Chris Sutton

Andreas - thank you. Good advice.  From all that I have seen so far in response to my question, I tend to agree with you.  Most responses seem to be coming from people whose use of Affinity for graphic design.  What I do is mainly text based for print books, with some photo enhancement.
I'm currently using a 2013 MacPro (current Big Sur) with backup on 2 external hard drives (one as an archive) and working files in One Drive. The Mac handles the load of a photograph heavy 200 page book easily. I'm only retiring the MacPro because it will be unsupported soon. Being unfamiliar with the Mini and not knowing how much faster the M2 is than the M1, I was looking for sensible comparisons.  
I think I have my answers now. the 8GB will be fine.  I started in the 1960s with an Apple IIe and clunky cardboard disks. When you have worked in DOS and in Windows from the first iterration, speed doesn't bother you. At 77 years of age I don't need to replace my tired old work horse with a rolls royce.  What we have today is pure luxury.   Thanks again.
Chris

Hi Will,
The Preferences screen has a selection for AutoCorrect.  Its default is Superscript Ordinals.  When this is on, if I change from Arial to another font, Body text treats all numbers next to an alpha character as a fraction when fractions are turned on.( I use fractions most of the time as I am working on a book for quilters and it uses half and quarter inches in the patterns.)  However, in this Beta version all numbers are superscripted.  It's a total pain. It doesn't happen in the production version Publisher 2.
 



 

Problem not resolved but is also happening, sporadically, when I replace an image.

Problem not resolved but is also happening, sporadically, when I replace an image.

I am having a similar problem with frequent crashes. I'm using Publisher on a MacBook Pro Big Sur 11.7. I'm an editor and publisher and working of documents up to 200+ pages with lots of images.   I've been using Publisher for the last two years and find it a fantastic alternative to InDesign. With the exception of auto indexing and footnoting and export to. ePub files (desperately needed for my authors) it meets all my needs.
The crashes seem to come when I attempt to replace an image, update the index/TOC or link text across pages. There's no common factors or pages, it just vanishes, then reopens at the point immediately before the crash.  I can't recreate the crash.
 
Regards
Chris
 

I am having a similar problem with frequent crashes. I'm using Publisher on a MacBook Pro Big Sur 11.7. I'm an editor and publisher and working of documents up to 200+ pages with lots of images.   I've been using Publisher for the last two years and find it a fantastic alternative to InDesign. With the exception of auto indexing and footnoting and export to. ePub files (desperately needed for my authors) it meets all my needs.
The crashes seem to come when I attempt to replace an image, update the index/TOC or link text across pages. There's no common factors or pages, it just vanishes, then reopens at the point immediately before the crash.  I can't recreate the crash.
 
Regards
Chris