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benged123

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  1. Thank you Old Bruce, I'm understanding more about broken links and return return returns now. Very helpful! Much appreciated.
  2. This is terrific Old Bruce. I can race ahead now. It all makes perfect sense. Thank you kindly. I posted elsewhere on the Forum that I can't find the Transform window (or whatever it's called). I want to highlight a group of photos and 'batch' set their size so they are all the same proportions (they are all actually the same proportions ... but when I brought them in they were sized at random to get them on the page). In Pages I can just type in the XY size over in the Inspector ... and get all objects or photos the same size instantly. I can't figure out how to do this in Affinity. It seems like it should be obvious. Perhaps you could do one of your magic .... 'just do this' ...?
  3. In Apple Pages I click an image and in the inspector it tells me the exact size of the image, and I can SET or adjust that size by inserting numbers (so I can get a very exact size). And. So I can highlight a dozen photos and set the size on all of them at once. In Publisher I can't seem to find the box or pop-up box that will allow me to control the size of an object, photo, using typed in numbers. I read that 'Transform' is supposed to do this, but for the life of me even though I have 'Transform' clicked in the Windows menu ... I can't find the box anywhere on the screen. It looks like it should be over on the right with Character, Paragraph, etc. But it isn't. Any tips?
  4. Hi Old Bruce, I opened your document. I see we go from 'Text Wrap' to 'Broken Link'. I Google Affinity Publisher 'Broken Link' and get all kinds of unrelated stuff. Excuse my slowness. Are you saying 'create a broken link to the next bunch of text'? And then how do we go back to 'text wrap' after the pics? Or am I not getting this? Right now where I have a picture on a single page I want to keep otherwise blank I've done the 'Return return return' to move the text to the next page. I AM applying your other direction (adding spacing) where the pics are stacked in between wrapped text -- working perfectly.
  5. Lived happily on the Sunshine Coast (BC) for 25 years. All my gear still in storage there. Plan to go back. Love the place.
  6. Duh. Thank you kindly Old Bruce. This is perfect. And you sample file I will look at shortly ... as I have a place in the book where there are five or six pages of just photographs. Really appreciated. Ha ha ... when I think of how much time I spend looking for this precise thing in the tutorials (and not finding it). Will report back .... when I check your sample. Most intrigued. All the best ...
  7. I know this is a basic protocol, but after going through half a dozen Affinity tutorials that cover everything BUT how the wrapping works ... perhaps I could ask for a bit of advice here? Text and images. Image #1 is what I want to get. In this instance I placed the pictures and grouped them with their captions and pinned them to the page. BUT to get the text flow to jump to the next page and not get all caught up in between the two images I hit the Return a score of times. Image #2 is what I get when I click the Wrapping 'Jump'. The picture balances better when I set it a bit down from the top of the page (and I don't want two lines of text above it, looks awkward). What would be the best way to deal with this? And if I just hit Return a score of times to get the text to start on the next page, am I setting myself up for issues later? All ears, Ben
  8. Anto, I'm looking at your videos again and again. I think I'm getting it. I will keep experimenting, and come back if I have more questions. Thank you SO much for your help today; it has been invaluable: meaning terrific!
  9. Not sure I understand Anto. How do I 'pin' if I don't click something in the 'Pinning' properties? And if I don't 'Pin' then whenever I change the Body text the Photo and Caption get screwed up in their positioning. Also. Grrrr. When I pin the grouped Photo and Caption 'Inline' they suddenly jump somewhere else in the page. Illogically. If I click 'Float' they seem to stay in the same place, and when I add or subtract body text they move appropriately with the text.
  10. I think I'm getting this, a bit. So I clicked off the InLine for the Text, then grouped Text and Photo, then 'Pinned' the 'Group' (from the layers) as 'Inline' rather than 'Floating'. It seems to be working ... moving appropriately as I add text or subtract text to the main body. Did I get it right Anto?
  11. Aha! That's good Anto. Will do. But right now I can't get either the photo & text or the 'layers' to group. Layer > Group is greyed out.
  12. That's why I sent the last screenshot. If I highlight the two layers AP won't let me Layer > Group them as they are greyed out. And if I use the move tool and highlight the photo and the caption text ... the move tool won't let me capture/highlight both simultaneously. Perhaps this has something to do with the 'Pinning'?
  13. Still trying to figure out the distinctions between pinning and grouping layers. So this is my text, picture, caption, layers, and pinning all in one shot. Maybe with managing the layers I don't need pinning? Though I do want to keep the photo where it is in the overall text of the book.
  14. Old Bruce, sounds good. I'm trying to figure out how to 'group' items in Affinity (in Pages it was a simple right click, zing, done). Maybe imbedding one layer in another as Anton seems to suggest is the same thing?
  15. Super cool Anto! Will try out. I'm wondering if I can do the same thing, but have the caption BELOW the picture?
  16. Book of short stories with a few photographs. I pinned in the photos. And I want to be able to 'pin' captions to the photos (and not have to worry about any text moving issues. I made another 'Layer', then created a text box for that layer, made my caption in the text box, then pinned that text box to the photo. Is this the simplest and easiest way to do this? Or is there something else I SHOULD be doing? I tried to just make a text box in a text box ... but I don't think that can be done, thus the need for making another layer for the captions text box. See screenshot of what I'm trying to do. And while I'm at it ... the page numbers seem to have some kind of tag overtop; why would that be there? Can I remove the unsightly tag? All I'm seeing in the thumbnail of the screenshot is the actual photo, the screenshot is of half the page WITH text etc.
  17. Yes, Friesen Press! That's the place. A California friend used them years ago ... but he had a warehouse of books printed. I can call him though, and ask what he thought of the books. Now. Back to trying to learn competency with AP.
  18. This is a great help Twolane. I was getting discouraged, went back to Pages ... but Pages was no relief ... Affinity looks like the way to go; I just have to bite the bullet. Which I will do. After lunch, and two espressos. I will use Amazon or Spark ... ha ha ha ... actually, as an experiment (for future books that I may want to distribute) ... I'll try the same book on all three: Amazon, Spark, Lulu. And see who produces the more attractive product. Thank you, I was needing a bit of inspiration to keep going ... B
  19. This book is just a fun thing for the family and friends (Mom's stories). I want it to look like what one gets at the library, a hard cover, but it doesn't have to be actual Knopf quality. But I have a number of other books in the pipeline, which are for distribution ... and for that I would love to find a place that can do really high-quality work.
  20. Hey Wonderings, Good advice. Will take it. Thank you. I notice you are mentioning a plant in Windsor. I'm in Montreal at the moment. And would love to do this job in Canada if possible. Might you be able to recommend some outfit in Canada? Even a POD, but that's based in Canada. I seem to vaguely remember there being a big place out in Winnipeg.
  21. Thank you Twolane, Good suggestion. I think I'm going to do exactly that ... see if I can find a local printer I can actually have a non-virtual exchange with. I enjoy the layout part. I'm actually a filmmaker, but I discovered I could do really nice graphics with Pages, oddly enough, and mixing tasks with Final Cut could generate some lovely animations. Quickly. No hours upon hours of learning curve time. Then I used Pages for making a number of E-books related to the films, so incredibly easy and fun with Pages. So far AP is a bit of a teeth grinder. This is a book that needs nicely balanced justification, and AP looks like it may have some conventions that will make it easy to zip sections around, change the order of the stories etc., and the book doesn't have any fancy graphics. I'm going to give AP a few more days. And I use Affinity Photo regularly and want to get more at ease with the whole Affinity setup. But you've got me thinking - about your guy with a word document story. I'm going to give myself an hour here and see if I can replicate what I'm trying to do in AP ... in Pages, where I feel quite at home. It's taking me forever to do something I would normally do in a day. Coz of the learning curve, and the buggy things like formatting issues when moving text from Pages to AP.
  22. Twolane, I only chose Lulu coz a friend sent me a book he'd published with Lulu, and it had been decently 'produced'. Not spectacular, but decent. I'm going to check the two sites you mention, this morning. I'd love to be able to produce something that would look like something published by Knopf; I don't really care about the cost, just the end result. I found a printer down in Maryland who had done a beautiful job on a particular Knopf book. When I called them I found myself talking to the fellow who'd actually typeset the book. But this was a while ago. And when I had something to publish I found the management had changed and the quality tanked (the fellow I'd spoken to was long gone). I did solve one issue I mention above - moving text from Pages to AP. If I export the file from Pages as 'Plain Text' it comes into AP, not perfect, the paragraph formatting a bit wonky, but I can control line-spacing and resetting the formatting with AP and it works. Thank you most kindly for your suggestions Twolane, I'm going to check them out after a bit of breakfast and another espresso. Ben
  23. Very cool Otto, thank you mucho. I'm going to compare the .idml file from Lulu with this PDF. So much to learn. I think I got the .idml template working... Only ... another question, which should be a new post, but maybe you've come across this before?: I can't change the spacing between the lines of text. I'm pulling the text from Apple Pages documents, no fancy formatting. I'm assuming that Paragraph > Spacing > Leading should give me control over the spacing between the lines of text. It isn't having any effect at all on the text from Pages. I took the Pages text into TextEdit and removed the formatting: didn't help, still can't control line spacing with 'Leading'. I just started a new project, wrote in some text, and the 'Leading' function IS working. So the issue is the text coming from Pages: some kind of imbedded formatting thing not obvious. I'll try bringing the text into Word, then into AP. But if TextEdit doesn't work ...? I'm wondering if there is some function in AP that could identify WHY the incoming Pages text is causing the line-spacing issue?
  24. Otto! I'm noticing that with the .idmi template there is a red line around the document pages display ... which isn't around the setup I did myself. Could it be that the red line is the spill? And then where is the setting for the spill? So it looks like I'm seeing the document as it would appear in the published book, but also seeing the red line indicating where the spill would be. But no indication of how this red line shows up. Or how to create it if I'm starting from scratch. If it DOES represent the spill then I can use this template and fill everything in without fretting about ending up with a serious problem....
  25. Thank you Otto, thank you Mike, I'm going to follow up on both suggestions. Ooooops! Otto, I tried the .idml file. It did open a new AP file ... and it looks lovely. it would be perfect. Only, conundrum, when I open the File > Document Setup in AP it says 6 X 9 inches. And Lulu's PDF version says TOTAL DOCUMENT SIZE needs to be 6.25 x 9.25 inches. Perhaps you could un-confuse me? Mike, will print out your post to go with the manual. Thank you.
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