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Hi @n.k.0508 and welcome to the forums, The first setting to change would be the Rasterise Nothing setting since you have tiff and png files in your document which will be rasterised. Also check a little further down, just above the Passwords section to see whether 'Tagged PDF' is checked and if it is, uncheck it and see whether that allows your file to be exported without Publisher shutting down. You can manually delete the Lock file once Publisher has shut down... If that doesn't work can you Save your document using Save as Package... zip up all the files and folders and upload the .zip file so we can take a look at what might be causing the problem. Let us know how you get on...

Hi @shufflegeek and welcome to the forums, See how you get on with the attached file... Revision 3.afphoto

It appears in the Help file linked above... "As defined by the language-specific hyphenation dictionary, words have pre-defined hyphenation points at which hyphenation will occur. Each hyphenation point has a value weighting associated with it. For example, the hyphenation point in the middle of the word yellow (to produce the word "yel-low") has a score value of 1, i.e yel1low; for "acc-ommo-date" the values are acc2ommo5date. Setting a Minimum Score value to a larger number (e.g., 3) will hyphenate less often."

I'd been experimenting with Learn Spelling recently but hadn't checked to see where these words ended up. Having just opened the en_GB dictionary the only content in there are the words I'd selected as not misspelt...

This is Publisher's help file regarding hyphenation... https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/pages/Text/hyphenation.html

Words yes, hyphenation, I'm just unsure how it works so I would need to check but I mentioned @MikeTO because I know he will know the answer and be able to provide a better answer than I can at this moment... I think the default en_GB spelling dictionary should appear in that folder along with the following files: LocalDictionary dynamic-counts.dat dynamic-text.dat

This is what I'm experiencing... Texture.mp4

Hi @CJH and welcome to the forums, This post should help with regard to the location of the Hunspell spelling and hyphenation dictionaries used by the Affinity apps on both Mac and Windows... Right-clicking on a word will allow you to select 'Learn Spelling' and that spelling will then be automatically added to the Spelling Dictionary... I'm not entirely sure if you can customise the Hunspell hyphenation dictionary but @MikeTO will know... You may want to consider downloading Mike's free 300-page unofficial Publisher Guide which goes into great detail about numerous Publisher topics...

See edit to the previous post...

There is an issue on Mac, as soon as you attempt to make any edits to the sub-texture General or Dynamics settings the window closes, in fact, it's just caused Photo to crash so something isn't right... Are you able to make adjustments to the sub-texture General or Dynamics settings on Windows without issues? Edit: After the crash and relaunching Photo the sub-texture General or Dynamics settings suddenly worked and so did the sub-texture but it was short-lived and now it's no longer working again and is again causing Photo to crash... Crash Reports Affinity Photo 2 Affinity Store-2024-04-15-170506.ips Affinity Photo 2 Affinity Store-2024-04-15-165523.ips

Loading your PNG file as the sub-brush texture both previews and paints on macOS so it looks as though this may be a Windows issue... Edit: Ignore me, it's not working for the sub-brush

I've likewise done the same and on Mac the texture is missing so I don't know whether that is in some way related... I appreciate the texture is shown on Windows but the fact it doesn't paint suggests something is amiss. Could you upload the PNG sub-texture and I'll load it on Mac and see whether or not the texture paints when loaded...

If I import and edit your brush this is what I see, i.e., no texture... if I add my own texture everything works as expected...

FWIW, on Mac this is working correctly. I added my own sub-brush texture since it is missing from the test.afbrushes file uploaded and once added the sub-brush texture both previews and paints.

On Mac, I see the same issue but if the file is Saved and Re-opened the replaced embedded image is grouped again in Resource Manager...

Hi @pkclsoft, Did that turn out to be the issue, i.e., a pixel mask?

@MikeTO, When you Cmd A to select all the text it is pasted as Arial Regular 12 pt using a 'Normal (Web 1+)' paragraph style and the English (Canada) spelling dictionary, likewise when you select a single line of text including the paragraph break. When you select a single line of text without the paragraph break it's pasted as ?Calibri 14 pt using a 'Normal+' paragraph style and the Ukrainian spelling dictionary. I don't know if that points to anything... When I copy the text from Word 365 using all three methods the text is pasted correctly as Arial Regular 12 pt with no Paragraph Style and the English (United Kingdom) spelling dictionary (my default).

Hi @Lee D, Perfect, thanks for confirming...

Hi @colorsHaveChangedAgain, Are you Opening the Tiff file in Publisher or Placing the Tiff file into a newly created or existing Publisher Document? If using File > Open your Tiff file 'should' open using the embedded profile. If using File > Place (or dragging the Tiff file into an already created document) then the Document Setup window shown in your third screengrab titled 'Opening' will show whichever ICC Profile is set for the document. To check the profile for the placed Tiff file you'd need to go to Window > Resource Manager..., select the Tiff file in the list and then take a look at the ICC Profile shown for the selected image below its thumbnail.

Hi @Bruce Robertson and welcome to the forums, Do the pages in question use items that were on your deleted Master Page? If so you likely will need to re-add a Master, include any items on the Master common to relevant pages and reapply the Master to the associated pages... If your document is set up as Facing Page spreads you can go to File > Document Setup select the Model tab then unselect Facing Pages. If you'd prefer to keep Facing Pages set Area: to All Pages under the PDF Export settings, which will export your file as single pages.

Are you sure the mask for the owl layer isn't a pixel mask? I see the same issue if using a pixel mask with an Artboard when selecting Edit Mask but not with a vector clipping mask. The problem doesn't happen when using a Canvas rather than an Artboard... Mask.mp4

Hi @pkclsoft, This suggests you are creating Pixel masks which you will need to create and edit in the Pixel Persona... I agree the behaviour when selecting Edit Mask is odd, logically when selecting Edit Mask the expectation is that you would still see the edges of the Artboard in the same way you see the edges of the canvas when not using an Artboard so I do think this is a bug... You can still paint on and edit the mask in the Pixel persona but being unable to see the edges of the Artboard while doing so doesn't feel right... I've checked back to v1.7.3 and I see the same behaviour there so it looks as though this hasn't been picked up before.

I think (but may be wrong) that the issue is simply a discrepancy between the size shown for the same file between the Export Window and the Resize Window... Steps to Reproduce Create a new 300 dpi Document at 1,007.8 px x 1007.8 px Go to File > Export, selecting JPEG (or any raster file format) The default export size is, as expected, 1,008 px x 1,008 px Click Cancel Go to Document > Resize Document, the default size shown is 1,007 px x 1,007 px The Resize function incorrectly rounds the document size down by default, the export function correctly rounds the document size up by default... This means if you export the original file you will end up with a 1,008 px x 1,008 px file, if you click the resize button under Document resize and export you will end up with a 1,007 px x 1,007 px document once exported. The Resize Document function should round the values up in this instance, not down.

Hi @pkclsoft, I believe this is expected behaviour because all your layers and groups are sitting above your Artboard rather than within it which means if you were to move the Artboard itself none of the layers and groups would move with it. If you take all the layers and groups and nest them within the Artboard so the Artboard is the Parent then you won't experience this issue. Note: it has always worked this way.

Hi @Alessandro Carnevali, That's no problem at all, I'm glad all is working for you again and you can continue working on your file... Thanks for confirming that your assets are stored locally, the file path to the Linked files looked as though it might have been Cloud Storage. Hopefully, you won't run into any more issues please reach out if you do.