AP — Substract (compound) not working as expected if done in Master

[Aleksandar Kovač]

Using Publisher 2.1.0 on Mac Mini M1 with Ventura 13.4. Reproducible bug on new documents, too. Example file attached.

Recipe:

1. Open AP, start editing a master page.
2. Make two shapes on master page, enter Designer persona.
3. select both shapes, and execute compound subtract operation on them. (ALT click on  or Layer>Geometry>ALT+Subtract)
4. Go back to Publisher persona.

Bug:

In Master page, our subtracted compound looks fine. But, in regular page we have Compound Add and NOT Compound Subtract. Even the layer panel says so:

Pages layers

…vs. Master layers

 

Expectation:

Boolean operations are coherently applied regardless of Master/Page contexts. I.e. a subtract should remain subtract.

compound subtract not working.afpub

[Return]

Confirmed on windows11
Workaround is to add the masterpage again to the regular page.

 

[Hangman]

Hi @Aleksandar Kovač,

This appears to be because while the Master page is correctly assigned the compound subtract operation, the page the Master is applied to is incorrectly assigned the compound addition operation...

[Aleksandar Kovač]

@Return Yes, but that could be destructive, possibly? 🤔 Another workaround (verified on Mac) is to create the compound shape on Page and then move it to Master.

@Hangman Yes, that is visible from the layer panel. What worried me is that this seems to be due to no user action. 

Additionally, if ‘Edit linked’ is used on this compound, and operator is changed by hand, the result is as it should be. But, it should not happen in the first place, right?

[Return]

My Guess is that @Aleksandar Kovač wants the compound to be taken over to regular page(s) when using edit linked or editing the masterpage itself.
I think this should be the case but can't tell if this is considered a bug or not.

[Aleksandar Kovač]

A simple use scenario is to use a compound shape as a part of a master page. A master page is applied to 10 pages. Shape operations on the Master page consistently propagates the change to 10 pages with that Master applied. This consistent propagation is not happening here.

@Return Actually, I have stumbled on this while editing the shape on Master page. 'Edit linked’ was not used at the time. I think Edit linked does not propagate the changes throughout… might be wrong on that one.

 

[Return]

3 minutes ago, Aleksandar Kovač said:

A simple use scenario is to use a compound shape as a part of a master page. A master page is applied to 10 pages. Shape operations on the Master page consistently propagates the change to 10 pages with that Master applied. This consistent propagation is not happening here.

Indeed this should be the case as I mentioned in my previous post.
And since it doesn't maybe someone from staff may pitch in if this is an oversight or not.

[Hangman]

54 minutes ago, Aleksandar Kovač said:

Additionally, if ‘Edit linked’ is used on this compound, and operator is changed by hand, the result is as it should be. But, it should not happen in the first place, right?

Correct...

47 minutes ago, Aleksandar Kovač said:

This consistent propagation is not happening here.

Technically it is, it's just using the incorrect compound operation, regardless of whether applied in Designer or directly in Publisher... Add, Subtract, Intersect and Xor compound operators applied to shapes on a Master page are all incorrectly propagated as Add to the main pages...