Is this file corrupt?

[Charlie Bucket]

Hello.

I have been having problems with this file for about a week. Now when I open it everything, text and photos, are blurry and distorted. Sometimes it starts becoming clear but then gets worse again.

The file won't close and I have to force quit.

Any help would be very appreciated.

A question: If I select and copy the text, then paste it onto Word as a docx file, then return it to a brand new Affinity Publisher file and relink all the images; will this get rid of the corruption?

Publisher 2.2.1

Mac Sonoma 14.1.1

Saved to desktop.

Charlie

ForumCopy.afpub

[carl123]

6 minutes ago, Charlie Bucket said:

Now when I open it everything, text and photos, are blurry and distorted

Blurry (low res) images are indicative of the document not being able to load linked images

In resource manager I see that your images are specified as "Linked (Remote)" which I think is some kind of cloud service

You may want to move those images to your local drive to eliminate this as the cause of the blurry images (it's easy to relink them, in one step, once moved)

Alternatively, you could embed your images rather than link them but I notice you have one mega image of 446MB so you might want to take a look at that bad boy before embedding the images

Personally, I would do the above first then see if the document is now stable or not

PS Make a copy/backup of your current document before proceeding

 

[Charlie Bucket]

Thanks for your reply carl123.

I opened the document just now and it was all okay until about half way through and then the whole lot

I hadn't noticed that huge image so deleted it (my Affinity Photo has stopped opening so I couldn't modify the picture with it but that is another story).

My Resource Manager just says "Linked". I am connected to iCloud. 

However I have earlier versions of the document which all are okay.

Attached is a page from the distorted file.