Snorelaxing Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 I made a workflow to generate brochures and handouts with the comapny's address using data merger in Publisher V1 and it was able to detect line breaks so when I generated it would do the bullet points and line breaks for me just as I put it in the excel file. but now moving over to V2, it no longer detects line breaks from my excel file. Instead it opts in for word wrapping. I tried using CSV, TSV, JSON and nothing worked. Is there any way to fix this? I really don't want to roll back everything I've done so far back to V1 if I can help it. The one with the black marker is the data merge field from Publisher V1 and the only is from V2. Thank you so much your time and reading this! ** I also posted on bugs, but if anyone else is experiencing this and has a fix please let me know Dominik Bucheli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 Yes, the code seems to remove both the Excel native linefeeds (entered by typing Alt+Enter/Opt+Return) and the kinds of linefeeds inserted by using something like CHAR(10). For a while you could work around this by replacing existing line feeds with a marker like "<LF>", and then use Find + Replace in merged Publisher document to replace markers with true line breaks. It would probably be useful to have the address items as separate fields and then concatenate the address field to be used in the merge document, but in Excel it is possible to Find and Replace Alt+Enter/Opt+Return linefeeds by entering Ctrl/Cmd+J in the Find field and e.g. <LF> in the Replace field. Snorelaxing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luca Digital Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 I have the same issue. Workflow broken. To me the fact of removing line breaks is a bug. You need to be able to import text from CSV that has line breaks into it. I will also report it. Snorelaxing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snorelaxing Posted March 7, 2023 Author Share Posted March 7, 2023 21 hours ago, Luca Digital said: I have the same issue. Workflow broken. To me the fact of removing line breaks is a bug. You need to be able to import text from CSV that has line breaks into it. I will also report it. Yea, it really sucks, I just went back to V1 until this issue is resolved. Luckily I saved past versions. I do a lot of work flows with data merger so no longer be using V2. The work flow suggested above would take too much time to go through every file add <LF> and then re merge everything. Dominik Bucheli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff NathanC Posted March 13, 2023 Staff Share Posted March 13, 2023 On 3/6/2023 at 9:46 PM, Luca Digital said: I have the same issue. Workflow broken. To me the fact of removing line breaks is a bug. You need to be able to import text from CSV that has line breaks into it. I will also report it. Welcome to the forums @Luca Digital, This issue is already logged with the developers, i've now bumped it with your report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevintame Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 This "bug" is a major step back for the work I need to do on regular basis. It's a pain to have to go back and add a line break on every field I've merged. Snorelaxing and Dominik Bucheli 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luca Digital Posted March 15, 2023 Share Posted March 15, 2023 On 3/13/2023 at 3:37 PM, NathanC said: Welcome to the forums @Luca Digital, This issue is already logged with the developers, i've now bumped it with your report. Thanks. Right now I have to edit the merged document by hand. I hope it will be fixed soon. Snorelaxing and Dominik Bucheli 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snorelaxing Posted May 18, 2023 Author Share Posted May 18, 2023 Has there been any updates that addresses this issue? Just wondering, so I know if I can safely move my files over. Also is there anyway to buy Publisher V1 so my coworker can also work on the same files Im working on? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted May 18, 2023 Share Posted May 18, 2023 4 hours ago, Snorelaxing said: Also is there anyway to buy Publisher V1 so .... No. Snorelaxing 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 11 hours ago, Snorelaxing said: Has there been any updates that addresses this issue? No to that, too, so the release 2.1.0 continues to be broken. I am not sure if the state of brokenness is actually even acknowledged or if the change (which requires a deliberate act) is a new feature and that is here to stay. Dominik Bucheli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 7 hours ago, lacerto said: I am not sure if the state of brokenness is actually even acknowledged Well, it's logged as a bug, at least. And the Developers have had a few months to say "by design" and they haven't said that yet, though we know they're busy and may just not have gotten to it. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=AFB-7327 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 On 5/19/2023 at 1:51 PM, walt.farrell said: Well, it's logged as a bug, at least. Good to know, but as said, the earlier feature existed pretty much gratuitously because the line breaks came with the data so no effort was needed to "support" the feature. Making it "broken", however, means that control characters are intentionally removed. That may be well grounded so therefore (and because the feature would be easy to get back) my guess is that the feature will not necessarily be back, unless supported in another, less direct, way. But who knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 I am finding the inability of APu to find paragraph breaks in Find and Replace very frustrating but I see that this thread related to Datamerge only so I may be barking up the wrong tree,,, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 6 hours ago, Catshill said: I am finding the inability of APu to find paragraph breaks in Find and Replace very frustrating... In either V1 or V2 of APu, in the F&R panel, click on the magnifying glass icon in the Find or Replace With field to pop up a menu with a Special Characters submenu. On it you will find paragraph & the other kinds of breaks listed, so you can enter them in those fields. Are you saying this does not work for you? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 4 hours ago, R C-R said: In either V1 or V2 of APu, in the F&R panel, click on the magnifying glass icon in the Find or Replace With field to pop up a menu with a Special Characters submenu. On it you will find paragraph & the other kinds of breaks listed, so you can enter them in those fields. Are you saying this does not work for you? Correct. If I copy and paste the same text into MS Word, the paragraph break is found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 13 minutes ago, Catshill said: Correct. If I copy and paste the same text into MS Word, the paragraph break is found. I am not sure what you mean by "correct." Does F&R not find paragraph breaks if you enter them in the field as I described, or is there something else that prevents this from working in APub? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 8 hours ago, R C-R said: I am not sure what you mean by "correct." Does F&R not find paragraph breaks if you enter them in the field as I described, or is there something else that prevents this from working in APub? Not it doesn’t find paragraph breaks. I’d assumed that this was a known bug but clearly not. I’ll start a new bug report/thread rather than hijacking this one. Snorelaxing and walt.farrell 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steviegarrad Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 This still seems to be the case in 2.2, does anyone know when this might be fixed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff NathanC Posted October 14, 2023 Staff Share Posted October 14, 2023 Hi @Steviegarrad, No news to share on a fix build I'm afraid, this thread is tagged with the issue so when there are any updates the Serif Info Bot will automatically reply to the thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 3 hours ago, NathanC said: ... this thread is tagged with the issue so when there are any updates the Serif Info Bot will automatically reply to the thread. About Serif Info Bot, I often get notifications that it has replied to topics I'm following but there is no post from it. This is one such topic (see below). Any idea why that is? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted October 16, 2023 Staff Share Posted October 16, 2023 On 10/14/2023 at 2:28 PM, R C-R said: This is one such topic (see below). Any idea why that is? Looks like a bug. Serif Info Bot has posted to this thread (a hidden post has been made for staff to link to the bug Nathan has acknowledged). If it's a hidden automated post then you should not be notified, but it looks to me like if you are to be notified of replies by visible users the forum software includes posts you cannot see too. Snorelaxing and R C-R 1 1 Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelMapper Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Hi. Is there a way to increase the priority for this issue with the developers? I would also need this to be fixed sooner, rather than later. Thank you. Snorelaxing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snorelaxing Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 ^ I've been checking back here after every update and still no dice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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