Old Bruce

Turning off "Standard Ligatures" in the first style did it. Thanks all. Not a bug after all. Also just use the "option right arrow" key combo to loosen the letters while the ligatures are on. That would be better for the edge cases.

Here is a very specific killer bug, Drop Cap won't work with a particular letter combonation with certain fonts. The "T" in "The" stays normal but the "H" in "Here" will have the drop cap applied. I made a style based on 'no style' I changed the font-face, weight, height, leading, first line indented to 10 mm and justification (full with last line left). I called it "Bulk Text" then I made a second font and called it "Drop Cap" based on "Bulk Text". I changed the first line indented to zero mm and set the drop cap to three lines. Worked fine unless I used an Open Type Font from Adobe. Most of them were okay. The "T" would not become a drop cap if it was before an "h" as in The, This, That, There Thursday etc. All other letter combonations worked a treat with any and all fonts. Okay I didn't check ALL possible combos I'd still be working on checking if I tried that. Adobe Caslon Pro, Adobe Garamond Pro and Adobe Jenson Pro are the ones I noticed it most with.

I kept meaning to getting around to organizing the styles but never did yet. Now that I've tried to I realize we can't, this is a feature I would love to see in the final version. So this is seconded. As to say how they influence each other, the short answer is that it depends on the job and how you work. For long form stuff like books I like to work with plain text and import it then apply predefined styles to the paragraphs. For a leaflet or poster I just choose fonts sizes etc and don't use styles at all. Basically if you are going to use a font with leading, size, weight, justification, spacing etc etc more than just once I would suggest that you make a style, then if you make a couple of variations of it later on make a style based on the original and just make the little changes to that second style. Text Styles is just a pallet/panel/pane which holds the Paragraph Styles and the Character Styles in one place and it is the place where you make new ones. It is covered quickly in the tutorial videos and I think we still have some bugs in it. I just haven't been able to figure out whether or not the behaviour are bugs yet.

I would think this is a solved problem, I am intrigued. Just so I am straight on this what you want is something like the second image from the text in the third image? I assume you arranged that with tabs or spaces. It should be doable, I shall apply my powerful brain to the problem, don't hold your breath though.

For some reason the margins set for the master page are not carried over to the pages to which it is applied. Very odd. We have to set the Margins for the individual page spreads.

I have never had much luck with XML tagged text but I am all for including this functionality in Publisher. So that is a +1

Just checked your file, the margins are different from the Master to the Page. 1.5 for the inner on the Master and 1.25 for the inner on the Page. 1 inch for all the others on both. Check it with the 'Spread Setup'.

Until the feature you requested is implemented I would say the only work around would be to use two linked text frames instead of columns. I looked and looked and messed about but couldn't find any other solutions, it is a good suggestion.

I would say use the Text frame tool for text in a box and the Artistic Text tool for type on a path. The top bit would be better in a box.

The only way I could replicate this, and it is a bad thing to have happen, is with a clicking and changing of the 'Properties' in the Picture frame 'Context toolbar' up in the top left. And before then I had to select the four Picture Frames on the Right. Let me know (I'm just curious, can't really help much if it is a bug) if it happens again. To fix it select all the frames and mess about with the 'Properties' after first reseting all of them to 'None' Best of luck.

Create your various Master Pages (Lined_Page, Blank_Page, Lined_Page_Graphic_A, Lined_Page_Graphic_B, etc.). Create your 100 pages. Select the pages you want Lined_Page applied to (do this by command clicking the pages in the Pages pane) then right click/control click one of the pages and from the context menu choose "Apply Master..." and choose the Master Page in the resulting dialog's dropdown menu. You can even apply more than one Master Page to a single page or groups of pages using this method. If you shift click to select a large range of pages you can then command click to de-select a small number of those pages. Say select pages 5 through 20 with shift click and then deselect pages 6,7,12,17 & 19.

My experience says you are not wrong. That said I would like to be able to lock individual guides as well.

Alpha Beta Gamma Can't use Gamma because of the rays so we'll call it Gold.

This depends where you are looking for the fonts. Top left corner when the Text toll or Text Frame tool is selected the font list has choices. All, Recent, Used and Favorites. This is hard to notice, you may have hit one by mistake. Then we have the lists in the Character panel and the three Style panels (Character, Paragraph and Group) used to create or modify styles. There is a smaller menu to the right of the list of fonts, it is the groups from the OS Font Book Application. If you choose All Fonts that should be ALL your fonts, if you have selections of fonts in groups they, the groups with their selected fonts, will show up. So you may have inadvertently chosen a small group of fonts.

I agree MickRose, maybe some sort of toggle on the panel to keep the overall width of the text frame locked while we increase the gutter width and it can change both columns. As it is we set the overall Text Frame width, choose the number of columns, set the width of the gutter(s) and then manually reset/redraw the Text Frame.

I will second that third for packaging files. Oh, and Fonts.

Crashes here too Publisher beta 1.7.0.58 OS 10.12.6 MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) I thought to test it but didn't think as to what that key combo does or why I would want to use it other than test the beta. Why would I want to use it?

Works fine here OS 10.12.6 MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) Publisher beta 1.07.58

This happens a lot with the Mac. Fix it by going to the finder and select a file, either sag or ai, and use the get info command. In the Info window change the "open with" menu to whatever you want then apply it to all. hit continue and all is well.

Ditto.

I had success with each of your criteria. Did you click the 'Reset Format' button/line/item after each attempt? Failing to do so would build up a nonexistent set of characteristics. I agree that the ability to search for "No Style applied' would be a boon.

Yes i would hope that the file would get smaller. I started with a blank A4 size document saved size was 8,164 bytes (8 KB on disk). I then placed a photo which was 3.6 MB in size, this was a multiple layered colour photo and the Publisher file then increased in size to 3,655,963 bytes (3.7 MB on disk). After changing the status of the photo from embedded to linked the file size of the Publisher file was 3,662,377 bytes (3.7 MB on disk) That is an increase of 6414 bytes. I checked again after closing and opening the publisher document and then quitting the application and re-opening the publisher document but the Linked file version remained larger in size than the embedded version. Then I opened Photo and used that to flatten and save the linked photo and in Publisher I had a notice that there was a change made. So that works as expected. I think what is happening is the placed image remained and some of the information about the link was added, in other words the embedded photo wasn't properly purged or replaced. Size with flattened and updated linked photo was 192,848 bytes (197 KB on disk) so the information did go away when replacing the old photo with the new one.

Yes it is in the other forums "Report bugs in Publisher beta on Mac" and"Report bugs in Publisher beta on Windows"

There is a problem with the Drop Cap in that the initial letter is stuck to the Left of the text box no matter what sort of justification or alignment is used. This means it is only "okay" in Justified Left, Aligned Left and Justified All. All the others have the initial letter hanging out all on its lonesome on the far left of the Text Frame.

I can't help with the lines you indicate but I think what you have is a couple of empty Text Frames (or more) in the same spot and that is what is showing up.