BIG Problem with Publisher Beta 2.2.0 (1971)

[Bob Terry]

I am using Publisher Beta 2.2.0 (1971). My OS is macOS Catalina (version 10.15.7). Using this beta version, the cursor suddenly disappears and highlighting for selecting text also disappears. Clicking on a frame shows no handles. Yet, supposing that I have selected something, I can boldface it, delete, etc. Then...the cursor reappears as does the highlighting. This is totally unpredictable. Recently, in preparing an article to be published in a journal, text disappeared and unusual zigzag patters appeared as if the pages had been cut (see attachments). I have my email open as well as a browser; all other apps/programs are closed. Memory drainage is high. Unfortunately, I can't go back to the non-beta Publisher 2 because the document I am working on has been saved in the beta version. What to do? I am on a deadline!!

Is anyone else experiencing such problems?

Bob Terry

[MikeTO]

Hi Bob, did this happen with the previous beta version or did it just start with 1971?

What are your performance settings, are they the same as your settings for 2.1.1? Have tried turning off hardware acceleration and setting display to OpenGL?

Good luck

[Bob Terry]

I am attaching my performance settings. Since I don't really know what they are, I haven't touched them. I have left them just as they appeared when I opened this version...and I guess they're the same as they were in the previous beta version. I did turn off the hardware acceleration. The display was already set to Open GL.

[MikeTO]

That looks right. I don't have any other ideas but hopefully somebody else or Serif will have something more concrete.

Good luck

[tudor]

15 hours ago, Bob Terry said:

My OS is macOS Catalina (version 10.15.7).

This is the oldest version of MacOS that Affinity claims to still support. I wouldn't trust using a new beta on an old OS that will most likely be dropped from their list in the near future.

15 hours ago, Bob Terry said:

I can't go back to the non-beta Publisher 2 because the document I am working on has been saved in the beta version. What to do?

Copy and paste the content from beta to non-beta.

And never ever use beta software for any production work.

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, tudor said:

Copy and paste the content from beta to non-beta.

That will work for some items, but it won't work for Text Frames currently, and perhaps not for Tables either.

[EmT]

Hi @Bob Terry

Could you just confirm if you reopen the file in Publisher, does the file still look the same?
Would you be able to provide us with a copy of your file? Could you also provide a screen recording of your whole screen showing this issue in action? 

[Bob Terry]

I am attaching the file of the article with the problem. When I reopened the file, the same issue was still present. I can't make a screen recording because I've simply stopped using the Beta version. I need to get this journal formatted and published soon.

 

Bob T

 

Sample file with problem.afpub

[Sean P]

Hi Bob 

I don't believe there is a bug here. For some reason you've got a 105pt White stroke applied to a portion of the text making it appear like this. Simply highlighting a portion of the text and removing the white colour from the stroke using the Colour Panel, or just the entire line style will solve the issue for you:

Sample file with problem_Resaved.afpub

 

 

[Bob Terry]

Thank you so much for the reply. Boy, do I feel dumb!! I am in the throes of switching from InDesign to Affinity Publisher 2 and all in all, am loving your program. How the situation arose that you solved is totally user error! The only other situation I am encountering is when I place a Word document and apply a text style to it, the formatting that was in Word is done away with in Publisher. The only "solution" I have seen is to create character styles for italics and boldface and then apply them to the placed document before applying the text style. That sort of works but (a) it is totally cumbersome; (b) not only is the change appearing in the document itself but also on the master page! To correct that situation, even the elements from the master page are now simply text boxes that must be individually reset! (c) surely there is some way to make this a smooth process! If, when I apply the style, I right click on  "Apply [style] to Paragraphs and Preserve Local Formatting", this does the trick, but there's no way to create a shortcut to do this and it would take so long to go through an entire journal each I time I apply a basic style like this.

THanks again for the help to a newcomer.

Bob Terry

[MikeTO]

21 minutes ago, Bob Terry said:

The only other situation I am encountering is when I place a Word document and apply a text style to it, the formatting that was in Word is done away with in Publisher.

Try clicking the menu icon to the right of a text style name and choosing the menu command I've highlighted in this screenshot. This will apply the style but keep bold or italic.

[Bob Terry]

I mentioned this in my last posting--that's the solution I found! But isn't there an easier way to apply a basic text style to an entire lengthy document without having to do this basically with each paragraph?? There's no way to set a shortcut for this activity or to embed this "feature" into the style itself. VERY cumbersome and time-consuming.

[Old Bruce]

33 minutes ago, Bob Terry said:

But isn't there an easier way to apply a basic text style to an entire lengthy document without having to do this basically with each paragraph?

If you want to apply one Paragraph Style to the entire document then place your text cursor somewhere in the text and use Select > Select All. Then you can apply the one Paragraph Style to all the text.

[Bob Terry]

But I STILL have the original problem. Besides, there are headers, tables, bulleted lists, number lists that do not have the basic paragraph text formt.