MiriamNZ

If I tell it to convert image colour spaces: 249MB. If I dont 30.8MB. 231 images (262mb). 48 page document. 90% jpg compression; 192dpi. PDF1.7. Include fonts subset, hyperlinks, bookmarks.

I am having he same problem.

OK, that worked, thank you! I deleted all the styles in the holding document and imported anew from the main document. If I do that at the start of each new issue, that should keep it sweet.

I am publishing a magazine. My preferred workflow is to import new stories into a holding document, apply the styles, put small versions of available images with them. This enables me to see how much space the story will take up, and the number and or quality of the images I can choose from. Then, I copy the text box or boxes from the holding file to the actual document. --- Why? Well, I come from inDesign, when InDesign started. It was buggy. It was better to import anywhere except your real document to take care of any weird , hidden styling elements. The added benefit was seeing all your stuff so you could choose what to put where. --- In Publisher (1 and 2) when I do this it creates multiple copies of the styles. I start with a style called Article in the real document, and called Article in the holder document. When I paste in my article I now have, in my style list: Article Article 1 Heading Heading 1 Author Author1 Leader Leader1 After my second article is pasted in I have: Article Article 1 Article 2 Heading Heading 1 Heading 2 Author Author 1 Author 2 Leader Leader 1 Leader 2 And so on. I have about 50 articles each issue. This is all very tedious to fix. --- There must be a better workflow? How do other people do things? Is there a way to style or to copy/paste that does not do this? I really like having a holder document, and I like having styles applied there so I can see sizes. -- Any help or suggestions very welcome.

Thanks, good to know, even if it is not the answer I wanted! I will work on getting a better backup battery.

It is only when I am using Publisher that power is a problem. Partly because I don't spend a lot of time on the computer otherwise (mostly on my phone), and partly because I work on the computer for 3-6 hours after sunset (no solar coming in), when I am using Publisher. DTP takes long hours; being retired now, nothing else requires this intensive effort from me, nor has the urgency that has me working into the night. The other things I do on the computer are not particularly taxing for the laptop, and tend to be just for short times, or I choose not to do them after sunset if power is an issue. DTP has deadlines, so I work longer and later. I have a backup battery, but Affinity uses power faster than the battery can replenish it. This is only a problem in winter, when solar is limited.

I live in my motorhome, powered by a battery, so I can see how much power is being used up. When I use Publisher 2, the power use is phenomenal. About 4x normal computer usage. The only settings I have found for power are the " If your Mac has an additional discrete graphics card, checking the Use only integrated GPU will not allow access to it, therefore reducing power consumption and conserving battery life (useful for unplugged MacBook Pros)." I have a 2019 MacBook Pro, 15", Radeon Pro 555X 4 GB | Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB | 16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 memory | Ventura 13.0.1 Is there any other way of limiting the power draw?

Publisher 2 has crashed about 6 times or more today. If I saved and reported the crash reports I would never get any work done. It has crashed while exporting a book. It has crashed while editing a book. It has crashed from the resource manager relinking files, it has crashed opening a chapter in a book. It has crashed trying to edit a photo. Sometimes it hangs sometimes it dies. It does it just soooo often! MacOS 12.6 (Monterey). Publisher 2.04

Maybe i’ll open my old file in 2.04 and see if i can export it now.

Before xmas, I had the problem of not being able to export my book, which was separated into multiple chapters, to a pdf. I had to join them all together into a single file in order to get my pdf ready for distribution. Time consuming, and tricky. I have read the what is updated lists for versions 2.03 and 2.04. I have spent 30 mins searching through the forums. I still don't know if I should attempt to use book and chapters when I start my next magazine issue later this week. Does anyone know if the books feature is working on Mac OS, 12.6, Monterey, Publisher 2.04? Cheers Miriam

Ok, that is me being dumb, sorry. And all. my presets vanished into the ether, sigh. I have to retick the styles that should be included int the TOC. Duh.

So: I created a new document and imported the content form the file that would not make a TOC. No change So: I created a new document, before I messed with TOC, and this document made a TOC. SO I exported the document to pdf, and on hover the page numbers were still those of the chapter in the book. SO: I created a new document. but in 2 lines of test, one a heading one not. Inserted TOC, AND "No table of contents entries found"| There are not items in the TOC dropdown. SO: I reset the Publisher 2 defaults to factory. Still not items in the TOC dropdown, no ability to insert or create a TOC. I have smashed the app!

In an effort to make my document completely rethink its TOC, I deleted all the TOC listed in the TOC panel. There were about 7 of them. When I chose "Text > Table of Contents > Insert Table of Contents" all it inserts is "No table of contents entries found" In the TOC Panel, by dint of choosing "Insert" I have generated a new item in the TOC list called TOC 1. But this will not "update". 'Update all' does nothing. I quit Publisher 2 and restarted, but no change. MACOS 12.6; Publisher 2. --- (I did this because all the Tooltips on my TOC entries were pointing to the page numbers in the chapters of my 'book' when it was 4 different files, rather than the pages in my new, combined-all-chapters-in-one-file-because-I need links-in-my-pdf file.) --- Any suggestions on how to get Publisher 2 to make a new TOC? Surely deleting all the items in the TOC list on the TOC panel doesn't totally smash the feature totally?

If you cannot hyperlink between your chapters then the Book feature is not usable for pdfs that include internal hyperlinks. I have had no problem creating links into other chapters (links to pages), and the table of contents has links that go to the pages in any of the chapters. But I could not test it, as I am unable to export the whole book into a single document. When I export individual chapters it removes links to the other chapters as they are not part of that particular, singular pdf. Every time I try to export a book as a combined pdf Publisher 2 crashes soon after it starts the export. (Yesterday I spent hours combining all my chapters; fixing all the duplicated styles that resulted (which took about 3 hours), so that I could have working hyperlinks in my final book pdf.)

But the Find dialog menu does not do that. It puts a tick next to the current item, in this case "Q", and has the top of the list at the top of the screen.