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Part of my wide-eyed “Dorothy-in-Oz” amazement is that my own programs are old and out of date, and I never used all the features anyway. After watching a few video tutorials, I am stunned at the power of these programs and how easy they are to use.

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On the other hand, the free Calibre program can make the conversion for you, so unless you spend all day every day creating Kindle versions, it’s probably not a deal-breaker.Ĩ. I think they didn’t want to make the program more complex and expensive, but it’s kind of a bummer. One disadvantage of APub over InDesign is that it can’t directly export to the mobi format for Kindle, or epub for the other readers. Google would find “how to use the elevator” for example, but similar tutorials might be labeled “how to use the lift.” If I intended to spend a lot of time using the programs and wanted to look under the bonnet, I’d sure start by spending a weekend watching tutorials.ħ. Worth noting is that the company that makes the program is British, so sometimes the search words and terminology are a little different. There are SO MANY online tutorials, both by Affinity and by others, that I now believe any confusion has already been addressed several times. Only four choices, you check one, so it only took a few seconds to figure it out.Ħ. Turns out you select the photo, then go to “properties” to determine how resizing will behave. First time I tried that in APub, the photo did not remain proportionate. In my older (CS5) version of InDesign, when I added a photo to a document, I could resize it just by grabbing a corner and moving diagonally in or out. If I had been sending it to a book printer, I would have set up the original pages differently, perhaps on 8.5 x 22” sheets.ĥ. Here’s the fix: after I was done creating a file with facing pages (including bigger margins on the binding side of each page) and ready to export to pdf, I just went back to the document setup and unchecked “facing pages.” Worked great. It was an easy fix, but I had to pay the printer for my ignorance.

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But when I sent the pdf to an Office Depot type printing company, it defaulted to printing two pages on each letter sized sheet. I wanted a page layout with letter-sized facing pages and a larger interior gutter so I could spiral bind it. This may be silly, because Affinity Publisher will open PDF files, but I just don’t know yet.Ĥ. Then I can return to “Book” to make more edits. So the original might be “Book.” After I tweak it I save it but also save it as a new file “Book2” which I export to pdf. Now I save the file with a different name before exporting. That isn’t what I wanted, so it surprised me. Affinity Publisher replaces your original file with a pdf version. InDesign saves a pdf file using the file name, so after exporting you have one original file, and a second pdf file with the same name but the suffix pdf.

Since I never intentionally use the cloud, I’d like to eliminate the ap and the maddening notice that “Creative Cloud is needed to resolve this problem.”ģ.

Plus, Adobe’s “Creative Cloud” has been clogging up my computer.

I bought all three programs, even though I mostly use InDesign, because the total price was less than $200 with no subscription. Along with Affinity Publisher, the three programs work together in a cool way, as if they were a single program. Affinity Photo apparently DOES open Photoshop files, and Affinity Designer DOES open Illustrator files, but I haven’t really tried them. This is easy to do, it’s built into InDesign, but you have to do it before you try to open the file in Affinity.Ģ. Yes, Affinity can open InDesign files but ONLY if you first export them to InDesign Markup Language (IDML).

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While my frustrations are fresh in my mind, I thought I’d share a few things I learned after much googling and trial and error that would have simplified my life had I figured them out quicker.ġ. I am no expert at page layout and book design, although I’ve done it for each of my books (about a dozen books total, some using Pagemaker, some Quark, some InDesign). I liked the program so well I bought it, as well as its companion programs (“Photo” and “Designer”). I recently downloaded a free ten-day trial of Affinity Publisher and used it instead of InDesign to lay out a 300 page manuscript.

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