BertD

I'll add another vote for this

I normally am very wary however was hoping that 2.5.0 would solve this problem I had in 2.4.2!

It's an issue I actually had before 2.5.0 already. Reverting to 2.3.1 from 2.4.2 then worked for me. Hoped it had been resolved in 2.5.0 but not. Out of curiosity downloaded the beta 2.5.2 and that - so far - seems to work again. The documents that were unresponsive before so far work again as expected. Will do some more research and post back if there's anything to report.

I'm experiencing exactly the same issue. Publisher v2.4.2 is not letting me navigate documents, printing them etc. Reverted to 2.3.1 and all is good again. Yes, my files are stored on Dropbox. It's not corrupting files otherwise they wouldn't work in previous versions anymore either I would assume (and I would have loads more trouble in other apps too). When I'm away from my desk I'd like to be able to work on my iPad and have access to all my work. I think we can expect cloud storage and software to work together in this day and age (and I'm not pointing any fingers). But there's clearly something different and or affecting v2.4.2. I didn't even trash preferences or app support files in the library, just put v2.3.1 in the app folder and opened the files which weren't working in 2.4.2 (2.4.0 has the same issue). There's more than just not being able to navigate in the file. I've had the software hanging on opening the resource window, not responding to a Quit command (it closes the open file but then doesn't quit, just sits there). At least I can keep working. MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1, Mac Studio M2 Max.

Yet... https://www.startupdaily.net/topic/business/canvas-early-investors-are-getting-closer-to-a-1-5-billion-payday/ They'll float. Well, as Ash said. Because of all of this there's no pressure to come out with a V3 soon and they can concentrate on everything they planned for V2. I'm thinking V2 is the end of the road.

I've tried Scribus before for some projects before Publisher came out, seemed capable.

Well Ash, if you are going to move services within a subscription plan only, not available to a perpetual license, you cripple your software and make the perpetual version a second citizen. You're basically moving to a subscription model then and will guaranteed cease the perpetual version once enough users have given in and give you their monthly dollars. As an owner of the company I'd be pleased as well. You've done well and congrats, sincerely. You built the business to what it is and worth today. But to me as a user, nah, when something like Canva buys you, I've lost all trust, it'll purely be about the shareholders and gaining users. I'm pretty sure all of this has been discussed when the takeover was discussed, unless you were just happy to take the money and leave the rest to them (Canva) for which of course I couldn't blame you. For whatever we all think or say, most of us would be happy to be bought out like that. But yeah, I don't take much positive out of this and I hope you prove me wrong.

Yeah, I’ve not a good feeling about it. That reads to me as, from v3 it’ll be different. I really really hope we don’t get any Canva crap to deal with and subscription stays away. I’m not that loyal.

I use a colour profile specifically for my printer/paper (Epson P900 with Permajet paper profile). Does seem to be a new issue though as I never experienced it on my old 2016 MacBook Pro.

Just got a Mac Studio M2 Max and have this issue also. Changing this setting indeed seems to solve the problem.

Hi there, Just wanted to add my voice to this as I'm bothered by it as well. Unless there's a solution I've missed in the meantime? When applying a master to a page I would expect it to keep the scaling of the image already in a picture frame intact. Or at the very least we should be able to copy position/scaling etc over. Correct me if I'm wrong but there's no manual input other than dragging the handles for scaling, position and rotation in a picture frame. Which means you kinda have to eyeball it. I have a whole series of prints that have 2 kinds of backgrounds setup as master pages with the picture frame the same on each masters. When I then get to duplicate a page and just apply the other master to it, the scaling within the picture frame goes back to default so the two pages aren't identical from a scaling point of view anymore. BErt

I agree, this could be such a time saver. Please introduce the ability to add shortcuts to context toolbar items. Or, move those into a menu if it's too difficult to implement, that way they'll be available for shortcuts. Bert

That's the main thing for me. Once you've imported the data, there's a lot more that needs to be added to the programme, not just the data from the spreadsheet. So once that's all added in and you've re-arranged things I don't see a way to update the data in that document. You always have to go back to the layout, re-run and then merge the two layouts. The spreadsheet generated one and the actual layout. Unless I'm missing something? Bert

That's an issue I'm looking for an answer to. I have a film programme, 350 entries. Set up the layout, hooked it up, and run the data merge. Great, works as expected. However when you end up with a new document how do you update that document when the data is updated? As this data is part of a programme, there's other pages added to it. As it stands the only way is to generate a new data merge and manually put the new data merge into the programme again? What is the thinking behind creating a new document when running a data merge? Bert

I have a similar kind of issue. I'm making a programme for a film festival. Data merge works well, I get everything so that's fine. The problem I have is that there are different categories. Each category needs an image and title so the first page of a new category needs to be half a page and any following page take up full pages until the next category comes along. So ideally the data merge setup would be half a page layout followed by a full page layout with an option to set to be the main one. It wouldn't even have to automatically find the next category, you could use the range setup for that to get each category out of the csv. What would also be a handy option is instead of creating a new Publisher document when creating the data merge, it would do so in the current document. Could use master pages as the data merge template. Bert