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I have a 108 page image-heavy document. When I open it in Publisher 2.6.2, running on Windows 11, I am alerted to two linked files which need to be updated. When I open Resource Manager, the entire computer hangs and all I can do is switch off the power and start again. I decided to ignore the outdated files and proceeded to export a print quality PDF. It got about two-thirds of the way through and then crashed. After this happened twice, I just exported the first 54 pages but, doing the second 54, it crashed again. I then exported the next 27 and the final 27 and stitched the three PDFs back together in my PDF program (Kofax). I then tried to fix the linked images by splitting the afpub into two documents but Resource Manager still caused the app to hang. The Publisher file for the complete book is 9.184 megabytes and the complete PDF is 498.422 megabytes. The split files are about 4 and 5 megabytes.

MikeTO Thank you very much for the import tips. Grouping lines fixes that problem. The separate frames can then be linked so that text can flow freely. There's still work to do -- for example, captions above the text were included in the text but these cut be cut out and repasted in the correct position. If I'd known that at the time, I could have re-created the document fairly quickly. The editable text option didn't fix the errant characters problem which is what makes me think Publisher is "reading" the text, not finding the actual text. (I don't know enough about what happens under the hood when a PDF is written.) I used Find and Replace to correct the errors. A bit tedious but at least it recovers the document. DuncanL Thank you for the offer. I will have to go back into the job folder to find the problematic documents. In the interests of getting the job done, I didn't stop to write down a log of all the problems.

MikeTO, thank you for the reply. For some reason, I did not see your response of 28 November. That's why I started again. I have Windows 11 Home which, they tell me, automatically updates drivers -- the last update was just a few days ago. Screen shots attached. The problems I have with opening a PDF in Publisher are (1) some letters not recognised ("ti" replaced with A tilde, "tt" with J circumflex") and (2) each line being separate (ie, no word wrap) -- an edit which changes the length by more than a few characters means you have the change the next line, and then the line after that, and so on. It didn't offer a very effective solution when I couldn't edit the original Publisher document which I used to create the PDF.

I am trying to compile previously published works into a new document but, so far this morning, Publisher has crashed ten times in half hour as I tried to select text or images from the old documents and paste them into the new. I started to encounter this highly irritating problem a few months ago and posted comments in a forum I found "Publisher 2.4.2 Keeps Crashing! SUPER ANNOYING! Can't get my work done." The only advice then was to turn off the hardware acceleration. I shared my experience and posted a couple of crash reports but nobody responded. Now, with the very latest version of Publisher, I am faced with the same issues. In a couple of cases, the program crashes before the file opens. Something has to be causing it. Can anybody help?

Anyone out there?

Here I am nearly two weeks later with annoying crashes persisting. Some documents are okay but some crash when I touch anything and a few just crash as soon as they open. I keep getting presented with Recovery files. What's going on? Help! The publishing deadline was yesterday -- here's a list of the crash reports I had to deal with. In some cases, my only option was the edit the PDF because I couldn't open or use the original AP file and that brought up another problem -- it appears that "opening" a PDF means that AP "reads" the PDF with OCR so that words containing, for example, "ti" or "ft" are seen as a new character and have to be found and replaced manually (although Find and Replace seems to work). This is a 480 page document and, to produce it, I had to break it up into smaller sections every time I encountered a crash problem, resulting in a nightmare of file management! This experience has shaken my confidence in AP, especially given the fact that I have had no response to this post.

Here I am nearly two weeks later with annoying crashes persisting. Some documents are okay but some crash when I touch anything and a few just crash as soon as they open. I keep getting presented with Recovery files. What's going on? Help!

Using 2.5.5. I am revising documents created two years ago. There are a couple of documents which cause crashes whenever I touch anything with the selection tool. Obviously revisions are impossible. I have a publishing deadline! The only suggested solution I have seen recently is to turn off hardware acceleration -- which has no effect. I attach the most recent crash report. 1bbcb8b3-54df-4a1d-b9fc-465aa7483f4c.dmp

I agree with that -- merci encore

Mille fois merci Click on the file name -- Recettes demo.pdf -- and voila! I was trying to choose pages from the drop-down list (Page 1, Page 2, etc)

I am placing a series of PDFs into a larger document using the Place command. Once I place the first page of the PDF, the Place panel disappears and I have to go through the "choose Place, find the source document, open the drop down menu to select the next page in the PDF, and place it" process again. How do I keep the Place panel open so that I can work my way through all the pages of the PDF that I want to use?

I've been working on another document which, until this morning, was perfectly well behaved. I then started to add text frames and my earlier problem of microscopic (1.6 pt) text recurred. When I selected the text it had "No Style" and, as soon as I tried to apply the correct style, the app crashed!

I've just reopened a V2 file (call it Doc 3) to add new material to it and once again have the problem of the app crashing when I try to do something with any item on the page. I tried several other old files (Doc 1 and Doc 2), originally created in V1 a couple of years ago, but was getting nowhere. When I started working on Doc 3, I thought I was getting somewhere. I could change from one page to another, edit the master, edit some text, resize an image and its caption, and had started to copy and paste new text into the text frames already on the page when it crashed again. I am using V2.5.3 on a laptop with a AMD Ryzen 5 5600H processor running Windows 11. I looked for a crash report but there was nothing recorded. I'm also working on several other files without any issues. Could there be something inherited from V1?

Even better! Thank you MikeTO

This is indeed a useful feature, especially the fact that is preserves formatting such as italics. However, I don't want to call this section "Endnotes" but there doesn't seem to be anyway of editing the heading or changing its format.