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Topic: Multiple Pages Failure

Hi,
I have Page Plus X9 version number 19.0.2.22.
Adding a second or more pages to a new, one page publication has always been quick and simple via the + button in the Pages tab. I have never had any problem with it, until today.
Digressing slightly to give a context, adding PDF files into the publication has likewise never been a problem - add a new page, (if required) then just drag and drop and respond to the PDF Import Options pop-up as appropriate, and it works.

Today I had a one page publication open, dropped a PDF onto it - there it is. Next I used the Pages tab to create a new blank page, clicked on it in the tab to make it the current page being viewed, dropped a different PDF onto it, replied to the Import window,  and there it is - perfect, well except that it killed the original first page and just showed a one page publication with the newly inserted PDF.
I've never seen this before, nor needed it. Help appreciated please.

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Re: Multiple Pages Failure

We would need the relevant files to replicate this problem, as it is not something i can reproduce at present.

Have you tried just opening the first PDF in PagePlus, then using the Insert menu to open the second PDF on a "Page After"?

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Re: Multiple Pages Failure

Hi GB,
Thank you most sincerely for your reply to my problem. Many apologies for my slow response. I was expecting this site to generate an email notification when a reply was posted. Does it in fact do exactly that, (and either I  hadn't spotted it, or perhaps I hadn't received it for some reason, or maybe my email system - incorrectly - diverted it to my Junk/Spam folder)?

Anyway, the original problem has not yet been solved, more of that below. I'm quite happy to send the offending file if appropriate, by the way.

However, your suggested workaround has worked. As in the past I had always just drag and dropped PDF files into PagePlus, literally never with any problem, it didn't occur to me to think of using the Insert option  that you mentioned. I have just done it now, and instantly and successfully achieved what I wanted. I am very grateful to you, thank you so much.

By way of returning the compliment, I have next investigated further. I created a single (blank) page file, and tried dropping, (ie. not Inserting), a Jpeg file onto the page. Immediate success - as I would expect. Then I used the Pages tab to add a new, second page, and tried dropping another Jpeg onto it. Again no problem. Pages tab was next used to add a third, drop a Jpeg,  and a fourth page and drop. Every time instant success. Right, now the acid test. Pages tab, create page five, drop a PDF file onto it. Result, I have a single page with a PDF file on it, the four Jpeg-carrying pages have all been eradicated.

So the issue lies with the PDF files. Whether it is just my PDF's, (most of them created by exporting from PagePlus), and ones derived from elsewhere would not cause this problem I haven't tested to find out. I would tend to exclude anything related to my hardware system or setup on the grounds that it has always used PagePlus correctly and successfully in the past.

Hope this helps, and thank you once again for your kind support.

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Re: Multiple Pages Failure

No, you do not get email notification when a reply is added. You have to get back to the forum to check. You never know, someone may have posted another problem that you could help them with! Or another topic where you could join in the discussion!

I've looked into this PDF "problem" a bit more.

I have never tried drag'n'drop to add PDFs to PagePlus until checking your problem. I have just been trying to reproduce what you have found, and this is the result.

The first one opens OK. I add a blank page, and drop a second PDF onto it. As you say, I get the second PDF displayed in a single page publication, and the original PDF that was on page 1 has disappeared.

Or has it? No! If I check in the Window tab in PagePlus, I find I now have two publications. Each of the PDFs is in its own separate PagePlus publication. The blank page I added to the first one is still there, and is still blank. This happens when I try to add further PDFs by drag'n'drop as you describe, even multipage PDFs.

What you have found is perhaps a minor bug (which will never now be remedied). But if you want several PDFs in a single PPP file you will have to combine them using Insert as I described.

Geoff

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Re: Multiple Pages Failure

GrimsbyUser wrote:

I was expecting this site to generate an email notification when a reply was posted.

There’s a ‘Subscribe’ link next to the ‘RSS topic feed’ link on the blue bar near the top of the thread, and there are a couple of subscription settings in the ‘Settings’ section of your forum profile, but since it’s not a feature that I’ve ever really bothered with I’m not sure how well it all works!

"I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance, and therein lies my honour and my reward.”
— Kahlil Gibran

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Re: Multiple Pages Failure

Hi Geoff,
Thank you again for your further response.
First, regarding an email notification of the posting of a reply to an issue - the existence of an RSS option is duly noted, but I actually rather like your suggestion that making the effort to go back to the site and check for replies with the potential that I might spot something that I can help others with - nice response - I'll stick with that :-)

As for the response to dragging PDFs onto a page, as I said, your workaround succeeds perfectly, so I'm quite happy with that. You are of course correct that this bug discovery of mine will never be corrected now, but it's just odd that it has only just surfaced in these last few days - prior to that it never occurred for me.
Best wishes and thank you again.

PS. I'm a many years user of almost all Serif software - until 2014 I actually lived about 8 miles from their Nottingham headquarters - so I have got version 2 of all three Affinity apps, it's just that I'm much more familiar with the older software. I did try the same exercise with Affinity Publisher - but I got irritated by its insistence of adding a two-page spread when I didn't want that as my intention was always to export to PDF and Adobe Reader displays  the pages rather smaller in order to accommodate the landscape format of the spread of pages 2 and 3, but with pages 1 and 4 in portrait above and below the spread.