pomme27 Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 Hi. Per the attachment, I believe I have set the Paragraph settings in Affinity Publisher to eliminate widows and orphans. I first selected a text frame, then adjusted the Paragraph settings. The settings appear, however, to have no effect my text. Do I also have to somehow apply the Paragraph settings to the selected text frame or to specific text within the frame? If yes, how please? FYI, I am using Affinity Publisher 2.2.0 on a Mac running macOS Sonoma 14.0. Thanks. Temp.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 First, when providing screenshots, please just paste in the PNG or JPG file. Then it will show directly, without us having to download a PDF file and view it. Next, Paragraph panel settings apply to the currently selected paragraph, or (if the text cursor is in a text frame and outside any paragraph) to the next paragraph you type. They do not apply to Text Frames, but to text in the frame. 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...
pomme27 Posted October 1, 2023 Author Share Posted October 1, 2023 Thank you Walt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 You're welcome. 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...
Ben G Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 So what was the solution? I am having the same issue. Does it have to be an official "Column" and not just a Paragraph, or be at the bottom of a page? In my screenshot I have the single word "art" that I don't want to be a ghost or "widow" all by itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Hi Ben, that's a runt which Publisher doesn't have a specific control to prevent. Unfortunately, there's no automatic way to avoid this. The widow and orphan controls in Publisher don't apply to this situation. You can fix a runt manually by replacing the preceding space with a non-breaking space, or by selecting the word and the previous word and formatting them with No Break. Ben G 1 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...
Ben G Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Ok, thank you Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Obsolete. Ben G 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben G Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Ok thank you Lacerto. lacerto 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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