Publisher – Disappearing Text in Frame

[DesignStationYT]

Suddenly this evening, after spending the entire day working on a file, I've run into an issue where if I apply a style or make a change on a page, all of the text within the frame basically becomes invisible against the page but remains selectable. The only "quick" way of making it visible again is to close the document and re-open it. Any other style changes or adjustments will immediately cause that frame to go white again.

May be related to cross-references? I didn't see any such issues in the file until I began trying to build some of those out (though this occurs in other parts of the file when selecting styles that are not cross-references). Example below of if I select some text within a frame and then do something no more complex than selecting the character style that is already applied to it.

Not a fun thing to run into with an almost 200 page document that needs to be delivered the next day! 

[DesignStationYT]

Even more strange, the disappearing text only seems to occur on right-hand pages.

[Hangman]

Hi @DesignStationYT,

Can you upload your document, or at least a subset of the file that demonstrates the issue, so we can take a look?

[DesignStationYT]

I think I've found a workaround after a few hours of frustration—it may be related to having "Reflow pages" turned on. By turning off facing pages and reflow pages, then turning facing pages back on again, a version of the file that was experiencing the right hand page disappearing text issue no longer has that issue. I'll upload a "damaged" version and a "fixed" (perhaps fixed? Hopefully?) version once I'm on the other side of getting it finalized for the client.

[AlanPJSekers]

Thank you so much. I had exactly the same problem on a large book project, begun in Publisher 1.?., now with ver 2.6. Running on Mac 15.4.1.  
File behaved ok on earlier Publisher 2.3, I believe. 
 

Like you, right hand pages of text flowed in, changed to white when any correction was made.

Your solution works perfectly. Cannot thank you enough.

 

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Posted Thursday at 05:44 PM

I think I've found a workaround after a few hours of frustration—it may be related to having "Reflow pages" turned on. By turning off facing pages and reflow pages, then turning facing pages back on again, a version of the file that was experiencing the right hand page disappearing text issue no longer has that issue. I'll upload a "damaged" version and a "fixed" (perhaps fixed? Hopefully?) version once I'm on the other side of getting it finalized for the client.