Mark Oehlschlager

With regard to producing a properly page-imposed PDF from Publisher, here's how I would do it on a Mac. (Hopefully the same print to PDF option is available to you on a Windows machine.): Begin with your original Publisher document composed of facing pages of A4 sheets. Select File > Print In the print dialogue box, make sure that you've selected a sheet size that matches your spread dimensions (In my case an 11x17, in your case an A3). Under Document Layout options, make sure that you set the Model option to either Book or Booklet. If you have this option in the Windows print dialogue box, under the PDF pull-down menu, select "Save as PDF".

Graham, With regard to the overset text, isn't the solution there to click the eyeball icon at the lower right edge of the frame to hide the overset text, and then to click the red arrow icon at the edge of the frame to then manually re-thread the text through the remaining pasted text frames? Having said that, it is probably wiser to use the print command to produce a properly page-imposed PDF.

Yes. I agree. I absolutely love these new Affinity tools (Photo, Designer, Publisher), but importing from and exporting to Adobe file formats will be a key strategic piece for the widespread adoption of these great Affinity tools. They've already proved that they can build first-class professional design tools. They've nailed it with a customer friendly price and licensing agreement. Now, breaking through the barrier to widespread adoption (which is Adobe's dominant position, and the strong network effect of being regarded as an industry standard) is the last key strategic challenge for Affinity to overcome. And this is all about making it easy and painless for designers and their clients to round-trip documents between the Affinity and Adobe apps. I want to abandon my Adobe tools so badly, in order to be free of their onerous subscription licensing agreement, and the Affinity tools appear to be a godsend, but I don't operate in a bubble. My collaborative work flows demand that I be able to exchange editable files back and forth with others outside of my office.

Is it possible to manage linked & embedded art in Designer as one can in Publisher?

InDesign has a File > Package... command that collects the InDesign document, along with fonts used and linked artwork into a single folder. This makes it easy to collect all the necessary assets for a single project to either archive or to share with a printer or collaborator. Does/will Publisher have a similar feature?

Seneca, Excellent tutorial video. A simple and elegant solution to the problem. Cheers.

Two somewhat related questions here really. Both have to do with setting up special Masters with more than two pages: 1) For a magazine, how would one go about setting up a four-panel foldout page in Publisher? 2) How would one go about setting up a spread for a magazine cover (front cover, spine, back cover), or a book dust jacket (front inside flap, front cover, spine, back cover, back inside flap) in Publisher?

I've used nested character styles within a paragraph style, but I've never used nested paragraph styles. How do you use "nested paragraph styles", and in what application do you normally use for that? In you example above, it looks like you could achieve what your looking for without the need for nesting anything: simply set up a paragraph style with a large left indent and an equal but opposing first line indent. But certainly, it would be nice if Publisher were to add the ability for multiple nested character styles within a single paragraph style. That way, one could have a paragraph with a bold run-in heading for three words, followed by italic to the end of the first sentence, followed by the base roman for the remainder of the paragraph.

Thank you to Seneca and Wasp11b. Seneca, your sample document works perfectly. Thank you. Did you make use of the 'Apply Master to "odd/even pages"' command to achieve this?

Chris, Thank you. You're correct. Inserting a cursor into a line of text made all the difference. Otherwise, the app just crashes.

No. Sorry. It could have been due to a very long history. I was working on a test document all afternoon while reading through the Help files. I could not reproduce the crash with a second test document with a much shorter history.

It might be related to the size of the history table. I just started a new document, made a few additions and edits, and with just a hand full of history items, I could not reproduce the crash.

Establishing a grid structure with guides on the Master that can serve both the left and right facing pages is probably the best solution for the time being. I could also try to set up a new document with facing pages and no margins. Then Create a single page Master B with desired margins (narrow left, wide right). Then Attempt to apply the single page Master B to all of the pages in the facing pages document. (EDIT: This idea did not work. Using a grid composed of guides seems to be the best solution.)

Here's a screenshot of the Fields panel. When I double click on the Date & Time field to insert (as instructed), the app immediately crashes. Running Publisher 1.7.0.192 on Mac OS 10.13.6 (High Sierra).

Running Mac OS 10.13.6 (High Sierra); and Publisher 1.7.0.192. Double click to insert a Power Field and then an immediate app crash.

So far, I've run into two scenarios that provoke crashes on the Mac: 1) scrolling back in the History panel; 2) trying to insert Power Fields. I submitted bug reports for both.

Working through Publisher 1.7.0.192. When dragging the ruler origin out onto a spread to reposition the origin, the zero point for the X axis is correctly repositioned, but the zero point for the Y axis is not. The zero point for the Y axis ends up being offset from the cursor by the height of the document.

Seneca, I just tried creating a Master C, and then applying Masters A and B to it, but only one set of page margins show. I suppose one could further hack the system by simply drawing stroked frames on the A and B masters to simulate page margins. EDIT: Actually, the best workaround here is probably to create a single Master A with page margins that represent the combined text blocks, and then to drag out guides on the master that represent the inside left margin and the outside right margin. That's cleaner, and also offers the benefit of having text frames on the actual pages snap to the margins and guides.

Hmmmm. So, the two sets of margins show overlapping on Master C? That sounds like a much better workaround. Thanks.

Working through the Help files for Publisher 1.7.0.192. Found a bug in the History Panel: When dragging the slider in the History Panel backward in time, the app crashes.

Seneca, Thanks. That appears to be a short term work around. But that assumes manually assigning an A master to every left page, and a B master to every right page, correct? What I'm looking for is the ability to have a single Master spread with the asymmetrical margins built in. Perhaps this is a feature that comes later.

Is it currently possible to set up a facing pages document with asymmetrical page margins associated with a Master-page spread? In InDesign, one can achieve this by selecting the left and right facing master pages individually and then adjusting the page margins. Something like the following:

I'm currently working my way through the Publisher 1.7.0.192 Help files. Just discovered a bug. When I double click on a Power Field list item in the Fields panel to insert a Power Field, Publisher crashes.

Oh. My mistake. I'll try to repost in the Mac Bug Report section. Thanks.

It appears that you have discovered a feature oversight. In Adobe InDesign this would be taken care of in the Layout Adjustment options within its Liquid Layout feature. Hopefully, something comparable to InDesign's Layout Adjustment options will be built in to the final shipping version of Publisher. There does appear to be some control in Publisher over how frames and objects will scale or anchor to a resized spread when one clicks on the Document Setup... button. (First select a master page spread.) But the Layout Adjustment features that would solve your problem are not yet built in.