Clavote

No crash here, it works fine. Only a missing font for the notes.
 

I was able to open and resave it so try this version to see if it makes a difference for you.
What version of Publisher did you create it in?
Mesures simples-resaved.afpub

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.9.0
Changes in this build
A highlights explanation can be found here: 5 things you should know about Affinity Publisher 1.9
The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.9.0 over the release build Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.8.5 are as follows:
New Features
Data Merge (learn more) Support PDF Passthrough to ensure perfect representation of original PDF when exporting, without the need to have embedded fonts installed Package feature to collate your document alongside all used image and font resources into a folder (learn more) Studio Presets for the UI layout to save your favourite workspace setups for different tasks, explained here Studio panel combinations  (also learn more) Content sync of store purchases (requires registration)
This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps Windows hardware (GPU) acceleration (for users running Windows 10 (April 2020 update or later) with a Direct3D feature level 12.0 capable card) Flattened bitmap representation used for all PSD files  Path text improvements (learn more) Initial text baseline advance (learn more) Configurable bleed and margin guide colours (learn more) OpenAsset support for drag/drop from browser content PDF bookmarks (learn more) Convert pixel layer to image node (learn more) Divide blend mode  Fixes & Improvements:
General
Artboard conversion to spreads now optional Placed scale for all placed files, which allows scaling to be reset to 100% Pages panel loses the scroll position when switching between document tabs Document Merge - Added option to ignore unused incoming text styles Document profile PDX Export preflight tweak, falls back to CMYK profile for RGB / LAB documents Opening a template from File > Open or Drag and drop will now open it as untitled Filter Effect Dialog - Enabled the use of global colours When creating a global colour from an object also apply it Fixes various issues with mishandling of CJK fonts in the UI (Win) Various stability improvements Help and Localisation improvements Performance improvements Page/Spread
Resizing single page Master could change the size of dependent spreads incorrectly Deleting Master Page when editing detached could leave 'Editing Detached' notification open Fixed issue where re-applying master pages with text frames with pinned objects could cause document instability When modifying Adjustment Layers any bleed and pasteboard areas affected were not updating correctly Pinned objects from Master Pages were not showing in bleed  Resizing a single page master could cause spreads that used it to be resized incorrectly Guides lost from Master Page when changing from facing to single pages Fixes for margins setup on a Master Page (Win) Added option to 'Add Pages (from file) at end of document' Added option in Add Pages From File to 'Add Before / After / Replacing Section' Text
Text selection highlight across multiple spreads could display incorrectly  Hyperlink styling could accidentally be added to new text More consistent handling of mid-word punctuation Deleting a row with merged cells could cause a crash Text wrap settings on images could become distorted after a document save and load Fix for hang resizing table columns in certain circumstances Line widths around Drop Caps could be wrong /inconsistent Glyph Browser was missing glyphs under certain circumstances when sorting via Unicode Prevent application of Hyperlink Anchors to Layers / Master Page instances Prevent creation of blank Hyperlink Anchors that could case errors on PDF Export Multi-curve text wrap could be combined incorrectly resulting in unexpected wrapping around complex shapes Bookmarks created by TOC not in the correct order when exported to PDF Auto correct quotation marks for French Style changes not always picked up as out of date for TOC TOC Anchors were not being deleted when the TOC was deleted Fixed generation of wrap shapes for certain images with alpha Import
IDML Import - text import now always applies appropriate text styling to be used when appending to imported text IDML import - Speed and efficiency improvements PDF import - Filter Effects could be wrongly rasterised and cause export failures PDF import - placed PDF improvements PDF import - fix for tiling patterns SVG Import - stability improvement Resources
Many Resource Manager fixes and improvements Artboard and other settings could be lost when reconnecting missing Affinity resources Place linked files could be opened as <Embedded> under certain circumstances 'Size frame to content' for images imported from IDML could behave incorrectly Picture frame within a Picture Frame could cause crash Export
Export Pages field now clears when switching documents PDF Export - Improved export of Type 1 fonts, which could cause failure under certain circumstances TGA Export - Fix for 32bit export RTF export / copy paste was losing hyphens under certain circumstances  
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Publisher).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

I'm a graphic designer and prepress specialist. I've used Illustrator since version 1.1 on a Mac Plus (it came with a video tape with John Warnock himself showing you how to use it). I've used practically all the vector illustration tools that have come to market since. Thus, I have a pretty good idea about how such programs behave, and which were the ones for professional use and which were for dilettantes to make pretty pictures, but not for making a brand identity for a Fortune 500 company.
I bought the whole Affinity Suite with the hopes that I could cut the cord on Adobe's pay-us-every-month-or-else scheme. What you have created so far is to be commended and I see a lot of bright potential. I really, really, really love StudioLink, for instance. Its amazing. But, man... there is so much.
I am not making this topic to troll you. I am making it in the hopes that, from the perspective of someone who has done serious work for serious clients both on the creative end and the technical end, you guys can get some feedback to make both Designer and the whole suite something everybody wants to move to. My plan is to keep coming back to it and adding quirks, bugs, and major issues so that you can hone these apps. I hope to pay for upgrades with some of these things I say in them, and some things that are even better than what I suggest.
Soooo... lets start with color. Because its bad.
The problem is the paradigm. A person who is a web designer will have no issues with this, because it seems built to fit their needs. Make a quick graphic, mess around with the RGB sliders until its pretty, and your done. Professionals who work for big clients need their work to be repurposed to all media forms: web/screen, offset press, digital printing, signage, you name it. Thus, colors have to be carefully managed.
What Designer uses is a color mixing panel, and a Swatches panel that has lots of different palettes in it for you to dig around and play with. What it needs is a color mixing panel, and a Swatches panel that automatically, and only, shows used colors from the document, whose view is set it "small icon list" by default. If you mix up a color and use it, it shows up automatically in the Swatches panel under a "Document" palette. You can have your "Application" palette, but anything you choose from it needs to show up in that "Document" palette. Knowing what you are using will be your first clue that you have mixed colorspaces and have too many instances of a particular "spot color."
Graphic designers who have never worked on the technical side are horrendous with making graphics that will not separate correctly and come out with unexpected results when used in any medium other than on-screen display. One time I had some students come to my work and they brought their best artwork with them. I loaded them up on the Mac, and asked them to tell me what their intent was in making their work. I then ran it through the prepress workflow. None of them had their spot colors correct, and they actively mixed RGB, CMYK, and Spot versions of the same colors, and it showed how they would end up not matching if actually put onto product. (Consider this: Draw a large box, and then draw a a small circle in it. Make a CMYK blue, and assign it to the box. Then make an RGB blue color in the circle that visually matches the CMYK mix on screen. Send it to a commercial printer and have them make a professional proof of it. I can bet you will see the circle in the middle.) I then showed them how to fix these problems and prevent them. Most were gracious about it, but some were downright livid and thought I was trying to shame them. I was just trying to save their future careers.
The morass of swatch pallets you have needs to be collected and renamed. You can still have them accessible, and I can see where people will use them. But you need to track those colors as people click on them in that Document swatch palette, and never let people confuse between the swatch palettes and the color choosers.
Tinting should be more accessible and visible. Lets say you added PANTONE 286 C to your pallet, and you want to use the Fill tool to make a gradient with it. So, you have the 100% version already. To make a tint of it (and make sure that, unlike 98% of graphic designers out there with under 2 years experience, you end up turning most of your gradient to CMYK or RGB), make it so you can right-click and pop up the menu on the swatch and choose "Make Tint of this color..." Note that I did not say "Make Tint..." because this implies that it can be a tint of anything. (See where I am going with this? Professionals need control, and management, not just freedom.) You should then have the nice window you have for setting the tint, with an OK or Done button along with Cancel. Once that OK button is clicked, a new swatch should be added called "PANTONE 286 C 0%." AND IT SHOULD ALWAYS WORK. Right now you have to right click on a swatch, make a copy, and then right-click it, choose "Edit Fill..." and scroll all the way down to the bottom and choose "Tint." And god forbid if that color is a "Global" color, because as far as I can tell, you can't tint them. Frankly, this is sooooo CorelDraw. Nice cheap software for people to make pretty pictures at home for use on the church website and newsletter. Not for professionals who want to carefully create artwork that will color match anywhere.
Back to that gradient. The tip of the gradients should be then filled with the 100% and 0% versions of the swatch, and if the designer gets silly and chooses the white swatch (what is the color definition of that swatch anyway? K 0%? C 0 M 0 Y 0 K 0? R 255 G 255 G 255?), a warning should pop up telling them that "Mixing spot and process color will result in the gradient being converted to process using the document colorspace!" That will hopefully ward off that bad practice. AND ONE MORE THING: colors used in between those two swatches in that gradient should not show up in the Document palette as used swatches. I had that happen to me once and had no clue why.
Then you need to choose Separation Preview and look at your list of channels, turning them on and off to make sure you did it right. What Separation Preview you say? The one you didn't put into Designer and Publisher, but is in Illustrator and InDesign. That's what. Have it show overprinting by default without the ability to turn it off.
Next you need to save gradients into that Document swatch palette automatically too and have a means to locate where they are used and be able to edit them and reuse them. But that's another issue, and I am done for now. Just keep this in mind: your competition isn't Microsoft Publisher and CorelDraw. Its Adobe InDesign and Illustrator. Be different, but be better. People like me will pay you for it. See you when I have more time to give more feedback. You really have a good thing going; it just needs a lot of polish.

I will assume this is in Publisher.
Set up a paragraph as you would like all [No Style] text to appear then select that paragraph and go to Edit > Defaults > Synchronize from Selection and immediately go to  Edit > Defaults > Save then repeat for character style [No Style]

One solution could be to keep the current "Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)" section but when a user is submitting a question they have to choose from a pull-down titled "Choose relevant product" that includes 'Designer', 'Photo', 'Publisher' or 'All', and this automatically places (for example) an [Affintiy Designer] tag in front of the person's question. Colour code these tags for easy browsing.

Merci beaucoup Walt
Clavote

Here's one way
First, make a new Character Text Style. I called mine Non-Bold Number.
I based it on Numbered 1:

And I set its Font Weight to Normal:

Next, I updated the definition of Numbered 1, and in the Bullets and Numbering section I specified Non-Bold Number as the style for the numbers:

With a specific character style chosen for the numbers, even if I change the first word to Bold the number is not affected. (Note: when you select the first word, the number will also be selected. But the formatting change you make to the first word won't affect the number.)

Hi all,
Sorry for the delayed reply. We are aware of this and it has already been logged with our developers. 
Thanks,
gabe. 

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Fixes
Improved performance of raster brushing Improved new view docking behaviour; if your current view is in a floating group, a new document will also float Fixed crash when closing a document in a docked group when a floating group is active Fixed flickering when closing a floating document Fixed failure to save into OneDrive directory Fixed the Colour Balance adjustment's midtone calculation 1.7.0.333 release notes

LibreTraining
Thanks a lot for your help,
everything went back to normal when I deleted Arial MT (1) from the Windows/font folder and rebooted!
it was indeed a duplicated font
Have a nice Day
Claude

Can you check your Windows fonts directory and see if you have any duplicate fonts installed?
For example: arial.ttf and arial_0.ttf, etc.
Have to use a tool which allows you to see the actual files, not the Windows font list interface.
You seem to have a mix of Arial fonts from Win10 and earlier Windows versions.
Some of your Arial fonts are not included it Win10.
So I am wondering if some duplicates got installed and that is confusing the new font reader in APub.
The version of Arial (R/I/B/BI) included in Win10 is v7.000 - so you can check that too.
Have you installed the Arial Nova supplemental fonts for Windows 10?
You didn't mention it so I thought I would confirm yes or no.
On Windows 7 x64 I am not having any issues in APub with the same list of various Arial fonts.

when I use the win10 font display I can see Arial (9) Arial MT (1) Arial rounded (1) Arial Unicode (1)
as my locale is Swiss french I reloaded Pub in french, same problem
Edit: the same behaviour is present in both current Beta of AP and AD
but in AD 1.65 works as intended

Hi
It would be very useful to improve the UI of all Affinity Apps by giving us:
open/close left studio panel and open/close right studio panel
as a keyboard shortcut
C

select all cells
in studio open the table panel
you will find all the formating you need
Clav

Hi @Clavote,
I tried this with setting Format to Font Family 'Arial' without any other changes. This does not find anything. I also searched for one single word that I had changed to a different font before. Nothing found, either.
This seems to be broken.
We'll have to wait until after the holiday when everyone is back.
d.

I am so much hoping publisher is becoming great.
I just gave up on Quark Xpress and despite everything I tried against it have to go with Adobe CC now, because QX lacks so much in behaviour and GUI it is a shame. But me hope lies with affinity publisher. If this gets to a usable state, I will instantly bury CC.

Hi
It would be very useful to improve the UI of all Affinity Apps by giving us:
open/close left studio panel and open/close right studio panel
as a keyboard shortcut
C

thank you Walt
indeed there was an entry in the prefs that I missed
have a nice Day
Clavote

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Purpose: General Testing
Requirements: None
Hi, we have a preview of build 145.
As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity where you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. 
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Any problems actually using this version please make a new topic in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Please feel free to leave general suggestions and comments in the Discussion Forum. Many thanks for your continued feedback.
New Features and Fixes
New Documents
- When creating a document, added option to create multiple pages
- Also added option to automatically create and assign a master
- Also added bleed margin settings
Menus / Toolbars / Studio
- (Windows) The View > Studio list is now sorted alphabetically
- (Windows) Fixed Alignment popup 'Distribute' UI disable glitch 
- (Windows) Fixed crash dragging Layers / Styles into Pages Panel
- (Windows) Fixed crash when creating a new assets category
- (Windows) Force Pixel Alignment is now turned off by default
- (Windows) Fixed picture frame properties fitting mode highlight
- (Mac) Fixed page indicator content clipping
- (Mac) Resetting Workspace now resets panel widths correctly
- (Mac) Fixed panel widths getting reset after restart
- (Mac) Fixed some large UI fonts issues with 'Preferences'
Import
- Fixed import of margins from afdesign / afphoto files
- PDF import text spacing improvements
Document and Page Management
- Pages now inherit master page margins unless overridden
- Fixed calculation of margins when converting to / from a facing pages document
- Fixed drawing glitch with facing master pages and 'Clip to Canvas'
- Fixed incorrect duplication of guides from source page when adding pages
- Added Pica units to 'Spread Setup' / 'Add Master Spread' / ruler units menu
-- The ruler units menu is missing on Windows, will be added soon
- Document units are now honoured when setting up bleed in 'Document Setup'
- Fixed master page name editing / commit glitch
- (Windows) Fixed glitch adding facing page masters after changing document setup
- (Mac) Fixed some large UI font issues with 'Add Master Spread' dialog
Tools
- Fixed issue with gradient fill tool with gradients applied to text frames
- Rotation gesture is now disabled by default in Preferences (for Publisher only)
- Fixed issue with stroke weights when pasting between documents with differing DPIs
-- We are aware of other DPI pasting issues, please bear with us
- Fixed instances where Symbols were not detaching correctly
Text
- Changing text frame gutter / column widths no longer changes the frame width
- Added command to distribute column widths equally on a multi-column frame
- It is now possible to link gutter widths on a multi-column frame to keep them in step
-- Changing linked gutter widths can unbalance columns widths, will be fixed soon
- Fixed placement of wrap shape when editing wrap shape of grouped child
- Fixed text wrap issues with vector cropped objects
- Fixes for interaction of text indents and text wrapping
- Fix for calculation of OpenType character widths with certain combinations of attributes
- Fixed for text frame baseline grid not drawing correctly in some cases
- Character Panel decoration line style and Stroke Panel line style now update in sync
- Fix for Text Styles Panel not refreshing after being unhidden
- Fixed auto-resize of text for single lines of text in an overflowing frame
- Fixed crash editing TOC styles after deleting all text styles
- Fixed text AutoFlow issues with pages with pre-existing content
- Updated tool drawing for text flows containing hidden text frames
- Fixed auto hyphenation issues for text with diacritics etc
- Fix for spelling highlight not being updated when applying a Table Format
- Improvements to Title Case / Sentence case for languages other than English
- Selecting text within lists improved
- The 'Next Page Number' text field has been renamed 'Next Frame Page Number'
-- Because this is what it does. Useful for e.g. 'Continued on'
- Fixed crash using some Autocorrect replacements in some languages
- (Windows) The text frame 'Ignore Text Wraps' option is now correctly initialised
- (Windows)Fixed issue reverting text style stylistic set variants to 'No Change'
- (Windows) Fixed issue setting text styles right optical alignment
- (Windows) Fix for words with soft hyphen being shown as misspelled
Resources
- Resource Manager layout improvements
- Fixed crash when cancelling some Resource Manager operations
- Colour space for un-profiled PNGs is now assumed to be sRGB
Tables
- Changing column count using the onscreen control could be unreliable
Export / Print
- Fix for N-Up left / top gaps being ignored
- Better check for space characters when printing (catches Times New Roman 'LSEP')
- Single spread documents can now be exported as individual pages
- Fix for inner bleed not being honoured for leading / trailing pages when exporting to PDF
- (Windows) Fix for custom print paper dimensions not respecting units
- (Mac) Book and booklet printing on Mac now honours bleed
Misc
- (Windows) Fixed Document Thumbnails not displaying in Explorer
As well as the fixes in the earlier updates