Adriano101 Posted January 7, 2024 Posted January 7, 2024 I'm importing some text from another text editor and the copied text carried over some Special Character that I cannot delete. Attached is a screenshot to show what character I'm talking about. After some research I found this page that shows the name of such character, being "End of Story" How do I remove it from the text? Using the blinking caret and using backspace does not remove it from the text flow. Quote
MikeTO Posted January 7, 2024 Posted January 7, 2024 Hi. First, you can find more information about special characters and stories in the free Publisher manual I've shared in the forum. The link is in my signature below. This is an odd issue, it almost looks like the end of story symbol is appearing for each paragraph or line of text. How was the document created? From scratch or from opening a PDF? Is View > Show Text Flow on? I'm wondering if each of those is a separate text frame rather than a single frame. Could you share a test document here? Good luck. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.5, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
Adriano101 Posted January 7, 2024 Author Posted January 7, 2024 Oh, man! That PDF is great! Thank you for sharing it As you can see from the screenshot I posted earlier, the special character appear in between the letters (only for some word, somehow). I've even tried to select some text before and some text after this issue appear to rewrite the word, but it seems these characters stay in place. How do I get rid of the End of Story character? I've uploaded a video to show more details about the problem. (in the first part I was simply hitting backspace). Screen Recording 2024-01-07 at 16.32.29.mov Quote
carl123 Posted January 7, 2024 Posted January 7, 2024 Can you upload a Publisher document with some text that displays the problem? Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
walt.farrell Posted January 7, 2024 Posted January 7, 2024 On my iPad, those all show as Paragraph symbols, not End-of-Story symbols. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
thomaso Posted January 7, 2024 Posted January 7, 2024 Also to me (APub V1) they appear as paragraph brakes ¶ while the 'End of story' § occurs only once and at the end. I remind multiple 'End of story' § characters have been reported earlier for an imported or copy/pasted text from Word, with multiple occurrences at the end. Possibly you can use Find & Replace + Regex \Z to replace those characters. If this doesn't work copy or open + save this text before import in another text editor app. Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
MikeTO Posted January 7, 2024 Posted January 7, 2024 Those are end of paragraph marks (U+2029) but Publisher is showing you the wrong special character symbol. They're showing as paragraph marks for the rest of us. You can't fix this with Find & Replace because the right characters are there. Does this problem occur with all documents In Publisher, including a new one? Does restarting Publisher solve it? Try opening the file in Designer if you have it - which special character is shown in Designer? If it works correctly in Designer but not in Publisher, quit Publisher and restart it with Ctrl held down. Clear your user data and see if that solves it. If worst comes to worst, reinstalling Publisher should fix it. These special characters are hardcoded within the application somewhere. Good luck. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.5, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
Adriano101 Posted January 8, 2024 Author Posted January 8, 2024 Good news! Restarting the application worked. I don't know exactly what was happening, but after restarting the computer and having reopened the file, the problem seems to be gone. Now those "End of Story" characters are simple "Paragraph Break". thomaso 1 Quote
Bob Brooker Posted May 26, 2024 Posted May 26, 2024 I have also seen this problem today. I had an 'End of story' § in the middle of a text frame that was one of a number of linked page text frames that were part of a chapter in a book. I noticed the bogus 'End of story' after opening the chapter because I couldn't edit the text after it. After I restarted Publisher and re-opened the chapter, the 'End of story' had disappeared. There didn't appear to be any special characters in it's place; its position was at the end of a sentence in the middle of a paragraph. Quote
MikeTO Posted May 26, 2024 Posted May 26, 2024 43 minutes ago, Bob Brooker said: I have also seen this problem today. I had an 'End of story' § in the middle of a text frame that was one of a number of linked page text frames that were part of a chapter in a book. I noticed the bogus 'End of story' after opening the chapter because I couldn't edit the text after it. After I restarted Publisher and re-opened the chapter, the 'End of story' had disappeared. There didn't appear to be any special characters in it's place; its position was at the end of a sentence in the middle of a paragraph. Hi Bob and welcome to the forums. Are you using v1.10? The above glitch was reported with v1 and there hasn't been a report of it with v2 yet. But in any case, a restart seems to fix it and it's a harmless issue. Cheers Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.5, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
Bob Brooker Posted May 26, 2024 Posted May 26, 2024 Hi Mike, Thank you for responding so quickly. I am using Publisher 5.2, and enjoying it. I am working on a book with 45 chapters that is going to be exported to a single PDF and uploaded to IngramSpark so it is important that everything is correct to their guidelines, otherwise they may reject it. It's a first for me, and a lot of work (and learning) to put it all together, so although harmless, it's a diversion that isn't needed. Good to know about the free PDF manual. Great to know the support is there if needed. Many thanks Quote
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