ricecrispies Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 In the document I am currently working on I have discovered that there are a huge number of excess anchors, usually between 3 and 5 for each heading. Some have names that relate to previous versions of the titles of headings that have now changed. Some of these excess anchors I have been able to delete, but there are a huge number of supposed anchors in the list of anchors, all with an em-dash at the ends of their names, that don't seem to actually have a corresponding anchor in the actual document. If I try to delete these non-anchors, they don't go away, but instead chunks get deleted from the text of the document. How can I get rid of these non-anchor anchors without destroying my document? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricecrispies Posted July 18, 2021 Author Share Posted July 18, 2021 I have found a kind of workaround. It is possible to delete the unwanted anchors after the PDF has been created using the freeware Foxit Reader, but that still leaves all the garbage anchors in the original Publisher document. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted July 20, 2021 Staff Share Posted July 20, 2021 Hi @ricecrispies, Sorry to hear you're having trouble! This is certainly the first time I've seen this issue being reported, so without seeing your document I'm not 100% certain why these have been created or the best way to remove them. Can you please upload a copy of your .afpub file to the following link for me, then once it has been uploaded reply here to let me know? https://www.dropbox.com/request/axZxJ9tbEDXWtkgEiBWS Many thanks in advance Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricecrispies Posted July 27, 2021 Author Share Posted July 27, 2021 HI Dan, I've uploaded the file. Some more background: Because of this bug, which is to do with resizing the document, I had to delete the text boxes I had created before resizing, after copying and pasting their contents into new text boxes. The anchors with an em-dash at the end of their names seem to be those belonging to the deleted text boxes. However, even after accounting for these, there were still quite a few other duplicate anchors. Some of these I had already deleted by the time the document had got to the state it was in when I uploaded it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted July 29, 2021 Staff Share Posted July 29, 2021 Many thanks for your file and my apologies for the delayed response here! I can confirm I'm seeing the same issue as yourself, and I cannot see any cause for these duplicate anchors, nor do I understand why these cannot be deleted successfully at this time. Therefore I'm getting this logged with our developers now as a bug, which we hope to have resolved shortly. I'll be sure to include the information above within the dev report. Many thanks once again for your file/report, as this helps us to continue to improve the Affinity apps Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted July 29, 2021 Staff Share Posted July 29, 2021 I have just been informed by a member of our QA team that this issue is a known bug between Anchors and TOC's, which has been fixed in the latest beta 1.10 - unfortunately this fix will only apply to newly created documents/TOCs, but in the meantime a colleague of mine has been able to 'clean up' this document for you - so I'll be sending this back to the email address registered to your Affinity Forum account, through Dropbox. I hope this helps! ricecrispies 1 Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricecrispies Posted July 29, 2021 Author Share Posted July 29, 2021 5 minutes ago, Dan C said: I have just been informed by a member of our QA team that this issue is a known bug between Anchors and TOC's, which has been fixed in the latest beta 1.10 - unfortunately this fix will only apply to newly created documents/TOCs, but in the meantime a colleague of mine has been able to 'clean up' this document for you - so I'll be sending this back to the email address registered to your Affinity Forum account, through Dropbox. I hope this helps! Thank you, that's very kind of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomek_Q Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 On 7/29/2021 at 4:47 PM, Dan C said: I have just been informed by a member of our QA team that this issue is a known bug between Anchors and TOC's, which has been fixed in the latest beta 1.10 - unfortunately this fix will only apply to newly created documents/TOCs, but in the meantime a colleague of mine has been able to 'clean up' this document for you - so I'll be sending this back to the email address registered to your Affinity Forum account, through Dropbox. I hope this helps! Dan, almost a year later and on the latest 10.1.5 (release version) I am facing similar problems. The anchors populate my file after generating first TOC. Do have any usable cleaning tool developed by now? Regards, Tomek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted June 15, 2022 Staff Share Posted June 15, 2022 Hi @tomek_Q, I can confirm the issue being reported here originally was that when updating a TOC, superfluous anchors were not being removed, causing duplicate anchors to be generated - this issue was fixed in update 1.10.1 13 hours ago, tomek_Q said: The anchors populate my file after generating first TOC When generating a TOC, each item in the TOC is automatically a hyperlink to the page for the text that generated the TOC item, meaning it will be displayed in the Anchors panel. This is standard behaviour for a TOC, and is expected in Publisher - to change this behaviour, within the TOC Studio, please make sure Include as PDF Bookmark is unchecked, then create/update your TOC. You should now find that said Anchors are not created Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomek_Q Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 5 hours ago, Dan C said: This is standard behaviour for a TOC So, to avoid a mess, but still have a proper TOC in the PDF file I should generate one in Publisher with the PDF option ON only at the very end of the production cycle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 2 minutes ago, tomek_Q said: So, to avoid a mess, but still have a proper TOC in the PDF file I should generate one in Publisher with the PDF option ON only at the very end of the production cycle? That is how I would do it. Another trick I have found useful for fixing odd/bad behaviour with ToCs is to alway use a separate set of text frames for their use, exclusively. This way I can also delete the ToC text frames if things get really weird. It is as though some stuff from the ToC is attached to the text frame and then a newly generated ToC will inherits/interprets the mess. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | 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...
tomek_Q Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Another trick I have found useful for fixing odd/bad behaviour with ToCs is to alway use a separate set of text frames for their use, exclusively. That's the way I'm usually working. I mastered that technique during twenty or so years on the ID side of the field;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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