MikeTO Posted January 24 Posted January 24 This isn't a bug but a question about a 2.6.0 enhancement. Are there any other reasons we might see the new "Invalid anchor" Preflight warning other than for an unnamed anchor? I stumbled across this while converting another book to 2.6.0 and it had an unnamed anchor. Upon opening the book I saw 8 "Unnamed Anchor" warnings in Preflight. It took a while to figure out but I must have created a paragraph with only a pinned group (image and text frame) in it and accidentally formatted it as a heading which included the pinned group in the TOC. I must have corrected that by changing it to Body but updating the TOC did not remove the previously generated anchor. I would have caught this eventually when I exported to PDF and looked at the bookmarks but 2.6.0 nicely warned me of this invalid anchor. 2.6.0 actually gave me 8 warnings for the same unnamed anchor. I tried to duplicate the excess warnings in a simple test doc (attached) but this just gave me the single warning. I'm not too fussed about this but please let me know if you want my book to review the excess warnings. Should updating the TOC remove previously generated anchors that are no longer required because they're not in headings and not the target of a cross-reference? I think that would be ideal but it might not be worth the effort. If you accidentally formatted a body paragraph as a heading you'd be unlikely to update the TOC before fixing it, so this is only an issue for images that are alone in heading paragraphs. test.afpub Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
Staff EmT Posted January 28 Staff Posted January 28 On 1/24/2025 at 3:38 PM, MikeTO said: please let me know if you want my book to review the excess warnings. Could you please attach this, I can send a provide upload link if needed. Quote List of V2 FAQ's | Affinity Online Help | Affinity Video Tutorials | Beta Software Forums | Bug Reporting Guidance
MikeTO Posted January 28 Author Posted January 28 29 minutes ago, EmT said: Could you please attach this, I can send a provide upload link if needed. I'll send it to you, thanks. I was trying to reduce the document just now to make it easier to test with and I found a potential clue. When I open the document and update the TOC I get 8 unnamed anchor warnings for page 27. When I delete all the following pages so the story overflows the frame on page 27, the number of unnamed anchor warnings drops to 4. Curious because if they're really on page 27 they should still be there. I then auto flowed the story again and it went up to 7. Note that there are other stories in the document so auto flowing only restored this one story. EmT 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
Staff Affinity Info Bot Posted January 28 Staff Posted January 28 An issue raised in this thread ("Unnamed Anchor shows 8 times in a document for a single unnamed anchor ") has now been reported to the developers by the testing team (Ref: AF-5722). Thank you very much for reporting this issue to us. Quote
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