philipt18

Ah, I see "Footnotes become invisible if the last footnote on the page is shifted onward by flow control" listed in the 3027 bug fix list, but it doesn't say it's AF-279.

Where is this posted?

I have, but as it was only happening with Affinity apps, I thought it useful to post it here as well.

This is a recording I did a couple of months ago of the problem just so you can see what happens: https://share.zight.com/7KuNjNlE

I downloaded the retail version and it has the same problem. I can prevent the problem by turning on an option in Bartender 5 that displays the extra menubar icons in a bar underneath the menu bar, but that's a bit annoying. Even with this option, however, Bartender 5 is triggered when I select a menu in Affinity, it just doesn't affect the menu where I can't select something. It happens with the other (retail) Affinity apps as well. However, I did find something very odd. I use two external monitors, one on either side of my MBP. When I loaded Affinity Photo, I did so on my laptop screen, and it didn't have a problem. I always load Affinity Publisher on my left-side screen, so I moved Photo over to my left-side screen, and it then had the same problem. However, if I move either app to the right-side screen, like the laptop screen, they don't have problems. So it's only on my left-side screen where this problem shows up. Even stranger is that both external monitors are identical, and are set up the same way (i.e. the same settings in the Displays settings for the computer, such as 1080P resolution even though the monitors are 4K). If I swap the IDs of the monitors (i.e. flip which side each monitor is on in the Arrange settings of Display) then which monitor has the problem also flips.

I'm running macOS Sequoia 15.1.1, although the problem existed before I upgraded to 15.x. I don't actually have the retail version on my computer, although I could download it. As it has been going on for while, I don't imagine it will make a difference.

I'm using Publisher Beta, and it has for a long time had a conflict with the Mac utility Bartender 5. That utility helps you manage all the menu bar items, but for some reason when selecting any menu item within Affinity Publisher, it is triggering Bartender to show other menu bar icons, and it makes it impossible to select the correct menu from Publisher.

Please fix AF-279 in the 2.6 Beta cycle?

I tried selecting text, but that doesn't help. I can't select an object because all objects come from the master page. Or rather, I can select it, but because it is from the master page, it doesn't seem to have any effect on which page is exported. I was able to isolate the page by selecting All Pages and then entering the page number. That works, but is clunky. Especially since I need to go back and look up what the page number is (not the page number in my book, but the page number of the document) before going back and doing it. While I do think if the cursor is on a page, it should be considered the current page for exporting, it might also be helpful to have little left and right arrows next to where it shows 'Current Page' to allow you to flip through the pages.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it seems to me it's impossible to export the right side of a spread as a page. In the document I'm working on I want to export a page that happens to be the right side of right side of the spread. I click into that page and select export. If I select Current Page to export, it always selects the left side of the spread, and there is no way to select the right side page.

When do you see that? I don't see that in my toolbar.

And while I'm on the topic, it would be nice to align to the first non-white or non-transparent pixel as well. For example, if you have a black line drawing, there might be a white border around it. When aligning to the right, you could have the option of aligning to the right-most black pixel instead of the right side of the image. In some cases this is the more ideal alignment.

I might be mistaken, but if I want to center something (like an image), it seems like I can only center it relative to the whole spread: Layer->Alignment->Center I think it would be very useful to be able to center also relative to the page, and to the margin for the page. When I am centering something, I can drag it until the green line shows me it's centered, but I have to worry that it moves vertically as well. This should apply to the other alignments as well. Align Right relative to margin, page, or spread. Align Middle relative to margin or page (spreads are always horizontal as far as I know, so spread wouldn't apply to Middle, Top, or Bottom).

Imagine you have a document that you need to finesse the export settings to make compatible with a particular use. In my case uploading to Amazon or Ingram for publishing. They have very strict rules on PDFs uploaded to them. Now of course I should be writing everything down, and creating an export preset for each site, etc. but in cases where I didn't (or I have too many presets), I want to check what settings I used with the previous upload. In this case, seeing the exact settings used would be very useful. It might even be cooler if I could read the settings from the file in Publisher and set my export settings to match that file automatically.

I'd like to suggest embedding the export settings used when exporting a PDF into the meta data of the PDF, so it can be read later.

Is there a way to see which export settings were used for a specific PDF that was exported from Affinity Publisher?

So I've been doing a bit if testing and it seems the range 128-159 (hex 80-9F) is not found by Affinity. That is presumably because that range is not defined in ISO-8859-1, while Windows-1252 does define that range (which included œ). Apparently it was added to ISO-8859-15. That's the only thing that makes sense to me. I guess I can just add those characters to the search, but part of what I'm trying to do is find characters I'm not expecting.

Thank you, that works pretty well. There is one odd thing happening, however. I have some ligature characters in the text, which include æ and œ. I looked those up and they both fall within the 7F-FF range (æ is E6 and œ is 9C) but it doesn't seem to be finding œ, only æ. If I search directly I find 15 instances of æ and oe each. Only the æ matches are showing up in the x7f-xff search. I assume this is actually a bug. I've attached a document which illustrates the problem. Presumably it's not just œ that isn't showing up, but I haven't tested anything else. ligature search bug.afpub

I'm trying to do a regex search to find all special characters, such as ligatures and accented characters. I haven't found a great way to do this but I've been playing with it and came up with: [^a-zA-Z0-9‘’”“;.,-—–() !\n] The idea is to exclude alphanumeric characters, punctuation, spaces, as well as the newline character. This works up to a point, but I still have almost 7000 matches. Some of these are great, such as finding non-curved quotes. However, many of the matches are footnotes and I think index references. Is there a way to exclude affinity-specific references like those?

I think the right thing to do for ebooks is to have multiple output options for the same document, allow previewing the output, and then finalizing the export. So you don't need to change your document, and then change it back. There are too many things that could go wrong that way. It's a work-around, but I would hope Affinity is thinking about more professional ways to export different versions of the same document, and I hope they've put print-replica ebooks into their plan.

I just wanted to let people know that despite the problems from bug AF-279 which still haven't been fixed, I managed to publish my book last month: https://a.co/d/aOesZqY The book has received some good initial responses in the Twain scholarly community. I'm hoping to get some good reviews for it soon to help market it. I would add that there are a few things that would have made the book much easier to publish: Fixing AF-279. While I was mostly able to work around it, there are a few pages that display incorrectly because of this bug. I wish Affinity would make this a bigger priority. Allowing indexing ranges to be divided by the whole book, story or section. Right now sections break the page ranges in indexes, even if that doesn't make sense for the book. It would be very helpful if one would decide to allow it for each story or the whole book. This required a lot of manual editing of the index to fix. No one wants to manually edit an index. Multiple indexes. I managed to create two indexes in my book, but it requires more manual editing, and means once you do it, the index won't update. It would be much better if one could generate multiple indexes and place them in the book, and have them update. A way to find out if images are covering text. I haven't looked for this, so maybe it exists, but I did have one image slightly covering text in my final version that I didn't notice until after it went to press. It would be nice if this showed up in the Preflight checks. Support for eBooks. Presumbably this is coming. I would just add that for print-replica eBooks, something less common, it would be nice if there was a way to equalize the margins so the text and images move to the middle for ebooks. Right now for this I changed the margins, and then had to manually fix all the images (and I have a lot of images). The bigger problem is once I do this I need to keep a separate file for the ebook version, and any changes need to be made in both versions. For regular ebooks, it would be nice to support pop-up notes. Philip

I am going to try this, but each level of the index has a different style, so this is actually a major pain in the neck.

I've added a feature request here:

In Publisher, it would be very helpful if, like Notes, the Index settings had a checkbox to turn off 'Generate hyperlinks'. I know that you can simply not export hyperlinks, but that would mean all hyperlinks would be removed, and there are instances I'd like to have my personally added hyperlinks exported, but not auto-generated hyperlinks. Additionally, I just noticed that the Table of Contents allows 'Include as PDF bookmarks'. I think this should be changed to allow a specific style to be used as Bookmarks, i.e. the style used as the top-level of the ToC. Sometimes there are multiple levels and you might not want all of them to become Bookmarks, as it could overwhelm the UI for Bookmarks. Also, I think one should have the option for the page numbers be regular hyperlinks to the pages, maybe instead of the bookmarks.

I know, but I have external hyperlinks I'd like to keep. It seems like there should be a way to keep those you create, and shut off all the automatically-generated ones. You can turn off the Notes hyperlinks, so why not the Index hyperlinks? There should be a way.