JonGl Posted November 15, 2022 Posted November 15, 2022 (edited) I guess I'll let the video do the talking. (I've also enclosed a screen shot) To try to describe the problem. This is an imported IDML file that was originally two columns, but with spanned headers and spanned additional text. In trying to make it work, I moved the spanned text to separate text frames, and tried to flow the two column text on either side, but when I did, the text "greeked" on me, getting too small to read. It was like it tried to import the entire page of text into a tiny portion, and reduced the font size to fit. but when I re-applied the style, then the font size on the next page (and following) got huge. The video shows it in action. Sadly, I ended up not saving the file, but I still have the IDML file if it is necessary. (not adding it here, but will send it privately if necessary) What is your operating system and version (OSX Ventura)? Is hardware acceleration (in Preferences > Performance) ON or OFF ? M1 Metal is on (and have you tried the other setting? No) What happened for you (see video) Provide a recipe for creating the problem (step-by-step what you did). Screenshots (very handy) or a screen capture/video. Any unusual hardware (None) or relevant other applications like font managers or display managers. (and None) Did this same thing used to work and if so have you changed anything recently? (Never tried it before) Screen Recording 2022-11-10 at 8.33.29 AM.mov Edited November 15, 2022 by JonGl Quote
loukash Posted November 15, 2022 Posted November 15, 2022 I remember there was a similar bug in v1 that involved previously scaled text frames. I have no idea if it has ever been fully fixed. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2
Staff Pauls Posted November 29, 2022 Staff Posted November 29, 2022 I wonder if you select some text in an existing text frame using the same style you want then perform a "Save Defaults", then create the text frames you may get the result you need Quote
JonGl Posted November 29, 2022 Author Posted November 29, 2022 2 hours ago, Pauls said: I wonder if you select some text in an existing text frame using the same style you want then perform a "Save Defaults", then create the text frames you may get the result you need I've tried that (changing the style), and changing the font only in the affected frame, but then the text in the following frames gets messed up. Thing is, regardless of how one tries to overcome this, it is a bug, not user error. And that's the point of posting it here. Quote
PeterB. Posted November 29, 2022 Posted November 29, 2022 @JonGl I think this is the same problem I had, or at least related to it. The solution was to copy all the text from the old text frames into completely new ones. Then this no longer occurs. A bit cumbersome but better than having to redo the formatting every time. Quote
JonGl Posted November 29, 2022 Author Posted November 29, 2022 2 minutes ago, PeterB. said: @JonGl I think this is the same problem I had, or at least related to it. The solution was to copy all the text from the old text frames into completely new ones. Then this no longer occurs. A bit cumbersome but better than having to redo the formatting every time. My problem is that these _are_ new text frames. I'm flowing old/imported text into new frames, trying to work around the limitation of the lack of spanned columns. The only way around it that I have found is to do a brand new, direct import of the original text (but first reformatting it from icml into something that Publisher can handle. For me, the simplest solution was IDML files, but this is the result, so now what? rtf? Word docx? Ugh. All I wanted to do was bring in an existing project from InDesign, and keep moving, not start all over from scratch. Having to do that kind of undermines a large part of migrating for me. 😞 If this bug were fixed, I would have thrown my money down already. Quote
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