Margaret H

April 6, 2024 I am running into the same problem, pictures look fine in the Affinity file, but when I export to PDF, become distorted by random colored bars and blocks of color. What is interesting is that this did not happen when the file was fresher. I have reworked editing it many times in infinity, and this just started happening several days ago. My PDF settings are the same as those of the previous person asking about this question. What can I do to get this manuscript and photos finally published! I am getting very frustrated. Thank you in advance for any help, Margaret

To Affinity managers: I just found this conversation online. Thank you. I just wasted 2 days of my life trying to set up facing Master pages in a book that do not have the same margins in the gutter as they do on the outside of the page. I have been a graphic designer for over 30 years now and I can't believe that this small function, which is so necessary in many situations when book designing, is unavailable in Affinity Publisher 2.4. For what is touted a professional graphic design program this is inexcusable.. Margaret Henkel

You are a kind man, Harry!

Hi there! Boy, do I feel stupid… I just realized that I was in the master pages view and not in the full book view. This will teach me! I’m so glad I figured it out myself and I’m so glad I didn’t lose my book! I’ll keep on learning affinity publisher 2.1!

Using Affinity publisher 2.1, both my saved files, the original and copy, disappeared! I have been working on a book in Affinity publisher 2, and now 2.1. After many weeks of work, I turned on my computer today only to find that both copies of the book have disappeared. I save my work, constantly, including history. This has cost me weeks of work… What do I do now?

SRQ Maggie here… on a similar topic of being unable to delete files: I am new to Affinity Publisher 2. I made Microsoft publisher user for the past 20 years. Being new to this, I created several book files for the book I’m designing. I finally got the right one going. Now I would like to delete the extra book files. For the world of me, I can’t figure out how to do it, and there are no instructions. There must be a way to delete extra book files… Or not? thank you in advance for your help. SRQ Maggie.

I tried to do this yesterday, but I don’t know how… Copy and paste doesn’t work. Forwarding or sharing doesn’t work either. As you can see, I’m not used to dealing with forums. I will be more than happy to do this if you tell me how. I do appreciate all your help. Margaret

Hello everyone. Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. I wonder where my problem originates because this is the way I set the paragraph up, including the eight point space below the paragraph. However, it still won’t take. Perhaps it’s the way I enter the text. When I work, I frequently create text as I’m designing the page and indicate paragraph breaks by hitting return. When I do this, the 8 point space becomes a 12 point space in the layout. Perhaps my mistake is not importing completed copy from an external source?

My challenge is not to add more space after a 12/12 paragraph, but to reduce the line spacing between one paragraph and the next to eight point. When I hit return to end one paragraph, and begin the next, I get a 12 point line. If I highlight this line, I can’t force it to become an eight point line. Instead, I end up with eight point type on a 12 point line. Perhaps the only way to use this software is to import copy after the layout is complete, into pre-formatted paragraphs, which is just not the way I work. I design one-of-a-kind photo books, in which each page is different. It seems this program may just not flexible enough for my needs. I want to be able to highlight a line, or anything else for that matter, and change its size. It seems this software is geared more for production than for one-of-a-kind pieces. I had no trouble adjusting anything as I went along with Microsoft publisher. I very much appreciate the time you all took to respond to my question.

I write copy simultaneously as I am creating the layout. If I type in the text and use the return key, Affinity assumes that I intended to insert a full line of type. It does not read it as a paragraph break. How do I avoid this and communicate a paragraph break instead? By the way, thank you for your prompt replies. Much appreciated!

How does Affinity Publisher 2 determine when a new paragraph begins? I design the page of my photo book as I am writing the text. I have been trying to control spacing between paragraphs for three days now with no success. I do not know how to communicate to the software that a new paragraph has begun without hitting the return key, which, of course, does not give me the spacing I would like. I am working with 12/12 type and would like to have an eight point space between paragraphs. Thank you in advance for your help.