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Has it always been this way? Or this is something new? Can you give details on your computer, specs, age, etc? Is everything else on your computer running normally?

I wonder if the file is possibly corrupted after numerous crashes you had. Do you have a Time Machine backup that you can go back to and get the file before the crashes? Another option that is simple is uninstall the app and reinstall and see if the problem persists.

Can you open Publisher without a file, create a new blank document? Or does this loading process happen no matter what you are trying to do?

What Ian said is the same for Mac. First off, you do not "save" by clicking the X. This is how you close out the file you are working on. Developers made this safer as people would close out without saving. When you want to save do it safely and go File>Save. The rest just follow what IanSG has said.

What message do you get when trying to open a Publisher file in Publisher?

I had a blueprint with mark ups that they wanted printed come in yesterday. I could not even get them to show in Indesign, though I did not look long as my work around was export as a TIFF file from Acrobat which kept the markups. In all my years in print I think that might have been the first time anyone wanted the markups actually printed.

What would Affinity do with an Acrobat replacement right now? Publisher does handle placed PDF's well, no use of embedded fonts, it is unusable for me and many others who use PDF's from customers but do not need to change or edit them. Sure it would be nice for more competition for Adobe in this market, would be a great suite with Publisher, Designer, Photo, and PDF viewer/editor. I would not want them to go down that route though till they sorted out PDF issues with Publisher and really solidified their current line up. Not sure how they do it for the price they are selling everything for. I do wonder when the price increase will happen, guessing when they are ready for V2 release.

Yes the name is specific and required, upper and lower case. It is how the software sees and knows what it is to use for the cut line. Normal label for cut contours is "CutContour" without the quotes obviously. Did they specifically ask for the spot colour to be named "CutContour Through Cut"?

I agree with pretty much everyone in this thread, packaging is an important feature. I am anal about this with Indesign. I start the job with everything just loose in a folder but once it is approved I package the job. I now know I have fonts and all linked images in the document. No more hunting around for images and no unnecessary images saved. The packaged folder gets filed, everything else tossed in the trash. Not having this would drive me nuts if I were using Publisher professionally there are other things I would want before this, mainly the ability to place PDF's properly in a Publisher document without making it editable. It is still early days for Affinity and lots of great work, but Publisher has a long way to go before it will have me leave Indesign.

Why not just copy and paste the text right from Publisher into Word? Or are the text boxes not linked for flow? And out of curiosity, why are you going from Publisher to Word?

All I did was copy a paragraph of text from a PDF I made with InDesign, made a new document, and pasted the text perfectly. Can you go step by step what you did then others can try the same and see if it is repeatable.

You can definitely copy and paste from Illustrator into Indesign. For basic things this would be no problem but obviously the more complex the more issues you could have. I never do this though, I prefer linked working files opposed to embedded files. I did just try a simple vector file in Designer and copied and pasted it into Indesign. It is no longer editable as you said. I would think this is probably due to the fact that Indesign cannot work with Affinity files. Even a saved Designer file cannot be placed in Indesign. Why are you wanting to edit vector images right in Indesign?

Around 1.7 gigs is the the size of my Affinity apps. I looked at Indesign, the application folder is around 1.4 gigs so seems right in line. Do you have a Time Machine backup? If not, Mac OS will do it's own Time Machine backup using your hard drive, you can turn it off if you google the terminal command. One of the few things I hate about the Mac OS. I had my space dwindle down and could not figure it out till google gave me that answer. I cleared about 80 gigs by turning off the backup. Again this is running in the background and is supposed to free up space as you need it, when you do not have an external backup drive connected.

This general issue has been around since the original beta. If you do not need to edit the text in the PDF at all I would say best practice would be to outline all the fonts. If you have Acrobat Pro it is super simple. Sounds like you have had issues with this as you said yourself "Under Pub 1.7.3 I never had problem with PDF ads (although it tended to squash some of the fonts it couldn't read)." Squashing the fonts, changing them in any way is a deal breaker and why I do not use Publisher outside of trying things out, it is no replacement for Indesign yet. You may get around it with installed fonts this time, but any new PDF ad you get you are going to be fighting again with font issues. I would suggest (again if you do not need to edit the text) getting all the fonts outlined and then placing them in Publisher.

Why even bother trying to delete it? If you are not going to use it just stop using the forum.

These are issues that will come up with when trying to use 2 different applications. Affinity is made to work well with the other Affinity apps just as Adobe apps and files play well in the Adobe eco system. Affinity does handle files from Adobe but I would always say do so with caution.

SSD is one of the best upgrades you can do, makes a HUGE difference. I have done the upgrade to a few older Macs and it breathes new life into them. Processing does not change, but getting things open and going is amazing. My work iMac has 1 TB flash drive, can't imagine going back to a traditional drive, they are far too slow. You should not have to erase the original hard drive in the iMac as it is a separate boot, unless of course you were connected to it and trying to open applications from that hard drive rather then the new SSD. You could use it for storage where speed is not important when you do delete it. A bit backwards, your internal drive begins acting like traditional external drives.

I did my conversion with Indesign and then checked with Publisher, same conversion from RGB to CMYK.

For RGB 192,38,14 I find CMYK 17,98,100,8 to be closer and more in the family then your expected result of CMYK 0,80,93,25 - find it too orange. Are you trying to achieve matching colour for print and web use which is why you have RGB and CMYK? Seems like a real headache to be working with both RGB and CMYK.

How are you copying the text? I just tried with a PDF brochure I was setting up that had a lot of text. I selected the text in Acrobat DC, copied and pasted into a blank publisher document. All the text pasted in as you would expect in 1 text box. What PDF viewer are you using? Are you selecting the text or a text box in your PDF viewer and copying that?

Was this a clean install of the OS? You could simply try removing/uninstalling the Affinity apps and reinstalling them, let the installers place the programs where they want to go. Should be no issues running off an external drive. I use an app called "AppCleaner". It is a simple free little tool, you open it, then drag the application you want to delete into it and it pulls all the preference files and anything else related to the app and moves it to the trash. https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ Free and really handy.

You just want to do a tri-fold brochure? All you need is 2 - 11 x 8.5 pages in the document - front and back. I have attached a publisher file, it has guidelines where the folds are. Simply design knowing what the front cover is and what the inside is. If you are confused make yourself a physical dummy with a blank sheet of paper. Fold it like a tri-fold and you can clearly see where things go. I think you are really over thinking it. 2 guidelines for front, 2 for inside, design in those panels. Leave .125 bleed all the way around, keep important text and info away from fold lines and cut edge. Surprised your printer would have not given you a pdf template to place in Publisher so you can see the guide lines and what they require for this. tri fold brochure.afpub

Borders around the font is called an outline which you can make different colours and thicknesses, you can change font colours, you can do drop shadows among other things. Not sure if there is a basic how to guide out there or resources on this site, but sounds like you need it for the very basics. Is this your first time working with software like this? What have you used in the past if anything?

Yikes that is a lot of Red Eye. Hopefully someone can help you, that is a tedious yet simple fix. Never had to fix anywhere near that many pictures with Red Eye, but does Photoshop detect that really well? I would be concerned about the software not catching everything or changing something that was not red eye at all.

That is a peculiar assumption. I have said this before in this thread, I think data merge has to come after they fix Publishers horrible handling of PDF's. Many people will use a placed PDF and merge addresses on to them. This will be a nightmare as it is with Publisher trying to make PDF's editable and unable to use embedded fonts. That being said, not sure why this would be a deal breaker, the software is incredible cheap for what you get and I do think it is a good idea to play around with it, learn what it can and cannot do. By the time it is ready for the big leagues you will understand the applications and be much faster to migrate from Adobe.