TNeile Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Laying out a 200-page book. Cannot delete two blank pages (spread) that have cropped up near the end of the book. Tried various methods of deleting them. Instead, other nearby pages wind up being deleted. Saved file under another name. Same. Restarted app. Same. Other pages added and deleted just fine. These two are stuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 7, 2020 Staff Share Posted September 7, 2020 Hi @TNeile, Welcome to Affinity Forums Do you mind uploading the afpub file using this link for us to check please? Thank you. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acajohn29 Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 I have the same problem with another twist. My book is also about 200 pages. In the last 1/4 of it there are two blank pages at different places. I go to the page, select "delete pages" then verify that the page I have selected is shown. When I delete the page nothing happens to the one I specify. What DOES happen is that the last pages of my book, text and all, are deleted. Please help. Thank you in advance. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Use the pages panel to do your subtracting of pages. There will be a highlight around the page(s) which will get deleted. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acajohn29 Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Thanks, Old Bruce. That's exactly what I've been doing. Page to be deleted shows gray outline when I select it, I go up to "Document" and click "delete pages", verify the page number, click delete, and nothing happens. I just tried it twice. It didn't delete the last page, or any page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 6 minutes ago, acajohn29 said: Page to be deleted shows gray outline when I select it, It needs to have the blue outline. (But the operation is very sensitive to the options you choose in the Delete Pages dialog. So a screenshot of what you're doing would help.) Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 4 minutes ago, acajohn29 said: Thanks, Old Bruce. That's exactly what I've been doing. Page to be deleted shows gray outline when I select it, I go up to "Document" and click "delete pages", verify the page number, click delete, and nothing happens. I just tried it twice. It didn't delete the last page, or any page. Never done that before, I have always used the highlighting and right click or highlighting and then used the little trashcan icon on the Pages Panel. However a quick test showed me that it works properly the way you described. Are you certain that no pages get deleted? Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acajohn29 Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 I tried it with the trash can icon, nothing changed. I did see a blue border. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acajohn29 Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Is it possible there is a layer or some other unseen function preventing the page from being deleted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 4 hours ago, acajohn29 said: I tried it with the trash can icon, nothing changed. I did see a blue border. Try adding something unique to the page with the blue border before you use the trashcan to delete it, like maybe a big star shape. If the page & the next few ones after it are all blank, you won't see anything change. But if you see the star vanish, you know its page really was deleted. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acajohn29 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 I put text on the page, it didn't make any difference when I tried to delete it. It says "page deleted" and it gives me the option to undo the delete. I REALLY need help with this, I was ready to send this for a 5th and (hopefully) final printed draft copy. The file originated in InDesign, done by a friend. I don't know what kind of hidden parameters there may be, but after more than a dozen attempts to delete the page, I am still unsuccessful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 1 minute ago, acajohn29 said: The file originated in InDesign, 2 minutes ago, acajohn29 said: I don't know what kind of hidden parameters there may be, This is the problem. I would make a new Affinity Publisher document of the same dimensions then copy + paste the contents from the problem document and see if I can delete pages in the new one. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acajohn29 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 Thanks, Old Bruce. I feel very stupid now. I have created a new document, (curiously unavailable in 6x9 size without customization), and I have selected different portions of the text various times. "Copy" is never available, it is grayed out. What am I missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acajohn29 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 I have succeeded in copying and pasting some text. I hope I can do more than one page at a time. Will update ASAP. Thanks everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margaret H Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 SRQ Maggie here… on a similar topic of being unable to delete files: I am new to Affinity Publisher 2. I made Microsoft publisher user for the past 20 years. Being new to this, I created several book files for the book I’m designing. I finally got the right one going. Now I would like to delete the extra book files. For the world of me, I can’t figure out how to do it, and there are no instructions. There must be a way to delete extra book files… Or not? thank you in advance for your help. SRQ Maggie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 17 minutes ago, Margaret H said: SRQ Maggie here… on a similar topic of being unable to delete files: I am new to Affinity Publisher 2. I made Microsoft publisher user for the past 20 years. Being new to this, I created several book files for the book I’m designing. I finally got the right one going. Now I would like to delete the extra book files. For the world of me, I can’t figure out how to do it, and there are no instructions. There must be a way to delete extra book files… Or not? thank you in advance for your help. SRQ Maggie. By "book files" do you mean files with a file type/extension of .afbook? If so, just open File Explorer or Finder, navigate to them, and delete them. If you mean something else, please explain further. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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