nomi02118 Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 I had set up a book with a table of contents using the "books" function with a previous version of V2. It won't open anymore and I get the message "file type not supported" even though it was working well until now. This feature keeps on being buggy for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 1 hour ago, nomi02118 said: I had set up a book with a table of contents using the "books" function with a previous version of V2. It won't open anymore and I get the message "file type not supported" even though it was working well until now. This feature keeps on being buggy for me! There are a lot of Books improvements in the 2.1 beta released today so you might want to give that a try. Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.5, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomi02118 Posted February 15, 2023 Author Share Posted February 15, 2023 That is really good to know! I am using the books fro some fairly complicated and important work that isn't in any rush so I might wait. My curiosity might get the better of me though. Especially if 2.1 takes a while to get released. I have been trying to convince a magazine I work for to switch to Publisher but that can't happen until the books feature is reliable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted February 16, 2023 Staff Share Posted February 16, 2023 Its probably a problem with an embedded document. 2.1 beta has some improvements in this area. You can try that or upload the document here and we'll investigate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomi02118 Posted February 16, 2023 Author Share Posted February 16, 2023 8 minutes ago, Pauls said: Its probably a problem with an embedded document. 2.1 beta has some improvements in this area. You can try that or upload the document here and we'll investigate I just went through all 12 documents I put in the book and there are no embedded documents. Because I had issues before I linked everything. Not sure what to upload. The 12 documents with the externally linked files and the .afbook file? It was working perfectly until the latest update. I will seriously consider the beta version, I don't have much time to deal with it over the next couple of weeks but it would good to know if the problem will be solved next update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted February 16, 2023 Staff Share Posted February 16, 2023 put the 12 documents and the book file up - if its a linked file issue it will open for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomi02118 Posted February 16, 2023 Author Share Posted February 16, 2023 4 minutes ago, Pauls said: put the 12 documents and the book file up - if its a linked file issue it will open for me. Here are the publisher files and afbook file. The graphics are in a separate zip file. One is a larger afphoto file if you need them, the rest are designer files and small. Thanks so much for looking into this. 172229751_Graphics02.zip afbook_issue.zip Pauls 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted February 16, 2023 Staff Share Posted February 16, 2023 the book file has been corrupted - it is zero bytes in size! You will have to remake that I'm afraid. Do you store your files on a cloud drive such as Google Drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomi02118 Posted February 16, 2023 Author Share Posted February 16, 2023 No, I keep all my files on an external hard drive. I have remade it a few times since V2 started I hope the corruption isn't going ot be common problem! Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted February 16, 2023 Staff Share Posted February 16, 2023 does the app appear to lock up at any point whilst you've been working on the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomi02118 Posted February 16, 2023 Author Share Posted February 16, 2023 Nope, haven't had that happen. Last couple times Impend it it was working perfectly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomi02118 Posted February 17, 2023 Author Share Posted February 17, 2023 On 2/16/2023 at 6:50 AM, Pauls said: does the app appear to lock up at any point whilst you've been working on the book. Today it locked up when I changed a linked graphic and I had to force quit. I did try the new beta and couldn’t make that happen again and also noticed it was much faster to load and work in. Thanks for you help and I will put any problems that come in the beta forum. Pauls 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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