Alex White

I find the "initial words" style REALLY useful, but I think there is a slight flaw - the end character is counted as a word, and doesn't get the initial word style unless your max word count is increased by one. When I had my word count as 3 I had the following results This section: a section And this section: another section Note how in the second line, the terminating colon isn't bold. This introduces subtle layout problems which are easy to miss. I think it would be a better experience if the terminating character matched the style of the initial words, rather than being treated as a 'word' all on it's own.

So the problem has been around for ages and apparently it is always ‘an Apple problem’? I don’t really buy it. This is a problem that I ONLY see with Affinity, and I don’t see with ANY other apps on the Mac. If it was an Apple problem then I would expect it to be showing up in at least one other place. Because of the frequency of updates I keep having to restart the app and have this annoyance again and again. I wish they could commit to looking into it again and working out exactly what the problem is.

All of the Affinity applications take over 30 seconds to start up on my M1 macbook running the latest version of Sonoma. None of my other apps (even quite big and complicated ones) take longer than 5 seconds to load. Why do Affinity apps take so long?

Thanks for the links - I didn't look far enough back to see if it was a known problem. Fingers crossed for an eventual solution to it.

The current version will take 30 seconds or more to start when clicking the icon. This is on an M1 Macbook Pro with 32Gb of memory that isn't under any CPU or memory stress. Clearly it does more than the v1 of Affinity Publisher, but I'm surprised at how slow it is to start up. I don't see this kind of slow start with any of the other apps that I use. Are other people finding it similarly slow to start? (runs fine once it is going BTW)

That wasn't the problem, because it was including body style in the ToC (and that would never have been deliberately included in there, or even accidentally included). So it still comes down to hidden anchors arriving in the text somehow.

Well, I've been able to fix the problem. I don't know what caused the problem. I fixed it by showing the anchors /window/references/anchors and then selecting and deleting all the unwanted ones, which were the big chunks of text. What I don't know is how they got in there. The document was imported from pages, and it had been in 'review' mode on pages. Anyone got any bright ideas?

I'm confused, I've just exported to a PDF (using the default digital high-quality option) and instead of the PDF bookmarks being the headings as expected, I've also got some chunks of text in there too. You can see in this screen shot the H1 'about this game' and three H2 headings below that, and then there is chunk of the first paragraph appearing there - it is styled as body text, but the first three words are missing (in fact, I think the text reflects an earlier version of the text which had been edited in MacOS Pages before being pasted into my Publisher document). Could there be some hidden text lurking in my pages document that I need to root out? Any help gratefully recieved!

I am beyond delighted at the robust cross-reference support. I've started using it already and it is marvellous. Thank you to the team!

I quite like using them in order to have playing card suits available as font characters. I don't suppose there are any good font alternatives to emoji for that?

Is there a good way of marking this as 'answered'?

Hi Ash, I'm now using 2.1.1 and as of today it seems that it is remembering the setting in the export dialog. Many thanks to those involved in fixing this!

I've had a search and can't find how to do this, so I'm posting here. In a document I'm working on the text flow has managed to get mixed up. The top two spreads in the screenshot shows expected behaviour, but the highlighted frame jumps to spread 4, then back to spread 3, then on to spread 5 and it is OK after that. I don't know how I got into this situation, and I've not been able to find the way out of it! I had hoped that clicking on the text flow on a box might let me re-point it, but I couldn't get that working. Any suggestions?

Hi Ash, did anything come of your investigation into this request?

I'm sure that I've been told it was a bug in the past when I've brought it up. I really want them to remember my preferences. Let me pick the option that is right for me (hint: it is NEVER spreads) and remember that. Doesn't seem like it should be rocket science, seems like it is an oversight.