The case of the wrong font size
When a converted page looks wrong, font size is the usual suspect. Wrong size means wrong line breaks, wrong line breaks mean wrong text flow, and soon the whole page has drifted. This week's update closes four separate ways the engine picked the wrong size.
The empty line that changed everything
The strangest one first. In some files, an empty paragraph, just a blank line the author pressed Enter to make, caused the text after it to change size. Roughly one document in nine in our test library contains this pattern. It's fixed. A blank line is a blank line again.
Custom styles keep their size
Publisher users could define their own text styles: "Headline, 20 point, Franklin Gothic." When a paragraph used one of those custom styles, the engine sometimes fell back to a default size instead of the style's own. Now the style wins.
No borrowing from the neighbor
A paragraph with no style of its own should get the document's base size. The engine used to hand it the size of the previous paragraph instead, which was right just often enough to be hard to spot. More than a thousand documents in the library carried this defect. Fixed.
Bold stays put
Bold formatting could flood past the words the author selected and swallow the rest of a paragraph. It now ends where it ends in Publisher.
None of these fixes is dramatic on its own. Together they're the difference between a page that reads like the original and one that reads like a retyped copy. As always, we judge that by putting our output next to Publisher's own, document by document.
Got a file where the text came out the wrong size? Try it again.