Glenbo

I'm just trying to produce a book cover the way I always have in QuarkXpress or InDesign, and I'm having trouble adding fold marks and getting them to export on the PDF as there's no option to include the slug area, which I often use to include printer instructions and plate names if adding spot colours on extra pages! Is there any chance this feature can be added, my normal preference is 20mm top, left and bottom and 100mm on the right!Example PDF attached exported from InDesign. 
PBB 198x129mm 15mm spine.pdf

Walt, I've been typesetting for years now, and so far the only Application that cuts the mustard is InDesign, Quark has always felt clumsy to me, although I do like their Synchronised Text option!
I tried Text > Insert Text From File... and just got an error on an RTF file maybe it didn't like it from Word? Or some language option?
The adding text frames like you describe sounds an awful Faff for a 224 pp book! A Text frame on the Master page is far more elegant that's why InDesign and Xpress have had so much success with it, trying to work on an illustrated book that is still being written working like this would drive me crackers!
I have watched the tutorial videos, and they didn't cover points like find and replace fonts?
I extensively use Style Sheets as it's the smartest way to typeset these days and gives you an Epub ready book, if you use Anchored images in InDesign, I can't even see an ePub option in Publisher yet?
On the whole, there's much to like - I like the interface and I like how a lot of it is logical but I suggest the developers look at how a designer lays out a book and stop them at certain points to understand why they are doing certain things... I'd happily share my screen with one of them and explain what I am doing as I do it if it helps them make this a great product, I don't like Subscription based software, renting Adobe Bugware isn't fun! Glen

I’ll have to look into this the file was from a client who has multiple versions of word I’ve had issues before with their files! Thanks for taking time to let me know!

That’s not good! It’s taken nearly 2 decades to get users not to do that because Quarks implementation of these styles were not postscript and failed on image setters and RIPS, so I’d advise Affinity to avoid bad form, better to choose s proper font and font style from the family!

Pretty obvious when you deal with word files all day I don’t want to typeset a book in Calibri or times new roman! But I do want to keep what is italic italic etc that’s why!

Walt, I've been typesetting for years now, and so far the only Application that cuts the mustard is InDesign, Quark has always felt clumsy to me, although I do like their Synchronised Text option!
I tried Text > Insert Text From File... and just got an error on an RTF file maybe it didn't like it from Word? Or some language option?
The adding text frames like you describe sounds an awful Faff for a 224 pp book! A Text frame on the Master page is far more elegant that's why InDesign and Xpress have had so much success with it, trying to work on an illustrated book that is still being written working like this would drive me crackers!
I have watched the tutorial videos, and they didn't cover points like find and replace fonts?
I extensively use Style Sheets as it's the smartest way to typeset these days and gives you an Epub ready book, if you use Anchored images in InDesign, I can't even see an ePub option in Publisher yet?
On the whole, there's much to like - I like the interface and I like how a lot of it is logical but I suggest the developers look at how a designer lays out a book and stop them at certain points to understand why they are doing certain things... I'd happily share my screen with one of them and explain what I am doing as I do it if it helps them make this a great product, I don't like Subscription based software, renting Adobe Bugware isn't fun! Glen

Hi Mandu, thanks for that very helpful
 
im determined to try making a book with this as I learnt with InDesign, sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and do a real job, I’ve pretty much done the job in InDesign, so this is just proof of concept for me personally! I want to have a back up DTP app to use and Publisher looks very good, so maybe my post should have said vaguely disappointed