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When using 'Add Pages from File' there are issues when the two documents have differing resolutions with, in this case, mm units.

  1. The chapter headings are initially hidden requiring the use of 'Edit Detached' and a selection in the Colour Palette to show them
  2. On random pages, the text frame is incorrectly scaled

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I imagine this is related to AF-3298 where objects copied from an 72dpi document are inserted at wrong scale into a 300dpi doc (or vice-versa...)

I would strongly advise affinity to consider fixing some underlying architectural misconceptions.

I suspect the Affinity apps are internally still structured with a "pixel first metric" mindset (like Photoshop in the 90s). In desktop publishing the "physical" dimensions always come first and only after that, when rendering/exporting/rasterizing, the resolution is to be considered.

 

<Rambling mode: on>
   thinking about the effect dialogs with the unchangeable unit: pixel and shaking my head...
<Rambling mode: off>
 

 

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OK, so this (suspected) similar issue looks to be logged, hopefully this part will be included as well. (paging @Callum )

 

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I think this it is definitely 'related' though AF-3298 was specific to Artboard behaviour. There is a big issue with text scaling in the current v2.5.X apps.

This originated from AF-1288 and AF-1342 both listed as fixed in the v2.5.0 release. While that bug is indeed fixed, it has resulted in a new text scaling bug the result of which we are seeing here and in AF-3298.

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@Hangman We do have some issues relating to using Add pages from file logged since the 2.5 release. AF-3298 being one of them which is artboard specific. In confirming your workflow to log using V2.5.2, I'm not getting the exact issue. Could you take a look at the attached video to see if I'm missing anything, just in case.

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Hi @Lee D,

I realised we are using slightly different files...

Try the same thing with the attached version. The only difference with the attached file (which I uploaded in a different post when testing another issue) is that each Chapter is its own Story, unlike the file you've shown in your screen recording where the Chapters are all Linked...

Alice Stories.afpub

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Hi @Lee D,

For some odd reason, that particular text frame is scaled based on the change in document dpi, i.e.,

(300 - 72) / 300 = 316.67%

Source Text Frame is 79 mm wide
Scaled Text Frame is 329.2 mm wide

79 mm + 316.67% = 329.2 mm

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Hi @Lee D,

Just a quick update...

There seems to be no obvious pattern but in addition to the text frame scaling on the first spread when adding Pages 19-26, the same text frame scaling happens but on the last page when adding Pages 35-42 and/or Pages 51-88...

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The issue "Adding pages from file with same page size but different DPI results in scaling issues" (REF: AF-3426) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.0.2805). 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.

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