Error: Missing boundary box

[Dybkjær]

Affinity Publisher 2, on iPad Pro 12.9 2022, iPadOS 16.1.1.

Picture left: Selected the dashed line, no boundary box, an error.

Picture right: Selected the arrow. Boundary box, as expected.

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Please see the enclosed test document. 

Best regards, Hans

PS: I'm very happy about Publisher on iPad!

test.afpub

[GarryP]

Strange.

I can reproduce the issue on Windows 10.
I tried to recreate a curve in the same document with the same settings as the path6613 layer but I can see the bounding box as usual.
(It’s also very difficult to select and drag the path6613 layer in the viewport.)

Did this document come from importing an SVG?
If so, would it be possible for you to upload the SVG so the developers can look at it to get a better idea of what happened?

[Dybkjær]

You are right, if I create a new dashed line, even using the imported Fx Styles from the old Designer 1.x, it works fine.

The original illustration was probably Inkscape, imported to Designer (v1.x), the further opened in publisher and copied to an afpub document, where the problem occurs. 

The inclosed document is a dumbed down version - I'm currently writing a book and would reather not upload the complete, large document here.

That document is created in Designer 1.x (the newest x), and the example group copied to there from another afdesign document.

If you open in Designer 1, ungroup and select the dashed line, it shows the bounding box just fine.

The same goes for Designer 2: Works fine.

However, open it in Publisher 2 (I do not have 1.x, my computer is an iPad), and the dashed line has no bounding box (except while moving it). This it true even if you copy it to a new afpub from the afdesign.

When publisher was not available on the iPad, I would make documents (not books - have been waiting for publisher on the iPad for that) in Designer 1.x. Now that Publisher 2 is available on the iPad, I open the old .afdesign documents from Publisher 2, copy the drawings, close the document, open the new working afpub document, and posed the drawings to there.

It needs a number of adjustments, but is manageable even if in my dreams I would have an "import afdesign to afpub, converting artboards to pages" 🙂

Concerning the dashed lines I will be able to either redraw or cmd-g them (grouping that single line will provide the bounding box for easy resizing), even if it still a slightly annoying error.

 

test-designer-1.afdesign

[Hangman]

This is a bug in Publisher 2.0 relating to multi-page documents...

If you create a single page Publisher document and paste the graphic from Designer then everything is as it should be but as soon as you have more than one page in Publisher both the physical dashed line (in this particular instance) and its transform origin are thrown wildly off in either the X or Y axis. In the X axis if the graphic is pasted on Page 1, in the Y axis if the graphic is pasted on Page 2 onwards...

In the original test.afpub document, when opened in Publisher, if you select path6613 and then show it's transform origin and zoom out sufficiently you will see it's transform origin is offset by exactly 210mm along the X axis, i.e., the document page width and the physical line appears at approximately 1,400mm along the X axis. To physically move the dotted line you have to selected it at the 1,400mm mark.

If you delete pages 2 to 4, leaving just page 1, then the transform origin for the dotted line is now correctly positioned and can be selected and moved.

When you have a single-page Publisher document and you paste the test-designer-1.afdesign file into Publisher, when pasted on page 1, everything is pasted correctly and again you can select the dashed line and move it as expected but add a second page to the same Publisher document and both the physical lines' selection point and its transform origin are incorrectly offset along the X axis.

Paste the same graphic on page 2 and both the physical lines' selection point and its transform origin are offset along the Y axis and the offset doubles with each page you paste the graphic on, i.e., the Y offset is double when pasted on page 4 vs that when pasted on page 2.

Note: The physical resolution of the source graphic will also influence the amount of the offset, e.g., the test-designer-1.afdesign file is 144dpi, the Publisher document is 300dpi so copy/pasting the 144dpi Designer graphic will result in a different size pasted graphic vs changing the source Designer graphic to 300dpi to match the Publisher document prior to copy/pasting it into the Publisher document and subsuquently the X and Y offset owing to the bug...

[Dybkjær]

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1 hour ago, Hangman said:

This is a bug in Publisher 2.0 relating to multi-page documents...

You are righ. Thank you for the thorough description pointing out what I could do next time to understand such bugs.

I still don't know why it occurs on import, but not when drawn directly in the document.

I'll go continue my own work.

Best regards,

      Hans

[Hangman]

@Dybkjær, if it helps, a work around whilst waiting for a bug fix would be to make your Designer Document Size the same or close to the size of your graphic and then Place (rather than copy/paste) the Designer graphic into your Publisher document.

This still allows you to Edit the Designer document from within Publisher (using the Edit Document option in the Context toolbar) and overcomes the issues you're currently experiencing when working with multi-page Publisher documents...