casey

Wanted to way in. I started using Publisher in July. I wasted three full days of work when the program started crashing for no reason I can discern and it also failed to save work. At the point that I could not save work -- obviously-- I gave up and went back to Indesign. I have tried since to no avail. Like OP I would love to get rid of Indesign, but obviously I am not going to use a program that for me is unusable. My experience almost identical to OP. I stopped visiting the forums when I first returned to Indesign. I've recently returned in the hope I would see some glimmer of hope. I'll unhappily be sticking with Indesign for the foreseeable future until Affinity can make Publisher a reliable program.

I desperately want to ditch Adobe and since I love Affinity Photo, I was confident in starting a new project directly after the release in June. I'm aware that this is generally bad practice. Anyway, I wasted three 16 hour days fighting with Publisher. So I am now starting the project over in INDD, which I know can at least accomplish my task. At first the glitches were weird but minor. Not being able to edit one text frame when another that was a copy of it was fine. Having to restart every time I wanted to access one particular master. Then the problems got more serious. Strange, unrequested edits to masters, inconsistent behaviour of masters, unable to edit pages even after detaching the masters, not being able to duplicate masters. Not saving. I lost a half a days work just because when I turned the program off (after saving), it didn't save. I have a deadline within a week, which was very tight as it is. Thus, I cannot replicate errors, go into more detail, tell you what I was doing at the time (I couldn't find any rhyme nor reason anyway), simply because the next 72 hours of life are booked. I will return to Publisher. I love the concept. Except for the frequent glitches, it is much easier to use than INDD -- and it has the great advantage of not being Adobe. However, I just don't have time to spend hours fighting with unexplained glitches, crashes, and non-saves. As I said, I cannot provide you with screenshots, details other than I've given, or anything else, other than to say, on the 4th day of use, the glitches became so bad that the program was unusable. I wanted to let you know this, first, to tell you I REALLY want to use Publisher, and second, perhaps you can glean some information from mine. MacBook Pro 10.14.5 Simone