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Hi support, it looks like I found a - now more or less reproducible - issue with the index in Affinity Publisher V2.3.0. With three (bigger) documents I created, I very often get a crash to desktop (no alert or anything) just after loading them (normally about the time the auto-correction has just finished underlining wrong words). I'm using the German UI (but I have had the same crash when using the English version, too, so I guess this is not really relevant). All three documents have in common that they have an index. I've created a new document with some filler text to try it out, and it crashed Publisher basically every time I load it. I have attached it to this post. I can often prevent the crash with my bigger documents if I'm fast enough to click the "Update index" button (in "Index" studio) before it has finished rendering after loading (even though it doesn't work reliably with the below test document), which seems to point at some issues with the index itself. This bug is really annoying, especially when you are just loading a second document to check something in there, only for Publisher to crash, and as such losing your work since the last save from the document you were working with at that time you loaded the second document! Can you please have a look and get this fixed (I have this problem basically since V2.1 already, but couldn't easily reproduce or pinpoint it. I think it worked with V2.0 without issues, if I remember it correctly). My system: Windows 10 Home, 22H2, build 19045.3803 Hardware acceleration setting doesn't change anything, it crashes with enabled and disabled. 16 GB RAM, SSD Harddisks AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor 3.40 GHz NVidia GeForce RTX 2060 (6 GB) I have a small Adesso tablet connected, but don't use it for Publisher I have an Elgato Stream Deck (15 key version) connected as well, but again don't use it for Publisher Index-Issue_Example.afpub

When I insert a cross-reference, right now, I have to first activate the text field to type the piece of text I want to reference. For me it would be much more efficient if the cursor were already in the search field so I can start typing as soon as I use the tool.

Hi, I recently updated both Designer and Publisher to the latest version and I have noticed that the CMYK profiles ISO Coated v2 and ISO Coated v2 300% are now missing. Any idea why? (Is Euroscale Coated v2 the same as ISO Coated v2 - see attachment?) Thanks for any help anyone can offer.

I would like to use Publisher for creating slides for importing into PowerPoint, but I have not found a workflow that works for this. I had hoped that exporting to high-quality digital PDF would be the key, but alas, it did not work. Has anyone found a workflow that work? Not only does Publisher make so much easier to make consistent layouts and generate multiple pages using AutoFlow, it also makes it trivial to have page numbers based upon sections.

I loved the new separator specifications to improve the index format, unfortunately they still don't suit me completely, so I'll leave two suggestions for new separators: separator between subtopics, as today a line break is always used. separator between the topic and its subtopics, as today a line break is also always used. also an option to choose the position of cross-references, which by default are coming before the subtopics, but I would like them to come after.

Now what happened to my doc ? All is gone wild !! Have you seen this before ? Thanks for your ideas…

There is a bug in Affinity Publisher 2.3.0 when it spontaneously damages a footnotes. Until using footnotes only, everything seems to be OK. The problem starts after inserting an endnote. Then when user for example try to modify any paragraph style (even if it has no connection with footnotes or endnotes), Publisher damages all footnotes which are located in order after newly created endnote. It damages them in this way: footnote's references are converted into endnotes references footnote's text frames are hidden on their original locations - pages Footnotes located in order before newly created endnote are untouched. The bug can be reproducced in attached document (all footnotes are created manually, but bug appears also in text imported from Word containing foot and endnotes): Open the document. There are footnotes only. Their references are emphasized in big bold red. Go to spread 2-3 and notice that on page 3 there are two footnotes c and d. Insert an endnote on page 2 somewhere after footnote b but before footnote c. Return view on spread 2-3. You should see big bold green (character style for endnote references) number at location where you inserted an endnote. All is still OK. Now try to edit paragraph style - for example H1 - and keep your attention to bottom of page 3. Either immediately or after changing any paragraph style the problem occurs. Footnote's c and d bodies (text frames) disappear and their references in main text are replaced with numbers 2 and 3 formatted as endnotes references - big bold green. The bug can be reverted only manually - placing cursor to every broken reference and in Notes palette's menu selecting Convert selection to Footnote. It seems to me that when Publisher is doing internal refresh/update of notes and reaches first endnote, that then it processes all further notes as endnotes - as if it forget the type of note it is processing. Bug found in Publisher 2.3.0.2165 on Win10. footnotes and endnotes.afpub

On Saturday My cat stepped on my backup power supply and turned it off along with my computer and peripherals. At the time I had a document open in Affinity Publisher; I had just saved some changes to the file when this incident occurred. When I re-launched Affinity I got an error message stating that my settings might be incorrect. I'm paraphrasing; I wish I had taken a screen shot but anyway after clearing the error message Publisher opened successfully. I navigated to File>Open recent and discovered that the list was cleared. No problem, I thought. I double-clicked the file expecting it to open just fine, but got this message: "The file type is not supported." I made a copy of the file and changed the file extension to .idml, and when I attempted to open THAT one, the message said the file is corrupted. I didn't see a temporary file stored in the same location with the original (as is the case for many other applications), so I started digging into the User and Program Data folders. There are definitely some files in both those folders with that date's timestamp, but I'm not a programmer so I stopped right there and decided to contact you folks. The file is only one page but it's a file I use every single day. If I could at least get the raw text I think I can recreate it, but I sure would like to NOT have to do that. I opened a few other .afpub files at random and they all opened fine; I'm sure this is isolated to the document which was open at the time I lost power. What seems weird to me is that the file had recently been saved without incident; I didn't lose any work in the file. And is there a setting somewhere to turn on auto-backups? I looked around but didn't find anything. Can you help? Thank you. Gretchen Zeigler Melbourne, Florida USA Grocery List CURRENT.afpub

I have a short while ago started up Affinity Publisher, version 1, for the first time in a long time. Recently, I saved in a WordPad file the text of a short play that was generated at my request by the online Bing chat AI Artificial Intelligence facility. I am now wanting to produce an A4 PDF document of the play. to post in the Share your work forum. The problem that I do not know how to solve at present is how to get the text from the WordPad file into a sequence of as many as are needed pages of an Affinity Publisher file. I had done the production of multipage documents with text flow in PagePlus many times, but I cannot work out how to get the job done in Affinity Publisher. I have been reading in the help facility of Affinity Publisher about the red thing that is up a bit from the lower right corner of the single page that I have, but I cannot seem to be able to relate it to what I am trying to do. William

I have made 140 pages in an illustrated book that I've been working on for two years with little problems from publisher. I recently upgraded to affinity publisher 2.2.1 and now I am having a horrible time and am under a deadline. I am on a mac pro oS vs. 12.7.1 Every time I select the Text box to draw my columns on a page I get an extra small grey text box and that's the only place I can enter text. I also can fill the gray box with filler text, but I can't type into the regular columns for text. No matter when or where I try to draw a text box, I get the extra gray box. (See enclosed screen shot.) I also drew rectangles and converted them to text boxes and the dreaded gray box still appears. I have deleted the small gray box on the master and on individual pages repeatedly in the layers panel and it still comes back. The unwanted box also appears on pages I completed months ago. I've quit the app and restarted my computer many times and I can't get rid of it. I'm assuming that calling you directly would be very expensive for me. There is no place in my pull down menu to select that I'm de-linking this unwanted text box. Please, please help me, Kind regards, Dr. Akin

Publisher has the ability to place references as sidenotes. These have (typically) a reference number in the text keyed to the note. I'd like to create a document where explanatory notes appear in the margin but without any numeric reference. This is the layout used, for instance, in the manual by @MikeTO (and thanks to Mike for that excellent resource!). I could create a document with wide outer margins and manually put in a text box for each note. But it would be nice if the notes kept their position relative to the main text (if, for instance, I added text above the note location). Is there any easier/better way? Edit: I think this ended up in the wrong section (it's not a tutorial). Not sure how to move it . . . .

I went back to an old book to update it. I don’t know where this ‘Character outline: none; Paragraph decorations: off’ in addition to the Normal style comes from. How can it be removed? Thank you for your explanations.

Via a quick search and the following Affinity help article I learn it is possible to import word document directly to affinity publisher. However, the help article did not state how. I tried using File > Import content ... or Document > Add Pages from file and drag-and-drop to import but with no success. What I want to do is to have Affinity export PDF with proper page numbering/naming in the thumbnail. i.e. cover or i for cover page and start page 1 the same as page numbering in the footer.

Hello, I already searched the forum but couldn't find a relevant answer to my problem. So, here it is. I have Mac and iPad Pro. I use Affinity Publisher on both. All up to date. Dropbox is linked on both via Settings. Dropbox folder is on encrypted hard drive. Publisher's file is on it so are the photos (in various folders). On Mac I created the file added photos through linking, saved and closed. The path to linked resources are not as shown in help files. When I open this file on the iPad it shows that resources are missing. When I try to replace the image from the same Dropbox folder it a) embeds the image despite preference to link, b) the path to the image has nothing to do with Dropbox. If I insert another image, it will be linked but when I open the file on Mac I will get missing resources message. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

I'm using Affinity Publisher 2 on windows but the issue is with the entire Affinity line. I got this free font Aquire Free Font - Download Free Font (befonts.com) Inside the software the font is rendered like this But after export to pdf for example it looks like this The font renders without letter spacing in other programs as well. It's only Affinity issue. What could be the problem? Is there any setting I can change to fix this? This makes the software basically unusable because the final exported image never looks like the edited image...

Good morning. 1) I am finding the page formatting hard to adjust in text frames with footnotes. I have played with gaps before, split notes etc but I still end up with huge gaps in text frames even when the paragraph that has been split has only two lines remaining, which are still forced over the page. I am presumably missing something, but I cannot work out what it is! 2) I am also finding that applying a text style does not remove the mystery all caps in the footnotes when the Word file was placed, even though the Word file did not have all caps, and I cleared text styles beforehand and pressed the reapply text styles button to remove any subsequent formatting change to the footnote style, which only changes the current footnote, not all of them. The problem with reapply is that it removes any italics in the the text body, so they all have to be restored manually one by one. Any tips gratefully received.

I'm going crazy and I don't know if it's since an update, but I can't seem to properly control the amount of space the lines of text shown here in the first attached image. The only value that seems to have an impact is in Character/Positioning and Transformation/Leading Override. But putting a value seems to do nothing until it jumps to the way you see it in the second attached image. Shift it from 14pt to 12pt and you see how it shrinks right down. I thought there would be a value in Paragraph, but I couldn't find anything that would have an impact. I feel like there's a fundamental I'm missing or I'm looking at the problem wrong. Thanks. I'm using version 2.3.0 for the Mac.

I usually use Publisher on a larger second screen. Today, I unplugged it to work elsewhere and when I opened my .afpub document it didn't appear on the Mac's screen at all. With some fiddling, I got to show up on the Mac screen but it opened at the size of the external (larger) screen so all edges of the document were off-screen. Is something about "last screen used" being retained and Publisher isn't checking either the presence or size of the when it opens a document.

In the Find&Replace panel, using the cog button to choose a text style, when the list extends out of the window it will not scroll, thus it is impossible to access the last styles. For example, here I'm unable to choose "Titre 1":

Here is a series of macOS application icons. The idea is to redesign them as simply as possible, fitting them perfectly into the frame (grid template) defined by Apple, without embellishment and flatness. A simple graphic game for fun (you can exploit them as you wish)!... Voici une série de reprises d'icônes d'applications de macOS. L'idée est de les redesigner le plus simplement possible, en les calant parfaitement dans la frame (grid template) définie par Apple, sans fioriture et aplat. Un simple jeu graphique pour le fun (vous pouvez les exploiter comme bon vous semble) !... macOS Icon Grid Template 1024x1024px.afdesign

Does this happen you when there is border area where images are when you move ,mouse border goes little darker and little monet goes back to normal? happens at least Affinity Photo and Publisher. i feel not in Designer.

"Data Merge Manager" Enhancements = make this window dockable as studio panel, and also right inside the DM Manager window add a button shortcut to open up the Fields Manager. These 2 enhancements would make the workflow so much easier. Please see my attached markup image to help clarify my text description here...

there is no possiblity use swatches in gradients? and way when i change swatch also gradients change. Also gradient it seems cannot be global?

Hi, As you can see from the image, footnotes does not follow orphan and widow rules. InDesign moves the line(s) with footnote reference together with the footnote on the next page. Please, let us decide how many lines we can consider as orphans and widows -- not only 2.

Hi, I have a problem with TOC in Affinity Publisher The long headings are too long to stay in one line in TOC, but when I increase the right indent so that they are in two lines, the page numbers go to the third line and I don't know how to take them back to the end of the second line. Also dots are ending in different places, one line has less, the other more How to manage it? I'm sure it's a simple thing, I just don't know which setting should be combined in this case attaching screenshots