publisher crash when exporting books

[m job]

When I export a book in Affinity Publisher Windows the program closes and does not complete the export

[Hangman]

Hi @m job,

We would need you to use File > Save as Package in Publisher, Save to a new empty folder, and then zip the .afpackage and image folder and upload the zip file so we can take a look at what might be causing the crash...

To narrow things down, have you tried exporting individual Chapters from the book to see if any one chapter is causing the file to crash?

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Hangman said:

We would need you to use File > Save as Package in Publisher, Save to a new empty folder, and then zip the .afpackage and image folder and upload the zip file so we can take a look at what might be causing the crash...

But (unfortunately) the Package function and the Book function are not (yet?) well-integrated, which makes this a complicated operation. One would need to do something like this to provide all the files:

1. Save the Book file (.afbook).
2. For each chapter .afpub file, Open it, and File > Save as Package into a new directory for that chapter.
3. Zip each of the chapter directories from 2.
4. Upload all the .zip files and the .afbook file.

Then, the user attempting to diagnose the problem would need to:

1. Unzip each chapter directory .zip file.
2. Open each .afpackage file, and Save as to a .afpub file.
3. Open the .afbook file. This will probably say the chapter files are missing.
4. Replace each chapter file with the appropriate .afpub file from step 2.

[Hangman]

54 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

But (unfortunately) the Package function and the Book function are not (yet?) well-integrated, which makes this a complicated operation.

It really doesn't, I must admit I'd not tried using Save as Package with a .afbook file before...

Your methodology would certainly work... Hopefully, any Linked files (if there are any) are all located in either a single or chapter-specific folders so the .afbook file can be selected alongside the .afpub chapter files and the folder or folders containing any linked files and then zipped into a single zip file for upload or alternatively any Linked files Embedded for each chapter so just the .afbook and .afpub files need to be zipped and uploaded...