Affinity Publisher V2 (2.0.4) Book nightmare…

[Gianni_S]

Hi all, 

I have read a lot on this forum about working with book function on AP v2.
I have to confirm that it is a nightmare!
At the moment I am trying to create a TOC for a 16 docs book (228 pages) and everything I do… it crash!
Documents take forever to close, sometimes they freeze or TOC make everything close.
Opening a document from the book to modify it (text editing plus correcting bad types, for example) is becoming a scaring operation.
Sometimes it works many other times not… Seems to work with a quirky version of Quark (sorry for the joke).
So… Affinity… FIX IT, please.
Hope to hear you sooner as possible.

Thanks a lot… I keep on fighting trying to finish that book.

 

G:

[Dan C]

Hi Gianni_S,

I believe this issue is already resolved and will be deployed in an upcoming patch.

We do have an open beta for this version, though it should be used at your own risk. (back up important documents before opening)

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/affinity-beta-program/

Lee

[RaggedyGlenn]

Hey Lee,

 

hope that helps Gianni_S solve his crashing problems. I have a similar thing where an export of a book causes Publisher 2 to crash consistently. Rather than start a new thread, I thought it might be covered by this. The only thing that I added before it starting crashing was a seperate Notes section at the end of document. I used the End of Document drop down for the chapter Notes sections and the 'Insert Notes' option in the Books panel to place the notes in a text frame at the end of document. I've included all the test files I used below.

Does the beta fix this problem as well?

 

Many thanks

Glenn

 

 

Test Report Book.afbook Test Report Chapter One.afpub Test Report Chapter Three.afpub Test Report Chapter Two.afpub Test Report Notes.afpub