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You got me wrong. Maybe it is my englisch. This is not my mother Language. 😂 Affinity Publisher is great! I became a huge Affinity fan the last 2 years. 
What I wanted to say: It is a pain to work on a "small" screen. That is why I can not imagine to do DTP on an iPad. Maybe I am wrong. Did not have a iPad for a long time.
Working with Scribus on an Mac causes a lot of pain. It is sloooooooow. That is why I insisted to switch to Publisher. 
Relative paths is still important. But maybe I am the only working in a Team... what is hard to imagine.
 

Since about 2 years an important feature for collaborate Work is missing. Publisher urgently needs relative links! I know that this feature Request already exists several times in this forum but I think it needs a refresh! 😉
I work in a team that shares publisher files via Dropbox. As soon as an other user links an image and saves the afpub file, the next Mac user opening it has to relink the images. We found out (thanks to this forum) , that it is enough to find one image file and all other files are recognised automatically but if there are subfolders this process still takes a lot of time. 
PLEASE dear developers ad the possibility to choose „relative links“ like other layout programs do! 
Kontext: We as a team switched from Scribus (veeery slow, but free) and since about 10 years relative paths were no issue there.
Toby, Austria

This feature is a must have! It is not possible to work on a shared project via Dropbox/Drive etc. All Picture have to be in one Folder and every time a user opens a file with new pictures at least one picture has to be located... I do not understand why nothing happend since 2018?! 

You got me wrong. Maybe it is my englisch. This is not my mother Language. 😂 Affinity Publisher is great! I became a huge Affinity fan the last 2 years. 
What I wanted to say: It is a pain to work on a "small" screen. That is why I can not imagine to do DTP on an iPad. Maybe I am wrong. Did not have a iPad for a long time.
Working with Scribus on an Mac causes a lot of pain. It is sloooooooow. That is why I insisted to switch to Publisher. 
Relative paths is still important. But maybe I am the only working in a Team... what is hard to imagine.
 

Since about 2 years an important feature for collaborate Work is missing. Publisher urgently needs relative links! I know that this feature Request already exists several times in this forum but I think it needs a refresh! 😉
I work in a team that shares publisher files via Dropbox. As soon as an other user links an image and saves the afpub file, the next Mac user opening it has to relink the images. We found out (thanks to this forum) , that it is enough to find one image file and all other files are recognised automatically but if there are subfolders this process still takes a lot of time. 
PLEASE dear developers ad the possibility to choose „relative links“ like other layout programs do! 
Kontext: We as a team switched from Scribus (veeery slow, but free) and since about 10 years relative paths were no issue there.
Toby, Austria

This feature is a must have! It is not possible to work on a shared project via Dropbox/Drive etc. All Picture have to be in one Folder and every time a user opens a file with new pictures at least one picture has to be located... I do not understand why nothing happend since 2018?! 

This feature is a must have! It is not possible to work on a shared project via Dropbox/Drive etc. All Picture have to be in one Folder and every time a user opens a file with new pictures at least one picture has to be located... I do not understand why nothing happend since 2018?! 

Since about 2 years an important feature for collaborate Work is missing. Publisher urgently needs relative links! I know that this feature Request already exists several times in this forum but I think it needs a refresh! 😉
I work in a team that shares publisher files via Dropbox. As soon as an other user links an image and saves the afpub file, the next Mac user opening it has to relink the images. We found out (thanks to this forum) , that it is enough to find one image file and all other files are recognised automatically but if there are subfolders this process still takes a lot of time. 
PLEASE dear developers ad the possibility to choose „relative links“ like other layout programs do! 
Kontext: We as a team switched from Scribus (veeery slow, but free) and since about 10 years relative paths were no issue there.
Toby, Austria

Since about 2 years an important feature for collaborate Work is missing. Publisher urgently needs relative links! I know that this feature Request already exists several times in this forum but I think it needs a refresh! 😉
I work in a team that shares publisher files via Dropbox. As soon as an other user links an image and saves the afpub file, the next Mac user opening it has to relink the images. We found out (thanks to this forum) , that it is enough to find one image file and all other files are recognised automatically but if there are subfolders this process still takes a lot of time. 
PLEASE dear developers ad the possibility to choose „relative links“ like other layout programs do! 
Kontext: We as a team switched from Scribus (veeery slow, but free) and since about 10 years relative paths were no issue there.
Toby, Austria

Thank you for this brilliant tipp! Is a good workaround. Publisher still needs a better solution.

Since about 2 years an important feature for collaborate Work is missing. Publisher urgently needs relative links! I know that this feature Request already exists several times in this forum but I think it needs a refresh! 😉
I work in a team that shares publisher files via Dropbox. As soon as an other user links an image and saves the afpub file, the next Mac user opening it has to relink the images. We found out (thanks to this forum) , that it is enough to find one image file and all other files are recognised automatically but if there are subfolders this process still takes a lot of time. 
PLEASE dear developers ad the possibility to choose „relative links“ like other layout programs do! 
Kontext: We as a team switched from Scribus (veeery slow, but free) and since about 10 years relative paths were no issue there.
Toby, Austria

This feature is a must have! It is not possible to work on a shared project via Dropbox/Drive etc. All Picture have to be in one Folder and every time a user opens a file with new pictures at least one picture has to be located... I do not understand why nothing happend since 2018?! 

Since about 2 years an important feature for collaborate Work is missing. Publisher urgently needs relative links! I know that this feature Request already exists several times in this forum but I think it needs a refresh! 😉
I work in a team that shares publisher files via Dropbox. As soon as an other user links an image and saves the afpub file, the next Mac user opening it has to relink the images. We found out (thanks to this forum) , that it is enough to find one image file and all other files are recognised automatically but if there are subfolders this process still takes a lot of time. 
PLEASE dear developers ad the possibility to choose „relative links“ like other layout programs do! 
Kontext: We as a team switched from Scribus (veeery slow, but free) and since about 10 years relative paths were no issue there.
Toby, Austria

One workaround, for now: After you've moved the files, open the Publisher document that uses them. You'll get a popup about missing resources, asking if you want to locate them.
Click Yes (not Resource Manager). You will get a Finder or File Explorer window with one of the files named in it. Navigate to the new location containing that file and click Open.
Publisher will find all the missing files that are in the same folder.

I agree and was going to suggest the same thing when I found this post.
I'd like an option to allow you to select absolute or relative paths to images, etc.
Maybe for an image this could be done "intelligently" so if you use a resource on a network folder the path would be absolute, but for a local resource it would be relative?
Or perhaps be able specify a folder ( or folders ) in the document setup for resource locations.
I have sub-folders for different sections of of publications and sub-folders within those so images for any particular job will be spread across several folders.
Some, like advertisements, will get used in several different jobs, others just once in a single article.
 
This sort of ties in with having an option to "package" a publication with its resources for passing to a third party?

After relocation of project to another folder/another PC, I had to replace all source files one by one. It would be nice if the path could be relative/absolute and after find one source in new location, the rest will be updated automatically.

I do not know if this is already planned or suggested, but I think it would be really useful to be able to link images with a relative path if the image is located in the same folder (or subfolder) of the publisher file. I oftentimes have a folder per project where I gather all the images and such for that project. That way I could link images (instead of embedding them) and still be able to copy the project ot another location/computer. Currently my publisher just crashes when it cannot find linked images, but I guess that will be fixed one way or another when it is released.

The blank page goes away when I DO NOT choose an existing printer preset and switch to Default Settings...