Ania

Is Publisher intended for laying out long structured documents? Reports, novels, textbooks and the like. If so, it would seem there must be some easy way to manipulate hundreds of frames at a time. I favour the master page approach. Master page text frames populate frames on content pages. Change the master, change all dependent frames on content pages. But that feature isn't in the beta, is it?

Is Publisher intended for laying out long structured documents? Reports, novels, textbooks and the like. If so, it would seem there must be some easy way to manipulate hundreds of frames at a time. I favour the master page approach. Master page text frames populate frames on content pages. Change the master, change all dependent frames on content pages. But that feature isn't in the beta, is it?

Your point is well taken that text frames on a master page are not live on the actual page. What's the point of a master page then?

Is Publisher intended for laying out long structured documents? Reports, novels, textbooks and the like. If so, it would seem there must be some easy way to manipulate hundreds of frames at a time. I favour the master page approach. Master page text frames populate frames on content pages. Change the master, change all dependent frames on content pages. But that feature isn't in the beta, is it?

Perhaps my expectations were too high in hoping for a Mac app with which to create long structured documents. Master page text frames that populate the content pages. 
Happy memories of FrameMaker.

Perhaps my expectations were too high in hoping for a Mac app with which to create long structured documents. Master page text frames that populate the content pages. 
Happy memories of FrameMaker.

Perhaps my expectations were too high in hoping for a Mac app with which to create long structured documents. Master page text frames that populate the content pages. 
Happy memories of FrameMaker.

AP is a tool suited to laying out text and images in unstructured format for print.
Understanding that, the beta makes more sense and feels more complete (at least to me). 
Content or layout? Layout. Think Affinity Designer with pages. As for content creation, +1 for Scrivener.  Structured or unstructured? Unstructured. Master page text frames do not populate content pages (as in FrameMaker). It will be good for a magazine, or brochure. Not for long structured text (e.g., textbook, manual). Print or screen? Print. No ePub or HTML export or interactivity among elements. Lacks slug and bleed, but still more so for print.  I was hoping for something that could handle magazine and textbook, print and screen. It can't and that's expecting too much. 

Your point is well taken that text frames on a master page are not live on the actual page. What's the point of a master page then?

Your point is well taken that text frames on a master page are not live on the actual page. What's the point of a master page then?

Your point is well taken that text frames on a master page are not live on the actual page. What's the point of a master page then?

Your point is well taken that text frames on a master page are not live on the actual page. What's the point of a master page then?

Your point is well taken that text frames on a master page are not live on the actual page. What's the point of a master page then?

Your point is well taken that text frames on a master page are not live on the actual page. What's the point of a master page then?