Consistent Publisher Crash: 'Service exited due to SIGSEGV'

[Hicksdesign]

Publisher now consistently crashes just after launch, here's an example from the console log:

Jul 24 14:50:46 HicksBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.seriflabs.affinitypublisher.16284[566]): Service exited due to SIGSEGV | sent by exc handler[566]

Typically, I have an urgent deadline this afternoon, and need this to work

Affinity Publisher_2019-07-24-144400_HicksBook-Pro.crash

Affinity Publisher_2019-07-24-145458_HicksBook-Pro.crash

Affinity Publisher_2019-07-24-145459_HicksBook-Pro.crash

[Pauls]

Could you upload the document please

[Hicksdesign]

Thanks Pauls - just uploading that now...

[Hicksdesign]

I've managed to get a one hour earlier version from Dropbox which didn't crash Publisher. I wondered if the embedded-rather-than-linked images were causing it, so made the large images linked instead.

However, after saving it and closing it, it now causes Publisher to crash again.

[Hicksdesign]

I've methodically done an edit, then saved, closed and reopened to see what causes the crash. I've narrowed it down to when I delete two right hand pages from the document. For some reason, introducing that edit causes Publisher to crash

[Pauls]

We have a fixed file here :- https://www.dropbox.com/s/m9iwjqdta7kt740/Jon Hicks - IHCI Progress Report 06 - fixed.afpub?dl=0

Can you give that a try. It's probably best to use the beta version as well.

[Hicksdesign]

Did you find out what the exact issue was that caused the crash? A bug, or something I'd done that caused a performance problem?

As mentioned above, I found that it was related to removing pages 3 and 5. In the end I was able to drag reorder these to the end of the document and then delete them without causing a crash. I could then complete it and get it off to print.

[Pauls]

There are a few ways that the document can get into an invalid state. We think we have these fixed in the beta. they are usually related to master pages and pinning graphics