Affinity Publisher, trouble with A4

[Amontillado]

I'm running Affinity Publisher 2 2.2.1 on a late 2015 iMac, MacOS 12.7.1.

Affinity Publisher has been a great tool. Today, it's going a little crazy.

For instance:

1. Launch Affinity Publisher
2. The new document window shows Print and Press Ready versions of a number of sizes. The sizes are the same in both sets. E.g., Letter is 8.5x11 for both versions of Letter.
3. Choose either Letter and click Create.
4. Click the Add master button in the side panel under Master Pages.
5. The Page preset is set to Letter. Change it to the other Letter in the dropdown box. The dimensions change to 22 in x 34 in.
6. Change back to the other letter. The dimensions change to 8.268 in x 11.693.
7. Click OK
8. Right click the new master and change from "custom", which it will be on, to "Letter". The dimensions revert to 8.5x11.

I have a template with a number of page layouts that may be corrupted. If I duplicate an existing page in that template and change the spread properties to a new size, Affinity Publisher terminates.

In a fresh document, no such terminations, so I may just manually salvage what I can from the old template.

I've used the control key on launch and reset everything. I've also moved Affinity Publish from the Applications directory to the trash (that hurt, I really like Affinity!) and re-installed.

Any thoughts?

Many thanks in advance. Affinity Publisher is an extremely necessary weapon in my arsenal.

[MikeTO]

I think this is part of a known bug, although I hadn't noticed this part of it before.

 

[Amontillado]

Thank you, sir! After control-launching and reinstalling didn't straighten things out, I created new templates by loading old documents. I'm back in the game with Publisher. I look forward to Affinity's continued evolution and polishing. Publisher, Photo, and Designer are critical tools.

Affinity Publisher makes my work documentation come alive. It's one of several products I consider secret weapons. My coworkers produce PDFs with Word. My documents have je ne sais quoi beyond what mere Word can match.

It's like the difference between Frank Lloyd Wright architecture and mud huts, not that I have Wright's talent or want to disparage mud huts. It's just that Adobe huts are such relics of the past. 🤪

[Dan C]

Thanks for your report @Amontillado!

On 11/25/2023 at 10:40 PM, Amontillado said:

• Launch Affinity Publisher
• The new document window shows Print and Press Ready versions of a number of sizes. The sizes are the same in both sets. E.g., Letter is 8.5x11 for both versions of Letter.
• Choose either Letter and click Create.
• Click the Add master button in the side panel under Master Pages.
• The Page preset is set to Letter. Change it to the other Letter in the dropdown box. The dimensions change to 22 in x 34 in.
• Change back to the other letter. The dimensions change to 8.268 in x 11.693.
• Click OK
• Right click the new master and change from "custom", which it will be on, to "Letter". The dimensions revert to 8.5x11.

I can confirm I've been able to replicate this issue here and I've reported it to our development team for you now.

I hope this helps

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Add Master preset sizes are incorrect" (REF: AF-1302) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.0.2831). The fix is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.