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Worked a treat. Thank you.

Many thanks to MikeTO. Mike, I'll look again at content scaling. Thanks too, to Hangman for the very full explanation.

Just tried it, and your exercise works as suggested. However, I think what I'm getting is different. The frames on the pages in question haven't been changed. Simply deleting text on page 1, say, so that text moves from page 2 back to page 1 causes the text to change size to something MUCH bigger than the text in page 1. Conversely, adding a page break on page 1 causes text to move to page 2 and the moved text is then much SMALLER than the other text on page 2. Seems to me it's a different issue as the text frames, as far as I can tell, have not been scaled.

Thanks MikeTO, I'll play with that later today. You're right that it's not obvious that I've dragged the scaling handle as to my knowledge I went nowhere near it. However, I'll try your suggestion.

Forgot to mention: Hardware Mac Mini M1 running Sonoma 14.2.1 I can check (given time) if the same happens on my Mac Studio and my MacBook Pro (intel chip).

Hi Dan, I finally got the video (attached) done for you. I've attached two afpub files. The one labelled v1-01 was the one I started with: the video shows me working on that to create a shorter version (the 2nd document labelled "Short Version DRAFT 1"). (I'd be grateful if you only keep these documents while they're needed as they're part of a product a colleague and I are launching at the end of the month.) As mentioned in the video, these documents were originally created in AP version 1, but now in AP version 2. I've had documents where this happens a lot; and documents where it doesn't happen at all; so it's hard to track down a reason. Could it be a screen redraw issue? A caching issue? or corruption in the file? Or something else? I've seen forum comments when people have been changing the frame size and that's changed font size, but as you can see that's not the case here; it's simply text being moved from one page to another. Affinity Publisher bug.mp4 GCT Foundations Participant Guide Part 3 v1-01.afpub GCT Foundations Guide Part 3 v1 Short version DRAFT 1.afpub

Thanks Dan C. Late night here now, so I'll organise recording, etc. tomorrow for you.

Nearly every time I add or remove a page break from existing Publisher 2 documents some of the text on the page (usually after the one the cursor was on) just changes size. It's an ongoing problem and wastes a lot of time fixing (basically reapplying the styles again). Is there a fix for this planned?

When creating a new text style there seems to be no way to type in a hex value in the hex field. The only way to get the colour wanted is dragging the sliders (tedious). Mac OS 12.6 Mac mini M1 Hardware acceleration is ON. Issue is repeatable

Version 2 installed an up and running. FINALLY ... delighted that footnotes and endnotes are in. I would love to have known that they were in development, but given the extraordinary offerings in the announcement, I can see why they were keeping quiet about what they were up to. It's been a long wait ... Haven't played with v2 much yet, but it looks like the wait was worth it for my purposes, at least. Thank you Serif.

I love Publisher for what it does do, but it's been a major disappointment that, to date, it's not lived up to the promise of being a replacement for InDesign. I think we can truthfully say it was a reasonable expectation. Via Twitter, I reminded Serif that communication is everything. Companies like Apple might be able to get away with saying nothing about what they're developing because we know that at least twice a year they deliver something. Right now, there seems to be no hint of whether Serif is even working on Publisher. Their lack of communication on topics like footnotes might have been excusable for, say, a year. But more than 4 years down the track, they're saying nothing. Very poor form and does nothing to engender ongoing trust in the company. I'd like to see them concentrate less on all the fancy integration between Designer, Photo, & Publisher for a time while they simply get in the functionality that we've been pleading for. Meanwhile, I will keep using Publisher for documents that don't require footnotes, etc. However, for documents/books requiring footnotes, endnotes, cross-referencing it's Mellel (which is truly fantastic with those features).

I've started learning LaTex as an interim step while waiting (years!) for Serif to provide footnotes, endnotes and proper cross-referencing (if they ever do).

That's true in principle. However, I had a number of diagrams in my thesis and was happy that I could place them where I wanted. Can also do text wrap around, etc. Yes, it's not as flexible as Aff. Pub. where I can put the diagram virtually anywhere and pin it (or put it inline), but I was more than happy with the layout and placing of text. It's brilliant with headings and table of content (although there is one quirky bit with that). If I had to do another thesis, Mellel would be my first choice ... until Aff. Pub. gets footnotes, endnotes and proper cross-referencing (which Mellel is stunning at). The integration with Bookends is marvellous.

@JohnJohn12 If you're on a Mac, I can heartily recommend Mellel for thesis writing. Affordable, rock solid, works wonderfully with Bookends (and, I believe, Endnotes). I did my PhD thesis in it. Bit of a learning curve, but well worth the effort until Affinity offers a viable alternative.

Same problem. Cannot type into the colour fields. Have to use the sliders to get colour – very tedious. Mac mini M1 running OS 12.2.1 Publisher version 1.10.4

Not sure why, but selecting update from the Menu rather than from the TOC seemed to finally show what I wanted.

There must be some instructions somewhere that explain how the paragraph spacing options in Tables of Content work that would help with the issue I'm having. I'm trying to create a TOC from Headings 1, 2 and 3 and to get a simple 6pt space before each TOC entry. No matter what I try, Publisher keeps putting spaces that I haven't asked. And, on one occasion it even changed the font to italic when I tried changing the spacing. The instructions are sparse and there seems to be no way to work out what the interactions between the spacing settings really do. Publisher is great, but in some parts the instructions are so superficial that they're next to useless. Can someone please advise. I've wasted hours trying to work out what Serif has done with TOC paragraph spacing.

Agreed. How is it relevant? I suppose we can give it some in this sense: it highlights what we already know – that what Publisher does well it does spectacularly well. And, it highlights the point I made earlier about the concentration on magazine-type production. However, the number of people calling for footnotes/endnotes (and better cross referencing, in my case) ... and the number of years they've been doing so ... should be sending a clear message to Affinity. People are desperate to dump InDesign and QuarkXpress, but the lag with introducing basic, essential DTP features is a major issue. Further down this topic's timeline there is mention that Publisher is maybe not the best for academic publishing. Agreed. If I were to do an academic article/book, I would use Mellel as it's ideally suited to that purpose and integrates wonderfully with Bookends for reference management. However, one could do academic publishing in InDesign or QuarkXpress. Now, Affinity came on the scene with a clear indication – albeit implicitly to a large extent – of taking on Adobe. So many of us are sick of Adobe's price gouging and ridiculous subscription system that gives you "value" by forcing you to pay for a pile of stuff you don't need (in many cases). I only use Illustrator (and will dump that when Affinity provides calligraphic pens) and InDesign; but to subscribe to both those would be as expensive (nearly) as getting the whole thing. Given the gauntlet that Affinity has thrown down, you might expect that Publisher would provide the essential, basic tools that InDesign has, for example. Moreover, if people were able to effectively use Publisher for academic writing, there is a HUGE market out there, especially given the very sensible pricing. There is also the potential for disaffection of existing customers having to wait too long for what, in my opinion, they consider to be fundamental tools in the app. Recently, I found myself doing training documents in Publisher because it's so much nicer to use, generally, than Quark or InDesign. BUT, I need footnotes, so I've been wondering whether to just give up on Publisher and use Mellel (more laborious and much fiddlier with placing images, but it has all the essential tools). Affinity, take note: I'd quite happily pay twice the price to have footnotes/endnotes, and fully-functional cross referencing. (And calligraphic pens in Designer.). Just don't EVER go to subscription model though.

Looking through this topic, we can see that people have been begging for footnotes and endnotes for 3 years now. I absolutely love Publisher, but like many people cannot abandon InDesign or QuarkXpress until Serif provides really basic, essential features for desktop publishing. It seems there is a lot of concentration on magazine-y stuff with lots of clever Designer & Photo integration, BUT that's not nearly as important to many of us as essential DTP features like footnotes. Cross-referencing could use a serious boost too. I often want to refer to an example by number. Sometimes that number will change if I add in a new, preceding example. In Quark, I can update the cross-reference to that example. In Publisher I can't even (as far as I can see) cross-reference specific text – though I can link to an anchor, but that's not the same nor as useful for my purposes. It's been a long, long, long time Serif. We love the program but you're making it too hard to complete the transition from InDesign/QuarkXpress. You're at risk of losing your market edge with this really slow response to basic, essential DTP features. Even the $80 Mellel app that I wrote my PhD in has had such features as long as I've known it (going back to 2005). Drop the glitzy graphics stuff (which I bet of lot of us might not be using) for a while, and quickly catch up with the features your dedicated, but exasperated, customers are asking for.

New document. Used a Footer style, but also tried with a plain Body style. When editing the style, could make the selection for Towards spine or Away from spine, but as soon as I click on OK Publisher instantly closes.

When editing a paragraph style and selecting alignment of either Towards spine or Away from spine, Publisher crashes.

Thanks, I'll do that.

When editing a paragraph style and selecting alignment of either Towards spine or Away from spine, Publisher crashes.

Undoubtedly this request is already somewhere in the many; and a google search shows lots of energetic pleas for it: The ability to move the ruler origin is essential for my work. I can't dump Illustrator until I get this feature as well as arrowheads and calligraphic brushes. Designer has some amazing features, but if we're to have a satisfactory replacement for Illustrator, wouldn't it be better to provide the absolutely basic and essential features first and then add the arcane stuff later? (Same problem in Publisher – can't anchor images and that's absolutely basic and essential for dumping InDesign.) Affinity team, please focus on the can't-live-without features of Illustrator and put them in Designer ... until you do, we're still being price gouged by Adobe. Meanwhile, I find I'm using Graphic far more than Designer because at least it has arrowheads (not as good as Illustrator, but acceptable) and calligraphic brushes. There's so much to love about Designer but the missing essential features become a source of resentment the longer they're missing. I guess Affinity is still deciding whether they want us to leave Adobe or just use Designer as well ...??

HI, yes, the vector brush.