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Thank you Nathan for helping me understand what had happened. In the meantime, before your answer, I had set up the 5 damaged chapters from scratch using the template for the whole book. This time everything is working OK. The only thing I saw when exporting the whole book to PDF, was that only chapters that were opened in the book, exported correctly. Closed chapters only showed 'Running Header'. After having all chapters open in the book, the whole book exported as expected with all running headers showing correctly. But I guess that's how it's meant to work.

As for the overrides: I have been using tracking in some body paragraphs to adjust the text to column endings. But I can't find that I'm using paragraph returns instead of text wrapping when placing pictures. Maybe a fluke, but on my end when I select the heading and type over it, the text in the running headers changes accordingly on all the following pages. So to me this seems to be normal. I'm still not understanding what's happening in the first dokument.

Thanks for looking into this, but I don't understand, because the headlines in all the chapters are made the same way, also in those where running headers are ok. Attaching a chapter where everything is ok. Do you see any differance? Fjorden-båten-naustet-kyrkja.afpub

I have a book containing 12 chapters. On the master pages I have set up running headers showing the style of the chapter title on top of the pages left and right. On 7 chapters everything is working as expected, on 5 chapters the running headers are only showing up on the first page, not on the following pages. I can see when opening one of those not working chapters that <Running Headers> is shown for a sec or two, then blank. All the chapters are layed out using the same template, and the running header frames (setup) are copied from the master pages for one of the working chapters and then copied into the master pages for all chapters. I can't figure out what's preventing the running headers from showing up where they should. I'm attaching one of the files that are not working. Could anybody please have a look to see what might be wrong? Geir Hamre fjordungskyrkje til sokn.afpub

Thanks for helping This is how QuarkExpress handles chapters in a book. I'm making a yearbook with many authors, the articles are of different length so it would be a nigtmare to adjust. I have this, doesn't seem to matter. But, I have found a solution, though not automatic: If I change the starting page from right to left in the chapters causing trouble, and exporting area "All chapters as pages" everything seems to work OK. You then of cause have to have the chapters in the final order. So you don't have the same freedom moving chapters up/down. But it works. I miss Ventura Publisher taking care of this already in the 90's Geir

That's one step forward, thank you Mike. But I'm not quite through. I'll try to explain: If I now export the book with area "All chapters" chosen, AffPub does something odd: if a chapter ends with an even number, say page 16, I get two facing pages, the end of the chapter left, then a blank page (area) to the right. The next chapter starts with an odd number to the right, say 17, but now a blank facing page (area) to the left. If I export the book with area "All chapters as pages" I get no blank pages, but now another odd thing happens: a chapter ends with an odd number, correctly to the right, say 29. AffPub then jumps over number 30, the next chapter starts with 31, the page placed to the left and the number to the right on that page. I don't understand what's going on, if someone can shed som light on this, I'll be glad. To me the only solution now seems to be to collect the book by starting with the first chapter and the adding pages from file, 14 times in my case. That would work, but is very rigid compared to the book function. number - All chapters.pdf numbers - All chapters as pages.pdf

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I'm testing the book function in Affinity Publisher 2.1.0. I now have a book with 14 chapters. It's mostly working OK (TOC, moving chapters etc.), but positioning of numbers gives me some problems. I use facing pages, and I want even numbers to the left on the left pages, odd numbers I want to the right on the right pages. All the chapters I have set to start with the first page to the right. But for some chapters this comes out wrong. If a chapter ends on a right page, then the next chapter starts to the left, but with an odd number to the left where there should have been an even number (see attached pdf). Any ideas how to fix this? Geir numbers - facing pages.pdf

Okay, okay, thank you so much for helping me with this issue! Geir

Thanks again. Here comes the document. You could try updating the TOC and see what happens at your side. Geir Grindtest.afpub

Thanks for trying to help. I can see which layer the line is associated with, but I can't do anything there - other than toggle on/off. The line shows up underneath the style heading3 on 2 pages, under heading2 on one page. Have checked if there is anything associated with those styles (decorations etc.) - but there is nothing. The only way I can see is to cover the line with a rectangel frame, - but there must be something......

I've started working on a book originally created in AffPub ver 1. Now I'm in ver 2.0.4. Everything seems to be OK, except for one thing: When I update the TOC, a mysterious line shows up at the bottom of each of the 3 TOC pages. It's covering ca. half of the page column, aligned right, as is the page numbers. I can't find where the line is coming from, I can't catch it to delete it. I've opened the ver 1 document several times, and each time I do an update of the TOC this line shows up at the bottom of each TOC pages. Anybody having an idea of what's causing the issue? See attached file. Geir

Old Bruce and I seem to have posted at the same time, I didn't see your post before I answered. But your thought is correct, Old Bruce: I want it to look like the handwriting is on the orange rectangle. v_kyr's suggestion solved my problem.

Very good, that's it. Thank you!

I'm about creating a book cover. The background is a one coloured frame and I want some handwritten text in a tif-file showing through the coloured frame on the front. How do I achieve that? I've attached a testfile where I tried this: I lowered the opacity in the frame letting handwritten text showing through and then tried to alter the colour in the frame to match the original colour, showing in the frame to the left (back side of the cover). But it's difficult to get the original colour. There must be another way of doing this. How can I preserve the original colour? Geir omslag_test.afpub