Affinity Publisher v2 - Saved file is opened as untitled

[AgileDesign]

Hi all,

I'm using Affinity Publisher V2 on a windows machine. I've seen a few behaviours and I've been working around them due to deadlines approaching. But today I had enough.

I have a document that I have been working on for a while. Every time I open it either by dragging the doc, opening through the menu or double clicking in windows explorer, the file is not opening up with the file name I gave it. (see attached image).

 

The second issue has happened with a few documents at this stage, when I change the text style, No matter which one, it eventually changes back to the previous font.

The other issue was to do with masters, I duplicated masters in a different file, but the title settings, such as font, style, etc, didn't copy, causing half of a document to loose it's format.

Any help is greatly appreciated, specially with the 1st issue.

Thanks

[walt.farrell]

20 minutes ago, AgileDesign said:

I have a document that I have been working on for a while. Every time I open it either by dragging the doc, opening through the menu or double clicking in windows explorer, the file is not opening up with the file name I gave it. (see attached image).

What is the complete file name and extension? 

21 minutes ago, AgileDesign said:

The other issue was to do with masters, I duplicated masters in a different file, but the title settings, such as font, style, etc, didn't copy, causing half of a document to loose it's format.

Sorry, I don't understand what you did. Can you provide more details?

[AgileDesign]

.aftemplate 😔 duh!! sorry, I just saved it as afpub. Seems like it worked.

I have a title made, then I duplicate the masters and just move the blocks around. When I applied the masters to several pages and when back to change the font, it never copied the format. So, to fix it, I had to move the title elsewhere, make the desired title, then copy the text back. But even in a few instances, the font didn't change when I went back to the masters,

I hope you can understand

 

[Old Bruce]

Your extension means it is a Template file which will always open up a copy of the Template and name it Untitiled. I would open it, save it with a descriptive name, and then just work on that saved file. I would also delete that template file, a Template should be mostly blank. It should have the necessary Text Frames, Master Pages, Text Styles, Document colour Swatches, etc. which you want or need for future projects.

[walt.farrell]

23 minutes ago, AgileDesign said:

 .aftemplate 😔 duh!! sorry, I just saved it as afpub. Seems like it worked.

Good

For the Masters problem: Changing something like the font or font size on a Master won't affect any text that you've already added to a document page. So if that's what you're doing it's expected behavior.