David Battistella

Ok. It is on it's way, but I did a lot this AM to get the file laid out as it should look. So you might not discover the issues I was having. David

Here is the video that shows how Affinty moves existing text fields when the new master is being applied rather than placing the text/character from the master page. veird!.m4v

I think this is worth a try. One thing I noticed yesterday. Is that there is some weird stuff going on when swapping out master pages. The document has these master pages as spreads and not individual pages. A Chapter One Master page Page one Blank, A Double page spread with full text on each page A Successive chapter spread which is like the chapter one master page but with full page text on the verso page. A Master for front matter pages. I made it this one because at one point the body text and size chaged document wide and I need to use these master pages to reformat the document. I will try to upload a video with what is happening. David

That a screenshot of the master page. my experience is that sections, once created, are not as mailable to wholesale document changes as we might expect. i cant show you the 170 ish page document i am having the issues with but its not as straightforward as i expected and those pages do not update as expected.

I believe it also may have something to do with master pages no overwitint pervious master pages. lets say. page 9 has master page A applied and master page A has a section name. then i create masterpage B which is exactly as Mater page A minus the section name. master page be will sometimes not overwrite the Master page A elements if it sees common elements. perhaps this is more the problem than with the section manager. david

Hi Mike, Maybe this helps. Section name in a master page is not being "honoured" by sectino manager...

is there an elegant way to update the section manager. per this recent experience the last thing that should be done is the section manager. in the book I m laying out in publisher there have been some subtle last minute shifts that move a few pages around and affect the section manager. the problem is that section manager updates in a strange way and places content multiple times into the same text frame, or does not honor the formatting from the master pages. as an example to eliminate section names on chapter heading pages i created a new chapter heading master page without the section heading, but when i apply that master page it does not replace the content. or, when defining new page numbers section by section the master pages are not updated correctly? I often get the same text input three or four times as though the behaviour is to place but not replace what was in defined in the field already. Also, the section name input felid needs to be longer because the text that gets typed in there is what the section manger uses to create a TOC etc and the field is limited to only a limited characters. section manager plays an important role in book styling. The window needs an overhaul for both clarity and usability. david

Great thread. Very useful to know. Thanks!

I think you can use the Place command and then select the file, as you would a photo.

An eggsellent observation, i'm in agreement.

I guess there are two ways to go. When scaling, stay away from strokes. I am not sure strokes are scalable which is why we need the vector graphics. I've run into this problem before when designing with strokes, they need to be converted before scaling. We are so used to scaling items, but strokes don't tend to scale well. Also, Why not import the vector as layers right into publisher and extract the layer you need? David

Can I ask? What happens if you open designer from Publisher and create the stroke, I mean while changing persona's instead of copy pasting between apps?

Yes, hyphenation is rather important as Latin can often be set in a column view alongside a language like Italian or English, on a page, so in two column view Latin needs to be hyphenated as has been traditionally in old Missals, as one small example.

Banal, but I though the half line meant it was checked but then I realised there are three states to that checkbox, off, line and checked. Thanks to you and Walt and all who have chimed in on this thread, this is a great community and I am grateful for the assistance. David

I believe that this is what it is. It was a grey line not checked! David