[Locking content to margins in Publisher]

Thank you for this input. I fear that I did not make myself clear. however, (or am missing the point entirely). 

Snapping an object. like an image or a text box, to a guide seems to me to be a step in the initial page composition - and that works perfectly for me, using a master. To allow for binding, though, the inner margin is larger and this is also OK so long as right and left pages do not change. If an extra page is inserted after, say, 15 (of 100), all subsequent pages have the image which was snapped to the guide at the inner margin, in the wrong position. I foresee having to nudge eighty five pages in or out by 5mm to restore the correct wider space at the centre of each two-page spread. If I understand your response correctly, items can be snapped to guides, placed on the master's margins, at the time of page layout. I was hoping that there was a procedure to preserve the snapping to the guide, even after the left and right pages are transposed (e.g. when a new page is inserted Lock to margin guide.afpub). I imagine that this happens occasionally, even when print jobs are well-planned.

Thank you again for your patience.

Norman Taylor

Because this may all sound complicated, I have tried to explain my concern in a demo file attached.

[Locking content to margins in Publisher]

I am a rather new user of Publisher. I have watched many of the video tutorials, read the Workbook and scanned the Help manual. However, I have not yet found the answer to a problem I see ahead.

My reason for getting into Publisher is that I have to produce a one hundred page collection of two- to five-page articles for printing eventually by a commercial printer. The layout issues have all gone pretty well but I am worried that, inevitably, after the page sequence is set up, there will be a need to insert an additional page or pages, which I can obviously do. I have set the page margins to 25mm, except for the inner margin, which is 30mm. Is it possible to lock content like text boxes and images to the margins, so that they re-align properly whether the page is left or right? I would obviously prefer not to have to move the content page by page by hand or by applying, manually, a separate master page.

My thanks in advance for sharing your experience.

Norman Taylor

[cannot save file in 1.10.0 after working all night ?!]

I have exactly the same problem. I am using Windows 10 on a Surface laptop and after several hours of editing a previously saved file, I attempted to save the work. The message reported that it is unable to save the file due to an internal error and advises to contact the Development Team! Neither Save nor Save as works, but I could export to .pdf (although this only served to remind of the time wasted getting there.) The problem exists whether saving to the onboard memory or to an external SSD. File Explorer shows the 'saved' file with 0 content and, not surprisingly, this opens with a message the the .afpub file type is not supported.

This is not just an irritating glitsch - it means that the programme is unusable, even though work must go on. We need an urgent fix, please.

[Text is clipped in Publisher]

Thank you, Alfred, for this prompt response. It is reassuring that I have stumbled on the best way of dealing with the problem. I should have liked, though, to be able to check progress without having to go out of Publisher and save to .pdf every time. But so be it!

I know absolutely nothing about 'font metrics', but suppose that, in this case, it boils down to what the software expects in terms of y-axis dimension of a descender related to the x-axis, for any given point size. I could understand the software setting limits on this and ignoring values outside the expected range. This is apparently not what  happens though. Publisher retains the out-of-range data and only abandons it in the print routine. The original data is preserved throughout processing and it can be accessed in the .pdf in the desired form. It would be nice if Publisher, like Photoshop, allowed printing, in the native programme, of the data which it has held on to.

Thank you again.

[Text is clipped in Publisher]

I am using Publisher on Windows to produce an 80 page Anthology and wish to use the font Kristopher for the cover and for page titles. I have .otf installed. The screen appearance is fine but when printed the descenders like g and y are clipped off square. This also happens in Corel Draw and Adobe Illustrator, but not Photoshop or when printed from an exported .pdf file. (see example attached). The problem does not seem to be associated with font size or leading.  Any thoughts or, better, solutions, would be very welcome and much appreciated.Kristopher font.pdf