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Will do. I've been replying instead of starting a new thread as I felt guilty creating new threads for such minor things.

@NathanC Here's another reference in v2 Help to the v1 Export dialog design: https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Clr/ClrProfiles.html?title=Colour management On the File menu, select Export and click More in the dialog. (Optional) Select a different ICC profile from the pop-up menu. Check Embed ICC profile Should be: On the File menu, select Export. (Optional) Select a different ICC profile from the pop-up menu. Check Embed profiles

To make it faster to replicate the index in Publisher: With the imported text version of your ID index, select each index topic one by one. Add an index topic for the selected text. Don't worry about the references (page numbers) yet. Once you're done you'll have all the topics created so you can delete the index text. Using the Index panel, right click each topic and choose Find in Document. Choose which ones you want to add references for. Use your old ID index as a guide, if you had 3 references for Oranges before then you'll know you should be looking for those same 3 references now, and will know the rough page number. A few references might be trickier to find. For example, if the old index had a reference for Oranges on a specific page which used only the word Orange without the "s", it wouldn't show up with Find in Document so you'd have to find it manually. But Find in Document will streamline this process for you.

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It should be in Text between Notes and TOC. I haven't seen that issue with it not remembering the most recent preset so perhaps that's a Windows issue.

The issue of clicking a search result and it not being visible in the document window - you need to scroll left or right to find it - is a known issue. It's obviously more of an issue with smaller screens.

Zooming in or out might fix it as Thomaso suggested. If that doesn't do it, try switching to the Move tool and back to Frame Text or vice versa. Or switch documents or applications. These types of actions tend to reset it. Also, it's helpful to have View > Show Text Flow enabled although it's not actually necessary.

This is really unimportant, I don't think many people are customizing filler text and if they do it's just for one language. But... Settings > Filler Text has a Language list just like AutoCorrect, Abbreviations, and Title Exceptions except it doesn't work the same way for English. Although a number of English variations are listed, they all do the same thing. i.e., setting custom filler text for English UK sets it for all variations of English and changing the Language from one English to another doesn't change what's displayed in the text field below or inserted via filler text. I assume the same Language list was just re-used rather than creating a shorter one specifically for filler text. Filler Text settings are also document-specific, they're not global settings like the rest of settings. This reminds me of the above/below for cross-references in the 2.1 beta that was briefly stored in Settings. If filler text is doc specific then maybe it shouldn't be in Settings either and instead be accessed via a command like Text > Filler Text > Edit... Also, you can edit the filler text without a document open but you can't Save as Default or Revert to Default which is odd since those set global settings. Help should also note that Save as Default, Revert to Default, and Factory Reset are all language specific. Thanks Screen Recording 2023-09-21 at 9.41.47 PM.mov

Hi, open the Layers panel and click on each of the text frames one by one - is the new text frame that you drew perhaps a child of another layer? There is also a bug in 2.2 with size handles not appearing but it's just a cosmetic glitch. Changes such as zooming in or out or switching to another app and back will clear it up. Cheers, Mike

Thanks but I did this for fun, not profit. I'd charge for it only if I ever write a full manual because then I'd have to write about the features that I have less interest in. Thanks, I've made the first and third changes for the next version. I'm going to leave the middle one as is (don't rename text styles for a TOC) because it's just a "don't do it" tip and I want the tips to be as short as possible. Thanks!!

Oh I see the bug now. If I set it correctly, save the chapters and the book, and then reopen the book and open both chapters, the first chapter is fine but chapter 2, section 2 won't start at 1. No matter what I do now, I can't change the starting page number of section 2 while the book is open. Archive 2.zip

In the Section Manager, ensure you press tab after typing 1 in the Restart page numbering field. The change will not be accepted until you press tab. Once you press it, section 2 in the left list should read "Pages 5-7 1-3". I tested it and couldn't duplicate your issue if I pressed tab. I've attached a test book and associated documents that show this working correctly. The book has 2 identical documents and each document has 7 pages divided into 2 sections, with the pages numbered 1-4 in the first section and 1-3 in the second section. Archive.zip Note that the Books panel's page numbers get a bit confusing when you have multiple sections in a chapter with different page numbers. The page numbers shown are the first and last page numbers of the chapter but they're relative numbers and not absolute. Typically it would show something like i-vi for the front matter chapter, 1-23 for the first chapter, 24-37 for the next chapter, etc. Publisher does the best it can - it shows the relative page number of the first page of the first section and the relative page number of the last page of the last section. There's not much else it can do. But for the test book I've uploaded it's a tiny bit confusing because you'd think looking at it that these chapters have 3 pages each when in reality that is page 1 of section 1 and page 3 of section 2.

Oh this is just part of the 'what has focus' issue. On macOS with a document in the app window: Double-click the word to select it - now it's blue Deselect the text Click in the Find field Search for the word - it's blue again Deselect the text Double-click the word to select it - it's blue again While it's selected Click in the Find field - now it's grey - this isn't unique to Find, Publisher changes the highlight to grey when another window has focus. This is by design. Search for another word - now that word is grey because the doc window still doesn't have focus If you were able to give the document window focus without deselecting the text, it would turn back to blue If you repeat this with a floated document window you'd be able to click on the doc window title bar to give it focus and then the grey text will change back to blue. It looks like the document names which were listed in the Window menu in previous versions are no longer listed there so you can't choose the doc name from the menu to give it focus.

There are no default Title Exceptions for any language except UK English, not even US English, so the Title Case feature doesn't work well for Americans. Perhaps the UK exceptions could be duplicated for US English? This isn't new, it was like this in 1.10, too.

I think we'd need to see the afpub and the linked pdf that seems to be causing the problem. If you aren't comfortable sharing it publicly, try to replicate the issue with a blank afpub file with the same linked pdf. Cheers

The issue might be with the linked PDF file then. Is it a file you're able to share here for testing? If not, please wait for Serif to reply. Good luck.

Very tiny. In the Windows version, the Abbreviations section of Settings is named Abbreviations but in macOS it's named Abbreviation without the "s". I believe it should be plural.

There's no change but there's a v2 thread where this has been discussed so it would be better to ask in it.

I believe they're not in the Document menu because the menus can act only on the document window and not on the selected item in a panel. It's the same reason you can choose New Book from File but Close Book isn't in the File menu. I'm not suggesting this couldn't be changed but I think it's the reason it works this way.

Hi and welcome to the forums. Unfortunately, this is a known bug with v2 that hasn't been fixed yet. Serif is aware of the issue and it's on their list to fix. Cheers

Tip: you can rename a master page directly in the Pages panel. Select the master page and then click its label to edit the name without opening Spread Properties. Press Return to accept the name change. Don't double-click.

The page you linked to provides the answer - just open the Console app, select Crash Reports in the left pane, select a crash report, and choose File > Reveal in Finder. As you appear to be using macOS, please choose Settings from the Affinity Publisher 2.2 menu. Click Performance on the left side. Turn off Hardware Acceleration > Enable Metal and change Display to OpenGL. This will require one or two restarts. After you've restarted try it again and see if it still crashes. If it does, please provide a crash report and describe what you were doing when it crashed. Good luck.

I think you're using Windows but I'm not seeing this on macOS - the highlighting for Find is and identical shade to selecting text.

Hi, an issue with this window was reported yesterday by another user - the new Previously View Page command is missing from this shortcuts list so Serif is already looking int this. What you're seeing is presumably a related issue.

Also please review this other post which shows a different set of options on Windows including Last/Next/Previous Master, commands that don't exist in the menu.