How to Use Affinity Publisher to Format for Paperback & Hardcover
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I’ve watched this video probably 10 times, it’s very helpful. Thanks!
This is the best video reference I have ever found for using Affinity for book publishing. Great job.
0:00 Introduction and why use Affinity Publisher
2:22 Microsoft document with text content
3:51 Guide to Publisher interface
6:50 Margins and settings
9:28 Master pages
16:27 Placing content
18:54 Text styles
42:40 Applying text styles
48:16 Applying sections
49:53 Slight adjustments
51:35 Exporting your book
54:30 Rescaling (the best advantage Publisher gives you!)
57:30 Concluding remarks
You are my hero. Sorry, still learning to master this UA-cam thing
@@r.l.parker.author No problem at all 🩷 I’m planning to come back to your video to follow along! It’s such a good introductory lesson to Publisher.
16:06 you can select the burger menu in the top right of the text styles menu and select ‘delete all unused styles’ instead of deleting them one by one
Thank you! EXACTLY what I was looking for when I came back to rewatch this!
At last a good formatting video THANK YOU.
I love Affinity products! If you ever see them an sale, grab them, even if you don't need it right then! I have Design(Vectors), Photo(Photos), & Publisher. Picked the first 2 up for $49/each & then later Publisher was on sale for just $25.
I use Photo and Designer for years, yet this great tutorial, made me realise the Affinity brilliance I was missing.
Thank you for sharing.
I just bought this program, and am so glad I did! Thank you so much for taking the time to make such an easy-to-follow tutorial!🙏
Thank you for this tutorial. I bought the software years ago but was too overwhelmed to use it. Now I can finally put it to good use!
One of the most informative videos I have seen on UA-cam.
Wow! Thank you for your time in producing this. Very helpful.
Thank you for the tutorial. There's a vacuum in content in how to operate Affinity Publisher. I thought of creating something similar to this.
FYI, "opacity" has an a sound like "iPad". Nice video, exactly what I was looking for.
And I'm pretty sure "leading" there is pronounced like "ledding" because it has to do with metal blocks of lead used for spacing.
Thank you for making this video. So much helpful.
Affinity publisher is awesome
Great tutorial. I'm just about to start moving an old book from the now obsolete Adobe FrameMaker to Affinity Publisher for a new edition and this was a really useful starting point. My book has a load of illustrations, tables, footnotes and the like so I need a bit more but this will get the basic text done. Many thanks.
Thank you, a lot, for this beautiful tutorial. You can explain the topic in a clearly, understandable and helpful way. It's a pleasure to watch this video.
What a helpful video! Thanks so much.
Awesome video. Just what I was looking to learn. Thanks!!
Thanks for this tutorial.
Wow! That was fantastic! Thank you!
Hi! thanks for making this, I've been sat on the program for months (bought it as a package) and not even looked at using it until today.
Awesome video - thought you may want to know there's and option to "detach and delete all styles" under the text styles menu - instead of deleting them one at a time.
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Hi Parker.. appreciate for posting such long detailed video. Finally I decided to go head and purchase this software after seeing what can be accomplished from this excellent program. I will hop on your contact soon some time. Thanks for generosity and keeping book writing buddies informed.
Fantastic tutorial! Thank you for this. I really appreciate the styles setting info. A bit of work upfront, then magic! (Much like the actual writing!) I've got a book that needs formatting, so I'm going to use this video as a guide. Again, much appreciated!
Thanks so much for this. I found it really helpful. I'm just starting out so going back to basics like this was exactly what I wanted.
Amazing content! What a time saver! I love Affinity!
Outstanding!
The best!
Thank you
Really good content, well structured, and simply explained - thanks!
Could there be any possibility of adding a hyperlink index to this? I think it would add a lot of value in terms of being able to look up specific items. Thanks!
Thank you! You have saved my sanity! Clear, concise instruction. I paced myself through it and went along with the steps with my own manuscript. Fabulous!
Great video, thank you
Very helpful! Thank you!
This is an excellent tutorial. I learned a lot from it and am very appreciative of your effort in producing it. I just have one question. Did you mistakenly edit out the creating of a Chapter start style? I don't believe I just missed it, but I could not find it. I created one anyway but am not sure if I got it right. Thanks again!
Vielen Dank! Thanks a lot! I learned new ways to format my text.
Ooo this is nicee and very helpful.
Thank you :)
Again, thank you.
Mr. Parker! A stellar piece of work, sir. Many have information, but few can convey it in a fashion where it is effective and useful. Thank you so much for sharing what you've learned so well.
It's in my nature to share, and I've got lots of experience teaching IT folk over the decades ;)
Thank you, though. It means a lot.
Many thanks! I now just need to do it! And explore inserting illustrations - is there another video that you'd recommend for that?
Great....
First of all thank you for the time you took to create a great tutorial and share it with us. Now, since version 2 of Affinity Publisher brings the novelty of being able to include footnotes, margin notes and endnotes, I would appreciate it if you could tell me if it is possible to configure their style beforehand on my master page . Better said, just like you configured at the beginning different styles for chapters, titles, subtitles... is it possible to do the same for the notes? Thanks in advance for your reply.
Affinity to the grave.
Kings of efficiency.
This tutorial is just what I needed. Thanks a lot!! Very clear and to the point. More, please! I am editing a really big non fiction book. Learning about sections and shortcuts is a life saver. I would love to know though, if , when I break up my book into sections as you explain somewhere, each of these sections (=files) will maintain their own independet "sections"? Basically I need to have "sections": like "part 1,2,3 "etc. and within each section I need chapters. Is that possible?
Yep. It's just about tackling the formatting in a way that works for you to accomplish it. Not something I've had need to do though, sorry.
THANK YOU so much for this helpful video. I am grateful. HAIL :)
Thank you for your excellent tutorial. I was floundering with my graphic novel. I hired a Professional to help. It didn't work. I bought Affinity Publisher 2. It took four days watching and reading tutorials. There's not a lot about formatting a graphic n9vel with embedded objects. It appears that it is simpler than working with text and placing images and text wrap arounds. I've watched your tutorial many times Used portions of it to format my graphic novel. I hope I've done this correctly. Am about to find out. PS. I formatted using 5.25x8. I trust this works for images when I convert it to 6 x 9". Elaine
Thank you. Had to start over using 6 x 9" template with margins. I ran into a
problem. I saved the project as an afpub file prior to exporting to PDF. It appeared to be the only way to save to PDF. This morning, my Affinity project disappeared. It's usually very simple to save a project. I would like to save my re- do to my flash drive. Every piece of software has a learning curve.
wow...brilliant. I hope I can proceed....I wonder how to make a list of chapters....for part of the preface or frontspage?
Affinity Revolution has a great video on Table of Contents.
52:27 min. oh, I laughed so hard!!! 🤣
Wow, this is a fantastic video on Publisher!
I have a paid-for video source that also provides "Auto-generated Transcripts". These are not perfect, mostly non-punctuated, plain text, almost all narrative, with a LOT of separately-imported {Screen Shot} images. I'm new with Publisher, but have been importing (Copy & Paste) directly from the Transcript. Then, I do PrtScn of the full screen images from the video source and paste them into Publisher -- in the margin. Then Crop them and place them in the right spots within the text. (I have 37 Chapters of video; with each Chapter, final size of ~21 pages Letter Size. Plus I have about a dozen of these Videos to do!) {I also have Word, but I am continually confounded by Word's imprecise image placement.} These are all exclusively for my own use. I will perhaps take the completed PDF files to a local Kinko's for printing, in color, and make them into spiral-bound booklets.
This is a LOT of work! Can you suggest an alternative workflow?
Elaine Giles has a playlist for Affinity Publisher. See especially ua-cam.com/video/h5EoiD4ffGY/v-deo.html and see image placement at 30:35. I prep my images in Affinity Photo, save all to a dedicated folder, and insert as needed in the photo frames of my APub template-generated document.
Re: text, if you create a template with linking text boxes with your "average #" of photo frames it might pre-populate the image boxes once you copy-paste your transcript? Hope this helps!
PS I agree, this is an excellent tutorial! Covered so many topics I've not seen anywhere else! :)
I'm trying to follow what you do but I keep getting stuck. When you created the box for the header, you then copied it to the footer but I couldn't see how you did this. Can you tell me please?
Can you export an ePub document out of Affinity publisher to create an eBook?
I do not think so. I recommend using Draft2digital to produce your ebook free (and it doesn't require you publish through them, though I'd recommend it). Or, if budget isn't a concern, I use Atticus for ebook only.
There is also Jutoh, $45.
Hey R.L. (gives you an air of distinction) Anyway with this video help I have been able to work styles in Publisher 2. My page size is 4 in by 6 inch. I have flowed in my material. I usually try and create a booklet and self-publish not trying to make millions on amazon or anything like that, Just self print these for local consumption. Anyway when I go to print and create booklet it goes for a scosh and then I get a Print workflow error and stop. Any ideas?
What about baseline grid?
master info starts at 9:33
How do you get the font preview to be jumbo size? In your video, the font preview is large and the samples are easy to see. That's one of the long-term problems with Affinity. The font size on the panels and in the font preview is too damn tiny!
Are you using Atticus also? I had planned on using Atticus for formatting but thought I would use Affinity first then move it to Atticus. What has been your experience with this? Thank you for your time. I really appreciate it.
Okay perfect...that gives me a better understanding moving forward. Thank you for the clarity.
@@r.l.parker.author I've used Atticus for graphics-heavy print books, but Affinity is superior for that. Atticus is perfect for ebooks.
My text in in Mac's Pages...any experience with that? I want to avoid word if possible.
Mac user here. I use Libreoffice Writer, but Publisher doesn't accept their files either. Make an RTF copy of your document and use that to place text.
Was following along step by step and then suddenly Header 1 appeared! Where did that come from since we deleted all the styles? I didn’t know how to create it.
Header 1 was imported from Word when I brought in my content.
I really wish you'd explain why you are doing things
Boa tarde. Gostei de ver a sua aula. Eu tenho 73 anos e estou a escrever as minhas memórias de vida, que passam também pela Guerra Colonial, que Portugal travou em Angola (África) estava com o Indesign cs 6 mas como não domino a informática o meu computador teve de ser formatado e o programa se perdeu. Descobri e Affinity Publisher que está em promoção, mas as coisas são muito diferentes. Assim vinha-lhe solicitar se me poderia ajudar a fazer o Indice (sumario). Certo da sua melhor atenção, apresento as minhas desculpas, mas não sei inglês razão de me dirigir ao Senhor em português. Grato do coração.
Not a good idea to use opacity to establish a colour. It does not transfer well when converting to pdf (vector). For pdf rasterised it does not matter but rasterised transparency always look "grainy".
Initial caps style should have been set to 'small caps' not 'all caps'.
Really good information, but those "um" utterances are distracting. I just checked closed captioning and even it puts all the "ums" in the captions.
Um
Really? That’s what you got out of this? 😡
This was the BEST video on Affinity Publisher (or anything else, for that matter) I've ever watched. I worked on my upcoming textbook all day today, working through it with you. THANK you. I'm also looking for a good vid about the MANY images which are in the Word doc... Can you please recommend?
and I hope to finish the formatting of Modern Equine Dentistry for Horse owners TODAY! If the book assembly goes together... wish me luck! xxx Thanks so much for your time and help! xxxx