Flow wrong with Footnotes

[Kurt2311]

There is another strange behavior with the footnotes. If I allow the footnotes to be split, the formatting goes haywire. You can see this in the video.

[MikeTO]

I assume this problem has to do with the text frame's content scaling factor but without seeing the document it would be difficult to confirm.

Is the text frame on the right page on a master page or directly on the page? If it's directly on the page, try deleting it, drawing a new one, and linking the frames back up.

Good luck

[Hangman]

Hi @Kurt2311 and welcome to the forums,

Was your document originally created in InDesign? If so, I suspect the text scaling issue you're seeing is the result of a known bug (AFB-7732 and AF-1288) which relates to how Affinity Publisher incorrectly interprets InDesign documents as 72 dpi regardless of the actual dpi of the original InDesign document.

Looking at the font size change of your footnotes this would seem to ring true...

Assuming your Publisher document is 300 dpi and Publisher has interpreted the IDML document at 72 dpi then...

Your standard footnotes are 8pt but when they appear larger they are 33.3 pt and when they appear smaller they are 1.9 pt...

• 300 / 72 = 4.167 x 8 pt = 33.33 pt
• 72 / 300 = 0.24 x 8 pt = 1.92 pt

This thread gives a more detailed explanation... though note, that this can also be achieved directly in Publisher without any IDML file import.

[Kurt2311]

Thank you @MikeTO, but it does not solve the Problem.

Hi @Hangman, yes this file was created in Indesign. I will create new file in Publisher und try to solve it in this way. Thank you very much. 

[Hangman]

Hi @Kurt2311,

Thanks for confirming...

You may be able to resolve the issue by changing your Publisher document to 72 dpi, prior to selecting Allow split notes, though in doing this you may see issues if other parts of your document reflow but basically, if you change the document to 72 dpi, make all your edits including Allow split notes and once everything is complete, change the Publisher document dpi back to 300 dpi it may or may not work for you...

Equally, depending on the document structure you may indeed find it is easier to set up a new Publisher document from scratch and import your text...

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Flowing Story text is scaled unexpectedly after changing the documents DPI" (REF: AF-1288) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.5.0.2317".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and 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.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue " Importing IDML and flowing text to new frame applies text scaling unexpectedly" (REF: AF-1342) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.5.0.2317".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and 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.