Publisher's master pages aren't syncing on a book.

[biguprush]

Hello

On affinity publisher I have this book.  Chapter 1 is the origin of all styles and I was trying to sync up all adjustment but the changes I've done to the Master Page A (in this example) aren't reflected on the other chapters.

I made a little video showing how I do it.

[MikeTO]

Unfortunately, that is by design. If you change a master page, syncing master pages between chapters will result in a duplicate master page of the same name in the target chapter. It's very important to finalize your master pages before you start adding chapters to your book. Finalize all masters and text styles before starting chapter 2.

[dbon]

As a long, long, long time InDesign (and PageMaker and Quark) user, I would love to see this fixed. A named master page should not duplicate. If I wanted to promulgate a different or additional master page across a set of files using the book feature, I normally just make it and boom done. But in AP, I now have to go into each document and manually clean up not just the dupe of the one master I actually edited, but all the other dupes. 

Edited February 5, 2024 by dbon

[weegiegrum]

On 11/19/2023 at 1:27 AM, MikeTO said:

 If you change a master page, syncing master pages between chapters will result in a duplicate master page of the same name in the target chapter.

I've read this several times and I still can't see why that's something that you would want to happen?  Having just done a book with several chapters, I found it extremely tedious to have to go through each individual chapter and adjust the master pages in each one whenever I had to make a simple change. Why can't a master page be synced across all chapters of a book?

[MikeTO]

3 hours ago, weegiegrum said:

I've read this several times and I still can't see why that's something that you would want to happen?  Having just done a book with several chapters, I found it extremely tedious to have to go through each individual chapter and adjust the master pages in each one whenever I had to make a simple change. Why can't a master page be synced across all chapters of a book?

FYI I don't work for Serif. I don't disagree with you that it's not a good outcome, I'm just explaining how it works. We can only hope that it will change in a future release.

[tcdaly]

On 2/5/2024 at 12:23 AM, dbon said:

As a long, long, long time InDesign (and PageMaker and Quark) user, I would love to see this fixed. A named master page should not duplicate. If I wanted to promulgate a different or additional master page across a set of files using the book feature, I normally just make it and boom done. But in AP, I now have to go into each document and manually clean up not just the dupe of the one master I actually edited, but all the other dupes. 

I'm having the same problem.  I'm syncing chapters multiple times, and every time I get a duplicate master page.  Then it becomes difficult to know which is the real master page and which are the duplicates. The master pages should simply update, not be duplicated.

[chelrich]

This is maddening!  I have the same frustration.  Find something that you want to change on the master, change it, sync, and duplicates appear.  So hard to keep track of and so tedious to delete one by one in each chapter.  

[Meliora spero]

Once again, a completely incomprehensible defect that is not even fixed and it’s unknown if it ever will be fixed.