Fill character dot (.) does not always work

[draupnir]

AffPub 1.10.1 under macOS 10.15.7

I have created a table of contents and would like to have the page numbers at 85 mm with fill character dot (.). But it does not work. The underscore works. What can this be?

BTW: Why is it not possible to use any character as a fill character? 

– draupnir

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[Optische Ausrichtung]

23 minutes ago, draupnir said:

BTW: Why is it not possible to use any character as a fill character? 

With Affinity Publisher 1.10.1 it is possible ... click on the "…"-Button marked with the red "x".

 

[draupnir]

Thanks for your answer. In my version of AfPub 1.10.1 (Apple Mac Store version) I can't enter any character in (A) 😞

I tried it with a new start of AfPub and in a new document. No success. 

[Optische Ausrichtung]

17 minutes ago, draupnir said:

AfPub 1.10.1 (Apple Mac Store version)

Maybe that is the reason. I use the non-AppStore version for Mac. Unfortunately, I have not found a solution for the main problem.

Edit: I suspect this is a program error. How would one report such a guess to Affinity without having to say everything again?

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Optische Ausrichtung said:

Edit: I suspect this is a program error. How would one report such a guess to Affinity without having to say everything again?

This is already in the Publisher Bugs section of the forums, so you have reported it. You just need to wait for it to reach the top of the stack for processing by the Serif staff.

[thomaso]

On 9/19/2021 at 11:52 AM, draupnir said:

Thanks for your answer. In my version of AfPub 1.10.1 (Apple Mac Store version) I can't enter any character in (A) 😞

Same to me in a non-Apple but Serif-Store version.

@Optische Ausrichtung,  your screenshot shows the Paragraph panel. It seems the Text Style Editor dialog doesn't have text input enabled for that field (and for the decimal field either) – whereas it works in the according fields of the Paragraph panel.

By the way, it reminds me to a related issue concerning text input excluding non-ASCII characters, which still appears to be broken:

 

[thomaso]

By the way, the OP's issue appears to be already reported, logged by @Pauls and tagged (afb-4577)

 

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "[macOS] Text Style Panel - numeric entry for colour values in sliders not possible" (REF: AF-204) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.3.0.2083".
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