patrickfoster

Thanks to everyone who put some thought into this; I'll be testing these out for my work and will let you guys know which one worked out. Thanks again!

I use GREP a LOT in InDesign when doing book layout; I'm especially fond of a search+replace command/script (I'm not a power creator of GREP stuff, so I don't know the exact term) that finds and adjusts paragraphs so that the last line of the paragraph has a minimum of two words. Does anyone have any idea how to replicate that in any way in Publisher?

You could try using CreateBooklet, an app that takes a PDF and creates and imposed booklet; it has settings for creep and crop marks and the like; I’ve found it pretty useful.

Thanks, good suggestions. Much appreciated.

Is there a way to set the defaults for hyphenation and justification to be permanent? Meaning, if I have specific settings for H&J that I want to apply to every document; is there a way to make those settings the default for new files in Publisher? Thanks!

A lot of work needs doing, for sure, at least from our perspectives as users. That said, I've been using Publisher to build out novels for a client since its release this past summer, and while there are some extra steps, it's more than made up for by not having to pay Adobe every month. Would I like Publisher to do more of the stuff I want it to do? Surely. Will I manage until it does (or if it never does)? Absolutely.

Still there?

Hi— Nope, created in release 1.71; I had fun in the beta but I wouldn't have tried to work in it. Do you still want the file?

Hi— Mac OS, 10.14.5. 2015 MacBook Air, 2.2Ghz Core I7, 8GB ram, 256GB storage. Initial failure was trying to save 30.1 MB afpub file; 99.5% text with some small vector embeds. Was working fine, until it suddenly wasn't. All saves to my internal SSD, no external saving. Pasting crash was from trying to move a text box from the original document to a new, smaller afpub file (ended up recreating the book as individual chapter files, rather than one long one.) Also, had three random crashes yesterday, from no discernible action, when using smaller files. The only pattern was that I had two afpub files open at each time it crashed. Thanks for the help. pf

Now crashing on random events; PASTE after copy event, either in same document or new one. Pretty frustrating.

Working on a book, 30.1MB, text only. A few limited embedded vector files. Worked great til yesterday, now Publisher crashes on an attempt to save. Anyone have any ideas?

This is happening to me as well. Any sense of how to resolve it?

I use an external Bluetooth keyboard a lot with my iPad; I just noticed yesterday that I couldn’t input file dimensions into the new document setup screen using the keyboard; I had to actually touch the numbers on the screen. It’s a little thing, but it would speed things up if Designer could accept numbers typed from the keyboard in dialogue boxes. (I say BOXES, even though I haven’t tested it elsewhere, sorry.)

Not at all; and I couldn’t agree more. Anything that gets us all to the tools we need is fine with me.

Well, I did say in my experience.