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I'm still trying to understand how one can re-import text in a publisher document, so I tried with Google Docs on macOS this time:

  1. Make a test Google Doc, and export it as .docx.
  2. Import in Publisher. Text styles look OK.
  3. Change one of the styles (like, say, Heading 1) to have red text instead of black.
  4. Edit the Google Doc and re-export it as .docx.
  5. Re-import the new file into the same text frame. The text disappears. I expected the text to reimport, preserving the red Heading 1 text.

It looks like all the text was re-imported with all text styles applied directly at the character level (so none of the text is just "Normal" or "Heading 1"... it's all "Normal + <lots of overrides>"), which is wrong IMHO, but also for some reason the character colour was set to "none", making all text invisible.

I'm using Affinity Publisher 1.7.3 on macOS 10.14.6.

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9 hours ago, ludovicchabant said:

I'm still trying to understand how one can re-import text in a publisher document, so I tried with Google Docs on macOS this time:

I don't understand why one would need to reimport the same text again, especially into the same text frame. If I were doing that I would at a minimum select all the existing text and delete it first, as otherwise the result is going to be very confusing.

But to help us look at your problem, please attach the .docx file here.

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On 12/26/2019 at 3:46 AM, walt.farrell said:

I don't understand why one would need to reimport the same text again

I'm trying to separate "working on the text" and "working on the layout", where I can start doing the layout (especially text styles) before the text is completely finished, and reimport the text when it gets updated. It's also useful for sending "work in progress" PDFs to people to review along the way.

How do people typically work when in a team of 2 or more people? Surely the layout person doesn't have to wait for the writer to be 100% finished, with the text locked, before starting to work on the graphic design, text styles, and general page arrangement?

Even if I was to work in a "waterfall" way (writing first, layout second), I'm still wondering how that works for things like magazines, for instance. People using InDesign would typically have a template for a magazine, with all the graphic style of the magazine "baked in", and you just need to import the articles' text into it: it will automatically adopt the chosen graphic design (by matching incoming text style names to the style names in the template), so that it's almost a one-click process (barring any text flow issues). How do you do this in Affinity Publisher?

FYI, deleting the text before re-importing the file doesn't change anything. If you do a "Place..." with a text frame selected, Publisher already removes all the text for you automatically before placing the new text, so that part's working as intended.

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Sorry.

Thank you for reporting a problem using 1.7.x . It appears that a member of the Affinity QA team didn't get round to fully investigating this specific report posted in the bugs forums. We are very sorry for this oversight. Yours is one of a number of reports that I am posting this apology to, using an automated script.

Now we have released 1.8.3 on all platforms containing many hundreds of bug fixes, and we hope your problem has already been fully addressed. If you still have this problem in the 1.8.3 release build, then the QA team would really appreciate you reporting again it in the relevant Bugs forum.

Each of those links above contains instructions how best to report a bug to us. If that is what you already did in this thread just copy paste your original report into a new thread. We appreciate all the information that you have including sample files and screen shots to help us replicate your problem.

This thread has now been locked as the QA team are not following the threads to which this automatic reply is made, which is why we would appreciate a new bug report if you are still have this problem in the current 1.8.3 release build.

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Serif Europe Ltd

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