walt.farrell

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. It's not an S, but a Section symbol, and represents "End of Story" in Affinity terms. It won't print, or be visible in any exports, but if you don't want to see it you can turn off the visibility of Special Characters:

That might be possible using the Optical Alignment settings, but I haven't tried it with those specific characters or in a TOC.

In the case of a Rectangle, though, it will no longer be a Rectangle but a Curve (Curves?) object. But I don't think there's anything else you can do.

Clicking More from the Insert menu you mentioned earlier should have taken you to that panel. You said, though, that "nothing happens" so I thought perhaps your Studio was configured incorrectly.

If you want that, make a Feature Request, or add on to an existing one with information on how it would benefit your work. Mentioning it here will have no effect on the development of the programs.

That sounds like one of three possibilities: 1. You don't have the language set properly in the Character panel. Or 2. You don't have Automatic Hyphenation enabled in the Paragraph panel. Or 3. You don't have the dictionaries downloaded or installed properly.

Do you have both the Left and Right Studio panels showing? If not, trying showing them via Window > Studio >. If both are already showing, check for Window > Reference > Fields and if that doesn't help, you may need to reset your Studio: Window > Studio > Reset Studio.

I would suggest using the files provided in the FAQ, and downloading from the FAQ, rather than downloading directly from GitHub.

Understandable. If you ever recreate it using sample data that is not sensitive, it would be good to have that file.

I haven't tried it yet, but this post contradicts that, at least for V1 and presumably for V2 as I don't think things have changed:

Publisher is not InDesign, and works differently in many ways. As far as I know, in Publisher (and the Affinity applications in general) the setting "Space between styles" is part of the Paragraph Spacing settings (Space Before/Space After, etc.) and is related to specific defined spacing. The "Start on next page" is not spacing, in that sense, and thus is not affected by "Space between styles". So as it is currently designed you can use a different text style (as I suggested) or a Line Break (as you have done) or a Paragraph Panel override as Old Bruce suggested. Or you could add a Feature Request to make it work like InDesign. Or you could try reporting it as a bug and see what Serif staff say. But at this point you need to use one of the alternative methods.

Interesting. Hope it works better with a different adapter.

On Windows, the built-in dictionaries are stored in the Resources directory in the directory where the program is installed. And as you used the MSIX installer that directory is quite well Hidden by Windows. The easiest way to find it is via Task Manager. Run Publisher, then in Task Manager you can expand the entry for Affinity Publisher 2, and right-click the second line and choose Open File Location. In the resulting File Explorer window, locate the Resources folder, and the built-in dictionaries are in a directory there. And Learned words are stored in your dictionary.propcol file, which you will find in %USERPROFILE%\.affinity\Common\2.0\user unless you've moved it.

I was not referring to your color setttings within the Affinity application, but your OS settings for the color profile assigned to your display/monitor. I don't know enough about macOS yet to provide more than a suggestion that you check that possibility.

In the Spacing options, if that's what yoou meant:

You're welcome.

I would check the Feather setting in the Context Toolbar, too.

I think the "start on next page" is an incompatible setting for the second paragraph when you want to keep them together. When that case arises, I would suggest using a second text style, that is based on the first text style but does not have "start on next page" specified.

Did you install Publisher 2 using the default MSIX installer, or the optional EXE/MSI installer?

Screenshots of the Text Frame in Publisher, and the Text Frame panel, and the Layers panel would help. Also a screenshot of the exported file. And if you can share a .afpub file that has the same problem that would be helpful, too.

What kind of problems did Nicepage cause? Have you tried uninstalling it to see if that fixes Affinity Photo?

You may get one the first time you Open a file to begin a project. After that, you should only get one if you explicitly create it via the Snapshots panel. Help: https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/DesignAids/snapshot.html

If you're still having trouble (I can't tell from that last post) please show us what's in your Library in the Microsoft Store, and what's in the Windows Start menu.

This FAQ tells you how to reinstall from the Store you purchased from. If you purchased from the Microsoft Store you must reinstall from there.

For text that is not using a text style, yes. The TOC is controlled by text styles, and you should adjust them to make changes.