MikeTO

Hi Jim and welcome to the forums. For a layout design focused book, the official Affinity Publisher Workbook can't be beat, it's gorgeous. It hasn't been updated for v2 but it's still relevant enough. You can't buy it now from Serif but you should be able to find it on Amazon or a similar site. For details on how to use Publisher, I've shared a free PDF manual which you can download from this forum using the link in my signature below. Cheers

@Ben M I can't speak for how these should work on Windows but all of these are the macOS standard so perhaps Affinity for Windows needs to be tweaked.

Click in any TOC entry that includes the tab With the Text Styles panel, click the menu icon to the right of the style name and choose Edit <style name> Click Tab Stops in the left pane and then click the + icon to add a tab stop - set it to the width you want Click OK Cheers

I'm seeing the same thing. The Pages field used to default to the page number of the current spread but now it defaults to a range that matches the length of the document. For example, if there are 100 pages, the field will default to 1-100. This probably happened in 2.6.0 when pages were changed for the new spread feature.

My best guess is that this is an iCloud issue. Affinity checks all the images at startup and if iCloud or your internet glitches then it could lead to an issue. Could you try moving the image folder out of iCloud and then opening the document (and relinking the images)?

Another possibility is that the two computers don't have the same version of the font. Package it on macOS. Select the font in the package and choose Get Info and note the version number. Package it on Windows. Select the font in the package and I think you go to Settings > Personalization > Fonts, find the font, and then you'll se the version. Is it the same? Another possibility is the hyphenation dictionary. Is it hyphenated and what languages are Character panel > Language > Spelling and Hyphenation set to? If Spelling = English UK or US* and Hyphenation is set to Auto, hyphenation will use the language set for Spelling. If Spelling = English Canada or Australia, then hyphenation should default to English US. Is there any chance you installed a custom hyphenation dictionary on either your Mac or PC? * on macO, English US appears as just English, not English US. It's an OS-level thing so Affinity can't change it. Good luck.

@carl123 If you delete a text frame or picture frame on the master page, it will delete the text and picture frames on document pages so you'll lose the text and photos you added on those pages.

@Luke Graybill For now the easiest workaround is: Using Document > Add Pages from File, add 1 page based on the revised master page from your master document - append the imported page to the end of the document. The revised master will be added along with the page. Delete the added page - the revised master will remain. Apply the revised master to all the pages as required. Delete the original master to avoid confusion.

The TOC is built from anchors and it just updates them all as part of updating the TOC. Yes, if you want to change the anchors manually, do that after updating the TOC and ignore the preflight warning. Good luck

This seems to be a bug with the interplay between Hyphenation and Optical Alignment. Turn off Optical Alignment, or remove optical alignment for hyphens, and the problem goes away.

You may wish to check my manual for global/running lists. It is tricky so I provided step-by-step instructions. You can download it free from this forum using the link in my signature. Cheers

Hi @Jaffa6 and welcome to the forums. Good suggestion. I wish we could rename the articles, too. What I do is create new articles which can be named and then drag these master layer frame articles into them.

Hi @Belleson and welcome to the forums. FYI you can number figures with a global list (running list). A numbering system just for figures would be easier but global lists work perfectly well.

Hi @Democritus and welcome to the forums. When you export a Book, the TOC is automatically updated unless you turn this off, and updating a TOC updates all the anchors associated with your headings. Go to the Books panel and deselect Update Numbers > Update Tables of Contents Before Output I don't believe you can disable the top-level bookmark for each chapter but I'm not 100% sure about that.

That's bundling the font with it but I highly suggest switching from default leading to exactly leading when working cross platform as Ken and I suggested.