mvadventures
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Thanks to each of you for taking the time to offer help and suggestions. I've attached a sample of the newsletterDFC magazine sample.pdf
if you want to see what I'm producing. It's very vanilla and basic. The masthead is the only thing that doesn't move or change from quarter to quarter, and the rest is just a series of articles in a single column format (most readers view it online, with only a small number of printed copies produced). Occasionally I make a splash page for a special event. I hope to eventually get good enough with Affinity to make the newsletter more sophisticated, but for right now, I'm just struggling to get the workflow right as a new Affinity user.
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I'm pretty new to Affinity, but I like it. I've been creating a quarterly 20 page newsletter for some years, using Word which finally got too clunky for me. I've watched tons of tutorials and videos for Affinity Publisher, but my question is more basic for doing the layout - is it better to lay out each article including photo placement, or is it better to import the text for all the articles, and then place photos? None of the tutorial info I've found addresses this kind of "strategy" question. And then there's the challenge where I need to hit 20 pages, and then have to go back and mess around with photo sizes to try and get it all to fit perfectly. Should I pin photos, and which kind of pin? Or?? I'm struggling, and a bit overwhelmed.
Many thanks for any help or suggestions!

New to Publisher - strategy for creating a newsletter
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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How very kind!! Thanks very much. What a terrific community!