The leading is not working

[Guth-Rosenstock-Arts]

Dear Affinity:

We downloaded the trial version of Affinity Publisher v2 and started a real flyer project on it fully wanting to buy the suite.  When we are tried to adjust the leading in the paragraphs, there were only three responses: too small --letters bunched on top of each other (anything under say 8pt leading), default (anything from 8pt up to 14pt)--which in our case is too tight,   then any leading even with decimals  over 14pts jumps to setting for 15 pt which is ridiculously huge. There is no way to fix it. This makes Publisher v2 and Designer v2 absolutely useless. There is literally no program have ever used with as bad leading no matter how amature. The worst thing is is that the project we built on it must be exported and every time we try to export it out to say Photoshop so we could reload it in our original Affinity suite  so we could fix the leading and hand the project off, the program crashes! I will not spend money for a "publishing" program that cannot adjust leading!! Is the trial crippled so there is no way to export? Is it programmed to crash on export? If this is the new version it is  a buggy disaster! We need help exporting it back into Affinty 1 ASAP!

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

It would help to have a sample .afpub or .afdesign file that demonstrates your problem. There are several different things that could be happening, including these two:

• Using Leading Override in the Character panel (or Character portion of a Paragraph Text Style) rather than using Leading in the Paragraph panel (or Paragraph portion of the Text Style).
• Having the Baseline Grid configured incorrectly.

With a sample file we can examine it and tell you exactly what is wrong, with less guessing. Or we can say "yes, there's a bug."

[Guth-Rosenstock-Arts]

This is a flyer comp for a Kosher Food Pantry in AZ. The owner wrote the content. We need to hammer out the final details, but Publisher2 is crashing all of the time, and the Leading was not working. We were able to open this in Affinity Painter2 and export it to PSD and then open it in Publisher1 and retyped the text.

We need to know how to uninstal the trials completely.

Once the bugs are fixed,please offer us the same discounted price to upgrade. Not buying it now and waiting.

our system is MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) OS Catalina 10.15.7 (19H1715)

AKPBlindChanukah.afpub

[Guth-Rosenstock-Arts]

Chanukah Blind Man Flyer Copyright 2023 Guth-Rosenstock Arts. Ari Guth, Joseph and Jaye Cobb Rosenstock (All Rights Reserved)

Edited November 20, 2022 by Guth-Rosenstock-Arts

[DWright]

We have release a new beta version of Affinity Publisher that allows you to enter leading values of over 14pts without it jumping to 15pts