Master pages have no effect in Publisher 2.6 (plus corrupted files) – when will you withdraw this f...ing update?

[JanG]

All is said in the headline and in earlier posts in this forum. "Corrupted files" means that files saved under 2.6 get unusable under earlier versions. Withdraw this update! It is causing endless work to your users and it is endangering file integrity. I am back on 2.5.7 on my MaxBook Pro with M1 pro and macOS 15.3.1.
Why does it take ou so long to acknowledge major issues with version 2.6?

[MikeTO]

Can you please share a test document or screen recording showing the issue you are experiencing with master pages? Or at least provide some details and steps?

The fact that 2.6 documents can't be opened in 2.5 does not mean that they're corrupted - this is intentional due to the significant differences between the versions.

[JanG]

As I have deleted version 2.6 and won't go back to it after three hours of wasted time, I cannot provide any test documents. IIRC, I simply opened an existing file created in Pub. 2.5.7. Instead of the general applied yellow some of the 24 pages showed a white background. Therefore I tried to apply the master files to those pages, but nothig changed although the master pages looked perfectly fine/yellow. In other documents the same happened (or better: did not happen). So I tried to save the file under a new name from Pub 2.6. Yet. 2.6 had no access to my storing location (wtf ...). I addressed this issue in macOS 15.3.1 and tried to save the file again. Unfortunately to no avail. Still no access. So I closed Pub 2.6 and reinstalled Pub 2.5.7 via TimeMachine. When opening 2.5.7 it tried to automatically open the last work files, and appeared the warning that opening the document was not possible due to some parts of it that required 2.6. So again I had to use TimeMachine to bring back the version of the file that was still untouched by 2.6.

To me, looking into the recent threads here, I see much too many threads about issues with 2.6 (and not only in Publisher). I had noticed the new version 2.6 of your suit about 14 days ago, when I was on holiday. Today, back again and considering the time span of about two weeks, I was confident that your new version should be functioning more or less like intended as otherwise there would be an update. But no. This feels like beta testing for your company without payment. 

I know that 2.6 is a bigger update that opens access to new kinds of functions. But for me this release came way too early.

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, JanG said:

All is said in the headline

That isn’t what a ‘headline’ or topic title is for! There should be nothing more than a brief summary of the issue there, with any further details fleshed out in the first post to the thread.

[MikeTO]

30 minutes ago, JanG said:

As I have deleted version 2.6 and won't go back to it after three hours of wasted time, I cannot provide any test documents.

I'd like to see one of your 2.5 documents that didn't open correctly in 2.6, not a 2.6 document.

29 minutes ago, JanG said:

IIRC, I simply opened an existing file created in Pub. 2.5.7. Instead of the general applied yellow some of the 24 pages showed a white background. Therefore I tried to apply the master files to those pages, but nothig changed although the master pages looked perfectly fine/yellow.

It's unclear what you mean by a yellow background. Was there a shape layer that was filled yellow, a yellow image, or a text frame with a yellow fill? Please provide more details to help understand the issue.

[JanG]

Okay, here is the file that caused most of the trouble. Please note that it does not open in 2.5.7 anymore. And the yellow derives from a yellow rectangle.

20240913 Verlagsprogramm Sol et Chant - Herbst 2024 Homepage.afpub

[Old Bruce]

24 minutes ago, JanG said:

... the yellow derives from a yellow rectangle.

Actually the Master Pages have a Fill layer. If it is replaced with a yellow rectangle all works as it should.

I am not sure why the Fill layer doesn't become applied to Actual Pages. A quick test with the version 1 Publisher show this is working.

[MikeTO]

I agree this is a bug. Fill layers on masters are not working at all on document pages in 2.6.0. The reason some of your pages seem to work is they have the Fill layer duplicated on them, it's not that the fill layers are working intermittently.

Here's a 2.5.7 document with your Fill layer on master A. It's visible on page 1 in 2.5.7 but in 2.6.0 it won't be visible. Re-applying the master page makes no difference.

257.afpub

I've never used a fill layer before so this was new to me.

[JanG]

Sorry for the confusion about the yellow. It is some time since I created the master pages and I remembered it wrong. While trying to correct the file I worked with a yellow rectangle and that worked. Good to know, btw, that you agree with me that this is a bug in 2.6. 

[Oufti]

Now that the topic is well focused on the bug you hit, @JanG, you could follow this good advice:

5 hours ago, Alfred said:

That isn’t what a ‘headline’ or topic title is for! There should be nothing more than a brief summary of the issue there, with any further details fleshed out in the first post to the thread.

Note that you can edit your topic's title by editing your 1st message (through the ellipsis button on its top right).

[Beniamino]

Hi, is there any news about this bug?
I have the same issue on lots of files.
Downgraded to 2.5.7, but I am in trouble because I have to use 2.6 and 2.5.7 at the same time, and it's not easy...
Thank you, ben