Tony Ennis

Thanks everyone. All is well.

Indeed. I thought I had done that tbh. Evidently not. I'm still having an issue, but it could be my signature software. It consumes the PDF exported by Affinity.

It burns the flesh.

oooof. Spreads.

posted. One of the images is what I see in Affinity, the other is the resulting PDF. Now the Affinity image is ok, I like editing that way. But the PDF export is not ok. I need one book page per pdf page.

My pages, as printed, should be 5.5" wide and 8.5" tall. However, I have done something, and when I export my document as a pdf, I get two 5.5x8.5 pages per "letter sized piece of paper + portrait." Sorry, I don't know the right words. Now this looks very nice, but it is wrong. I need my PDFs to be 5.5"x8.5", and not "letter size + portrait". I have tried everything I can think of. I seem to be using the right paper size in all places. Any ideas?

I have a recipe name style associated with many text frames. I decided that I wanted to increase the recipe name's font size. I edited the style and made the change. The recipe name I was working on changed size, but the others did not. How do I make the changes happen to all uses of the style. Here's one thing I noticed: Whatever this box is, if I clear it out, the change affects the current recipe name.

Periodically copy your publisher files to dropbox, or something similar, too.

Thanks @Old Bruce. My next book is original so I will follow your suggestion.

@Old Bruce The text is in an html file (eek) that I am copy/pasting-unformatted into Publisher. I could make a text copy by pasting into a notepad document or some other text-only editor. Had I known the ability to blast an entire file into publisher existed, I would have used it. One challenge is that I am trying to match the format of the original book. Unfortunately, some pages have 1 recipe, some have 2 or 3, some have no ingredients. Some have ingredients in 1 column, some have ingredients in 2 columns, some have instructions, some don't. Then there are full-page images but these have been easily handled with a different master page. All these recipe styles are added to the text after it has been placed in the rather pedestrian master text frame.

I suppose I need some guidance on best practice. I have a master page that includes a header, footer, and a styled text frame for the page text. So all the text I put down is in a frame, as I understand it. But then I added a frame for my recipe name, one for the ingredients, and one for the instructions. Now I need to get my vertical spacing between these right, and it can only be done by moving the frames as far as I can tell. But this doesn't seem like sound formatting, and I can't control the vertical spacing except by dragging individual frames around.

Is there a way to delete a text frame but to let the content just go plop! onto the page? I have over-text-framed my document.

It has 16Gb.

"These aren't the page numbers you're looking for" *waves hand*

I did this, and was rewarded with a single 300 page signature 😄