Text frame content updated/duplicated on every page?

[thomas_klein]

Hello there,

I noticed a strange behavior on the document I'm currently working: I did not manage to reproduce this behavior from a brand new document, though, so I'm attaching here a simplified version of this document for diagnosing purpose.

Here is the context: I created a Master Page with 2 text frames (title + content), and some picture frames, that is applied to all my pages.

Here is the strange part: when updating this text frame's content (named "texte1") from whatever page, this content will be applied on every other page as well. Updating the text frame content from the master page directly will also override the content on every page.

There is a subtlety, though: the very first page of my document already had some text defined for this text frame, and seems to not be impacted by this behavior. The text frame content won't be altered by other page changes, and changing the text here won't affect other ones... Additionally, if I now create new pages, they will also behave "independently"...

For me it looks like all the existing pages (starting from page 3) would be "sharing" the same text frame, somehow?

 

On the other hand, the title text frame seems to be working correctly: I can define a default content on the master page, and override it on each page without any impact on the other ones, as expected.

 

Is there a specific option on the content text frame I accidentally enabled? Or is this purely a bug tied to my current document?

For the time being, I can just work around this issue by creating new pages that will work as expected; however, I would like to understand what is happening, just in case this would happen again in the future.

 

Thanks in advance for any help that could be provided here!

broken_text_frames.afpub

[Failix]

Hello all,

I have looked at the file, but I am still a beginner in Publisher myself and unfortunately can't say anything about it. But I would be very interested in what experienced users have to say.

Regards,
Felix

[walt.farrell]

Generally you would not put text into a Texty Frame on a Master Page unless you wanted that text to appear on all document pages you've applied that Master Page to.

But also, generally, I would not expect a change to that text on one document page to affect other document pages, unless you right-clicked on the Master Page's layer on the document page and used Edit Linked before you made the change.

And that's how my documents work, so your document seems broken, in some way that I do not understand.

[thomas_klein]

Thank you @walt.farrell for your feedback!

That confirms my initial impression that there is something wrong within this document. 

Hopefully someone from the Affinity team could figure out how this could happen in the first place. I have to admit that I'm a bit afraid now that it could happen again, especially because I did not realize what caused this behavior...