Log file for Publisher?

[Gianni Becattini]

I am not sure that this is the right place to post this; forgive me if not.

Even if much better than before, Publisher is still not very stable. Or better, for what I use, it is rather stable now, less than two situations: 

• TOC generation
• book export (probably the two of them are connected).

For a large part of my life, I used also to be a software developer, so I understand the problems of such a complex suite, but I ask a little modification that could greatly help us.

REQUEST: please add an even simple logfile which could tell us which was the last chapter of the book processed before the crash. The crash dump says very little to us common users, and this forces to an endless "try and try" to understand the offending file (when you know it, you can start cutting pages until you find the problem zone).

By the way: today I have a book that is always correctly exported on a iMac i9 that systematically crashes on a MacBookPro M2.

[MikeTO]

Another simple idea would be to update the progress window after exporting each chapter. e.g., "Exporting chapter 3 of 9" That would be nice anyway and if it did crash you'd know where it crashed.

[fde101]

16 hours ago, MikeTO said:

if it did crash you'd know where it crashed.

only if the progress window is still visible after the crash, a limitation which a log file would address