Assistant Manager

[jrkay]

Are we soon going to get an assistant manager in Publisher as there is in Photo? It seems to keep on popping up as a cursor while I am dealing with text.

John

 

 

[walt.farrell]

There is an Assistant Manager if you're in the Designer or Photo Persona of Publisher, but none for the Publisher Persona.

I'm not sure one is needed, but I don't understand what you mean by "It seems to keep on popping up as a cursor while I am dealing with text."  What keeps popping up? Can you provide a screenshot?

[jrkay]

In that case the cursor takes that shape, (a small empty circle) when it is seeking to initiate a mask layer. In earlier forms of Publisher Beta a dialogue opened asking if I wanted to use the Assistant, nowadays it doesn't seem to do that. It is tricky to produce a screenshot, as I move the cursor to do this it may change back to a text cursor. If it happens again I will use a camera to snap it and post it. Although it does not happen as frequently as it did, it is still very irritating when it does and I feel it should not happen at all, especially when I do not ask for a mask layer.

John

[jrkay]

Walt

It took a long time but this is the process:

I am highlighting areas of text and removing them using CTRL X it to paste them into another document.
I do this several times.
After some ten or more times the screen full of text blanks out. I get the cursor shown below.
Attached is the file although it now seems to be completely blank.circle.afpub

I had it the circle cursor showing at one point on top of the text, as soon as it was moved it showed a dialogue asking if I wanted to open up a mask layer, but I was too slow to use a camera to capture it.

John

 

[walt.farrell]

Interesting, John.

I'm not sure what's going on there, and yes, that file seems completely empty.

If it's recreatable I think that problem should be posted in the appropriate Publisher Bugs forum, not here in the Feedback forum. Feedback is more intended for feature requests.