Publisher 1.8 (Windows): text frame tool not snapping to all column guides

[MikeA]

(Apologies if this has been reported. Searches didn't turn it up.)

I'm taking a for-beginners online class in Affinity Publisher. The presenter uses a Mac and a pre-1.8 version of the software. I'm using Windows version 1.8.

One lesson includes creating two columns, with gutter, on a master page. Then on document pages, you are to draw two frames per page with the Frame Text tool, snapping each frame to a column.

On the presenter's machine, I can see the text frame snapping to all four sides of both columns. But when I draw out the text frames, the snapping happens this way:

1. Snap to top and bottom of both columns: Yes
2. Snap to left (outside) edge of left-hand column: Yes
3. Snap to right (outside) edge of right-hand column: Yes
4. Snap to right (inside) edge of left-hand column, adjacent to gutter:  NO
5. Snap to left (inside) edge of right-hand column, adjacent to gutter:  NO

On the presenter's screen, colored guidelines appear temporarily at locations 4 and 5 to indicate that the frame text tool has reached the precise snapping point. On my screen, no guidelines appear at those two positions.

Compared with what's happening on the presenter's screen, the two "NO" results were unexpected. Is there a snapping setting pertaining to columns that I need to enable?
 

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[MikeA]

I'm not referring to an Affinity tutorial video made by Serif, but to an online course that is visible only to people who've paid for the classes.

So I thought a workaround would be to place guidelines manually onto the master page, aligning them with the columns' boundaries. Then, in drawing text frames in document pages I could simply have them snap to the previously drawn guidelines.

But, same kind of result when trying to draw guides on the master page. The guidelines align (snap) precisely to the top, bottom, and outside edges of each column. They do not snap to the inside edges of each column (adjacent to the gutter). This is repeatable so I don't think it would be necessary to upload a Publisher document — and I'm unable to do that anyway in the forum, due to some forum software error. If other people cannot replicate this in the Windows version, if the forum software continues to have problems I suppose I could upload a file via email to Serif's tech support.

 

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[MikeA]

A few minutes after I wrote my previous reply, I found that the snapping did begin working at least on document pages. Just what I did to make it start working, I don't know. Will it continue working in this document? No ... now only a few minutes later it has stopped working.

This kind of "Now you see it, now you don't" bug can drive a person to despair. I have just run across an intermittent bug whereby formatted text cannot be used to update an existing text style—the "Update <name-of-style>" menu item is absent from its expected location within the target style's drop-down menu. I am becoming dismayed by the number of intermittent bugs I'm running across. Trying to understand how to work around them is consuming more and more time.

>> I can certainly snap to column guides placed on masterpages within a regular page,on all sides of each column.

As I say: At first the snapping didn't work. Then it worked for a few minutes. Now it doesn't work again.

 

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[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, MikeA said:

On the presenter's screen, colored guidelines appear temporarily at locations 4 and 5 to indicate that the frame text tool has reached the precise snapping point. On my screen, no guidelines appear at those two positions.

That's a part of Snapping.

Are you sure you have the same Snapping options enabled as the presenter in your tutorial?

In any case, snapping to all 4 edges of the columns works fine for me. Here are the snapping options I have enabled:

[MikeA]

26 minutes ago, haakoo said:

I think I know what's going on
You have "snap to only visible objects" unticked
Even when the column guides are shown,with this unticked,it will not snap to inner edges.
Guess it's a bug,will make a bug report.

How strange. I can't imagine what... well never mind what I can or can't imagine. Seems to be a bug.

And you're right — I enabled the Only snap to visible objects option and the snapping now appears to work. I would not have thought of this; the column guides don't strike me as 'visible objects' — but I won't argue with success. Thanks very much. And thanks also to walt.farrell.