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I may have found a way around the problem. First, I made sure that all pages had some object that was in the bleed (like a background photo or color block). In the case of title page and copyright page, I just added a white rectangle placed at the back. Then I chose to "Export to Template" and canceled. After that I was able to enter the standard Export dialogue and choose a PDF. But - after a year or so of reports there must be some info that Affinity has to resolve this problem. Oh, by the way, I have 2 documents that exhibit the same problem of crashing. I'm hoping that the workaround will continue to work.

I don't even get a chance to change export parameters. AFPUB 1.10.8 on Mac 13.5.2 crashes instantly as the menu item "Export" is clicked. Any suggestions as to how to avoid this? I have a book to publish!

Thanks for your inspirations on what is going on. One thing I noted after reading your notes is that my Pages color was set to 8-bit and AFPUB was set to 16-bit with the same color profile. I had read that certain differences could occur due to fractional differences (more detail in 16-bit). I'll check it out further to see if some good change will happen. I do have a display color measuring device and will see if there are still differences in the measured color.

Thanks Walt - I can always count on you for good advice. For some reason, that choice yesterday was greyed out and I could not choose that forum. I will look forward to having the post moved there. Regards.

I could not find an appropriate forum for this simple question. I assume that if I were using AFPUB 2... the results would be the same. Using the latest Mac OS version on a MacBook Pro laptop. I use AFPUB 1.10.6 as I have been developing a large document for some time. I am also manually paralleling that document in Mac PAGES. I've noticed visually (on the display) that the same RGB (or HEX) versions of color on one application do not match the other application. I've also checked the CMYK settings in each application with the same result. In PAGES, the AFPUB color values provide a "brighter" color that I have to tone down. It would be helpful to figure out what I'm doing that keeps those two application out-of-sync. Any suggestions on how to get them in sync would be appreciated. Thank you.

I created my document/book from scratch within AFPUB. I don't use Word (or Windows) and I'm not that familiar with HTML. I have Mac computers. For printing a paper book, the AFPUB exported PDF works fine. My foray into Calibre and Sigil territory met with mostly non-fixed pages and little of my original presentation seemed to be respected in the epub output. I am very novice at the whole topic just now. Many thanks for any help you could provide - steps to take from AFPUB to epub and tips-n-tricks and would be a big help. I suppose it would be useful to be pointed to a good primer aimed at artists, not programmers :oP I hope to be able to publish the epub version at the latest in 2023. I agree that it is a sorely needed feature of AFPUB and hoping for the best from Serif.

I found that using master "facing" pages with margins set verso and recto (wide gutter) that I can drag all objects on a page at once and they will automatically center on the margin when you get near - that's why you might see at least two green vertical lines of "centering" - one is the page center and the other is the margin center. Once you get used to that, it's fairly easy to center all the page objects on the margin width.

1. After changing master to facing, standard document page result; 2. after manually applying master again. Now frame text extends into bleed as master is designed to do.

And thanks, too, to Walt and Tomaso! Just a follow-up. I made the changes to the master pages. And all of the document pages "cleared up" and showed mostly the correct way. However, I noticed that the heading and page number text items on the master pages were not going into the bleed as they are designed to do. It wasn't until I manually "applied" the masters again to the appropriate pages that the text items entered into the bleed as designed. I suppose I would have assumed that those changes to the master pages would automatically be applied to the document pages too. Anyway all is good now! Thanks again for great help!

Old Bruce - many thanks. That correction made everything work perfectly. Leave it to me, the novice, to overlook something so import like that. Namaste!

Thomaso - thanks for your clarification. I am able to get all pages to use and show the Master Pages. Thanks for the tip on making that happen (I still have to learn about the "Edit Linked" option and how to use it - haven't used it yet.) The problem still remains that that particular section will not View/Show Margins. All other pages using different Master Pages (well almost all) do show the margins "box." There are a couple of single "recto" pages using a different Master Page that also do not show the margins - maybe just 2 of the 268 pages. As described above to Walt (sorry about the delay and "out-of-sequence" reply), I use the pages margin settings instead of using Master Page margin settings for all except a couple of pages that do not use the Master Page items (no page numbers, heading, stripe). It is not a critical problem - I don't need the margins to print anyway and the document is nearly finished.

Thanks, Walt, It's always good to get your perspective (always appreciated). However, for my book none of my 6 Master Pages have a margin specified. Instead I specify the margins at the page level. For a book, I have the inside page margins set to Inner: .5"; outer: .25", top: .25", bottom: .25". (For all pages.) When I specify the Margins at the page level - the software automatically applies the correct margin for recto and verso pages. The problem I perceived when checking it out is that if you specify margins at the Master Page level then the Margin settings are different: "Left, Right, Top, Bottom" - so, I would need to create 2 Master Pages for each spread in a Section and apply some to odd pages and others to even pages. Then if I decide to add pages or delete pages in the middle of the document, all heck breaks loose as the recto / verso pages would (do) get the wrong margin setting. This whole problem is resolved when using page margin settings instead of Master Page margin settings. It all works perfectly in the other 5 Master pages (the Inner, Outer, Top and Bottom all work perfectly on left- and right-hand pages and Margins do show on them as well. It is just this 6th Master Page that makes the margins disappear where that Master is used. I did try to make a new Master Page with the same characteristics as the old one - cleared old and then applied new to the particular Section pages that use that Master. It still made the Margins disappear. At this point, I am suspecting corruption in the document (though everything else seems to work perfectly), but I'm no expert in that area. I'm currently using AFPUB 1.10.5 on High Sierra. Regards, -=mark=-

Strange that in one section of some 25 I have in my document, one section would not show the margins when turned on via the View/Show Margins choice. If I cleared the masters for that section, then the Margins would show up. At this point I cannot get both the Margins and the Master page items (heading, page#). For that Section they are mutually exclusive. The other problem: when I apply the correct Master for that Section (to all the pages in that section), they do show up in each of the pages in that section in the Layers panel, but at the bottom of the Layers panel. And the single last page selected in that Section of some 30 pages DOES show the Master Items (weird). The Master page items do not show in the other pages until I manually move the Master Page layers (for a spread of 2 pages) up to the top of the Layers panel for each page. All other sections of the document show both Margins and Master Page items (different Masters) reliably. I have never run into this before in the several years using AFPUB. Would appreciate some help with this please. Thank you.

Thanks RC-R - Justified Center often leaves large spaces between words. For this particular document, I am using captions for photographs and using Centre Align. The captions are 'short and sweet' and rarely extend past a single paragraph. Because the document is dense with photos, the text captions need to be positioned close to the photo (sometimes underneath, sometimes above, or to the right or left). In each case, it is desirable to position the caption a (mostly) fixed distance from the photo frame. It is notable that the text itself (not the text frame) should be at that distance. This usually means "squeezing" the text box manually until some text row inside just touches the frame edges left and right. For some time, I was able to just double click one of the edge buttons and the frame adjusted itself exactly as I wished (no extra space was added). Now I see that the Text Frame Width value (which has a required/default 1 column) is changed when I double click the box edge. In the latest version of the document, this action defaults to adding empty space to the right and left of the text inside the Text Frame. It would be desirable to somehow suppress this default, i.e., do not add empty space before and after the text. See the four screen shots of the Text Frame settings and before (desirable) and after (not desirable) results of double-clicking the right edge button. In this specific case, the text frame and column width should be 1.726 inches. After the double-click the box expands to 1.88 inches to accommodate the extra space added right and left. Hopefully, there is a setting somewhere (I am obviously missing) that will get me back to this scenario - which I used to be able to rely on until I shrank my document and then had to re-do all of my text styles to match the object's new sizes (font size shrank, photos shrank). I used to be able to double click an edge and the box would fit the text precisely. It is interesting, but baffling that if "Hide overflow" is unchecked, the text is expanded into a single row with EXTRA (additional) space added left and right. I guess I would never have assumed that check box would affect this action so drastically (it seems to be doing more than just "hiding" overflow, i.e., "preventing" overflow.) Afterthought: It might be that the Text Frame "Columns" is interfering with my ideal - I don't really have any need for the concept in these captions. Thanks for any insight. first column: desirable (done manually); second column not desirable after double-click of edge.

I have recently discovered that one can auto-resize a frame text (box) to "fit" the text within. This seems to be dependent on the starting width of the frame, the starting height of the frame, etc. For example, I can double-click the center anchor ("button") on the right of the Frame. This often resizes the frame and text to "fit" BUT it usually will leave a "margin" on left and right (spacing between the text and the frame edges). As I am trying to move the text box just a certain distance away from another object, I also want the text itself to be in the same position (say, 1/8 inch from the object). When double-clicking the (left or right) center button, my frame text enlarges or shrinks and acquires an "inset" where the text has some space on left and right (not on top or bottom). The Studio Text Frame shows insets set to zero. My text is set to center both vertically and horizontally. The style of the text is controlled by a Text Style entry. The Paragraph section has the Decorations set to "none" - unchecked. It is as though some internal process is attempting to "balance" the text rows to be somewhat even/equal and adding that space around. In some cases where paragraphs are longer (more rows of text), the bottom-most row will often be shorter than the ones above. This makes the paragraph "stand out" and look a bit neater, but is a mystery how I can control that process. It it notable that a brand new document with a new Frame Text - does not exhibit this "problem". I have searched extensively but have not found the cause of this behaviour. I cannot find any tutorial material in the help sections of Affinity and I am hoping there is one out there to be seen. Example text included as screen shots. Text is centered horizontally and vertically. First one is how I want the box sized. The second one is after I double-click the right, center button - the text gets some unwanted space on left and right. This double-clicking also has other qualities, such as moving the right or left edge clicked to center and space the text. So click the right edge center button and only the right edge moves; click the left and only the left edge moves; you can also click top center or bottom center edge buttons and the Frame Text will shrink to allow the text to just fit Thanks for any insight you might have.