Publisher crashes loading

[Mike W077]

M1 MacBook Air, 16gb. 

Big Sur 11.2

Affinity Publisher 1.9.1

Publisher 1.9 (and 1.9.1) crashes whenever I try to load a 24 page publication file with lots of linked Affinity Designer and PDF files. Magazine style publication with many ads and photos. Terrible problem on a deadline. I hate updates. Please advise.

[SPaceBar]

Hi @whitewolf7070 Sorry to hear you are experiencing crashing. I've split this into a separate post as this issue is with loading and the other post was about saving.

Can you zip-up the document including any assets and upload it here so I can take a look for you please?

[Mike W077]

Hi SPaceBar:

That you for your attention to this. Caused me great angst. I was able to finish the publication on my 27" Intel iMac (2017, I5, 24gb, AP 1.9). However, even it had crashing problems. On the new M1 (2020, 13" Air, 16gb, AP 1.9.1), I was able to get it to load without crashing one time. It is a 24 page large format, magazine style newspaper, with lots (50+) of different stories and links ads. Plus photos. The ads are in both PDF and native designer. We are out of the office now, but I will send it on Monday, March 8, if that's OK with you.

[SPaceBar]

No problem @whitewolf7070 I have extended the deadline on the dropbox folder by a week to give you time when you get back.

[SPaceBar]

@whitewolf7070 I have created another folder for your upload here.

[Mike W077]

Another one...

[SPaceBar]

Thanks for the crash log @whitewolf7070 can you copy + paste the text from it and save it as a PDF or Word doc and upload it here please? I can get someone to take a look and see if there is anything obvious in there.