Marathon1908

I think I have discovered what the problem is. When I transferred files to this computer a large number in one folder transferred across with zero bites. I have been trying to open some of these without realising they had been corrupted. I have now successfully opened other V1 files, which is a big relief!

I have tried quite a number of files and all have failed. I had no problems in previous versions - it simply asked me to agree to conversion. I have tried to attach an aphotofile but the system does not seem to want to accept it, sorry

I have version 2.4.2 for Mac and now it will not open my V1 files - they are not recognised. This is a serious issue for me. Help please!

Ken, this is a helpful reply, but doesn't solve my problems and raises some serious issues. Calibri is the default font in MS365. I find it astonishing that it is not automatically in APub. Affinity advertises the program as able to import Word documents yet it cannot import documents in Word's default font. Something is seriously wrong. I presume it has it in the Windows version. Affinity's guide on fonts is all very technical but I was able to work out from it how to import Calibri, Cambria (etc) from the Word font library into the Mac font library, and I now have it in Apub. I should not have had to do this! I've also found a method of successfully importing Word files. I have done it by reformatting the Master pages with the styles I use in Word before placing the Word file. I also imported the missing fonts. Then it was almost painless. Pre-flight check is useful in detecting any issues. (I had 6 words that Word called "inserted" font, which is not a font at all. Easy enough to sort out, but weird.) Mike, do you think there should be something in your guide to clarify how to import Word files, without the hassle I've had? Is it also worth a mention it cannot import Pages files, given that Mac users will often be using Pages? (It would not let me place a Pages file, but maybe copy and paste will work, I haven't tried)

Mike, Walt, you'll be pleased to know I'm making it work, but there do seem to be limitations in APub. It gives imported styles that are different names with a + - Heading 1+ etc. However it will not allow such styles to be used for the TOC. I'm still struggling a bit with formatting, and I haven't been able to make the page numbers in TOC to link to the pages, even with the help of the guide. I'm probably missing something, but hopefully will work it out. It's not vital - I shall be removing chapter TOCs and putting a book TOC once I'm near publication.

I'm new to APub but cannot get started properly because of the bugs. I have a publication deadline and it looks as if I shall have to find another program. I'm using Mac OS Ventura 13.5.1 with M1 chip and Affinity Publisher 2.2.0 This problem is that I cannot get it to create a table of contents. I add 2 pages at the beginning of the document as per instructions, select insert TOC click on the new first page and it bizarrely inserts "Endnotes 25" in the middle of a word on p.1 of the text (see screen print). This doesn't go away if I undo last action, nor if I close the file without saving changes. I have to manually remove it. Help please.

Mike, I have been using text styles for years, and work with document maps and tables of contents - I could not have created a 400 page bok in any other way. Styles is not the issue here

Mike, I imported Cambria (and Calibri) into the Mac font library and Publisher accepts them. However it still messes up the paragraph formatting and insists on putting the endnote text as superscript (as well as the number format issue) and spacing the notes wide apart. I'm an author not an editor, and I just want to create the pdfs for publishing with the minimum of hassle and technical knowledge. Everyone who has replied is trying to be helpful, I appreciate that, but there is still the fundamental question as to why Publisher does not seem to want to import (paste or place) Word cleanly as it is - it may be importing all the text, but it does not seem to be importing all the settings. Is this a wider issue to be reviewed?

Bruce, out of curiosity I opened a Word document in Pages, and it made quite a good job of it. There was a slight change in the text area, and one missing font (which I can easily put right). I then tried to place the Pages file into Publisher, and it won't accept it at all - it was greyed out. Interesting. That said, if Pages can now reasonably faithfully open a Word document, what is the problem with Publisher?

Bruce, I simply select the style from the menu. If it has a host of over-rides that is down to Microsoft, not me. you mention that you use Pages to read Word. My experience of Pages is that it is not good at reproducing Word, which is why I gave up using it. It could be that it has introduced issues on your machine which then affect Publisher for you, I don't know.

Bruce, I used word's standard pre-set first line indented from the styles menu. My basic point is that I would not expect a placed file to be changed. I would expect it to arrive as it left, with all its attributes carried over. Copy and paste I can understand that the default might be for the pasted text to adopt the destination format on the Publisher page. When you paste in Word you get a choice of source or destination format. Is there such a choice mechanism in Publisher? That's what my question is about. I hope someone can help.

Walt, yes. I had other problems with copy & paste, so am trying placing.

Walt I've managed to sort out the font settings, thank you. I guess I'm going to have to set it all up in a Master, otherwise I'll drive myself mad having to manually change every chapter Placed.

Walt, 2 specimens attached Mac OS Ventura 13.5.1; Word 365 v. 16.74 Publisher 2.2. Interestingly the specimen creation did take Cambria, although it changed the paragraph settings (unattractively). Endnotes came across Ok (no hyperlinks) but I would still have to reformat them to clear the superscript text; Word's formatting for them was not followed. I don't know why the 2 exercises are different. I attach a screen print of the first page from the long document placed. I do know that in Word you have various paste options, including keep source formatting or use destination formatting. For the purposes of the book I would want to move my Word documents into Publisher with source formatting. Specimen re Word placing.afpub Specimen from MS Word re Placing.docx

I'm a new user and am not sure if this is a bug or I'm missing something. I cannot find a tutorial on Placing a text document. I Placed a Word document where the principal text was in Calibri 11, first line indented. I have imported the Calibri fonts into my Mac font library and Publisher shows them. However the whole document has been converted into Times New Roman and the first line indentation is gone, although the font style is described as first line indent+ Is this a bug in the Placing process or am I obliged to pre-set the fonts and styles before Placing?

Further to the above I have now tried placing a Word document with endnotes. The good news is that it leaves the hyperlink text in the end note. But there is bad news. Firstly it converts the link to standard text [ is this because print mode is set by default?]. Secondly it puts the endnote text into superscript, the same as the numeral. Eventually, after a lot of trial and error I managed to set a "regular" font, but the problem then is that it also changes the numbers from superscript. I can live with this, but is there a way to have superscript numbers in the endnote listing as well as at the insertion point? There is another problem with placing a document that I shall raise as a separate query. Thank you.

Mike, thank you. I just hadn't hovered over those arrows. However the popup text seems to be the wrong way round. If I'm in the body I get the down arrow and text "Go to Body" and vice versa!

Mike, I'm sorry If I have not made the problem clear enough. Firstly in my Word source I have numerous references that include hyperlinks. In most of those endnotes the World text is shown in the endnote but not the hyperlink. A couple of times the hyperlink text is taken out of the full text of the endnote and placed next to the note number. I did not type it there. Publisher put it there. I did not type the words in the test document "This note was created in Publisher" Publisher put them there. Selecting Highlight Fields has made no difference, sad to say. The issues are still there when I export to pdf Has anyone else had this problem?

Document attached - it gets even weirder!! Endnote problem.afpub

The on-line guide says "To move from a note's reference to its body: In the story text, position the insertion point next to the reference or make a text selection that includes the reference. On the Notes panel, click Go to Body." Reverse procedure the other way. For me in v2.2 that does not work at all. When I open the Notes panel there is no such option. I find I have to right click on the note which brings up a dialog box, I then have to select Notes and then select Go to note reference. (& vice versa). This seems to me a very long winded way. Am I missing something shorter? In the Word source it's simply a double click. Whether this is the only way or not, the on-line guidance seems to need to change.

I have just started using Publisher 2.2 for a new book written in Word - I was one of those desperate for the footnote/endnote facility to arrive. I've worked out the page 2 workaround, but a search hasn't thrown up this one - forgive me if I've missed it. It's in 2 parts. Firstly, None of the hyperlinks in my endnotes are displayed -- and there are a lot of them, indicating my on-line sources Secondly, in a couple of cases (out of 105) the hyperlink is added to the endnote reference number in the min text. The reference number is in the list of links but with no text. See screen-print. The full text of the corrupted note here is "Historical Manuscripts Commission, 'The corporation of Hastings', in The Manuscripts of Rye and Hereford Corporations, Etc. Thirteenth Report, Appendix: Part IV (London, 1892), pp. 354-364. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/hist-mss-comm/vol31/pt4/pp354-364 [accessed 3 April 2022]." Publisher has put '9' on the end of the link in this, and left out the other text. I'm using a Mac OS Ventura 13.5.1. The Word document was created in Office 365 for Mac (latest update), and it was pasted into publisher. I have other issues, but it may be because I'm new to the program. If I get really stuck I'll post separately.

Thank you all, this has worked. I have to say that I have installed many programs over the years and they have always proceeded to put the full App in the App folder. This is a distinct exception, and it was not self evident to me that the diagram indicated that you drag and drop within the dialog box. I'll know for the future. Thanks again.

Affinity-photo-2.0.0.dmg

Thank you Thomaso. I have found the dmg file in downloads. Clicking on it opens it but does not install the app it seems. I have drag and dropped it into the Apps folder. I have also had to manually attach the icon to the dock. All this seems unsatisfactory - I would have expected it to have automatically fully installed. It is the same now with Publisher 2.

My Photo V2 for Mac started OK but then when I tried to select Edit the menu bar went haywire dashing from one option to another and back again repeatedly. I quit and then the program disappeared. I went to the Apps folder and it wasn't there. So I downloaded it again, opened it, used it briefly and quit and again it instantly vanished. It's not in my recycle bin, so what is going on? What do I have to do to keep the program?