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I tried restarting, and turning off hardware acceleration. I've seen it before. It seems to only happen on lines with hyphenation: Affinity Publisher 2 2024-03-19 08-15-53.mp4

I cannot get the section to start numbering with the number 1. (see attached screen caps) Using Affinity Publisher 2.4 on Windows 10 I'm just starting this project. I currently have just 2 files in the book. An intro file has 6 pages. The second file is chapter 1. I created a new section on the first page of that file. I have "Start page numbering at" checked. The box contains a 7 and I cannot change it. It always switches back to 7. And the page number in the footer of the first page in that document shows a 7. Also, i can't delete this section to try to create a different one. The delete icon in the Section Manager is disabled. This shouldn't be this hard. What am I doing wrong or is this some kind of bug?

I not only make covers, but also book interiors, where printing with black ink only is essential. So it can only contain elements that cannot contain CMY colours, only K. Is there a preflight option that I can use to filter out elements that meet this requirement? Unfortunately, the printer has repeatedly rejected the preflight because Publisher sometimes makes vector images stroke a non-CMYK 0,0,0,100, or if a K-only image does not have 100% opacity properties, the program will mix in a CMY value. Press can find these straight away using Acrobat, but I can't. It would be nice to filter this out before sending to the press.

I tried to search for other topics on this because I'm sure someone else has run into this problem before, but I can't seem to figure out how to paste text in such a way that it ends up in different cells in a table in Publisher. Examples: Copy a table column from a spreadsheet, select upper left table cell in Publisher table, paste, the text ends up in that one cell as different "paragraphs". Copy newline-separated list of names from a text editor, select upper left cell in Publisher table, paste, everything ends up in one cell. (In a spreadsheet, each line ends up in a different cell in one column.) Same, but select multiple cells in the Publisher table before pasting, everything still ends up in one cell. This is totally different from the behavior of pretty much all spreadsheet software or anything else with tables that I've used where text strings separated by newlines end up in different rows and things separated by tabs (and possibly commas) end up in different columns when pasted into a table. Does anyone know of a workaround? It doesn't look like you can data merge directly into a table, only a data merge grid, and that would be rather troublesome for simple cases anyway. It seems like the tables in Publisher need some improvement. I've run into some other things that make them more cumbersome than usual, like the behaviors when inserting columns and the inability to move columns.

Hi y'all! So I'm currently working on my thesis layout via publisher (going great, btw). One of the aspects is accessible design in printing. So I was wondering - wouldn't it be great to be able to test-view the document in different color-blindness modes? Or even visual-impairment? I know there is workarounds for this. I just believe preparing good tools in-software to produce accessible design shows how much the company behind the tool values or at least acknowledges these principles. What do you think? Linda

Affinity Publisher doesn't render all weights in Apple's font SF Pro correctly. https://developer.apple.com/fonts/. The SFPro-ExpandedRegular is what I used. But the Compressed versions are also not correct. I have attached screenshots from Affinity Publisher and Pixelmator Pro, which render the correct correctly. SF Pro Format: OpenType TrueType Version: 19.0d6e1

Here I'll show you an architecture magazine that I design annually with Affinity Publisher and oversee the printing and production. In the beginning the magazine was created in Indesign. After I got out of the Adobe subscription, I adapted it in Publisher and now designed it in AP for the fourth time. At the beginning there were problems with embedded customer PDFs; these were not passed through but were always somehow interpreted and therefore incorrect. Since ver. 2 this has been a thing of the past. You can view the entire magazine as a digital edition here. Have fun! Servus Ernie

Hi, Mac Monterey 12.7.4, Publisher 2.4. I've the Home key of my keyboard assigned to the Move to First page command, but it doesn't work. The Page Up, Page Down, and End keys all do what they are expected to do when the Move tool is selected, but not the Home key. Paolo

I am working on a book, like I have done in the past. I find it easier to sometimes read the words in using the dictation function built into macOS. I sometimes can work faster that way. I tried using this yesterday with Affinity Publisher, and it didn't work. I have tried everything I can think of to get it work and cannot. Has something changed? Is anyone else having this issue? Robby

I'm typing in TW Cen MT in Affinity Publisher 2 on Windows, and I'd like to type the character a with a macron (ā), but the font doesn't include that character. However, it does include the macron as a separate character (¯). Is there any way I can combine a with ¯ by messing with the font settings? Alternatively, is there any way to add new glyphs to a font?

I was working on a project and I saved and closed it and then reopened it, changed something and while saving it crashed and from there on every time I change something and try to save, it crashes. I attached the crash report. Hope you can help! 189e5f35-6d6f-4fe8-ad36-5d111f8fba79.dmp

I'm trying to gather all the images I used in my Affinity Publisher file. Is there a simple way to export all of the images I have in this file to a folder so I can keep everything organized?

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 everyone these are some styles i created for use on individual letters , hope there good enough for everyone to find a use case for them. this is my first go at creating styles it is a 148.59MB DOWNLOAD. S.L_LETTER_STYLES.afstyles

Hello, this is what happens: - I create a local Publisher-File. - I drag/drop a .jpg and a .pdf file into it and put them on "linked" - I open the .jpg file in Preview and draw something on it and save it - Changes appear immediately in the publisher file - I do the same with the .pdf - No changes appear in the publisher file Further notes: If I export the publisher file as PDFs both changes appear in the exported pdf, however the Finder preview of said pdf looks a bit odd. If I open the changed PDF in Publisher it also does not show the changes I made in preview. It also does not work If I make changes in Adobe Reader. If I open the PDF in Publisher and change something and export it as pdf and overwrite the old one, changes are there, but the old ones are gone System: Mac OS Monterey 12.7.3, Macbook Pro M1 2021, Publisher Version 2.4 Thoughts: I think it seems to be a problem with the way these changes are made in Preview and Adobe Reader. Even worse, if I add some Text in Preview, the file becomes completely unreadable for Publisher, giving me an error. If I re-import it via drag and drop, it is there but without the Scribbles and Text.

Oh, I hoped we could get rid of this annoyance (semi-bug). When you enter a value, for example a numeric value in stroke width field and then hit enter, that field keeps selected, so if you press P or V or M for any other tool in enters that letter into the field, see Gif below. You need to click anywhere or click the tool to deselect the field. These "little things" are not so little when they happen so often while working.

Hey folks, I've noticed a problem in Affinity Photo 2, affecting both iPad and desktop versions, where changing a layer's fill opacity via the FX options from 100 % to anything between 100 and 0 % doesn't hide the layers contents as expected. Instead, the contents remain visible 100 % at all times. This seems similar to a previously mentioned, but seemingly solved issue with the 3D effect in Affinity Designer, indicating a possible consistent rendering issue with layer effects and fill opacity settings. To reproduce the Bevel / Emboss visibility issue, follow these steps: Open Affinity Photo 2 on either an iPad or desktop and create a new layer. On this layer, draw anything using any colour of your choice. Apply the Bevel / Emboss effect to the drawn layer. Reduce the layer's fill opacity to 0%. Expected Outcome: The layer contents should become invisible, leaving only the Bevel / Emboss effect visible. Actual Outcome: Despite reducing fill opacity to 0%, both the layer contents and the Bevel / Emboss effect remain visible, suggesting that the expected change in visibility does not occur. I'm looking for insights or workarounds from anyone who has encountered this. Any feedback or suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers Dennis

Latest ticket template 9.4x 6.6cm. everything created in Designer apart from Elvis image and creating the page numbering in and printing from publisher. Size is designed to give me an n-up print of 9 to an A4 page on a colour laser.

OK, this is a bit freaky, coming from a lazy one who dislikes even blanks at the end of paragraphs. Imagine you have to work with long lists / tables of words no dictionary could possibly know, but you don't want the Spelling Mistakes to appear in the Preflight Panel. You can now mark every "wrong" word and ignore / learn it, which could be a tedious work with lots of spelling mistakes. The easy way: Just select the text frame or paragraphs and set Spelling to None in the Character panel. So all "wrong" words magically disappear from the Preflight panel. You can still set the hyphenation to your desired language or use this method within Text Styles. Drawback of course is, that there could be mistakes in your text.

I've been trying to set up an automatic Table of Contents in my book, and it has caused me to crash 3 or 4 times within a short period. I don't know if my book is simply too big (13 documents, totalling 295 pages), but performance tanks when it has to re-index the ToC and sometimes it crashes.

Dear team and members of the forum, please help! Every time that I use the Affinity Publisher 2 on my computer it keeps crashing. I have used the Affinity Publisher version 1 without a problem, but it started crashing when triggering several functionalities (as saving, exporting, fonts, etc) with the updates after that. Totally useless. So, I upgraded to version 2 with hope to stop the problem, but I am facing the same problem, especially when activating the undo function. Probably I will find more problems with this version as well, but I am so tired of not being able to work with affinity that I need some proper help. Here is a video where I explain the problem, but for some reason loom didnt record the crash itself. I frost the last image of the app before it happen. https://www.loom.com/share/7ce06c640cca4118a6cd5b25136515ad?sid=8210f06d-017b-4610-b4cd-13ad1f117247 Here is what I have tried already: - I am using the new version of AP2 - 2.3.1 (I have installed it yesterday), despite I have crashing problem with APV1 (except when I used the version 1.10.4, but it doesnt have the features that I need) - Turned off the first three option when clicked the ctrl key during the launch, - Hardware acceleration was already turned off - Unistalled all problematic updates in windows 10 and 11 identified in other posts of this forum. Now, I have basically none windows update, what is not safe at all, right? - I installed the last version of .NET (8.0) from the link you have provided above - I checked the firewall but it seems that it is not blocking the app. - I have no idea what to do now. Please, help! I upgraded to AP version 2 to see if I could stop the crashes, but I cannot work at all with it as well. Please, find attached the crash reports p.s: bare in mind when send some support that I dont understand nothing about coding or technical computer stuff. So, I appreciate to send instructions in the more clear way you can. Thank you in advance 356307cc-ccde-42d5-bc95-78e3e9589171.dmp 7457a752-8ce7-4e7f-af4a-e109174e0bcb.dmp aaf74613-4e03-4453-ae7d-7de52a2f7d47.dmp ff6236d2-803c-4f38-be08-aa7d0d081dca.dmp 76f65e27-db91-48c6-a51a-5bc26c7616b9.dmp a62af3fe-2109-40ff-8443-454c1a8069ca.dmp

About a year ago, I used the FUTURA font in my title and when I clicked on "fix" PDF, AFP2 added a carriage return for each word. Yesterday I encountered a new issue, all the dynamics are wrong. The final note should have a dynamic marking of mp. After clicking on "fix", they all went wonky instead. iMac >>> Music created in Sibelius. Exported to PDF. Imported into AFP2. Asked to click on "fix" >>> Resulting font problem.

This is an update 1.1 of project Akili. Which version do you prefer? Thanks. Tools: Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher Let's connect: https://www.behance.net/bah-is-life https://www.instagram.com/bah_is_life/

Tools: Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher Let's connect: https://www.behance.net/bah-is-life https://www.instagram.com/bah_is_life/

EDIT: I am on Windows 10 I have a pretty large afpub document I've been working in since before 2 came out. It had a working table of contents before this. I am familiar with the basics of how to make and use a table of contents and I have poured over youtube videos and the help manual looking for a solution for this issue. Issue: When I tried to update the (working) TOC, it returned to me the "no entries found" message. Ever since then, I have not been able to get a new ToC to populate. Here's what I have tried: - Restarted AfPub 2 (multiple times at this point) - deleted the text frame the toc was in, and started a new one from scratch - painstakingly changed every option in the ToC panel one at a time to see if any of them are the problem - searched the internet for every variation of "affinity publisher toc won't populate" that I could possibly think of, but none of it turned up anyone who is having this issue. Also this is weird, so I'm mentioning it in case it's possibly part of my problem somehow: Over in my text styles panels, new ToC styles keep appearing. I have no idea how these are cropping up, especially since I have not successfully gotten the ToC to work yet. In the screenshot of my text styles panel you can see several variations of TOC 1: Entry. When I first started trying to get my ToC to populate, the only things there were the [no style] options (nothing else at all.) Eventually TOC 1: Entry turned up and I was hoping that meant the TOC would work properly, but unfortunately that hasn't been the case. I have no idea how the two TOC styles labelled "accent text" were created. I don't think this is related to the problem but I thought it wouldn't hurt to mention it. Any help would be appreciated, thank you in advance.