tcdaly

I have a gap between the end of an article and the bottom of the text frame. I want to ask the article's author to write a few more words to fill the gap. I've filled the gap with temporary filler text. However, when I select the filler text, it the word count at the bottom left of the screen shows just one word. So I don't know how many words to ask the author to write. Not very useful. Could highlighted filler text indicate the correct number of words?

Thank you for your reply! I'm slightly confused by the terminology, as I thought a 'chapter' is what you get when you add a document to a book. What do you have in mind when you say add a chapter to a document?

If you have two documents each with their own index, and they become two chapters in a book, what happens to their indices? Do they get combined into a single index for the book?

True, but I set up a new, separate document to test the scaling handle. I didn't touch it in the document pictured in my post.

Thank you. I didn't do any of the things you've mentioned that could be a cause - I just drew a manual frame, and linked it to the previous one. I notice the scaling handle smoothly scales the text in proportion to the frame size - it doesn't suddenly make all the text tiny.

I thought this problem was IDML-specific, but now the same thing is happening when importing a Word document. The text in the final frame is tiny, as is the footnote, but no-one applied this formatting at any stage. The difference between the final frame and the others is that I manually created it using the text frame tool, whilst the others were created automatically by virtue of being on the master page. I tried resetting the text frame tool back to 'factory default', but it didn't help. Windows version 2.4.0.

Thank you @Dan C! So is the plan to revert to black/white text in future versions?

Because you have your UI colour set to dark, the grey text stands out more than in my screenshot, where I have the UI colour set to light. I don't like the grey text as it makes it look like the anchors are in some way disabled. I assume this changed in the latest update to v2.3.0 - previously I recall the text colour was black.

I notice that the names of anchors in the 'Anchors' panel are now displayed in light grey text, making them look as if they are disabled (see screenshot). They used to be displayed in black text. Is this intentional or a bug?

Are you working on a document originally imported from IDML? If so, it's a bug that Affinity have confirmed and are aware of. If not, there are various causes and solutions suggested earlier in this thread.

I'd like to add my request for snapping to grid using the slice tool.

Thank you. In my case, I think it's starting with an IDML document, as I haven't done anything relating to the other three possibilities.

New topic created here:

When text is flowed into a linked frame on the next page, its font size is inexplicably tiny at the top of the next frame. I have seen the same thing happen but with a huge text size, and also wild alternation between huge and tiny as the text is reflowed between the frames. This problem occurs seemingly randomly. Regardless of how much I have fiddled with text style resets and overrides, I cannot find a lasting solution - the problem recurs. The only solution has been to rebuild the document from scratch in a new file. I suspect this bug may be related to IDML import, as to date I have only seen it happen in documents I've transferred from InDesign.

Thank you. I didn't make any changes to DPI settings. You're right that I should create a new topic. Although the symptoms I experience are similar, I think the cause is different in my case from what's been suggested in this topic.