Rufus Reade Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Hi Can anyone spare some time to kindly help me please? I am working on a very simple two sides of A4 sheet for a funeral (time is of the essence!). It's a very small document but following my usual 'export' , the file appears to go to a folder but when I come to attach it to an email to send to the printers, it's unuseable. I've attached the original Affinity Pub doc, and the label which includes the word 'lock'. I'm using Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 I'm trying to make a PDF (for print) Thanks Rufus Funeral sheet recentred.afpub~lock~ Funeral sheet recentred.afpub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 The ~lock~ file just tells Publisher (and other Affinity applications you may have) that the .afpub file is open. It has no relation to the .pdf file you would have exported. Perhaps you didn't export to the folder you thought you did? I would try the Export again, paying special attention to where you're saving the .pdf file when the File Explorer or Finder dialog comes up. 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 As Walt said above, the file with the ‘~lock~’ at the end of it isn’t a real document, it’s used to lock the real document so it cannot be edited by more than one person at a time. If you can see that file and you are not editing the document then something has gone wrong somewhere. I managed to export the file okay, apart from some Pre-flight errors (potential spelling mistakes and overflowing frames), but I don’t know which export settings you were using. Pdf (containing errors) is attached. Funeral sheet recentred.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus Reade Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 Thank you so much to you both, Walt and Garry. Closing the original Affinity Publisher version seem to release the blockage. Very grateful to you both for your rapid response. Appreciative thanks Rufus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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