MikeTO

Do you have Positioning > Note Position set to End of Story? If so, there won't be any brackets around the endnotes, they'll appear at the end of the story similar to footnotes. if you change it to Shared Document Frame (the default value) or one of the other options then they'll have brackets around them. If Note Position is not set to End of Story and you don't have brackets around them, then all of the notes are broken. You'll find a detailed explanation of notes and lots of tips in the Reference section of the free Publisher manual I've shared in the forum - the link is below in my signature. It is really easy to break endnotes. For example, let's say you start typing an endnote and then think better of what you've typed, press Cmd/Ctrl+A to select all of the note text, and then start typing a new version of it. That will break the endnote. Or if you click the cursor at the end of the endnote to append some more text, Publisher will position the text cursor outside of the bracket and that's where your text will appear - if you don't have Show Notes on you'd never know you're breaking your notes. The biggest tip is to keep Show Notes and Highlight Fields on and as soon as you see that've broken something, choose Undo. Good luck.

A couple of tips: Work with Highlight Fields selected - this will add shading behind note markers making them easier to find Work with Show Note Marks selected - this will add brackets around each endnote - with this selected, review all of the endnote text - do any of the notes have text that is outside of the brackets? Are any of the endnote brackets shown as broken? If you were working with this setting off, it's possible that an endnote has become broken, something that is rather easy to do

The "Standard Ligatures" feature is an OpenType feature so Affinity can't control which ligatures are included in the set. There three most common ligature sets you will come across are "Standard Ligatures", "Discretionary Ligatures", and "Historical Ligatures". Standard - includes the most common ligature glyphs - this feature is in many fonts and is on by default Discretionary - includes less common ligature glyphs, some for special effects - this feature is in some fonts and is off by default Historical - includes ligature glyphs that aren't popular now but are useful for mirroring period typography - this feature is uncommon and is off by default

Hi, I believe this is a known issue with the New Document dialog. You shouldn't have to do this, but you have to press Tab after typing the height for it to be accepted.

Click the Section Manager icon in the Pages panel or choose Window > Section Manager. Click the Add Section icon Change Start On Page to the number of the page on which you want to reset page numbering to 1 Select Restart Page Numbering At and set it to 1 Cheers

You have to use sections to restart page numbering in Publisher. It's really easy. You can use a numbered list as suggested above but that seems like more work than just creating a section. Click the Section Manager icon in the Pages panel or choose Window > Section Manager. Click the Add Section icon Change Start On Page to 7 and select Restart Page Numbering At which will default it to 1 That's all there is to it. There's more information for advanced use cases in the free Publisher manual I've shared in this forum.

Do you have View > Show Toolbar and View > Show Context Bar selected?

Hi @Stedicam and welcome to the forums. Are you using macOS, Windows, or iPad, and which version of the operating system? Are you using Affinity 2.3.0? Can you share a crash report? Information on how to do so is here:

Publisher will crash if you cut or copy and paste an index reference for an index topic that has a cross-reference. In this text document, place the cursor at the start of the frame and Shift + Right Arrow to select the single index reference mark for Apples which has a cross-reference to Fruit. Choose Copy or Cut and then choose Paste to crash it. test.afpub This isn't beta specific although this crash report is from the beta. Affinity Publisher 2 Beta-2023-12-22-191947.ips

I've suggested this, too, and I believe others have as well, but the most requests for this feature the better. We definitely need to be able to see in the panel which index references have style override set and we need a way to change that setting without having to delete the reference mark. Style override didn't work reliably until earlier this year so not many of us have made use of it - I still need to go back and add it to my history book now that it's working. While it would be helpful for books that have clearcut primary and secondary references, my books don't have that hierarchy so if it were to hide cross-referenced topics that would need to be an option. I have a bigger suggestion that I've been noodling on. I miss the features that apps had before the current crop of apps simplified indexing. In the old days we could add a single reference marker that would be indexed under multiple topics at once. IIRC, it worked like this: "Apples" <<< to index Apples under Apples "Fruit" : "Apples" <<< to index Apples under Fruit "Apples" ; "Fruit" : "Apples" <<< to index Apples under Apples and Fruit at the same time Few people understood it so the UI designs we have now are much better, but in the process we lost the ability for reference markers to point to multiple topics. I think there's a way this could be done without making the UI too complex. There's one page in my history book where I added five or six index reference marks at the same position - I'd rather they be a single reference.

My apologies, I forgot about that feature. I'm unable to open your file or add pages from it to another document. I searched the forums and couldn't find a similar report of problems. I don't know if this file will be recoverable. Sorry.

Unfortunately, the footnote frame disappearing is a well-known bug that has existed since the first release of 2.0. You have to diligently check your document for invisible footnotes or sidenotes before you publish. It's a bit easier with sidenotes because you can sometimes make them reappear with a few extra blank lines at the end, but you're out of luck with an invisible footnote, there is no easy way to fix them. I hope this bug will be fixed soon. AFAIK, the footnotes changing to endnotes without intervention has not been previously reported. I'm able to reproduce it with your steps and test document. I can also reproduce it with your steps by creating a new para style rather than editing an existing one. I wasn't able to reproduce it with my own document but that's not important. Cheers

Hi @uvanduinen and welcome to the forums. What do you mean by "collect"? That's not an Affinity term so I'm unsure what steps you were following. Can you explain in more detail? When you say the file is corrupted, what error message are you getting?

Try also choosing Window > Zoom. If that doesn't work, start Affinity while holding down Ctrl (press and hold immediately after clicking the app icon). Select only "reset document and window states" and then click Clear. Good luck

The same problem occurs with an embedded PSD in 2.3 and that bug has already been fixed for 2.4 so hopefully it will be fixed for SVG, too.

No, and there's no way to split a story (the text in a series of linked frames). I recommend archiving your project as it stands now as an afpub file and also as a PDF. The text in the PDF will be independent of course. Even if you could do it, unlinking all the frames could change the document's appearance. For example, if the text was justified left then the last line of a page that had a paragraph broken over two pages would not be aligned right with the line above it. If you opened the document any hyphenated words at the end of a page would be flagged as spelling errors at the end of that page and the start of the next page.

Hi @mag85 and welcome to the forums. This is a known issue but is easy to fix. Just choose Window > Zoom (Finestra > Zoom).

This forum allows you to add a signature that is automatically appended to every post or reply you make. I reply to a lot of questions here so I've added the link for the free Publisher manual I've written to my signature so I don't have to keep copying the link into replies. But since you asked, you might find the text chapter of interest because Affinity is a unified suite and the text section of the manual applies to Designer, too. The manual doesn't have any information on drawing shapes for wireframes though. Cheers, Mike

You could use any of them but I think Designer is the most suitable tool for creating wireframes.

As Thomaso wrote, ensure Ignore Baseline Grid is deselected in the Text Frame panel but also that Use Independent Baseline Grid is deselected. And in the Paragraph panel for all of the text, ensure that Align to Baseline Grid is selected.

I can't duplicate that, and I also tried it with Reopen documents at startup in case it was that. Sorry, I don't know what else to suggest. But perhaps somebody else will know.

H, this is a known bug in 2.3 which has already been fixed for 2.4 which will enter beta soon. The only workaround for now is to quit the application and restart it. The alternative is to avoid using floating windows until 2.4.

I believe this was a known issue in v1 that was fixed in v2. However, I can't recall how to trigger the bug. I don't think there was an easy workaround. You should upgrade to the latest version, 1.10.8, but that won't fix this problem. If your computer is able to run v2 you should consider upgrading to that. You can download a free 30-day trial to see if that resolves the issue for you. Note that documents saved from v2 cannot be opened in v1. Cheers

If it's just the afbook file that is corrupted then you have lost very little other than the book name and a few settings such as Stray Pages. Just create a new Book and add the same chapter files to it.

If you select a text range such as "Christmas and New Year's" in Word before choosing Mark Entry, the index mark will be added after the text range. This isn't ideal "Christmas and" is on page 17 but "New Year's" broke onto page 18, the index would state 18 instead of 17. MS Word has a page range feature but that requires creating a book mark and perhaps you don't want a page range. The solution in Word for a index mark on a single page is to position the text cursor before the word you want to index rather than selecting the word or phrase. Publisher works the opposite way and positions the index mark before the selected text range, which IMO is a more logical approach. But once the index mark is inserted, it's just a marker and an index in Publisher will show whatever page the mark falls on. I tried testing what you reported, positioning index marks at the end of a paragraph immediately before the paragraph break. I tried it with multiple paragraphs and with ones immediately before the end of a frame. No matter what I tried it worked fine. So could you please share a test file that illustrates the problem? Cheers