usually) back out an update.
  19. I do have an autosave file which reliably shows this behavior. I can email it to staff, but will not post it.
  20. In general an image frame asset dragged from Assets and dropped into the document results in that frame being on top of the base layer of the document. Sometimes though it ends up under the base layer. I have no idea under what conditions this happens. The workaround is to locate the frame in the layer manager, select it, and manually put it on top.
  21. Occasionally, dragging an image frame asset with enclosed image into the document results in a hung system as soon as the asset hits the edge of the document. Task manager reports 100% CPU utilization.
  22. This in 1.9.1.979 (hey, here's a thought - make version data in Help/About selectable, copyable). The file has 38 linked images, updated outside of AP. Opening the file, then resource manager, selecting all the images, and clicking Update, most of the images are pushed down in their frames, so that only a portion of the image is visible. The amount of dislocation varies from image to image. I can close the file, open, and try again and the behavior is perfectly repeatable. And BTW, what is the rational for disabling the resource manager update button following an update? What does it matter to AP if I duplicate an update? I can provide screen shot, maybe test case, but since these will contain proprietary information I will not post any of these. I will email to staff upon request.
  23. Files are always in local filesystem. It is possible that the issue is not that the files aren't being loaded but that the images on the screen are not always being updated. last week i found one of these with only the left half of the image was updated. Clicking on the image cleared that up.
  24. Selecting the text representing a vulgar fraction such as 1/4 or 27/32 and then from the pallet Character / Typography / Fractions will convert the selected text into an appropriately formatted vulgar fraction only if the text is 1/2 or 1/4.
  25. If I have a table on a page that is as wide as the text frame of the main text flow, an attempt to select a frame by left clicking on it that is located above the table on the page will result in the table being selected instead. If the target frame is located on the page below the table then it can be selected normally. Select via the layers pallet works fine. I have a minimal test case which I will email to staff on request.
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