Affinity Publisher: Error when exporting spreads to pages in PDF

[Dee]

I'm trying to export my afpub document to pages so that I can publish it, but I get an error during the export. The error only appears if I export with the selection "All Pages"; if I select "All Spreads", or even "Current Page", the file exports just fine (but is unusable for my purposes).

I saw somewhere someone pointed out a way to get a log file to generate on Windows; is there a similar solution for macOS? Or, ideally, a known solution for this particular issue?

[Dee]

Okay, I did some digging, and it looks like if there's a hyperlink on Spread 1 that goes to an anchor on spread 5, when you export the pages that include those two spreads, Affinity Publisher doesn't know how to map the anchors to their new page numbers, and so it errors out during export.

For now, removing the hyperlinks and anchors fixed the problem for me. But this is something the devs probably ought to look at.

[walt.farrell]

That sounds like a bug, Dee. Good detective work!

Possibly a moderator will see this and move your post (or at least log the problem), or you could post again in the Publisher Bugs Found on MacOS forum to make sure they see it.

[stokerg]

Hi @Dee,

Could you load the .afpub file here 

I've tried replicating the issue, i've set a hyperlink from one spread to an anchor on another spread and it exported to PDF fine.  So i expect i'm missing something else that causes this.  Once you've uploaded the file, i can get the issue logged with the Dev team  

[Dee]

I ended up working around it, so I don't have the issue reproducible on my end. But I'll see if I can recreate it.