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having spent literally decades doing mailmerges in MS Word and a couple of older packages, I find data merge cumbersome at best. That said, when trying to figure out how to do it, I rely on the instructions from Publisher. However, they are wrong. The instructions at https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Advanced/dataMerge.html?title=Data merge indicates to use the Document window to open a data source. After much looking around, I discovered the menu item in the Window menu. Managing fields and such is an odd implementation.
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Clayton King started following Data Merge in Designer (or better workflow)
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I'm looking for the best way to accomplish individual name badges. When designing the stock, just like business cards, I set up a Designer file with a single badge. Then use N-up to print them out. Now, if I have name badges that need to be personalized with name, title, etc., does anyone have a suggestion for the best way to accomplish this? I can mailmerge in MS Word in about 15 minutes, but I'd prefer to use Affinity.
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Hide frame edges / Preview
Clayton King replied to Jeremy Bohn's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
I know this thread's been going a while, but I've been searching how to turn off text frame outlines which I find distracting. Do I understand correctly that the only way to hide the frame is to hide all nonprinting items/guides? -
Of course, and that's what I did. However, part of the reason one uses a tool like this is to quickly and efficiently produce something - in this case a calendar. I was simply telling the creator of the tool that I liked what he did, and that he might consider adding this functionality.
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Wonderful tool. It would be nice if there were a 3x4 grid available. Since much of what is done is based on financial quarters, having three months across instead of four would be grand! This is still a great tool!
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Clayton King reacted to a post in a topic: Free SVG Calendar Templates for Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher
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3 page spread
Clayton King replied to Natters's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
I agree. I must’ve missed something, though. When you reference “combining art boards,” what do you mean? I think the book feature in Publisher is more for book chapters, which goes a long way toward avoiding unwieldy long documents. -
Clayton King reacted to a post in a topic: 3 page spread
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3 page spread
Clayton King replied to Natters's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
I have played with artboards for book covers. I got it to work well enough by using only artistic text and not frame/paragraph text. Exporting the piece to a pdf proved challenging and frankly fiddly but I got the project done. on a different project, I produce a 7-fold brochure each year. I work with the print house to get the page/panel dimensions based on the paper weight. This would be insane in designer with text flows from panel to panel. -
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3 page spread
Clayton King replied to Natters's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
Agree completely. -
Clayton King reacted to a post in a topic: 3 page spread
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3 page spread
Clayton King replied to Natters's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
Maybe, if we're lucky, they'll add it in an update, although that's apparently a major dot release... -
Clayton King reacted to a post in a topic: 3 page spread
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Clayton King reacted to a post in a topic: 3 page spread
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Dazmondo77 reacted to a post in a topic: Congratulations! And a fantastic offer at launch.
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3 page spread
Clayton King replied to Natters's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
I just purchased V2 and haven't fully explored the new capabilities which I'm sure are extensive. While I don't want to be a fly in the ointment, I was disappointed that 3+ page spreads are still not implemented. -
convert Page to Master Page
Clayton King replied to Haba_Lunga's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
One reason the ability to convert a page to a master would be helpful is guides. You can copy all the elements from a page, but the guides don't copy. Often, a lot of time is spent tweaking guides in real time, so the ability to convert them would help. -
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3 page spread
Clayton King replied to Natters's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
It took some doing, but I managed to create book covers in Designer using artboards. Exporting to PDF was a bit tedious, but it worked. -
Clayton King reacted to a post in a topic: Insertion point when placing files
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3 page spread
Clayton King replied to Natters's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
That's nothing more than rearranging pages and not what the OP is about (3-page-spreads).