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After updating to version 1.10 of Publisher, I've found that the word spacing in the various books I've laid out has changed pretty radically. The result is pretty catastrophic, with all my line by line tweaks to avoid widows, orphans etc completely undone. I've identified this issue in all three of the books I've laid out and have confirmed that reverting back to version 1.9.2 fixes the issue.

The attached images show the same two pages in 1.9.2 and 1.10. In every instance, 1.10 results in tighter minimum word spacing despite the numbers in the Justification tab remaining unchanged. See the third line of paragraph 3 on page 11 for a particularly extreme example of the text becoming ultra-squished.

1.9.2 1.jpg

1.9.2 2.jpg

1.10 1.jpg

1.10 2.jpg

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Could you share a sample file? My book project is hundreds of pages long and I did a page-by-page review of 1.9.3 versus the final release candidate and didn't see a single difference. I've also reviewed the book in the released 1.10 and it looks perfect.

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Sure. The attached file is the first 40-odd pages of the book the screen captures above were taken from. I'm wondering if it's possible this is something specific to the font (Minion Pro)? Either way, it's consistent across all three books I've laid out (all of which use the same basic template).

Cruel Summer test.afpub

Posted

I don't see any issues with your doc setup and your second screenshots which I believe are 1.10 is what I'm seeing with 1.10. I'm not going to be much help to you as I don't have 1.9.x any longer for testing. But it sounds like you do have it or that you've reverted back to 1.9 for now. If you have only one machine now with 1.9 then you could install the 1.10 beta for comparison testing, assuming it's still available.

I'm unsure whether the issue is with min/max character spacing or min/max word spacing, but you have both set. I suggest making a three-page test document in 1.9.x. All three pages would have identical text but the first copy would have the character and word min/max spacing settings you're using now. The second version would have only character spacing set while the third version would have only word spacing set. If you could compare those pages in 1.9.x vs. 1.10 you could verify whether the problem is with character spacing, word spacing, or only both.

My personal preference for your two screenshots is the 1.10 version - I think it looks the spacing looks more consistent - but I can understand how the change could be disconcerting to you at this stage in your work.

Good luck!

Posted

Thanks for taking a look! I guess I just find it really disconcerting that something undocumented appears to have changed under the hood that's affecting my projects in such a significant way. Either way, I'm faced with a bit of a conundrum here: either I leave my books as they are and stick with 1.9.x in the hope that this gets reverted back further down the line, or I bite the bullet, upgrade to 1.10 and go through the painstaking process of re-adjusting the tracking in each affected paragraph to replicate the "old" formatting - but with the risk that, somewhere down the line, whatever change occurred could be identified as a bug and corrected, thereby undoing my work for a second time.

I agree, incidentally, that the text in 1.10 does look more consistently spaced - though the line on page 11 that I drew attention to seems an order of magnitude tighter than what my word and letter spacing settings should allow, and there are other such examples throughout my projects.

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Posted

Hi @M.R. Mackenzie,

I'm not aware of any reason it should look different after upgrading so I've logged this for some further investigation, I'll let you know when I have some more information (be it a new bug, or potentially that we fixed a bug and it now looks "correct")

Thanks for the report

Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com

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