Publisher file keeps crashing when operating on a particular page

[pet_griffin]

Hi

I am running Publisher on Win 10.  I have a Publisher file into which I pasted text from Word.  There seems to be something corrupted with the file because when I apply the "body text" style to one of several paragraphs, then Publisher crashes.  It also crashes if I try to delete the page containing the offending paragraph(s).  In the attached file, the problem starts on p7 at the para starting "Over the last year": if I apply "body text" to this para then Publisher crashes and it also crashes if I try to delete p7

I have tried pasting the text as plaintext and have reinstalled Publisher on my desktop but this did not solve the problem.  I was starting to enjoy using Publisher but this "feature" is starting to test my patience as I now can't continue editing the document.  Thanks for your help

 

2412_upton_news.afpub

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[pet_griffin]

Hi @Return

thanks for checking - I guess that means I'll have to start from scratch ... 😖  If any of the Serif developers are reading this forum, perhaps they could try to run Publisher in debug mode and catch the error before it crashes the program?

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[GarryP]

I managed to load the document into Publisher 2.5.5 on Windows but I only get as far as the attached image, whereupon the application crashes after a second or two. Same goes for opening in Designer 2.5.5.

[stokerg]

Hi @pet_griffin,

The file is also crashing for me on Mac and Windows.  From reading the MacOS crash report it looks like its related to a Pinned object somewhere in the file.

I've just logged this with the Developers to resolve.  The Affinity Info Bot will update here when its been resolved  

[pet_griffin]

Hi @stokerg

thanks for reporting this.  The only way I managed to sort this out was by starting from scratch ...😬