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There is no universal answer Using Publisher I think your easiest approach would be to construct a page sized to suit the highest target resolution especially for photo's, export to pdf and tell your readers to use a reflowable reader such as Adobe PDF Reader and its Liquid Mode. It's very good although it mullahs the layout a bit and images tend to get resized so experimentation will be required. On small devices like 'phones people will have their own requirements for eg font size, it's impossible to get the same appearance on every device Otherwise write it in html making sure it's responsive or use LibreWriter and export as epub
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I checked the specs of this new version of Publisher. There are many nice features in there. What seems to be missing is the export of a tagged and accessible PDF (PDF/UA). Also I don't see how I could publish a digital book (EPUB3) with this app. I really hoped for some competition for Adobe InDesign which is capable of such output. Even Word produces such accessible PDFs and EPUB (with WordToEpub plugin). With the output of Publisher still focused on print only I don't have many reasons to use it. All digital documents for governmental institutions and, within a few years in the EU, for many commercial companies as well, need to be accessible. Besides, I don't want to exclude anyone from using my documents. I don't mind if I need to do some extra work with a tool like Adobe Acrobat for PDF or Sigil, Calibre, Ace by Daisy for EPUB3, but now I need Word, InDesign or some other app to create the document or book when I really would have liked to use Affinity Publisher.
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This announcement was a shock. While Version 2 was oversold, and the recent slow pace of bug fixes and limited feature updates is concerning, I understand there was a lot of V2 under-the-hood work. Regardless, we were more than happy to pay for the Version 2 ‘all options’ package, even though we don’t (at the moment) run Windows machines and the iPad apps remain something to be explored. The value from V1 was so great that buying version two was both a V1 'thank you’ and a V2 encouragement. The new ownership compels us to examine of our continued use of Affinity software. Background We are a small publishing operation creating image-rich print and multi-media ebooks, based in regional Victoria. We used PageMaker and then the Adobe Creative Suite from its inception until it went subscription. It was not cheap software – $AU600 to $AU800 a seat with half-price updates that, particularly toward the end, were of diminishing worth. We always had the option to skip an update, over the nine years we probably skipped half – skipping more often towards the end. The Australian pricing was at times up to twice that Adobe charged in the US after allowing for the $AUD/$USD exchange rate. It was very expensive software, but as we purchased outright we could partially control the cost. When the subscription ‘model’ was introduced it effectively doubled our already high costs (again charged at much higher prices than to US users), and the moment we stopped paying we would have lost access to our files. We limped on with CS6 for publishing and drawing while we pivoted photo processing to Apple’s Aperture – based on this being flagship software from a major corporation. This prove to be a major mistake. We also started producing multi-media ePub projects in Apple’s iBooks Author. Another mistake. Affinity journey As CS6 faltered, we waited impatiently for Affinity Publisher for our print-based work, taking part in the beta testing. The moment it launched we moved some projects across, even though key features were missing (compared to In-Design) and there were strange bugs. The killer aspect for us was/is the seamless integration of the three apps. This more than compensated for missing functions and ‘managing’ bugs. When Apple abandoned Aperture we moved to Photo. The first in our string of abandoned software experiences. For ePub we are still, just, managing to use iBooks Author but expect that ability to ‘break’ any day. We were hoping Publisher would have a robust ePub capability before that final break. Continue or abandon The sale is forcing us to review the place for Affinity in our workflows. We need software longevity. It is not uncommon for us to revisit projects across a decade. We have just spent weeks updating a project from 2014 where the hundreds of photos processed in Apple’s Aperture have to be redone. So my overriding concern is: what are the odds that the Affinity apps will still be viable in 2034? Our other requirement is perpetual licence software we can to continue to use. Unfortunately, ‘wait and see’ isn’t a option as we are due to begin several major projects. Do we continue to pour time, effort and capital into projects based on Affinity software or do we look for alternatives now? This is a summary of our thinking. Adobe takeover One of the concerns raised in this thread is the potential for Adobe to buy Canva – given the mood and direction of Australian competition regulators I think this is so unlikely that it does not figure in my calculations. VC cash grab leading to enshitification Two of the three Canva founders are on record as holding 18 per cent of the company each, I guess the third also holds 18 per cent – that would give the three a controlling holding. For short-term VCs an IPO allows them to cash out, so there is a path for control to remain with the founders – parties to the assurances we are receiving today – while VCs can grab their cash. Institutional shareholders Two of Canva’s institutional shareholders are Australian ‘industry’ superannuation funds that together manage $250 billion of investments. We have two types of super funds – the commercial ‘for profits’ run by financial institutions etc. who make profits for their owners (and generally lower returns for their member) and ‘non-profit’ – the much larger group – of ‘Industry’ funds run only to benefit their members, often union-controlled, and generally long-term ‘ethical’ investors. That Canva’s institutional shareholders are in the second group provides some comfort. Entrepreneurs with social conscious Australia has a small group of billionaire entrepreneurial software developers with strong public conscious. Reports suggesting the Canva founders fall into this group – the pack leader is Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brooks, a major driver of large renewable energy projects. Serif’s fate A few posts have pointed out that Canva acquired Pixabay and Pexels five years ago to support their offering. Both continue to operate as they had pre-acquisition – as stand-alone organisations with previous management – while providing that support to the main Canva product. It is not a leap to see Serif treated this way as the professional offerings would not make sense being folded into the current Canva 'anyone can design' offering. The driver for Canva is adding ‘professional’ capabilities. In buying Serif, Canva has paid a lot for that capability. Canva senior management are very astute – they have built a $26 billion business from scratch. Dismantling or compromising Affinity software is not an ‘astute’ path, while strengthening it is. And knowing that a very large part of the attraction to Affinity users is perpetual licences, why would you change this major selling point over Adobe? However, offering AI or cloud-based services requires a subscription to cover the ongoing costs – the template for that is Luminar Neo – you can by perpetual licences with optional AI-based ‘add ons’ with a subscription. Much of the angst in this thread is around assurances being given by people who are/will not be in a position to deliver/honour those assurances. On reflection, I think there is a reasonable chance those people will remain in positions where they can honour those assurances for several years beyond an IPO. Our decision Making the wrong choice – stay or go – will have a substantial financial and resource impact on our business/operation. It is not a decision to make lightly. For the moment that decision is to delay the major projects until 2.5 is released, see if there is an improvement in bug fixes and ePub features. If so, we will tentatively begin one of our major projects on Affinity software and remain watchful until Version 3. If not, the search for alternatives will begin. There are paths for this to be a net positive for Affinity, and we who use the software. I really hope this is the outcome.
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I just finished editing a book which is 420 pages long. I had started from a Word document but then made the same mistake as others have of editing the document in Publisher and so the source is no longer the same as the prepared and edited version in Publisher. I exported this out as a PDF which is fine for having the book printed but I also want an ePub version and another for Kindle. Unfortunately Publisher does not have any option to export in these formats. This has been asked a number of times as far back as 2018 but those features are still not in the product. I had hoped that importing the book into QuarkXpress would resolve this for me but there are so many anomalies that I may as well start from scratch. It made me think maybe I should have thought of this before I started the project in Publisher.
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Calibre (Desktop Software): Download and Install Calibre: Download and install Calibre from the official website. Import PDF into Calibre: Launch Calibre and click the “Add books” button to import your PDF file. Select PDF File: Select the imported PDF file from the Calibre library. Configure Settings: Click the “Convert books” button in the top toolbar. In the new window, choose “ePub” as the output format. Set any other options, such as layout, fonts, or information. Initiate Conversion: Click “OK” to start the conversion process. Access Converted ePub File: Once the conversion is complete, find the ePub file in the Calibre library or specify a location to save it. Calibre PDF to ePub: A Step-by-Step Walkthrough Download and Install Calibre: Download from the Official Website: Download and install Calibre, a free and open-source eBook management software, from the official website (https://calibre-ebook.com/). Launch Calibre: Launch Calibre and click the “Add books” button in the top left corner of the toolbar to import your PDF file. Import PDF: Once the PDF file(s) is imported, select the PDF file(s) you want to convert from the Calibre library by clicking on them. Convert Books: Click the “Convert books” button in the top toolbar or right-click on the selected PDF file(s) and choose “Convert books” from the context menu. Choose Output Format: In the new window that appears, select “ePub” as the output format from the drop-down menu in the upper right corner. Reflowable Settings: Under the “Look & Feel” section on the left side of the window, choose “Reflowable” as the output format to ensure the ePub file is reflowable. Customize Settings: You can change additional characteristics like typefaces, margins, metadata, and more by navigating the conversion window’s tabs. Make any desired adjustments to customize the output file. Initiate Conversion: Once you have finished configuring the settings, click the “OK” button at the bottom right corner to start the conversion process. Monitor Progress: Calibre will convert the PDF file(s) to ePub format based on your specified settings. A progress bar will show the conversion status. Access Converted ePub File: To access the converted ePub file, click on the format dropdown button in the book details section of Calibre and select “ePub.” You can then click on the ePub file to open it or right-click and choose “Open containing folder” to locate the file on your computer. By following these steps, you can convert PDF files to reflowable ePub format using Calibre. Remember to test the converted ePub file on different devices or eReaders to ensure proper formatting and adaptability to various screen sizes. Step-by-Step Guide: How to Convert PDF to ePub Online Conversion Services: Choose a Reliable Converter: Visit an online converter website such as Zamzar, OnlineConvertFree, or PDF2Go. Upload Your PDF: Click the “Choose File” or similar button to upload your PDF file to the converter. Select Output Format: Choose the output format as ePub. Initiate Conversion: Start the conversion process and wait for the website to process your file. Download ePub File: After completion of the conversion, download the ePub file to your device.
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EPUB export
Radediciones replied to hhauten's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
The option to export as epub directly from Publisher would be practical and necessary. In the meantime, I use the following technique, somewhat tedious but effective: 1. I export the document as PDF. 2. I convert the PDF to .docx in Word. In Word I correct layout errors resulting from the conversion, apply necessary styles and save the document. 3. I open the document in Atlantis Word Processor, an extraordinary word processor for epub export. Its conversion engine is flawless and does not give errors when checking the epub. For a professional publication, adjustments can be made from Atlantis itself or with Sigil or Calibre, but this is a separate chapter depending on what you want to do. -
As a new user, I'm still finding, or not finding things about Affinity that I expected. I confess I'm a bit disappointed that there's no option to export to epub. That said, perhaps it's a different target audience? My old version of InDesign CC had the option, but mostly I preferred to export an rtf document which was often easier to work on with a variety of apps, including Amazon's Kindle Create (is that what it's called now?) So, is there a way to export an rtf or doc/docx file from Affinity, or how do folks bridge the gap from print to epub, mobi etc? Many thanks!
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If you could at least export directly to docx from Publisher, that would be good, because converting PDF back to docx is not so easy, especially because of the separations, which is not necessary for EPUB. This was perfectly solved by PagePlus for epub export. I was wondering how to get around PDF, but unfortunately I couldn't find any other solution.
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Hi Andy, I think some of those commenting in this thread don't appreciate that this is a challenging time for all involved – including the Serif people. Kudos for keeping this forum open. Having made two quite disastrous production software choices in the last decade I really wanted to get a deeper understand of the situation. I'm gun shy, and don't want to make a third bad decision – stay and eventually lose access to production files or abandon software that is going to improve and expand – particularly into fixed format ePub. My post was a summary of thoughts to date. I wasn't sure it would contribute to the debate – it goes on a bit. In the end I felt some of the local knowledge might be helpful to others. Having though more overnight, and read recent responses including from NewInBoston, RC–R and SrPx – I'm feeling one degree more confident that this might all work out okay. Mike
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As Alfred stated, you can “create” ePub on any Apple device for free that can be used on any .epub compatible system not just IOS. EDIT: Just did a quick test, from a notes file on my iPad into Pages exported to ePub then uploaded to my Kindle (using Send to Kindle on Amazon site) took about 10 minutes to achieve.
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Publisher does not do .epub files, as you have found out. Amazon, Kobo, and Google Play books require an .epub file for their e-books. I use calibre to convert Word .docx files to .epub for uploading to those book sites. Your file will display properly on all phones and tablets if you use the appropriate reader to do so. If you try to jury-rig something, as you have already tried, it will not work properly on those devices.
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I like how the teams are doubling down together now. 😮💨 via https://affinity.serif.com/de/press/newsroom/affinity-and-canva-pledge/ ANNOUNCEMENT 27 March 2024 The Affinity and Canva Pledge By the Affinity and Canva Teams. As we step into our shared future, we are committing to four pledges that we’re excited to share with the current and future Affinity community. Earlier this week we shared the news that Affinity had been acquired by Canva. As the dust settles on the announcement, we wanted to share more about our future together and our commitment to the Affinity community. Since our inception, both of our companies have shared the same mission and vision. We were both founded with the belief that design shouldn’t be limited to those who can afford complex software. Our goal has been to make the highest quality design tools available to the largest number of people with fair, transparent and affordable pricing at our core. By joining forces, we’re looking forward to accelerating this shared vision. Above all, together, we’re committed to continuing and amplifying Affinity’s position as the highest-quality professional-grade design suite on the market, while continuing to empower millions of designers to unlock their creativity and achieve their goals. We are committed to fair, transparent and affordable pricing, including the perpetual licenses that have made Affinity special. We share a commitment to making design fairer and more accessible. For Canva, this has meant making our core product available for free to millions of people across the globe, and for Affinity, this has meant a fairly priced perpetual license model. We know this model has been a key part of the Affinity offering and we are committed to continue to offer perpetual licenses in the future. If we do offer a subscription, it will only ever be as an option alongside the perpetual model, for those who prefer it. This fits with enabling Canva users to start adopting Affinity. It could also allow us to offer Affinity users a way to scale their workflows using Canva as a platform to share and collaborate on their Affinity assets, if they choose to. We will double down on expanding Affinity’s products through continued investment in Affinity as a standalone product suite. We believe Affinity is the highest-quality professional-grade design suite on the market. It’s non-destructive, super fast, and easy to use. As such, we want to reassure you that it isn’t going anywhere. In fact, we’re committed to using our shared resources to continue expanding Affinity’s products through further investment in Affinity as a standalone product suite. We’re looking forward to accelerating the rollout of highly requested features such as variable font support, blend and width tools, auto object selection, multi-page spreads, ePub export and much more. These additions will further cement Affinity as the best advanced design suite on the market and will be released over the coming year as free updates to V2. We will provide Affinity free for schools & nonprofits (NFPs). Canva, which has pledged 30% of its value as a company towards doing good in the world through its two-step plan, offers premium plans at no cost to schools and NFPs all over the world. More than 60 million students and teachers, plus 600,000 charities and registered nonprofits, benefit from this each month. We’re excited to extend this programme to include free access for schools and nonprofits to Designer, Photo and Publisher. These professional-grade tools will add enormous value to this free offering, helping millions of students to master the craft of design, and empowering mission driven organisations to amplify their voices and maximize their impact. We’ll share more details on this in the coming months, including what it means for our education and NFP customers that already use Affinity. We are committed to listening and being led by the design community at every step in this journey. Affinity and Canva were both founded on the basis that their respective communities – of expert and non-expert designers – deserved better. The tools available were overly complex, overly priced, or both. We know designers deserve better. They deserve the highest quality tools to serve their needs and they deserve to be treated fairly. We also believe the design community also knows best what it needs. As such, we are committed to shaping our products based on your ideas, your feedback and your needs. To kick things off, we’d love to learn more about what you’d like to see as we embark on this next chapter of our journey. What would you like to see in Affinity? What features have you been dreaming of? What would you love to achieve? We’d love to hear from you. Thank you to everyone who has been an integral part of the journey so far. We’re excited for the future and can’t wait to see what we can build together. With gratitude and excitement, The Affinity and Canva Teams
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Thank you @Ash for this commitment, both from Affinity and Canva - although I do wish this was released yesterday along with the acquisition announcement as it could have stemmed 20 odd pages of discussion, speculation, and anger. I'd 'thank you' in the reactions, but sadly I have no more to give today (the forum won't let me). Very happy to read this, and really looking forward to ePub (hopefully both fixed and reflowable) export!
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Given that Affinity Publisher is now quite a mature package, and quite brilliant at that, it would be really nice to see the much-requested EPUB and HTML formats in the Export table. Given that both have been around since computers, or at least the web was invented. The epub tree is really quite simple. Which anyone can see, by renaming an epub document to a zip file and extracting it. There's the tree. Now the Text folder contains the story pages in HTML format, so obviously creating HTML pages is also a by-product. A third-party program on the mac and PC called 'epubcheck' is there and free to check your created EPUB files prior to sending for publishing. Personally, I find the whole EPUB-creating thing now so last century that I don't bother. I don't have a use for it. Even KDP is bypassing it. They and all the other publishers create their own versions from almost any file you want to send them—reflowable or Fixed Format. And of course, EPUB is only reflowable, and is now almost proprietary. The new Kindles read fixed format (EPUB3) fine. However, there are a LOT of people who choose to roll their own and publish EPUBS for personal distribution - bypassing the print houses. And that's fine. Anyway, It would be a nice addition. Instead of Sigil, Calibre, Jutoh and Adobe Digital Creations, we'd had a nice addition to Publisher. Just a suggestion that I hope bears fruit, Robert
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I abandoned Affinity products a couple of years ago when it became clear that Affinity had no interest in developing what I need for my every day work, making ebooks. The excuse was that you did not have enough resources. Well, now you do have the resources and Canva does export to the epub format so PLEASE seriously consider adding this feature to Publisher 2.5. Jim
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I'm also looking for an ePub option. I write manuals for products and usually use MS Word. I'm currently setting up a template in Publisher, but would prefer to have some interactive elements in the document. I have used iBooks before because of its interactive features, but iBooks Author was abandoned years ago. There are some interactive features in Apple Pages ePub offering, so I may use that instead of Publisher this time around. The machine has a 24 inch touchscreen, hence why I would like to make the manual interactive. The gallery feature and embedded video features of Apple Pages ePub documents are ideal for step-by-step instructions and overviews of the product. What's missing is the zoomable annotated image feature of iBooks, but I can make do without that.
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Are there any templates for paperback-sized book design in Publisher? I want to convert a document in Word (about 90,000 words) into a format that can be read in e-readers (PDF until Publisher gets an epub export...). I'd also like to get some templates for books using other standard sizes. Or... does anyone have suggestions for creating ebooks in the popular file formats using Publisher?
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Affinity Publisher is not the correct tool for this. You will want to use an app that creates .epub files, such as Sigil, which you upload to Amazon KDP. Alternatively, use the app provided by Amazon, Kindle Create. Although you can upload a PDF to Amazon, it is unlikely to give you as good a result as making and ePub or using Kindle Create.
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Hi, Not a feature request, but a short recap of what I still miss to make Publisher my page layout program. As a premise, I must say that I'm a technical writer, with the occasional narrative/philosophy book on which to work. So, my needs are very much specialistic, and not obviously general. - Export to DOCX. This is a file format that would allow exporting to word processors for further reuse, and to programs to be used to generate reflowable ePub books. It would open many opportunities for integrating Publisher into consolidated workflows. - Export to IDML. This would let InDesign users open Publisher files without too many issues. Reuse would be finally possible, and Publisher will be allowed in a consolidated workflow (as is, for example, LibreOffice or Google Docs into a workflow based on the DOCX file format). - Support for long and complex tables. As a technical writer, it is easy to understand how essential this feature would be. - Picture frame/object styles. Being able to quickly adapt the style of image frames to a different house style or output type is essential. For example, I could have shadowed images in the onscreen reading version, and have to remove them for digital printing. Styles would let one do it by just applying a template or editing some parameters in a style. - Accurate CJK language support. I just need the horizontal version, with correct spacing and line breaks. In my agenda, China and Japan are essential markets for both devices and books. - RTL language support. While a less immediate need than CJK support for me, this is important. I have to admit that these wouldn't really be a show-stopper for me, at the moment, since my partners usually prefer to work on a Word/LibreOffice file. But it would be handy, when making multilingual publications and wanting to avoid pasting text as images. - Conditional text. I make different versions of the same project, and conditional text would let me keep all the source materials in the same file. Check a few conditions, and you go from a larger edition to a limited one, or to one for a customized model. - Scripting. This is very much tied to the ability of exporting to different file formats, so it would be a bit premature. Batch-converting several files would be my main use of scripting in Publisher. So, maybe I just need a batch-convert feature. I would like more things (like export to a web site project, or finer navigation through a structure tree), but the above would really be enough to allow abandoning InDesign once forever. And getting able to take advantage of the integration with the other Affinity programs. Paolo
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