Philippe Roy Posted July 30, 2019 Posted July 30, 2019 I just finished a 500 pages book with Affinity Publisher. It went relatively well, but I notice some place, in the last line of a page, where ther is a big space at the right of the last line in the middle of a paragraph. I found two instences of this problem within the first 100 pages. The problem may be temporarely solved by shrinking the text to force the next word on the line. Hard to reproduce, but it's definitively a bug. Quote
thomaso Posted July 30, 2019 Posted July 30, 2019 Indeed weird and hard to reproduce. Wouldn't you expect the word "rapidement" become hyphenated? Does the gap disappear if you manually enter hyphenation for "rapidement"? Would you mind to post page 83/84 as .afpub? With a quick test I don't get this issue: Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
Philippe Roy Posted July 31, 2019 Author Posted July 31, 2019 Maybe it's linked to my hyphenation preferences. I have set a fairly large end of column zone to prevent any crosspage hyphenation. Hyphenation from a page to the next is the 8th deadly sin of the book typography. Editing the document to include just two pages would take to long, and it wouldn't help without the font. Wosven 1 Quote
Philippe Roy Posted July 31, 2019 Author Posted July 31, 2019 It' the end of column zone indeed. I found another instance and put an exception. It worked, but now I have an hyphen across the page Basically, I can chose between looking every page to chase hyphen or every page to chase inappropriate end of line space. Everytime there is a change across the entire book. Quote
Philippe Roy Posted July 31, 2019 Author Posted July 31, 2019 Placing an discretionary hyphen before the last word make the spaces strech to fill the gap, like they should. It's not a long term solution, but I can settled for it right now. Thanks. Quote
thomaso Posted July 31, 2019 Posted July 31, 2019 Nice to hear that you've come up with a solution - even if it's just a workaround that does not fix the obvious flaw. I wonder if it would happen again in a new document with the same text and formatting - or if it is possibly a temporary problem in your specific file and objects. 10 hours ago, Philippe Roy said: Editing the document to include just two pages would take to long, and it wouldn't help without the font. Oh, I haven't been aware about a problem before I just noticed: I had expected to be able to copy individual text frames from a chain of linked frames and get only their content, but not all the text. This is a pity indeed and requires much more work to extract only two pages. In my opinion this AfPublisher behavior does not make sense. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
Dave Harris Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 After moving the word to the next column, Publisher ought to re-justify the line, but currently it doesn't. This is a bug that will be fixed in the next beta/release. Quote
Wosven Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 On 7/31/2019 at 1:21 PM, thomaso said: I wonder if it would happen again in a new document with the same text and formatting It's a bug that happen with other fonts and documents. And if, like me, you don't accept lonely words at the end of paragraphs and too much space between words, it's difficult! I noticed that for not having capitalized words and ends of columns/pages hypenation, the resulting text is nearly without hyphenation. And if score is set to a higher value than 2, the rules above aren't respected. Quote
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