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There are still reasons to use sections in Books but it is less common. One common use is with endnotes - Publisher will create an automatic section named #Booknotes at the end of each chapter. These sections are non-printing which makes it a convenient way to edit endnotes that will actually be at the end of the Book.
 

Can you export each individual file by itself? I once had a problem where there was one file/chapter in a book that had some issue. I think I ended up creating a new file for that chapter and copy/pasting the content back in and re-adding it to the book file and got it to work.

Affinity has been far beyond fair in its pricing. I appreciate that tremendously. The only thing I was disappointed about was the new installer that used some mysterious, difficult to find installation folder, but apparently they're already addressing that.
Thanks for great software!

Affinity has been far beyond fair in its pricing. I appreciate that tremendously. The only thing I was disappointed about was the new installer that used some mysterious, difficult to find installation folder, but apparently they're already addressing that.
Thanks for great software!

Affinity has been far beyond fair in its pricing. I appreciate that tremendously. The only thing I was disappointed about was the new installer that used some mysterious, difficult to find installation folder, but apparently they're already addressing that.
Thanks for great software!

Affinity has been far beyond fair in its pricing. I appreciate that tremendously. The only thing I was disappointed about was the new installer that used some mysterious, difficult to find installation folder, but apparently they're already addressing that.
Thanks for great software!

Affinity has been far beyond fair in its pricing. I appreciate that tremendously. The only thing I was disappointed about was the new installer that used some mysterious, difficult to find installation folder, but apparently they're already addressing that.
Thanks for great software!

Affinity has been far beyond fair in its pricing. I appreciate that tremendously. The only thing I was disappointed about was the new installer that used some mysterious, difficult to find installation folder, but apparently they're already addressing that.
Thanks for great software!

Affinity has been far beyond fair in its pricing. I appreciate that tremendously. The only thing I was disappointed about was the new installer that used some mysterious, difficult to find installation folder, but apparently they're already addressing that.
Thanks for great software!

Hi all. Thanks for your patience over the weekend when our offices were closed.
We've had a meeting this morning and decided to ALSO offer MSI installers to, those people who would like them. I can't tell you when this will happen, as there is engineering work that will be required to allow this to happen, but we hope it won't be long.
Thanks for your feedback!

Hi all. Thanks for your patience over the weekend when our offices were closed.
We've had a meeting this morning and decided to ALSO offer MSI installers to those people who would like them. I can't tell you when this will happen, as there is engineering work that will be required to allow this to happen, but we hope it won't be long.
Thanks for your feedback!

Yes, I had a pdf created from Affinity Publisher, so I tried a variety of pdf to doc converters to get the best word file I could come up with to import into calibre. None of which worked very well.
I ended up converting the pdf to html (TalkHelper PDF Converter) and have been working from that, manually editing the html. 
Ideally, I suppose, you would use the text file or doc you imported into Publisher, but I made changes after laying it out in AP, so I couldn't use that original text file.
My process is working, just slow. A click of a button to an epub would be nice. 🤩

Whew! Finished. I ended up using Calibre after all to edit and combine the html files rather than Sigil. I like Sigil's interface a bit better, but it crashed on me continually when I was spell checking the epub. (the pdf to html conversion left some hyphenated words and others combined without a space between.)
I'm pretty comfortable with Calibre now and will stick to that.
Perhaps as part of the upcoming new reveal from Affinity will be an epub export! 🤩

Yes, I had a pdf created from Affinity Publisher, so I tried a variety of pdf to doc converters to get the best word file I could come up with to import into calibre. None of which worked very well.
I ended up converting the pdf to html (TalkHelper PDF Converter) and have been working from that, manually editing the html. 
Ideally, I suppose, you would use the text file or doc you imported into Publisher, but I made changes after laying it out in AP, so I couldn't use that original text file.
My process is working, just slow. A click of a button to an epub would be nice. 🤩

I tried using Calibre. The code it produced was bloated and seemed strange to me. It works I guess, but as a web designer who is a purist about html code, I couldn't tolerate the code produced by Calibre. For example, it added a class to every single paragraph. There's no need for that. Style paragraphs as a whole in the css stylesheet, then only add classes where the style will differ from the base appearance.
I'm hand coding each chapter of a recent book, (70 🙄) then I will fine tune and put it all together in Sigil.
A good epub export in Publisher would be great.
 

I tried using Calibre. The code it produced was bloated and seemed strange to me. It works I guess, but as a web designer who is a purist about html code, I couldn't tolerate the code produced by Calibre. For example, it added a class to every single paragraph. There's no need for that. Style paragraphs as a whole in the css stylesheet, then only add classes where the style will differ from the base appearance.
I'm hand coding each chapter of a recent book, (70 🙄) then I will fine tune and put it all together in Sigil.
A good epub export in Publisher would be great.
 

I tried using Calibre. The code it produced was bloated and seemed strange to me. It works I guess, but as a web designer who is a purist about html code, I couldn't tolerate the code produced by Calibre. For example, it added a class to every single paragraph. There's no need for that. Style paragraphs as a whole in the css stylesheet, then only add classes where the style will differ from the base appearance.
I'm hand coding each chapter of a recent book, (70 🙄) then I will fine tune and put it all together in Sigil.
A good epub export in Publisher would be great.
 

Yes. I like the suggestion to just stick at the last used crop settings. That's what my old photoshop version does. I'm using affinity photo more and more, but when I have to crop a bunch of photos to the same size, I pull up my old photoshop cs5! It's annoying to have to reset that over and over.

Affiliate programs are just another form of marketing. What might otherwise be spent on ads would go as a commission to the affiliate instead. It can be a win-win if the affiliates bring in new people who might not hear of the software from other channels. It's not a big deal to me. I just thought if there was one, I'd take advantage of it.

I'd love to see an affiliate option as well. I'd love to promote the products - and make a little while I'm at it.
Although, here we call it an affiliate "program" rather than "scheme." Scheme seems to have a negative, shady connotation.

Come on guys.
 
I am also Head of Development so I can relate to the fact, that picking the right tasks is difficult - but this one is so very obvious.
Please for the sake of all loyal customers - fix this.

That seems like too much work to me? Plus I don't have a good pdf editor.
I love the ease of using a book file and doing everything from within a single program.

@chile9 I contacted Serif directly, and they said they have no plans to start an affiliate program, because they "want to control their marketing". I went to Adobe and signed up for an affiliate link in under 2 minutes. It doesn't seem to be hurting their marketing at all. Few people have even heard of Affinity compared to Adobe. To each their own, I guess.

That would seem to be the way most "normal" people view the process. (not to set off another war on the topic) 😄

I came here hoping to get info about a Serif affiliate program, too. I'm surprised to see people compare affiliate marketing to selling used cars. I don't find anything sleazy about it at all. Unless we're talking apples and oranges? In my case, I'm starting a YouTube channel where I talk about my 28 year career as a pixel slinger. I plan to cover all  sorts of subjects, including software. When I talk about software or other products that I love, I'll put a link to them in the show notes. If someone clicks the link from my notes and buys the product, I get a small commission. That's the way it works with Amazon, anyway. I only intend to link to products I've actually used, and liked, and I'm not trying to be a spokesman for one brand or another. I don't see anything sleazy about that. I'm just being honest with my viewers.