Old Bruce Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 There are some problems with the new bookmarks feature. I don't really know all of what is broken but I cannot remove bookmarks by unchecking them in the Anchor's panel. I cannot get anything other than an alphabetical list of them. There seems to be some problem with renaming them, it doesn't stick. It is possible to nest the bookmarks but reordering is impossible. I am fine with them showing up in the Table of Contents sidebar of Preview instead of the Bookmarks sidebar. 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...
walt.farrell Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 13 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: I am fine with them showing up in the Table of Contents sidebar of Preview instead of the Bookmarks sidebar. What PDF export preset did you use, and did you have Bookmarks enabled under More...? As I mentioned elsewhere, they aren't enabled by default (like hyperlinks) in PDF for Print, but they are in PDF for Export. -- 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 38 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: but I cannot remove bookmarks by unchecking them in the Anchor's panel To remove a bookmark you would highlight it and click the delete icon (trashcan) as for any other anchor. Unchecking should not remove a bookmark, but should only suppress including it in the PDF file during export. 38 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: There seems to be some problem with renaming them, it doesn't stick. Renaming works on Windows. Perhaps a Mac UI bug if it doesn't work there. 38 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: It is possible to nest the bookmarks but reordering is impossible. How do you nest them? I've seen it happen for headings (Heading 1, Heading2) but not for simple bookmarks that I add via Add Anchor. 38 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: but reordering is impossible I'm not sure what you tried, but I can reorder them by dragging within the Anchors panel. If that doesn't work on Mac, it's apparently Mac-specific. (And, actually, that provided one way to nest them, too, but I'm not sure I fully understand how it's working.) Also: Reordering or renaming within the Anchors panel seems to often flag the bookmark not to appear in the PDF. Patrick Connor 1 -- 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Can confirm that no matter what export setting I tried, with include bookmarks ticked they do not appear in Preview (Mojave) I can rename & delete but not change the order, but I did manage to nest one while I was tying to re order. While trying this it is easy to accidentally click on the little icon on the right which I suppose suppresses that bookmark in the export...but can't check 😀 walt.farrell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Just to add, there is a very clumsy way of re ordering....by renaming, not recommended though 😀 Jowday 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 APub crashed a few times with a new document, at first caused by selecting the "digital" preset in the export options – but now it works. v742 bookmark.afpub Affinity Publisher Beta_2020-09-19-153423_mbp2.crashAffinity Publisher Beta_2020-09-19-153539_mbp2.crashAffinity Publisher Beta_2020-09-19-154318_mbp2.crash To me the bookmarks appear in a PDF according to their icon highlight setting in APub. Changing the order doesn't work to me, too – though there is obviously an UI. I can drag an entry, get a blue bar – but nothing happens on mouse release. macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 19, 2020 Author Share Posted September 19, 2020 Well today is a different day. The only thing that won't work for me now (after a computer shut down overnight) is the reordering. I can rename the bookmarks and I can nest them and I can turn them on and off from the Anchors panel, but not the Anchor Properties pane although its checkbox will update to show the status of the Bookmark. I guess any bugs were in my machine and or my head. I would really like the ability to have the bookmarks set by location in the document instead of the current alphabetized mess. 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...
Murfee Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 4 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: The only thing that won't work for me now (after a computer shut down overnight) is the reordering. Are the bookmarks showing up in Preview after export ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 42 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: I would really like the ability to have the bookmarks set by location in the document instead of the current alphabetized mess. Agree (same for Hyperlinks): A 'chronological' order (or a sort option) + page numbers next to each item would be very useful. 36 minutes ago, Murfee said: Are the bookmarks showing up in Preview after export ? Not to me, their tray is empty: Murfee 1 macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 19, 2020 Author Share Posted September 19, 2020 14 minutes ago, Murfee said: Are the bookmarks showing up in Preview after export ? 7 minutes ago, thomaso said: Not to me, their tray is empty: As I originally mentioned "I am fine with them showing up in the Table of Contents sidebar of Preview instead of the Bookmarks sidebar." So they show up in the ToC (Table of Contents sidebar [Inhaltsverzeichnis(?)]) instead of the Bookmarks. An aside: As a reader I put bookmarks in books, I don't want the publisher/editor/writer filling it up with bookmarks for me. 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...
thomaso Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 11 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: "I am fine with them showing up in the Table of Contents sidebar of Preview instead of the Bookmarks sidebar." So they show up in the ToC (Table of Contents sidebar [Inhaltsverzeichnis(?)]) instead of the Bookmarks. Interesting. I don't get them, neither here nor there. Do they show up for you in Preview for this attached PDF? v742 bookmark.pdf macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 19, 2020 Author Share Posted September 19, 2020 2 minutes ago, thomaso said: Do they show up for you in Preview for this attached PDF? No, yet the links seem to work. Try these Does this work.zip Does this work.zip 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...
thomaso Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 6 hours ago, Old Bruce said: No, yet the links seem to work. Try these Quite strange, I see your bookmarks in Preview (TOC) and in APub's panel but could not identify them on the pages: the button "Go to Anchor" is grayed out for every item and doesn't react on click. But I noticed you assigned your anchors to objects (selected with move tool), not as I did, to a specific spot within text (text tool > anchor symbol). – Might this make a difference for Preview? So I added two such 'frame' anchors to my .afpub and tried to export. APub now immediately crashes when the export command gets selected (no options window). I tried a few more times but it keeps crashing. The .afpub contains just a few objects (3 hyperlinks, 5 anchors). – Is anybody able to export from this? Or detect a culprit? (p.s.: Why have all my .afpubs at least 1.8 MB ?) Here the changed .afpub + 3 more crash reports: v742 bookmark - 2.afpub Affinity Publisher Beta_2020-09-20-014429_mbp2.crash Affinity Publisher Beta_2020-09-20-014429_mbp2.crash Affinity Publisher Beta_2020-09-20-015054_mbp2.crash Affinity Publisher Beta_2020-09-20-014428_mbp2.crash Affinity Publisher Beta_2020-09-20-014429_mbp2.crash macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted September 22, 2020 Staff Share Posted September 22, 2020 Hi all, Thanks for your help. I ended up logging 3 bugs from this post Murfee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garrettm30 Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 5 hours ago, Gabe said: I ended up logging 3 bugs from this post That's what beta testing is all about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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