Engine update: pictures travel inside your IDML file and lines more accurately break where Publisher breaks them
A short one. Two fixes went live on 14 September, and one of them corrects a defect we should have caught sooner.
Pictures inside the IDML file
Since the IDML export launched, every picture in the file was written as a link. The link pointed at a file that was not in the package. So when you opened the result in InDesign or Affinity Publisher, you saw a grey box and a missing-link warning where each picture should have been. The text, the frames and the layout were right. The pictures were not there.
That is fixed. Each picture now travels inside the IDML package itself, the same way InDesign stores an embedded image. Open the file in InDesign or Affinity Publisher and the pictures are in place, at the right size and in the right frame.
If you converted a file to IDML before today and saw missing links, run it again. You do not need to buy again.
Line breaks after hyphens and brackets
Publisher will end a line after a hyphen that follows a number, so "1.30-" sits at the end of one line and "2.30pm" starts the next. It will also end a line after a closing bracket. Our PDF export did not do either. It moved the whole word down to the next line instead.
That sounds small. In a narrow column it is not. One early wrap pushes every line below it down by one, and the last sentence in the text box can drop out of view. In one of the files we checked, a sentence that had been pushed off the bottom of its box came back once the line broke where Publisher breaks it.
The PDF export now follows the same rule as Publisher in both cases. Lines end where they end in your original, and the text that follows stays where it was.
That is the release. If a file of yours came out with missing pictures or a line that wrapped early, run it again. The preview is free, and downloads are a one-time $49 purchase.