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He mentioned a stroke width tool, but I guess that affinity has one now. When he was doing the Olympic rings that overlap, he had a special tool that allowed him to remove those strokes easily. He used quite often the “expand” tool, which made everything editable (maybe that’s Affinity’s concert to curves). A lot of tools allowed him to have a very efficient workflow. I’m hoping that I can have a similar workflow experience in Affinity.

I came across this video on YouTube that shows an InDesign user making these incredible logos with tools that I do not think exist in Affinity. I love Affinity and want to avoid Adobe’s subscription method at ALL costs. However, I’m worried I’ll be at a disadvantage by using Affinity because without those tools, I would have to spend much more time on creating these logos. Do you think Affinity will ever gain these types of capabilities as shown in the video or does anyone know some work around to get the same results efficiently. Thanks.

I think this may relate to a problem I've been having. I have Master Pages set up, but if I need to add more pages, the master elements don't transfer properly.

I am learning some new techniques to advance my Keynote presentation skills. One YouTuber suggested making a "clipping mask." Essentially, what you have is a rectangular shape with transparent shapes cut out. He said he does this in Photoshop, so that's why I went to Affinity Photo. I have a rectangle with the same gradient pattern that my Apple Keynote slides use all ready to go, but I am not sure where to go from here. A screenshot is attached with the hypothetical shapes I would want to cut out and the link to the video is described below. Thanks! Stephen Gates: Creating Advanced Animations in Apple Keynote - MASTERCLASS (18:36)

I took away the line breaks and it fixed the issue! Could you explain why that was messing up the formatting?

Hey, everyone! For some reason, I stopped receiving notifications of your advice and forgot about this thread until I opened my document again. I look at some of the options you all have suggested! Handbook.afpub

@bbrother Is this better?

I tried to left justify my text to look cleaner, but there were some weird results. I have 3 words spaced very far apart on one line. Any suggestions for fixing this?

Occasionally, I encounter a problem where I have massive spacing issues within my frame text. For the life of me, I cannot get it fixed. I tried turning off the baseline grid, checked insets, paragraph spacing, etc. Help would be great!

I am also having trouble exporting this file to a digital PDF. I remember seeing once that if I post broken URL links, it won't work, but I checked all of them, and all of them worked. So, I am not sure why this isn't exporting correctly. Is there an easy to check for link issues? 3_March.afpub

@wonderings I usually print them myself through the school printer, but it shouldn't be hard to have something printed on a two-sided piece of paper that I fold in half. But it's not just that, the whole formatting is messed up. I convert the document to pdf and then I select booklet to put the pages in the order. The front and back cover shrink to the size of the half-page just fine, but the pages two and three get mushed together on page 2. It shouldn't be this way.

I cannot figure out how to make a bi-fold template with Affinity Publisher. A bi-fold program is where you take a typical 8.5X11" sheet of page (A4) and fold it in half horizontally. I've tried putting the paper in landscape mode and separating out the sections using guides, which is fine to do for a 4 page concert program, but it defeats the purpose when I want a more involved program of several pages. I've tried printing with and without having facing pages turned on. I've also tried using an A5 size document, but I can't figure it out. I know that it's a pre-set template for Microsoft Publisher, which I don't want to use. I like Affinity Publisher, but as a band director, I really need help with this. Thank you.

I am trying to figure out how to create a concert program for my bands. These programs are typically made with an 8.5x11 sheet of paper that's divided in half, so that when it prints, you get 4 pages worth of program information. Sometimes, these can be multiple pages (think musical playbill). So, I've spent a lot of time trying to research how to create these and I am not coming up with anything. I want to be able to number the pages consecutively and not have to add guidelines on every single page each time I want to make a program. Our choir director is easily able to this on Microsoft Publisher since there are presets for this layout. I can't even figure out how to create a template/layout in Affinity Publisher. I really think this app will be awesome to use once I get used to it, but this is not the most comforting way to get started. I really hope this made sense. I've attached a photo of a sample concert program in case that helps.