pck1980 Posted November 14, 2022 Posted November 14, 2022 I came across a very odd and annoying bug in Affinity Publisher 2.0: Under certain circumstances, moving an image frame over a two-column text frame completely destroys text balance between the two columns. I attached a small video of the phenomenon and a sample document. It even happened that an empty image frame did not alter text balancing, but as soon as I added an image to it, it did. The problem seems to have to do with the paragraph style: In the sample document, with the paragraph style to "None", the problem no longer occurs. The only workaround I found so far is to manually adjust the size of the text frame so that it's just large enough to hold the text. As this includes "detaching" the text frame from the master page and "re-attaching" it, the workaround is rather annoying. Bug.mov Bug example.afpub Quote
Old Bruce Posted November 14, 2022 Posted November 14, 2022 3 hours ago, pck1980 said: The problem seems to have to do with the paragraph style: In the sample document, with the paragraph style to "None", the problem no longer occurs. It has to do with the setting for the Text Wrap in conjunction with the Balance Text in Columns setting for the Text Frame. Use Jump (the first choice) instead of Square (the second choice, and your current choice). The change in the Paragraph Style 'fixing it' is probably simply coincidental. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
pck1980 Posted November 14, 2022 Author Posted November 14, 2022 8 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: It has to do with the setting for the Text Wrap in conjunction with the Balance Text in Columns setting for the Text Frame. Use Jump (the first choice) instead of Square (the second choice, and your current choice). The change in the Paragraph Style 'fixing it' is probably simply coincidental. Thanks for your reply. Setting text wrap to "Jump" fixes the issue, but it doesn't produce the result I want in all cases: I sometimes place images in the middle between the two columns, and I'd like to have the text flow around it. So in these situations, "Jump" is not an option. I hope it will get fixed soon... Or do you think this is intentional? Quote
Old Bruce Posted November 14, 2022 Posted November 14, 2022 Seems I am wrong, I made a Paragraph Style from scratch and it all works as you would want it too. I took a look at the various Text Styles you have and there are values there that make no sense to me, not so much the values but the names. " Optical alignment values; OpenType: reset; " " Leading mode: % ideal; " I cannot seem to get these fields/values when I start from scratch so I have to ask if the Style Group "Grundlage" was imported from somewhere? pck1980 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
pck1980 Posted November 15, 2022 Author Posted November 15, 2022 23 hours ago, Old Bruce said: Seems I am wrong, I made a Paragraph Style from scratch and it all works as you would want it too. I took a look at the various Text Styles you have and there are values there that make no sense to me, not so much the values but the names. " Optical alignment values; OpenType: reset; " " Leading mode: % ideal; " I cannot seem to get these fields/values when I start from scratch so I have to ask if the Style Group "Grundlage" was imported from somewhere? Thanks a lot for further investigating this issue. I didn't import any styles to work with but created them within Publisher (1.0). If I create a new document, I also have the style "Grundlage" with the variables you mentioned, so it seems to be some sort of default. I wonder why these options don't appear in your default style. I don't know if it's possible to change styles globally so that all documents are affected, but if I did this, it was by accident Either way, the issue with text placement/column balancing doesn't seem to appear if I create a brand-new document with a two-column text frame and the default style "Grundlage". I also managed to "fix" the issue temporarily in the "buggy" document by modifying the settings for kerning (I hope this is the correct translation) in the styles "Körper" and/or "Körper 1", but I cannot reproduce the "fix". Quote
Dan C Posted December 1, 2022 Posted December 1, 2022 Hi @pck1980, Thanks for your report and our sincerest apologies for the delayed response here. We are exceptionally busy following the release of V2 and we thank you for your continued patience and understanding here. I can confirm our team have since identified this as a bug and logged it with our developers to be fixed ASAP. I hope this helps Quote
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