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@roguewavecreativeWelcome to the Forums! I have watched a portion of the video to the point that I think I have the idea. The process is different in Designer (Photo and Publisher) but you can certainly do what your video shows — at least as far as I went into it. First, use the Artistic Text Tool to write your text. With that Layer highlighted, go to LAYER>Convert to Curves. You will then see in your Layers Panel that your word layer has a little down arrow to the left. Click on that and your word layer will open to an individual layer for each letter in your word. You will be working on each letter layer separately. Instead of the pencil tool, use the Node Tool, click on a letter, and you can then manipulate your letter any way you want (i.e. the first A and the L in the example). If you want to cut out a part (such as the wiggly lines in your video — the B, N, and E), use the Knife Tool to draw your line. There will be a second layer above the letter layer showing the part you have cut out. Click on that with the Move Tool and you can delete it. In order to round the sharp corners of your letters, click on the layers containing letters with sharp corners, then make a marquee selection with the Node Tool. Then use the Corner Tool, go up to the Context Toolbar and select the shape of the corner you want and you will find a little circle at the sharp corner. Drag one little circle in or out to the amount you want and they will all follow. (In Designer Help, under Corner Tool, you will find complete instructions for its use.) Always remember that you have the History Panel, so that if you chop or wiggle something that you don't like after all, you can easily go back to a previous state. This is a very rudimentary explanation of how to do this in Designer and I am sure that there are others on this Forum who will have far better ideas, but you should be able to accomplish everything I saw on the video (unless there is other stuff I missed by stopping part way through) by a different method than Illustrator. Here is a very strange example of what I did, while experimenting. I purposely made some wild changes to show that they can be done. (Definitely not recommended as a new font!)

I especially looked for it. I am so glad that the cats made The Canva Acquisition!

@GarryP Definitely need “The Repair Shop”, except that nobody is going to be able to clean up all those stains from “Veau Prince Orloff”, p. 355, or the awful mess on pp. 677-678, “Reine de Saba.” Son is a superb lawyer, but death on cookbooks. @carl123 Thank you🎉. Now for the spine and the back cover . . . .

@GarryP I could use your cover! Or perhaps, @carl123's. I have the 1966 printing, and it is definitely tired. Even the taped-together parts need taping.

Are you on Windows? I have just downloaded v.2.5.5 and APub is working very smoothly here.

Welcome to the forums! I have happily made the transition with several very long books. Some checking is needed. Perhaps the one thing that requires checking more than any other is to be sure that tracking values are the same. Those set in InDesign do not always come out the same in Publisher. Easily fixed, but it will require some rather careful review. Also, InDesign has picture frames with linked images, which carry over with the IDML files. You will need to use WINDOW>Resource Manager to either relink or embed those images. Easily done.

@2112st “Mighty oaks from little acorns grow!”

@TrentL Soooooo much easier, faster, and nicer, than ye olde select>duplicate>paste>oops>try again method!

The title is “In the Beginning”. Perhaps that is the residue from The Big Bang.🫣

@Alfred “Thurstday” is not dependent upon the rest of the week. 🥴

@GarryP Can't come close to beating any of them. Therefore not insulting you by trying. I like version 3 the best! It seems uncluttered, although using exactly the same words as the other two versions. And the eclipse itself looks far more impressive! Got my reservation set for hot and cold food on May 19, 2029!

@foxleybob welcome aboard! Both Affinity and your pre-booked holiday. 😊 Don’t hesitate to ask questions as you learn. Everybody who uses Affinity started at some point and there are many Old Hands on these Forums who will be happy to help you, should you need it!

@eejits Delicious! I had no idea my man MAC was so brainy!

Here is an example. Each image shows the effect of each adjustment. The original is bottom, right. I should have noted that I often use the Live High Pass Filter to sharpen some of the features, which may have become a little less refined during the process. (I didn't bother to straighten the image — Crop Tool plus Perspective Tool for this example. Copied from a bound volume, it was necessary for my actual project. )

@MxHeppa Do you perhaps mean Text Wrapping? You write “draw own for example as bitmap.” If so, you can certainly accomplish the same effect as a drop cap. Just put your text into a frame, then File>Place your saved bitmap onto the text frame. Then Wrapping to the Image (not the text) and set your wrapping distance. Edit: Here is an example. Save your bitmap image as a PNG file with a transparent background if you want the wrapped text to be irregular like my sample. Save your bitmap image as a JPG if you want an even wrap like your example. Note to @Alfred: If Rliquam is a Latin word, I'll eat my hat.