Publisher page navigation gets out of sync

[Ed Lyons]

Right now my Page window in the Publisher studio has a thick blue outline around the spread containing pages 4 and 5. I am actually looking at and editing pages 6 and 7, which has a gray and less noticeable outline. Not sure why 4,5 is blue, but I navigated by Ctrl-PgDn through a bunch of spreads to get to 6,7. This out of sync behavior causes me to use Undo a lot, if I catch it in time. Adding pages is sometimes a guessing game as to where they will show up if I am not super careful. Seems like the noticeable blue highlighted thumbnail should always stay in view and in sync with the current page being edited. Sometimes it seems to, but most of the time I need to scroll to find where I am. Not sure of the purpose of the gray outline. If I jump from beginning to end of my book, the thumbnails should do the same. I should ALWAYS be able to see my current editing page's thumbnail in blue in the visible part of the Page window.

Thank you for an otherwise great app!

[walt.farrell]

I think of it this way: there are two purposes to the Pages panel, and two kinds of highlighting.

1. Selecting a page/spread to operate on in the Pages panel. This uses a blue highlight.
2. Selecting a page/spread to display in the workarea (the current page/spread), and to edit there. This uses a gray highlight.

[walt.farrell]

42 minutes ago, Ed Lyons said:

I should ALWAYS be able to see my current editing page's thumbnail in blue in the visible part of the Page window.

No, the one you want to be able to see is the one highlighted in gray, not blue.

Perhaps you're missing this Pages panel Preference:

[Ed Lyons]

Thank you for the tip! I had not seen that before, but mine was already checked.

I tested it several ways and scrolling happened properly...AFTER I restarted the app. I should have thought of that possibility before...

My best explanation is that after a while, (perhaps putting the computer to sleep for the night?) Affinity apps act sluggish like their memory is fragged. That is just my guess, because Task Manager shows memory and drive usage is low and availability is high. I restart and things get better, the sun shines, the birds sing,...!!!

[MikeTO]

FYI there is a bug in 2.2 with the Pages panel not auto scrolling to the right page when the panel is an inactive tab in a tab group. For example, with Preflight you might double-click an issue to jump to a page and then switch the Pages panel but it would still be scrolled to the previously selected page. You have to either scroll to find it or click on the above or below page in the document window to get it to auto scroll. This seems to be new in 2.2 but I haven't been able to pin down the steps for it yet.

Other than that, it should work as described above. I included instructions for it in the Publisher manual I shared which you can download from the link in my signature.

Cheers

[Ed Lyons]

I see what the problem is now causing unpredictability even though Scroll With View is checked. If the Pages studio tab is not visible, then syncing does not occur until it becomes visible and a navigation occurs. I put Pages and Text Styles in the same studio on the left, so I am back and forth while also navigating.

[MikeTO]

9 hours ago, Ed Lyons said:

I see what the problem is now causing unpredictability even though Scroll With View is checked. If the Pages studio tab is not visible, then syncing does not occur until it becomes visible and a navigation occurs. I put Pages and Text Styles in the same studio on the left, so I am back and forth while also navigating.

When Pages is the inactive tab in a group, it still autoscrolls most of the time for me, it's just sometimes it doesn't. I haven't yet figured out what causes it to work sometimes but not other times.