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Many thanks for exploring the crashing. No problem about repairing the file, Walt's advice has allowed it to export properly and even better means I don't have to carefully cut images that go across spreads any more! Wondering how much more I don't know...

Thank you so much! I wasn't aware of the distinction between 'all pages' and 'all spreads' when exporting. Will use this from now on 😘 I'm still curious about the reason for crashing though... 🤔

Hello, I am also experiencing this problem with a specific document, a reduced sample of which is attached and still crashes. Over a year ago I created a 28 page template file for a monthly newsletter which I simply populate and 'save as' for each issue. I have to design it as facing pages, although the printer needs it as a PDF document in single pages for printing. It always has worked to switch from facing pages to single and export a PDF, however this month the document is continually crashing Publisher when I untick 'facing pages'. Recently I noticed the folio on page 3 had disappeared and it seems the master page with folio was somehow switched to an incorrect master without a folio, I therefore reapplied the correct master. After reading this thread I noticed there seemed to be two masters on the spread (which may be correct as the left page is a different master) but deleted one as a test, but the file still crashes when I attempt to switch from facing pages to single. I would really appreciate understanding what's happened and if the file is retrievable or if I need to remake it. Thanks in advance. ChiddinglyParishNews_TEST_2.afpub

I've been struggling with this problem too with my Epson XP 900 printer, didn't make any difference what the setting was and it happened in Word documents as well as Affinity. I contacted Epson and apparently it was due to using a "generic" driver (although it was Epson), I was given a link to a new driver which once installed prints documents correctly. 🙂

This foxed me too when I first started using Publisher, it is quite annoying as it requires selecting the drop-down arrow and clicking on "All documents" or "JPEG" in order to see image/other files. It does seem strange that there's an assumption when making up a page that you'd always draw a Picture Frame and then place the image, I often don't due to the type of work I'm doing, it adds an extra step to do this too. Not a fan of this kind of 'help'!

Me too please, it's such a pain having to change straight quotes by hand all the time!

Yep, just ran into the same problem. This is a common typographic style used in church orders of service so would be useful if it worked without all the fiddling which I can barely follow! Applied my own fiddle instead to stop the brain strain....!

I also didn't find this important detail looking through all the tiny boxes etc although I watched the otherwise very helpful Tutorial video in the Learn section, it isn't mentioned there. I resolved the problem from reading this post, so perhaps this detail could be added on to the video if it is ever edited?

Totally agree. I'd really like to be able to change the guide colours as well as the text and picture bounding box colour which I find much too bold and hard to differentiate from rules that keep articles separate in my newsletters - I'm constantly turning Preview on and off so I can see what's going on. Thank you!

Yes, me too. Although most of the border art in MS Publisher is pretty awful, it is a very useful, quick way to add interest to certain projects. Actually, I'd love the ability to create my own custom border designs - in Designer or Publisher - that automatically fit to a picture or frame at any size. Please?!

I agree this it is a necessary feature for Publisher to have non-printing. I'm working on a design that has to work around ring binder holes on an A4 sheet and they're just locked shapes that would print if I forget about them. A nice way of doing this in Inkscape is the ability to turn a shape into a guide which is then automatically non-printing. You can also 'release' guides to edit or move them. Perhaps this could work in Affinity.

Interesting, thanks. I feel for individuals who create fonts and need to make a living, but for fonts that have been around for many decades or even centuries it seems churlish for font founders not to make them freely available, at least for personal use. Fortunately the PDF Passthrough in the latest release of Publisher has worked perfectly. I'm trialling it for use with my church magazine which I've just started to edit and have now successfully placed a PDF ad in the document - thank you sooooooooo much Affinity! I'm a retired graphic designer only doing charity work now but as a former Quark Xpress user having to use Microsoft Publisher has been awful so this feature in addition to so many others in Affinity is a game changer for me.

This doesn't make sense though, the font can't be used to create new documents when it's in a PDF surely? I've encountered this problem trying to place a PDF of a logo and strapline in a newsletter, even though all the text has been converted to outline and the PDF shows no embedded fonts in the Properties list, and yet the text has reverted to the default sans serif face! This is totally crazy, even if it's on Adobe's part.