Ning Posted November 24, 2021 Posted November 24, 2021 If a table is freshly created, "AutoFit to Column to Content" does work. But if I resize the table, it will squash everything in the cell. Also have the same issue when copying table from Excel. 20211124_222354.mp4 20211124_221638.mp4 Quote
sfriedberg Posted November 25, 2021 Posted November 25, 2021 I can confirm the behavior you are seeing. Publisher 1.10.4.1189 on Windows 10. Some tables behave better than others. In tables which misbehave, I can sometimes get close to the expected behavior by setting the No Break character property on the cell contents. I've also noticed that tables which are misbehaving often ignore, or misapply, the cell insets. So the cells are not only too small, but the contents are shifted inside the cell, frequently to the point where they run outside the bounds of the cell altogether. So I suspect there are several interacting bugs here. As a more general comment about resizing tables and table columns, I really do not care for the way columns resize proportionally. A simpler, more predictable, and easier to use UI would allow dragging the right table boundary to resize only the rightmost column, and dragging a column boundary to resize only the column to the left of the boundary, moving (not resizing) all the columns to the right (except possibly the rightmost, which might resize to keep the right table boundary fixed). Ning 1 Quote
Dan C Posted November 25, 2021 Posted November 25, 2021 Hi @Ning, Welcome to the Affinity Forums Many thanks for your report! I've been able to replicate this issue here also, and therefore I'm logging this as a bug with our developers now. I hope this helps! Quote
Ning Posted November 26, 2021 Author Posted November 26, 2021 20 hours ago, Dan C said: Hi @Ning, Welcome to the Affinity Forums Many thanks for your report! I've been able to replicate this issue here also, and therefore I'm logging this as a bug with our developers now. I hope this helps! Thank you for the reply! Hope you guys will fix this soon. 😁 Dan C 1 Quote
greysonwhy Posted January 19, 2022 Posted January 19, 2022 (edited) Is there an update on this bug? It's been driving me crazy. If this wasn't such an issue, I think I'd be much happier with using tables in Publisher. That being said, I think I figured out something weird about this. I've been using "No Break" as suggested above, and it seems to help a lot, but it only seems to work sometimes. It seemed like "AutoFit Column to Context" was only "listening" to one row. So, Row 4 had the longest text in Column A, and AutoFit listened to that when applied to Column A. When I try to AutoFit Column B, it seems that AutoFit is still "listening" to Row 4 and AutoFits to that instead of the longer text in Row 3's Column B. Thus, with Row 3 having the longest text again in Column C, AutoFit works fine again for Column C. Here's the even weirder part: it doesn't always do this. It did this in the original table (that I was actually using), but it didn't do it in the first table that I copied, but then I copied the original table again (and made fewer changes to it) and the problems showed up again! EDIT: I said it doesn't always do that, but I think there are more rules than I noticed. It seems that AutoFit only "listens" to later rows. So, below, in Row 5's Column B, it AutoFits fine even though Row 4's Column A still has the longer text. However, Row 4's Column C is now broken because AutoFit is listening to a later row (Row 5) at that point. So, AutoFit on Column A listens to Row 4, AutoFit on Column B listens to Row 5, but AutoFit on Column C is being weird—it doesn't seem to be listening to anything. But it gets weirder! Because "Evenly Distribute Columns" seems to get stuck. If I hit that button (for all of the columns at the same time), then, even if I resize the columns (which I have to do through the Table menu and I can only make them bigger for some reason), then, if I AutoFit, they just Distribute instead. Edited January 19, 2022 by greysonwhy Additional information sfriedberg 1 Quote
Dan C Posted January 20, 2022 Posted January 20, 2022 Hi @greysonwhy, Welcome to the Affinity Forums Unfortunately this issue isn't yet marked as fixed, though I can see some development input internally, so it's certainly being looked at. I'll be sure to provide the further information in your post to our developers now, many thanks for your report! greysonwhy 1 Quote
Kelly Bellis Posted June 6, 2023 Posted June 6, 2023 FYI & FWIW Tables, AutoFit Columns to Contents, still seems broken in AfPub v2.1.0. Until this gets fixed I'm exporting a PDF from the spreadsheet program, LibreOffice Calc. Quote
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