Publisher V2 export artefacts

[NZezula]

Recently I just finished a big project using V2 (a 200-page catalog with tons of images) and I must say it was not a pleasant experience (compare to previous projects with V1 and even InDesign). V2 has been crashing a lot especially when the project got bigger. I was not able to identify why the crash happened the majority of the time, but I caught some of the glitches. 

1. weight of some fonts doesn't correspond to export (if you leave the text as text and don't transform it to curves): test1: font as text, test2:text as curves + Printscreen of publisher (this problem I`m able to simulate easily). (This is especially a problem when you are trying to send the file for final proofs and they usually need to have it as text, to be able to insert comments to the text in acrobat)

2. bilinear resampling of images causes artifacts (from time to time and only with really big projects) (this is not such big of a deal for me because I tend to use Lasclo... I found out because I needed just quick export, so I used) - Im not able to reproduce it right now. test3: project exported using bilinear res.. test4: same project, same time, same setting except of resampling - lasclo3 non-separable

but to be honest, those were minor problems compared to the constant crashing (once, there was a problem with a pixel layer, and I was trying to do anything with it, even delete it, but whatever I did it resulted in crashing, I was able to get through after maybe 30 crashes. another time one page was cursed, and whatever I did on the whole page resulted in crash -I think I had to delete the page and make the layout from the scratch)

Another thing I noticed is, that the crashing went really on another level when I turned off facing pages and stop working with the spreads layout...

I know that these pieces of information are too shallow to give you guys some real insight where is the problem.... but maybe someone had similar issues and will be able to provide more

To sum it up, I`m going back to V1 publisher for a while.... but keep the great jop you are doing!

running macbook pro 14 M1Pro

test1.pdf test2.pdf test3.pdf test4.pdf

[NZezula]

And Im using macOS 12.3.1 and Publisher V2 2.04

[DWright]

Can you please confirm the fonts that you are using and the PDF export settings and can you please also send me the latest Affinity Publisher 2 crash reports

To find the crash reports by opening the Console app from Applications > Utilities. In the left hand panel click Crash Reports - you will see a list of Crash Reports. Find the relevant crash report - it should display the app's name in the Process Name column. Right click and select Reveal in Finder. Please send me the .crash file using the Dropbox link below.

https://www.dropbox.com/request/JkE6nd9upeXladuvMoEz