[Please help: Affinity Publisher opens my Affinity Document, but freezes when trying to export]

I have been seeing something similar for some time now.

On the Mac I use for editing these docs [mostly a single page 1.5mb file] the [A] Mac will not complete a save, it appears to save but I get the save progress bar, which does not move and I have to crash Publisher V2 [fully patched]. Sometimes I have seen

Obviously I have restarted the Mac [A] which seems to make no difference.

My work around is to go to another [B] Mac and make the changes [with no issues] then go back to Mac [A] sometimes I can now open the file, but mostly I get the same frozen save progress bar.

I'm using iCloud to share workflow between Macs, Mainly because I need to make a PDF of a doc to put on the web and the app I'm using needs an older macOS [C].

The first Mac is a [A] 2021 MBP M1 Pro, the second is a [B] iMac Retina 5K 2017. and the "web" Mac is a [C] 2016 MBP.

Any help I can give, to help resolve this issue, would be forthcoming.

I really would like to get this finally sorted ;~}}

[Import InDesign file into Affinity Publisher]

Hi Walt,

Many thanks for posting info on Markzware's IDMarkz.

I've had a look, it does a pretty rough and ready of a relatively simple document, a single page A5 flyer with formatted text and an imported .ai file.

 

[Searching in Publisher]

Hi Walt,

Nope, but ...

I've just created a new A4 Publisher doc and placed a Word doc file into 5 pages.

Go to "Find" type "and" into search box and wham!, Publisher has gone.

[Searching in Publisher]

Out of interest, this is a 132 pp book with loads of pix the on-disk file size is 7.41 GB

This job is currently on a 27" iMac [Late 2013] on Yosemite, the reason that is I have loads of work in InDesign that needs an occasional update. It has the only working copy of "Creative Suite 6" to keep things simple!!

[Searching in Publisher]

In fact I have just tried another search.

Search for "20" and even before clicking on search Publisher crashes.

[Searching in Publisher]

Very simple it works every time ...

I'm checking the text in a 132pp book ...

I like the convention using an "EN" dash between numbers: 1939–45, but the author uses just the "Hyphen" which look terrible to me.

So I put the hyphen in the search field and wham Publisher drops out.

This is not unique to the Hyphen ... Publisher consistently crashes.

[Span Columns]

Exciting ... Is this a hope or an expectation?

[Span Columns]

All this is so simple achieve in InDesign, not least that, but also promotes a structured layout with CONSISTENT spacing between Spanned headings and both preceding and following text. I often have to create a new design with style sheets ... then that can be implemented by colleagues/assistants with the confidence they will follow the house style.

With this implemented, you can simply throw a complete text flow [pre-formatted] at the pages and it then lays itself out automatically [chapter openers, opening paras section headers x-heads pull-quotes and running text] as in Ventura Publisher or InDesign. Then all you need to do is to go through adding illustrations and make surreptitious text edits to get columns to balance and the pages "work".

I hunted with glee when Affinity's latest Publisher drop [1.9.1] came along, but Span Columns was missing. ;~{{

Please Affinity, Publisher is a huge achievement as many others agree, but Span Columns for some is a major omission IMHO

[Span Columns]

Many thanks mliving,

I'll have a go in the morning.

But why is it so difficult to mimic what was so easy in InDesign CS6. At least now I can create style sheets so customers can "just use them" rather than struggle, or create a page full of multi frames!

I too was on Ventura from the early days of DOS. I joined the Ventura User Group and even offered myself as a prize at a few major meetings in London, offering to give a day's training to the lucky prizewinner. Which went very well and became a firm friends and colleagues.

Like you I moved on I needed something for much more integrated page layouts ... but first to Pagemaker, QuarkXpress then InDesign beta then through the CS series and now ["thank the gods"] Affinity Publisher. 

Cheers Peter

[Span Columns]

I will add my support for this request, this is a serious omission, not having access to such a facility creates so much extra work and when you have to make changes to the content it requires potentially a whole document refresh.