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AP definitely works reliable with remote servers for me. as that's where all my docs are stored. Occasionally, I'll get an error that it couldn't save a file, but when I repeat the save it always works.

Thanks for your reply. To see if the remote server was the problem, I copied the entire document to my Desktop and opened it. After waiting two minutes for the images to refresh (they never did), once again I had to click on an image for it to refresh. Things moved swiftly after that, and each image sharpened quickly as it appeared on the page, without having to be clicked. But AP isn't refreshing the images automatically upon open, which was the original problem.

Thanks for your reply. Maybe it's that the document I'm working on has a lot more images, but they don't refresh until I'm looking at them (Schroedinger's thumbnails). Sounds like AP is working normally but it could be designed better when it comes to displaying linked images. I'm going to add it to the suggestions topic.

I'm working on a document that has a lot of linked images. When first opened, they all appear fuzzy as shown in the attached screen capture. I have to click on each one and wait for it to change to high-res before it displays normally. The document is stored on a remote server if that matters. What I want to know is whether there's a global refresh button or option that'll relieve me of this tedious task. Thanks, Chris

It would be a helpful timesaver if the items in the Text > Capitalization menu were accessible from the Toolbar. No fancy features needed, just have the current menu items appear below the button when clicked. Alternatively, the Capitalization options could be included in the Typography window that appears when clicking on the Typography panel's […] button. They could appear above the Capitals section.

Well....darn. Thanks for the help.

I'm trying to locate the tool for splitting the screen so I can work on a table of contents in one half of the screen, while scrolling through the doc on the other half. Split View sounds like what I want, but when active, it just presents a line bisecting the screen with pixel and vector tabs. Curious, but it's not what I need. Can't find anything on this feature in the Help or online. Meanwhile I'm still hunting for the screen divider...

When working in tables, if you double-click and copy text that has a space at its front, when you paste that text over selected text, the space goes along for the ride, resulting in a double-space (see video). That's a minor annoyance, but it would be nice if it could be fixed. One way of fixing the problem would be to add a preference option to "Automatically Remove Multiple Spaces". Screen Recording 2021-10-13 at 1.32.13 PM.mov

You're a marvel! Works like a charm, and of course it's the one combination I didn't try.

I'm trying to print a couple pages for review (from a guide I'm preparing) as a spread on tabloid (11 x 17) paper. Sometimes it works, but most times the pages display out of order. I'm running Mac OS High Sierra 10.13. I've tried printing using the Booklet and Book layout models (they seem to impose the page order randomly); 2 pages per sheet (almost worked, but couldn't get the pages to scale to 100%); and setting up spreads in Spread Setup... (messed up the page layout, and after I fixed them, refused to appear as spreads in the print dialog). Everything fails spectacularly and uniquely. There's almost nothing on this subject on the web, and the Help doesn't cover this issue. (As a workaround, I suppose the spread could be created from two single-page PDFs, but that's a lot of extra work when the answer should be in Publisher.)

Thanks for the clear and helpful response!

As shown in the attached screen cap, Resource Manager doesn't offer linking as an option for an EPS image. Is there a setting for changing this?

Thanks for your reply, the sample is attached. As for your comment about mixed ratios, if you're sizing proportionally, the ratio shouldn't matter. Test.afpub

It should be proportional by default, not mixed.

It would be a feature similar to how Word and most other apps do it (see attached image).

I don't see why people would complain. I use Photoshop and the cursor only changes when you're on top of the text box border. Why a user would want it to do otherwise is beyond me. Not one click less, if I'm editing text by pasting from a PDF individual lines of text that used to be a paragraph, it's reasonable to expect that I can position the cursor at the end of a line of text and paste new text after it. But if it's around a border, the cursor won't let me, so I have to pick a spot a word or so inward, click to position the text editing cursor, and then hit the arrow key to reach the end the line so I can paste. Do that while creating a 300 page software reference and you'll quickly get tired of the needless tedium.

Thanks for the reply! Can you tell me what Keep with next does?

Huh. That's disappointing. Thanks for the help!

It's easy to do this in Photoshop and handy. But I can't find a similar capability in AF. Did I miss it somehow? Thanks

Sorry to waste your time, I just figured out what's wrong. The grid was overlaying the rectangle. Thanks for your help!

Never mind. The "dashes" were the isometric grid overlaying the rectangle. D'oh!

I'm working with the Stroke panel trying to create a solid stroke around a rectangle. Even though I've got the Solid Line Style selected, the rectangle was created with a dashed stroke. Changing to Dash Line Style to see if it would alter the dash doesn't affect the stroke and it's still dashed when I return to Solid Line Style. Is there something else I should do? Thanks!

When using the Divide tool, it often closes the resulting shapes so I then have to divide them and delete the extra lines. Please add a preference option similar to FreeHand's "Join non-touching paths" so I can turn off the auto-join feature. Thanks!

Thanks yet again. I like Designer a lot, but there's so much that's not intuitive. I wish they'd add a knife tool similar to Freehand's for doing splitting that currently takes knowing several different modes and tools.

If I can impose with a related question, how do you split a section off a complex shape? In the attached image, I want to delete the blue section from the red shape.