Ian Tindale Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 My book has “chapters” for each article in the magazine (they’re not chapters, they’re articles) The numbering was all perfect, exactly where they should be on the flatplan This morning I exported a test pdf to show someone something It entirely buggered up the numbering of most chapters, leaving them numbered 1-2, 1-4, etc which is thoroughly useless They were where I wanted them, now they’re not This is utterly useless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 3 hours ago, Ian Tindale said: It entirely buggered up the numbering of most chapters, leaving them numbered 1-2, 1-4, etc which is thoroughly useless I haven't experienced that, but you probably have a more complex file than I've tried. Can you provide more info, such as a screenshot of the Book panel? What Synchronization options do you have set for the Book? Can you provide a zip of the .afbook and at least the first few .afpub files, enough to show the issue? Or would that require a private upload link from one of the Moderators? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Tindale Posted July 28, 2023 Author Share Posted July 28, 2023 31 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: I haven't experienced that, but you probably have a more complex file than I've tried. Can you provide more info, such as a screenshot of the Book panel? What Synchronization options do you have set for the Book? Can you provide a zip of the .afbook and at least the first few .afpub files, enough to show the issue? Or would that require a private upload link from one of the Moderators? I’ll give it a go, I’m busy with other aspects of the mag at the moment Essentially now I examine it further, I would say the disaster is occurring not at the book itself (but the book makes it happen) but really at the individual article’s own “pages” > “section manager” thing, where if you click “start page numbering at” and then put a number in, most times it’ll ignore you and occasionally it’ll work, when the articles are opened and their page numbering modified from within the book – and even then there’s a good chance it’ll dump it back to the 1-2 or whatever the article’s page number is (this is a point – there’s no clear distinction between the folio that I want to use, which is referred to as the page number, or the number of the page within the article, first, second, etc, which is also referred to as the page number – same term, two different uses, but it hardly matters because typing in a folio number to start from rarely works anyway) Here’s a very quick video I just screenshotted, I knocked the display res down to make a smaller vid, I opened up a book (which I spend a lot of time on yesterday to get the folios to be where they are on the flatplan – a lot of time because it kept ignoring me and resetting and infuriating me), having opened the book you see most of it has folios that start where they should be in the mag (except for the final couple, for some reason) – then I took my hands off and sat back for a few seconds and watched it just destroy all that work by resetting most of the articles to have folios like 1-2, 1-4, 1-6 etc which is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE What’s more, book menu’s ‘update numbers’ > ‘update page numbers automatically’ is turned OFF! Affinity Publisher destroying hours of work.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 2 hours ago, Ian Tindale said: but really at the individual article’s own “pages” > “section manager” thing, where if you click “start page numbering at” and then put a number in, most times it’ll ignore you and occasionally it’ll work, when the articles are opened and their page numbering modified from within the book – and even then there’s a good chance it’ll dump it back to the 1-2 or whatever the article’s page number is (this is a point – there’s no clear distinction between the folio that I want to use, which is referred to as the page number, or the number of the page within the article, first, second, etc, which is also referred to as the page number – same term, two different uses, but it hardly matters because typing in a folio number to start from rarely works anyway) Thanks. I'm still not sure what you're doing, but I would suggest that you should not be using the Section Manager in the chapter files to set the starting page number of the chapter. That should be determined based on the ending page number of the previous chapter. So I would first look at what you're doing in there, and why, and see if you're perhaps interfering with the normal processing that would do exactly what you need. 2 hours ago, Ian Tindale said: then I took my hands off and sat back for a few seconds and watched it just destroy all that work by resetting most of the articles to have folios like 1-2, 1-4, 1-6 etc which is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE That does seem odd. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 8 hours ago, Ian Tindale said: Essentially now I examine it further, I would say the disaster is occurring not at the book itself (but the book makes it happen) but really at the individual article’s own “pages” > “section manager” thing, where if you click “start page numbering at” and then put a number in, most times it’ll ignore you and occasionally it’ll work, when the articles are opened and their page numbering modified from within the book – and even then there’s a good chance it’ll dump it back to the 1-2 or whatever the article’s page number is (this is a point – there’s no clear distinction between the folio that I want to use, which is referred to as the page number, or the number of the page within the article, first, second, etc, which is also referred to as the page number – same term, two different uses, but it hardly matters because typing in a folio number to start from rarely works anyway) Affinity Publisher destroying hours of work.mov 8.35 MB · 2 downloads I realize you're on Windows but on macOS it's impossible to use Section Manager to change the starting page number for a chapter in a Book. It should work but it doesn't do anything at this time and the issue has been logged. You have to use Page Number Options in the Books panel menu to do that for now. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M4 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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