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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.

I don't think this bug has anything to do with scaling text frames. I had a 3-page single-column document with overflowing text on the last page. I added a new page and drew a new text frame over the purple guideline that came from the master page. I linked the overflowing frame on the previous page (page 3) to the new one (page 4). The first line of the flowed text on page 4 is inexplicably rendered in a tiny 2.9pt font size (it should be 12pt). If you look carefully at the screenshot, you should see the line of tiny text at the top of the page. I can get the text back to 12pt by fiddling around with text styles, but this is only a temporary solution. As text moves around and is re-flowed between frames, the problem comes back again (only affecting text at the top of the new page).

Great idea for a workaround.

"The quickest way to enter Detached mode for the current page is to select Layer->Master page->Edit Detached." (From https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Pages/masterPages.html?title=Master pages )

Hello, I'm Thomas. I discovered Affinity Publisher recently when looking for a replacement for InDesign. Very impressed so far, and pleased that InDesign documents can be imported. Hoping it will continued to be developed to iron out the problems people are raising here.