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  1. There is a big assumption that everyone is having this same issue. As Walt asked, specs are always helpful. You never know, someone may be able to find a solution for your issue. A simple thing to try first is do a complete uninstall, and then install from scratch again.
  2. I was not suggesting using different software. From my experience files that have been setup properly and sent to clients as proofs always seem to have display issues when using something other then Acrobat. So if you had said you were using something else I would have recommended trying in Acrobat to see how it previews there. Is this repeatable if you were to do the same thing to a different image in a different file?
  3. are you using Adobe Acrobat for viewing your PDF? Anytime I have a client not seeing things correctly that I see natively in my software it is always them using something other then Acrobat to view the PDF.
  4. If you are needing to impose books regularly I recommend Imposition Studio. Not associated with the company, only a user of their software for a number of years in the commercial print shop world. https://www.devalipi.com It is a stand alone PDF imposer. So you make your PDF and then use Imposition Studio for imposing exactly how you need it. Reasonably priced for pretty powerful imposition software. It has been my go to for many years. Booklets like this are a snap to setup from scratch, or to save templates and just drop in a PDF.
  5. Like others, it is not something I would even look for, with Adobe or Affinity. I could be wrong, but templates are usually geared toward the simpler programs made for simpler applications. Affinity is a powerful suite of apps on level with the standard pro apps like Adobe. When I think of templates I think of sites like Canva. Easy to select a template and alter with little to no design experience.
  6. I wonder if there is something with the age of the scanners and driver support. What make and model is your scanner that works?
  7. I will have to pull out my old scanner and give it a shot. When the Epson scanning software was no longer supported they gave people a free registration code for Silver Fast 8, which is what I use on the rare occasions I do need to scan, has more features and options in it.
  8. It looks like it is just the Image Capture app in MacOS that is doing the scanning. If you open Image Capture independently of Affinity and scan, how do your images come out?
  9. font just needs to be installed/activated on your computer. Other option is replacing it with a different font.
  10. They are high end, and a really cool business. They are basically the whole town, can't remember what the numbers were but it was something like 1 in 3 people work at Friesens in this small town in Manitoba. They actually have suites to stay in if you go there for proofs or things to do with an order.
  11. You are probably thinking of Friesen Press, they are in a small town south of Winnipeg. They are massive and would be the place to go with very large volumes. I sent you a private message regarding printing.
  12. In print everyone is basically using the same printers. I bet money that whoever Amazon or Ingram are using for their printers are using HP Indigo's. Vista Print uses them, think they have like 60 of them in one plant in Windsor Ontario. The image quality of pretty much all the digital presses these days is really impressive. A local shop can have a midrange digital press and you are going to get nice prints out of it. I always vote for local if it makes sense. Again you are supporting your local economy, you also have people you can talk to, visit, see their facility and work with. The big guys are faceless and in my opinion, coming from print, offer less for less. I don't know how many times I have had people come to me to fix what they had done with the online places. You can do it that way as Twolane does, and I know I could with my experience in print, but the majority do not have that experience so they don't even know what to ask about or for when looking at self publishing, or simply printing anything in general. Use the experience of your local pros and support your local businesses while you still have them.
  13. I think the software aspects are very different from video editing to page layout. Even photoshop/photos work is a different ballgame to this. Lots of nitty gritty things. They are not hard, but they take some learning, especially if you want to be really efficient with it. I used to do everything manual so any change to fonts, sizes, spaces, etc, these were all a nightmare. Using the tools in Indesign, if used correctly makes formatting so much easier and consistent. But like anything, it is something you really need to sit down with. You also need to understand the print process to a certain extent when designing. I have dealt with so many designers who know how to make nice graphics, but have zero clue about print and how it will be used. So in turn their pretty graphics are useless as they don't translate to making a good final product. A good print shop will work with you, though if you are only looking for 1 book expect the price to be pretty high. Price per piece goes down with volume. The thing the big online shops have is volume and they gang jobs together, and have presses that are pretty much going 24/7, so they can get better prices. These of course lack on the customer service side of things. So it is a trade off, but I am always for supporting a local business and utilizing their expertise rather than the faceless online shops.
  14. If cost is no issue I would certainly recommend dealing with a local print shop. There is nothing all that complicated about printing a book with perfect binding. Dealing with a professional you can actually talk to is worth a lot in my opinion and you can get better help from a local shop rather then a large company that is web only. The hardest part is the layout, the more you do it the faster you will be at it. We have a guy who can take a word document and formate and layout a book like this with amazing speed, and still making a great looking book. The actual setup is easy, you make your page the size you want your book to be, insert the number of pages you need with content. Setting up the content is obviously where all the work comes in with a constant design and layout theme. I am no expert with the Affinity software, I have all 3 apps as I was curious about what Affinity was doing, I work in Adobe using Indesign so this sort of thing is pretty common for me. Character Styles and Paragraph styles are really helpful tools, I am assuming Affinity as an equivalent option. This makes global changes to formatting a breeze.
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