Autoflow incorrect frame linking (sometimes)

[MaverickPixel]

Hi,

I have two Master pages. Both 2-page spreads.

Master Start has a single text frame on the right-hand page

Master Main has a text frame on both pages

My first 2-page spread has Master Start applied, and the second 2-pages has Master Main applied. I place a RTF file into the first page and it appears in the single right-hand frame as expected.

Clicking on the text frame flow triangle while holding the shift key on the first page, starts the text flowing to the right-hand page text frame, instead of the left as required. Additional pages are automagically created, with the text flowing to the right-hand frame only each time.

Hardware Overview:

  Model Name: Mac mini

  Model Identifier: Macmini7,1

  Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Core i5

  Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz

  Number of Processors: 1

  Total Number of Cores: 2

  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

  L3 Cache: 3 MB

  Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled

  Memory: 8 GB

  System Firmware Version: 474.0.0.0.0

  OS Loader Version: 540.120.3~22

  SMC Version (system): 2.24f32

TIA

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, MaverickPixel said:

Clicking on the text frame flow triangle while holding the shift key on the first page, starts the text flowing to the right-hand page text frame, instead of the left as required. Additional pages are automagically created, with the text flowing to the right-hand frame only each time.

That's because you don't have the left- and right-side text frames linked on the Master Page applied to that first page. And when you Shift+Click on the Linking icon, you get duplicates of that page and its Master. 

Why do you have two Master Pages for this? I think that's the root of your problem. But if you need that setup, don't Shift+Click on the Linking icon. Click on it, then click on the text frame on page 2. That will link the frame on page 1 with the frame on page 2. Then (assuming you've linked both frames on Master Main) you can just Shift+Click on the Linking triangle on page 3.

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By the way, welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. And here's a suggestion for using the forums: you asked this as a question only 16 hours ago. It's not a bug, so simply waiting for an answer to your question would probably have been better.

Link to older post: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/173700-publisher-2-autoflow/#comment-996087

 

[MaverickPixel]

Hi Walt,

Apologies for my ineptitude. I now see where I have gone wrong, and am grateful for your education.

I'll pop into the corner now and write it out 1000 times.

Kindest regards,

Graham

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

And all of us get things wrong as we go along, so don't worry about it. Some things are complex.