Master doesn't apply correctly

[Raul Ciannella]

Hi All, I'm putting together an academic journal. I have two introductions (same introduction, two languages) to which I've applied the same masters. The first one displays the header correctly but the second show it as hidden text. It's like there was something there not allowing the text to show in the right place. It's driving me mad!

Please help.

[thomaso]

Possibly the hidden text exceeds its frame size. Check/compare the text styles or zoom into your red marked area -> select the text frame -> and click the eye icon to shed more light on this. Also text wrapping applied to another object may cause this.

[Pšenda]

7 minutes ago, Raul Ciannella said:

It's like there was something there not allowing the text to show in the right place. It's driving me mad!

Please help.

Try insert document.

[Raul Ciannella]

7 hours ago, Pšenda said:

Try insert document.

Can you elaborate?

[Old Bruce]

First thing I would do is make the text frame larger. Also check to make sure there are no overrides in the Paragraph or Character style applied to the text in the hidden frame.

There is one thing I don't recognize it is the Special Character just before the text.

[Oufti]

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

There is one thing I don't recognize it is the Special Character just before the text.

Looks like Zero Width non breaking space. 

 

[Pšenda]

15 hours ago, Raul Ciannella said:

Can you elaborate?

You have a problem with your "academic journal" where the header is not displayed correctly. So that users who are trying to help you and give you advice do not have to guess and shoot blindly - what could it be?, it is always better to provide a problematic document in which the mentioned problem can be easily identified.

P.S. if there is a problem with publishing the text/content of the document, it can of course be deleted or replaced with lorem ipsum, because the actual text/content is apparently not relevant to the problem.

[Raul Ciannella]

8 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

You have a problem with your "academic journal" where the header is not displayed correctly. So that users who are trying to help you and give you advice do not have to guess and shoot blindly - what could it be?, it is always better to provide a problematic document in which the mentioned problem can be easily identified.

P.S. if there is a problem with publishing the text/content of the document, it can of course be deleted or replaced with lorem ipsum, because the actual text/content is apparently not relevant to the problem.

Ok. You're right, but as you just put "try insert document" I thought it was some sort of function of Affinity I didn't know of. I'm not native english speaker. Here it is.

test_forum.afpub

[Pšenda]

You have the same master pages defined twice - which is unnecessary and can cause confusion.

 

For the problematic page, you have different Master pages for the left and right sides, even though the "corpo articolo" has a header definition for the right side as well - so they may be in conflict somehow.

If I used corpo articolo for both pages:

so the header is now displayed correctly:

 

P.S. I therefore recommend "tuning" Master pages and their correct use on individual pages.

Edited December 17, 2024 by Pšenda

[Raul Ciannella]

20 hours ago, Pšenda said:

For the problematic page, you have different Master pages for the left and right sides, even though the "corpo articolo" has a header definition for the right side as well - so they may be in conflict somehow.

If I apply "Corpo articolo" I lose the footer. And anyway I tried and it presents the same problem, it doesn't show the header either. The multiple masters exist because I merged the single articles into one document, as I need both the individual article and the book as a whole. 

[Pšenda]

Master page prima pagina has Text frame with header,

and Master page corpo articolo also has Text frame with header in the same position.

 

This seems to create a collision, because if you move the Text frame to a different position in the corpo articolo (of course the correct/used Master page, because due to the identical name it is difficult to find/identify it),

so the header will display correctly.

[Raul Ciannella]

Thank you! I managed adapting the master pages as you suggested.