I use Corel Ventura Publisher 10 daily, and from time to time, I also use Adobe FrameMaker 2019. Most of my documents are short, but some are long. I like these programs because I am able to import the style sheet (for Ventura) and format (for FrameMaker).
I bought this program (before the company became Affinity), and found it unusable because it won't import any text and convert open quotes and close quotes properly. They stayed as straight quotes. Can it do that now? There were extra steps that had to be done. I think someone suggested importing it to Open Office, and exporting it. But why call itself a DTP when it can't do something like that?
One thing about Ventura that FrameMaker can't do is hanging punctuation. (I realize that Adobe InDesign can do that.)
My question is when a new document is started, both Ventura and FrameMaker gives me a blank page and I can start composing my document (by typing, or importing) right away. I tried Adobe InDesign and could not handle having the draw the frame (for the text to go in), and it just irked me that when the text spills to the second page, I have to add more frame - or as I remember, create a master page (I think that was it was called.)
This was why I could not learn to use Scribus either.
So is there a default setting with AP that starts a blank page with the master page already ready-to-go?
Thanks!