Publisher file won't open after crash while using IPhoto & Designer

[Andrew McIntyre]

I have been training myself to use Publisher / Designer / Photo by transcribing across an A5 booklet I was working on in Open Office Writer.

This involved copying and pasting paragraphs of text and mixed raster / vector illustrations from Open Office Writer to Publisher.

All went well until I tried to amend a vector illustration by switching to the Designer persona within Publisher. Publisher crashed and attempts to re-open the file have resulted in it repeatedly flashing up the page with the vector illustration for a split second before closing down. The same thing happens if I attempt to open the file from Designer or Photo, though the illustration remains visible for slightly longer before closing down. The vector graphic was originally produced in Macromedia Freehand but appeared without a hitch in Publisher until I resized and amended it in a small way.

Windows 10 on a Soundblaster laptop which handles everything I throw at it in the way of tiff images and cad drawings etc. (I routinely process raster files up to 80mb). 

This is purely a training exercise - no panic deadlines involved! Nevertheless I wouldn't want to invest too much time on serious productive work if there was a risk of losing it in this manner.

This raises a question as to whether an auto back-up option for the Affinity programs is planned that would enable earlier versions of a file to be recovered?

 

BUILDING STANDARDS..afpub

Building Regs_29th April 2015.odt

[Pauls]

appears to be crashing when composing text. Which image where you amending and had you pinned it to any text/text frame?

[Andrew McIntyre]

33 minutes ago, Pauls said:

appears to be crashing when composing text. Which image where you amending and had you pinned it to any text/text frame?

I had just amended an image of a roof (vector-file originally drawn in Macromedia Freehand.) It was contained within a text frame with text-wrap applied.

[Pauls]

The file has been fixed - the crash is related to pinned objects. Hopefully the current beta and the next patch will correct this. It would be worth trying out the beta you shouldn't get the same problem

BUILDING STANDARDS - fixed.afpub

[Andrew McIntyre]

That's remarkable Paul!  Many thanks for your fast and helpful response.

[Patrick Connor]

We have made fixes/improvements to this area (Customer file failing to open) of the program in the latest customer beta. If you would like to try these changes the beta software is available in the forum posts listed below.

The latest beta builds are downloadable from links at the top of each of these beta forum posts.

• Affinity Publisher 1.8.0.535 for Windows
• Affinity Publisher 1.8.0.535 for Mac

These betas install parallel, next to the release version (they do not overwrite your release) and so the fixes can be tried in the beta without affecting your normal workflow in the release version.

Once these programs have been through a full beta process the change will be released in a future free 1.8.0 update/patch to all customers.