Problems with pinning an image

[Paul McC]

Hi

I'm a new user to Affinity Publisher and my first project has been, somewhat ambitiously, to try to format a 300 page book 🙂

I've managed to create a master page, auto flow the text across it, formatted the text in each chapter and Place the images in the text. When I've come to add the front matter pages, though, I've realised that I need to pin the images to the text to avoid them getting separated as new pages are created at the front. (I'm learning as I go!)

When I select the picture frame with the image in it, however, and either click the "float with text" button in the toolbar or the "Float" button in the Pinning panel, nothing happens. No pin appears in the doc for me to position and the image does not behave as if it is pinned.

Also, when I try to pin the line underneath my main section titles, the line seems to disappear and again no pin is created.

I wondering if there was something obvious that I am missing here?

Thanks for your help

Paul

 

[Lee D]

Can you provide a link to your document so it can be checked? You can always send me a link via DM if you don't wish the file to be shared here.

[Old Bruce]

On 11/3/2020 at 6:26 AM, Paul McC said:

No pin appears in the doc for me to position and the image does not behave as if it is pinned.

Also, when I try to pin the line underneath my main section titles, the line seems to disappear and again no pin is created.

There is a Float With Text option which has a pin and an Inline with Text option which has no pin. In each case below the 'pin' is before the Name Peggoty.

 

 

 

 

 

[Paul McC]

Hi Lee and Old Bruce

I really appreciate you both getting back to me. 

Problem 1: I wasn't aware that the inline pin didn't have a pin, but as far as I know I was trying to set-up a float with text pin. Whatever I did during my repeated failed pinning attempts, however, seemed to cause a problem with the entire doc - whenever I now try to select *any* text or element anywhere in the doc, the text frame on that page selects, but I cannot select any text/image. All that happens is that a blinking line cursor appears halfway-down on the far left margin of that double page spread. 

I tried deleting the original image and frame I was working on, but I still couldn't select any text. I couldn't find what I did in the history to roll back. So I gave up and I'm now half-way through formatting the book again ... staying well away from pinning (this time I was only going to embed the images and decoration lines at the very end when all of the pages layouts are fixed, so hopefully they won't move).

Problem 2: The other reason I decide to take the drastic step of starting from scratch was that I was finding it impossible to add pages to the front of this doc for my front matter. Apologies if I was doing something stupid here, but every time I used the Pages panel to add an even number of pages before Page 1, and then Placed and autoflowed my front matter docx onto these pages, the new text on the final page always seemed to vertically align itself, no matter what I did. (In my second attempt, I've started from my title page, in order, so that I won't have to add any new pages to the front of the doc).

Sorry if I'm not explaining these issues very well. I'll DM a link to the failed doc to you Lee - it would be great if I knew what I did wrong, so that i could avoid doing it accidentially again. (Please don't jusdge my formatting - it's my first attempt at this! 🙂 )

Thanks for your help with this

Paul