rogershuff

Weird bug. I edit a regular magazine with a ‘For Sale’ section. I place images of items for sale into the columns of text. I set the Text Wrap options on the images to nudge the text out of the way. All normal. But, if I need to copy an image to repeat it in the next issue, illogical things happen. If I copy and paste an image, text wrap is not active when pasted into the new document, and I can’t activate or deactivate it. My solution (seems illogical) is to deactivate text wrap on an image in the old issue, then copy and paste into the new issue. At which point, it’s clear that text wrap is still active in the new issue (even though set to ‘none’, temporarily in the old issue). I then need to return to the old issue and do an undo or close without saving changes. Confusing. I'll do a video screen capture if requested. Publisher 2.6.2. 2017 iMac, Ventura 13.7.6.

OK - that worked - many thanks. I'll look out for an update.

Thank you - I will try that now.

Well, yes, originally! But edited in Publisher 2.5.5. I have been using this tempate for several years.

Here is a cut-down version of one of my problem documents. I created it in Publisher 2.5.5 but when opened in Publisher 2.6 here it shows the errors. Layout test document.afpub

OK - I will sort out a test document.

Hi - sorry for the delay - I was abroad. The attached image has screenshots including the independent grid settings for the frames that are causing the problem and the style info for the two styles in use there. The master Baseline Grid settings are also attached. I will say again that I believe that this is a probelm with Publisher 2.6 misinterpreting documents created in earlier versions. If I open any file created in an earlier version in 2.6, the frames with an independent grid show the error. Today I tracked down a copy of Publisher 2.5.5 that I'd backed up and removed 2.6 from my system. 2.5.5 opened all my files corrrectly so, as say, I think the fault is in 2.6. As I have other documents to create, I will stick with 2.5.5 until I hear from Affinity that later releases are OK. Anyone from Affinity out there? I can send a file to demonstrate what I am seeing. TIA. PS - feature request: Individual baseline grids linked to different master pages.

OK - update. I think what I am seeing is a fault with Publisher 2.6. I opened one of my files on my laptop, which has Publisher 2.2 and all is well. The fault seems to be with the implementation of Independent Basline grids in 2.6. I attach a very short video showing this. The two text styles are ones I have used for years and each is set to align to a baseline grid. As I want a tighter grid on two sections, I use an independent grid, set in the text frame settings. This has always worked until I updated to 2.6. If this is not fixed, I will need to go back a version if that's possible. Please take a look at the short video and you will see what happens. Publisher fault.mp4

I missed the p**n! Here's an update - the two sections in my magazine that show this issue use an Independent Baseline Grid (all other sections use my regular Baseline Grid). If I deselect that option in the problem text frames, the text flows correctly (although I'll need to make some adjustments). The file that first exhibited this issue was created in the version immediately before 2.6 was released. I waited until the PDF had been sent to the printer before updating to 2.6. So, my theory is that something weird is affecting these text frames in 2.6 that wasn't an issue in earlier releases. That would explain why the older files I checked also look wrong. So I don't think this has anything to do with Text Styles. Thanks for the suggestions. If I discover anything else, I'll report back.

Further to this, I can apply nearly any of my text styles but those big spaces remain. i will check out text frame specs.

Nothing to be seen in those text styles. Surely text styles (which I use a lot) are saved with the document? So, if I reload a file from last year, everything should look correct? But it doesn't. Is there some global application override that I have invoked?

Thanks - worth a look but odd that it happened to two styles. I've long thought that there are too many ways of adjusting stuff in Publisher!

I publish six special-interest magazines a year. The last PDF went to the printer - all good. Today I opened the Publisher file to export a low-res PDF for web use. I may have hit a keyboard shortcut by mistake as the layout in two sections has giant spaces (see screenshots - the OK one is from the printed PDF). Even if I open a much older file that has never had a problem, I see this mess. Any thoughts? It's only two text styles - the rest of the magazine is OK. I have redacted some contact info in the screenshots. Publisher 2.6.0, Mac OS Ventura 13.7.4. Many thanks.

I am sent PDFs from advertisers for a magazine I edit. When placing them in Publisher (2.2.0) sometimes they display correctly and sometimes not. Usually I can switch Passthrough to Interpret (and maybe back) to fix things but with one, I could not fix the letter spacing errors (see screenshot). In the example I tracked this down to the originator using a font called 'OpenSans' whereas my Mac has fonts called 'Open Sans' (note the space). If I open such a PDF in Affinity Photo, I am alerted to this problem (see second screenshot, from a different PDF). In Publisher, I am not alerted. Seems like this would be a useful thing to implement. I have taken to opening such PDFs in Photo and exporting as a high-quality JPG and using that. Oddly, going File>Open and opening a PDF in Photo gives the alert, but creating a blank file first (say a 300dpi A4 page) and using File>Place does not show the alert. Mind you, placing a PDF into a blank Photo file does not show the text spacing error! Thoughts? Mac OS Ventura 13.5. 27" Mac 2017.