Lewis GGVW

Hello Mike, Thank you for taking the time to assist with my enquiry, much appreciated. There are, however, two points I want to raise: I would instead use Affinity Publisher to write the book, rather than using MS Word and then importing the whole text. I think using MS Word as a temporary file, basically to type text which will be transferred (copy/paste) might be more useful? Whilst your solution may work well in works which may require one master page, my book needs several page templates, because it is going to be heavily populated with graphics, tables, photos and illustrations, because of the subject matter of the book (a specific range of European History being the main focus). Thus I would say that between 8 and 12 different page templates will be required to give the book body and make it more interesting and easier to read, as well as graphically far more appealing to the reader. The question is therefore whether I can have between 8 and 12 master pages and then if/how will text flow seamlessly in the same Chapter/Section, in a scheme where MPage 1 is always the start of a new chapter and MPage 12 is always the closing page of a chapter; for example: Chapter VIII: MPage 1 => MPage 7 => MPage 3 => MPage 3 => MPage 3 => MPage 5 => MPage 12 Chapter IX: MPage 1 => Mpage 5 => MPage 8 => MPage 7 => MPage 10 => MPage 12 I am not too worried about "whole-book" approaches because my working approach is chapter-based, meaning each Chapter is a separate Affinity Publisher file, each file name convention identifies the Book - Chapter No. - Chapter Title or part of it. Each Chapter is then converted to Press-Ready PDF and all PDF chapters are then assembled by the Publishing House adding the front cover and back cover. Again, many thanks for your support and expertise. Kind regards All of this means that my main point of concern is how to flow text across text areas in different master pages in a random sequence.

Hi, I'm a bit confused. I looked in the forum but I do not seem to find the detailed answer I was after. I apologise if it exists and I clumsily missed it. How does text overflow from text area to text area in one page? How does text overflow from text area in one page to the next page? The project is a 300-page book, approx. Now... the issue is if I use Microsoft Word, text flows automatically. But I would rather use Affinity Publisher because if I produce the book, in its entirety, I will save a few thousands in post-production from a MS Word "manuscript". I thank you all in advance for any advice, as I am fairly new to Affinity. Kind regards

Yes, I have been pestered with Affinity PHOTO ever since the upgrade to version 1.9.1. Version 1.9.0. worked just fine, it was quick to load and process whatever I needed to do, even on truly very large images. Then came version 1.9.1. and I only used it twice, on both occasions extremely slow, never loaded a file properly, crashed all the time. I gave up. Now version 1.9.2., same thing, it just doesn't work properly, it just crashes or the best it manages is to chew the fat for 20 minutes trying to open a miserably average size PNG file... It's something to do with Affinity PHOTO, definitely. I use a plethora of editing software including video on my machine, without even a hint of an issue. I runs fast on everything else. Affinity PHOTO?!... Nope! It's a bit like a very slow funeral on a busy road! 😂