Hello!
For our magazine, we switched to Affinity Publisher after years of using InDesign. In InDesign we used to layout each article/ad page/editorial etc. separately and in the end create a book, out of which we would then create the PDF versions we needed. The book option is not available with Affinity Publisher, so we switched to merging documents.
I have created a 'master document' with the cover page and the four master pages we need for our publication. This is where I want to insert my individually layouted documents into. There are different paraghaph styles in the different layouted documents, but the problem also occurs when I want to insert documents with exactly the same layout, i.e. same paragraph styles (but different images/text ofc).
So: if I want to insert these documents into my 'master document', I have to decide whether to replace the paragraph styles or rename them and keep both (image 1).
- If I replace, the fonts and frames in the previously inserted documents are distorted (image 2)
- If I rename and keep both paragraph styles, the fonts in the document I import are distorted (image 3)
There seems to be no way around distorted fonts. Of course I could go through the whole document and redo it all manually, but our magazine is 90+ pages and we would usually get this task done in less than an hour. I assume this is a bug. Is there anything you could do? Will a book feature like the one InDesign has will become available eventually?
Thanks!
Anke (operating system: Windows 10)