[Affinity-Publisher manuscript rejected by Kindle Direct Publishing]

17 hours ago, sfriedberg said:

Well, if the document is 283MB larger than the largest they accept, it's possible the upload process is deliberately aborting, with a less than ideal error message.

Yep. It was the file size. It's a long, photo-heavy book. I had to use lower quality to get it uploaded. Thanks for the insight!

[Affinity Photo won't let me set the document size I need.]

15 hours ago, RichardMH said:

You on a Mac or PC? Seems OK on my PC.

Mac

[Affinity Photo won't let me set the document size I need.]

KDP demands I make my front cover exactly  7.197 inches by 10.236 inches due to the page count and other book print factors. 

When I try to create this document size in Affinity Photo, it lets will let me do 7.197 x 10.234 in, or 7.198.

If I unclick the lock button, I thought I could choose any size, but though it will let me set any size, when I click "Resize," and then reopen the document resize panel again, I see that the document is still at 10.234 or 7.198.

How can I set the document size to what I need?

[Affinity-Publisher manuscript rejected by Kindle Direct Publishing]

I realize this is not a Kindle Direct Publishing help forum, but I'm trying to upload an Affinity Publisher-created manuscript to Kindle Direct Publishing. 

I get the attached "failed manuscript upload" notice, so I'm not even getting to the point of being rejected by the launch previewer. Any suggestions for where I might be going wrong? Note that I do have a minor preflight error about my table of contents, but I don't think it would be relevant. I've uploaded manuscripts with these preflight errors before. File info included in screenshot. Any idea why I might be rejected? 

[Why is this apostrophe not spaced properly?]

Thanks!

[Publisher Table Of Contents Preflight Error]

I've got a table of contents I like. I get a preflight error for it saying, "one or more table of contents entries needs updating." When I click the "fix" button, it removes my formating, doesn't fix anything obvious, and the preflight error stays there like nothing happened. 

What's causing this and how do I fix it?

[Overlapping Lines In Publisher]

Thanks!

[Why is this apostrophe not spaced properly?]

The apostrophe in "China's second-greatest source," doesn't appear to be spaced properly. How can I fix this?

WeirdChina.afpub

[Overlapping Lines In Publisher]

26 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:

Take a look at the Text Frame panel:

Here your stroke width is 1.5pt. 

Another tip (I don't know if it's fixed), type in the value e.g. 0.5pt rather than use the sliders. 

I've located the text frame panel and adjusted it to 0.5 pt. But it still doesn't look even. 

[Overlapping Lines In Publisher]

Similar to my last question, but with tables. 

Even after adjusting the "stroke order," the top area of this chart seems to have thicker lines than the cells below. How can I equalize them?

CH10Test.afpub

[Why does this picture frame appear thicker, despite having the same stroke size?]

Thank you!

 

[Why does this picture frame appear thicker, despite having the same stroke size?]

How do I get the picture frame on the top right to appear as thick as the four surrounding picture frames?

Fig13Test.afpub

[How do I post a truncated Publisher file on this forum without having the formatting messed up?]

16 minutes ago, carl123 said:

You could try creating a new file then use Document > Add pages from file to add just the pages you want to upload

But can't tell if that will work without knowing why what you tried previously does not work

 

Doing so seems to mess up the formatting. Text is moved around, etc. 

[How do I post a truncated Publisher file on this forum without having the formatting messed up?]

I want to post a publisher file I have a question about on this forum. My thinking was that I could do file - save as, and save the file somewhere else, and then delete all the pages but the two I have questions about, and upload this. But when i do this, my remaining pages are all messed up, formating wise, and my question doesn't work. 

So what's the best way to post a small part of my large book project here for feedback without having it get all messed up or having to post the entire thing?

[What's the best way to create a circular "frame," in Affinity Publisher in which I'll have some lines which people can write text on and a greyish background tinge?]

7 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

Something  like this?

1. add a circle in light grey fill
2. add a rectangle, no fill, black stroke in 1pt width
3. use power duplicate to create as many lines as needed
4. nest all rectangle to the circle

 

lines in a circle.afdesign 24.68 kB · 0 downloads

You're using Designer for this, correct?

[What's the best way to create a circular "frame," in Affinity Publisher in which I'll have some lines which people can write text on and a greyish background tinge?]

I'd like to have a page of my book contain a circle. Inside this circle will be some lines on which the reader can write something in response to a prompt. I'd like this circle to have a slight greyish tinge to stand out from the white paper. 

What's the best approach to doing this?

[Why does this transparency have holes in it?]

12 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

On iPad, i get the same artifacts when using PNG-8 (dithered)’ preset

I found via google that PNG8 only supports binary (0 or 1) transparency. This explains the artefacts: alpha below 1 gets rounded to 0.

That was it. Thanks!

[Why does this transparency have holes in it?]

36 minutes ago, Alfred said:

I don’t see why it should matter, but did you have a particular reason for choosing the ‘PNG-8 (dithered)’ preset?

That was the problem! Thanks!

[Why does this transparency have holes in it?]

Here are my export settings, if it matters. 

[Why does this transparency have holes in it?]

44 minutes ago, MEB said:

Thanks for the info. Disable Metal compute acceleration, restart the app and check/export again. Does it fix the issue?

Nope. Just as full of holes as before. 

[Why does this transparency have holes in it?]

6 minutes ago, MEB said:

Hi AntiqueFlaneur,
I'm having trouble reproducing this. What OS are you running? Windows 10? If you go to Affinity Photo Preferences, Performance section and disable OpenCL compute acceleration (on bottom) does it export correctly?

I use MacOs Big Sur. There doesn't appear to be an OpenCL Compute Acceleration option under performance preferences. 

[Why does this transparency have holes in it?]

I've attached an .afphoto file and a transparency I exported from it. The transparency seems to have transparent holes in the section I meant to leave untouched. When I look at my .afphoto file, I can't see anything that looks like a selection/hole. Can anyone tell me why this is happening?

UploadLaocoon&SonsSeaSnake.afphoto

[Extremely long export of Affinity Photo files?]

Since the recent update, I've found that Affinity Photo projects save just fine. But when I try to export .pngs from them to create transparencies, the files take a very long time to export. They now take 15-30 seconds. Previously they exported in 1-3 seconds. I've attached .afphoto file that does this on my computer. Is this a bug? Thoughts? 

MLKStatueAffinity.afphoto

[Assets are greyed out?]

I have a number of  overlays imported into the studio assets panel, but they all appear to be greyed out. How do I actually make use of them?

[How can I get a texture layer to affect a text layer only while leaving the rest of of the project alone?]

25 minutes ago, haakoo said:

menu - layer - invert

Thanks!