Independent Baseline Grid bug (see linked thread and video at the end)

[rogershuff]

 

[MikeTO]

Can you please share more details than what is shown in the screen recording?

What is the document's baseline grid's value?

What are the Leading settings for the headings and body text?

[rogershuff]

Hi - sorry for the delay - I was abroad. The attached image has screenshots including the independent grid settings for the frames that are causing the problem and the style info for the two styles in use there. The master Baseline Grid settings are also attached. I will say again that I believe that this is a probelm with Publisher 2.6 misinterpreting documents created in earlier versions. If I open any file created in an earlier version in 2.6, the frames with an independent grid show the error. Today I tracked down a copy of Publisher 2.5.5 that I'd backed up and removed 2.6 from my system. 2.5.5 opened all my files corrrectly so, as  say, I think the fault is in 2.6. As I have other documents to create, I will stick with 2.5.5 until I hear from Affinity that later releases are OK. Anyone from Affinity out there? I can send a file to demonstrate what I am seeing. TIA.

PS - feature request: Individual baseline grids linked to different master pages.

[MikeTO]

I tried creating a 2.5 document with the same settings shown here and it worked fine in 2.6 so I must be missing something.

Could you share a test document? Just a single page, and you could delete anything not relevant to the issue.

Thanks

[rogershuff]

OK - I will sort out a test document.

[rogershuff]

Here is a cut-down version of one of my problem documents. I created it in Publisher 2.5.5 but when opened in Publisher 2.6 here it shows the errors.

Layout test document.afpub

[MikeTO]

41 minutes ago, rogershuff said:

Here is a cut-down version of one of my problem documents. I created it in Publisher 2.5.5 but when opened in Publisher 2.6 here it shows the errors.

Thanks, this is the same bug affecting a few other things in 2.6.0. It's caused by the Layer which was created when converting the template from IDML.

Here's how to make your document work in 2.6.0 until the bug is fixed. Note that the bug is not fixed in the current 2.6.2 beta.

1. Go to each of the affected pages
2. Expand "Layer 1" in the Layers panel
3. Drag all of the layers above Layer 1 - you can delete Layer 1 now as it will be empty
4. Save the document and close it
5. Re-open the document - that page will be fixed
6. Repeat for any other pages with this issue

Good luck

[Old Bruce]

6 hours ago, rogershuff said:

Here is a cut-down version of one of my problem documents. I created it in Publisher 2.5.5 but when opened in Publisher 2.6 here it shows the errors.

I think it was created in InDesign.

 

[rogershuff]

Well, yes, originally! But edited in Publisher 2.5.5. I have been using this tempate for several years.

[rogershuff]

22 hours ago, MikeTO said:

Thanks, this is the same bug affecting a few other things in 2.6.0. It's caused by the Layer which was created when converting the template from IDML.

Here's how to make your document work in 2.6.0 until the bug is fixed. Note that the bug is not fixed in the current 2.6.2 beta.

1. Go to each of the affected pages
2. Expand "Layer 1" in the Layers panel
3. Drag all of the layers above Layer 1 - you can delete Layer 1 now as it will be empty
4. Save the document and close it
5. Re-open the document - that page will be fixed
6. Repeat for any other pages with this issue

Good luck

Thank you - I will try that now.

[rogershuff]

13 minutes ago, rogershuff said:

Thank you - I will try that now.

OK - that worked - many thanks. I'll look out for an update.

[Philosoraptor - Jeff H]

I am encountering what seems to be this same problem. As Mike in particular may recall, this is not my first run-in with this extra layer being added in IDML imports, which seemingly has no purpose except to make things that should be straightforward hair-pullingly frustrating. I want to add two things to what's already been reported.

First, this seems to happen on Windows too, not just Mac.

Second, even after pulling everything off the extra layer and restarting, my baseline grid is screwed up, or at least snapping is, in one specific document. (Not the same one most other issues I've reported concerned - it's (part of) the other book in that same overall project.) Vertically it does not start flush with the top of the page, but a tiny fraction of an inch higher. Horizontally, I can't figure out what's wrong with it but something is. As a result, unless I turn off all the snapping options except "snap to guides" and/or "snap to spread", things snap to slightly the wrong places. I've checked the page size, margins, and grid settings - everything is set to multiples of an eighth of an inch (0.125 inches), yet if I leave "snap to grid" on, nothing ever snaps to anything divisible by an eighth of an inch.

I can work around this by leaving only those two snap options turned on. That seems to make it measure everything relative to the spread, in the increments I actually set up. In other words, the only way to get it to use the grid I actually set is to turn OFF "snap to grid" and "snap to baseline grid". With those options on, it does not use the grid I've set up, but some different one that doesn't seem to relate to anything I've set up OR to be any sort of sensible default. While workable once you get used to it, this gave me a rather maddening afternoon until I figured it out, and seems... well, perverse.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Independent baseline grid doesn't work in scaled Layers" (REF: AF-6356) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.3.3273). The fix is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.