jmwellborn

Ok. Give me a few seconds.

You could always create the master pages again, once you get the thing open.

Oh, my. Would you like me to try to eliminate the little bar on your master pages? Or would you like me to try removing the master pages altogether? It might be worth trying.

Ok. It opened again in Beta 57. I have now removed the picture frames off your master pages, in addition to what I did previously. Look for this file: fast casual-3.afpub below. We'll keep trying!! Better than worrying around here about the remnants of Hurricane Florence!! fastcasual-3.afpub

I revised your file using Beta v. 57. I don't have the 58 Beta in my computer. I'll see if I can open my revision of your file in my V. 57. Then I'll let you know. So sorry. You must be really struggling!

Thank you so much! Got it! I have just sent my revised document for Miltrin and hope it works for him. You are grand!!!

Please look in the topic "Does not open a file" just under this one. I have sent you your document without the floral illustrations on your master pages, leaving just the picture frames. I have not touched your document pages. I HOPE THIS WORKS FOR YOU!

Try this. At least it is a stab at it. I removed the floral illustrations on both your left and right master pages, leaving just the blank picture frames.. I didn't touch your document pages. See below. OOPS. I should have named your document "fastcasual-2.afpub. Hope it doesn't get mixed up with your first one!! fastcasual.afpub

Just sent you a note in the "Nasty bug" topic. I'll try, if you can tell me how to attach your revised file to this forum message.

Hi Miltrin: I just opened your document, but I am using the 57 Beta. It opened like a charm. I haven't fiddled with anything and will delete the file from my MAC. Do you think you oould try to open it again? Or if somebody could tell me how to attach a file to this forum, do you want me to try to get the pictures off your master pages, just in case Carl123 is not around today?

Thank you! I am so impressed with, and grateful for, the old-fashioned graciousness with which you cope with us all. i am truly looking forward to purchasing the fiest commercial version! Love Affinity Photo!!!

I have very suspiciously not downloaded the v. 58. I can reopen a document originated in v. 57. Although once it crashed. Then the second time I tried to open the same thing, it opened. Question. Can I replace v. 57 with v. 59 when it comes, or do I have to go from 57 to 58 to 59. Really stupid about some of the technological aspects to this stuff. Naturally I am a WHIZ as an author. M'm'm'm'm'm.

I am lined up and ready to purchase Publisher the moment it hits the market!!! I have no need for Designer, since I have the artistic ability of a mosquito, but I absolutely love Photo. It has done some extraordinary things at bringing old photographs from the 1800's to life again. That alone is worth its weight in gold. It has also recaptured lost detail and color from old 35 mm slides, black and white photographs from generations of yore, etc. Lovely, lovely software. As for modern digital photos -- Amazing!!

Looks to me like the Postscript pica. I think we are asking (at least I am) for the DTP point (desktop publishing point) which is defined as 1/72 of an international inch (about 0.353 mm) and, as with earlier American point sizes, is considered to be 1/12 of a pica. The pica measurement is so useful, because it corresponds so neatly with font sizes. 1p6 picas = 1/4 inch. 3p0 picas = 1/2 inch. 4p6 picas = 3/4 inch., 6p0 picas - 1 inch. But there are lovely permutations, such as 1p3, 1p6, 1p9, etc. Unit conversions include: 1 point in typographic units is equal to 1/12 picas; 1 point in imperial/US units is equal to 1/72 inch; 1 point in metric (SI units) is equal to 0.3528 mm. You are being so very nice about this. We have such high hopes!!

Haven't a clue how to open your video. My Sierra MAC is unamused.

Ah, but I beat them to it. I not only converted every dot and squiggle from InDesign to PDF, but I also have kept the Yosemite MAC in a spare room, with my $600.00 copy of InDesign on it, just in case I have to redo a PDF. I may not be the brightest bulb in the technological world, but I think I was smart enough to do that. And the PDF's of InDesign open beautifully in Publisher! My download of the Publisher Beta also exports the revised documents back into PDF equally beautifully. And then reopens them again in Publisher. In my book, it is already "a friendlier DTP program"!!!!! But thank you so much for caring enough to offer your suggestions! It is much appreciated!

It isn't even a struggle. It is impossible. I tried for several weeks, and eventually gave it up and bought iCalamus, which was a rather juvenile product, but at least it worked better than Pages -- at least in auto text flow. Adobe has long-since become a thumping great extortion scheme, in my book. And I refuse to be swindled. Publisher is going to be GRAND and the people behind it are really honorable. If I had to type every word of every 500 pages or so book I have written and every 54-page or so index (8 pt type) I have generated, I wouldn't go to Adobe -- even to save my sanity. Yeah, Affinity!!!

When I purchased the full edition of CS6 InDesign I was not allowed to receive a DVD. Had to download the software. When I tried to transfer the software — using Time Machine — from my MAC with Yosemite, to a new MAC with Sierra, the Adobe software would not honor the serial number for the purchased software. Adobe would not respond to any and all inquiries about why I could not use my $600.00 or so purchase. In my book, they are shysters.

Thank you so much for your excellent explanation. We can hope very much that Affinity Publisher will add this key measurement option to their lovely new software,

Some Canadians — maybe lots — per another comment stream.

Thank you, thank you!! There are honestly so many of us who will be overwhelmingly grateful!!!!!!

PS. Doesn't happen with InDesign documents converted to PDF. So this is just a heads-up!

I have used the former iCalamus publishing software for just a few (very fortunately) shorter books after Adobe refused to let me reinstall my InDesign CS6 (paid for previously) onto my MAC with Sierra. Although I had converted those books to PDF format, there are apparently major glitches due to layout eccentricities embedded with iCalamus. Don't be alarmed if those PDF's don't print properly, even when converted to Affinity Publisher. They can be edited correctly, but there must be hidden glitches, because parts of individual pages won't print, particularly if there are photographs on them. Or maybe a page of numerous small photos will print the photos but skip half the captions. This does not happen with books -- also with many photographs -- which I have written using Apple Pages. It looks as though there may be a big editing job to do, removing all the photos and placing them afresh. Anyway, good way to learn Publisher down to its socks.

Who would-a thunk it? (Dim bulb vernacular.). Works like a charm. "O wad some Power the giftie gie us ...(me). Scotland to the rescue!! You have not only "made my day," you have "frae many a blunder" freed me.

Thank you, Gary! You are a pearl beyond price!!!! I just bookmarked this Apple thingy and when next on my MAC will follow the instructions to a T. Truly grateful!