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Hello! For our magazine, we switched to Affinity Publisher after years of using InDesign. In InDesign we used to layout each article/ad page/editorial etc. separately and in the end create a book, out of which we would then create the PDF versions we needed. The book option is not available with Affinity Publisher, so we switched to merging documents. I have created a 'master document' with the cover page and the four master pages we need for our publication. This is where I want to insert my individually layouted documents into. There are different paraghaph styles in the different layouted documents, but the problem also occurs when I want to insert documents with exactly the same layout, i.e. same paragraph styles (but different images/text ofc). So: if I want to insert these documents into my 'master document', I have to decide whether to replace the paragraph styles or rename them and keep both (image 1). - If I replace, the fonts and frames in the previously inserted documents are distorted (image 2) - If I rename and keep both paragraph styles, the fonts in the document I import are distorted (image 3) There seems to be no way around distorted fonts. Of course I could go through the whole document and redo it all manually, but our magazine is 90+ pages and we would usually get this task done in less than an hour. I assume this is a bug. Is there anything you could do? Will a book feature like the one InDesign has will become available eventually? Thanks! Anke (operating system: Windows 10)

i am a new user for Affinity Publisher and am enjoying it! I haven’t been able to figure this issue out and hope it is ok to ask here. I initially set up a master and only have one page (facing pages) spread that I update regularly. I don’t want to keep the master any longer. Is there a way to merge the master and the page so that I don’t have to detach the master each time I want to change something on the page? Thank you!