adorablebookworm Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Good morning, I am wanting to create a decorative document for a short story I wrote. Pleasing sepia tones, swirls, all that fun stuff (kind of what you guys have in the tutorial with Alice in Wonderland for Publisher). Since it's such a short story though, I don't know if Publisher or Photo is a better program to use for this project. I was hoping to use it as kind of a self-tutorial to learn the basics of Publisher, but since the story is fewer than 5,000 words and I want it to be one long image document (no pages), I'm not sure that's the case. Do you think Photo or Publisher is a better tool for this project? I'm not familiar enough with Publisher to know. Thanks, Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 6 minutes ago, adorablebookworm said: I was hoping to use it as kind of a self-tutorial to learn the basics of Publisher, Haven't you already answered your own question? Start it in Publisher - you can always use Studio Link to switch to APhoto to do the things Publisher cant Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adorablebookworm Posted January 14, 2020 Author Share Posted January 14, 2020 I suppose so. I guess it seems like I'd be overcomplicating it by putting it through Publisher instead of just pasting the text into Photo, but you're right--I did already pretty much answer myself. Thanks for your reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Publisher is designed to handle text, Photo can handle text but I wouldn't do more than a few words in Photo. That sentence above I would do in Photo, perhaps even this whole post. But a short story, no. Publisher allows me/you to change fonts and leading and justification and line length with ease. Plus we can put in a Photo document for the illustration. adorablebookworm 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 5 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: But a short story, no. Publisher allows me/you to change fonts and leading and justification and line length with ease. Technically, so does Photo All those are available from the Context Toolbar for the Frame Text Tool, and/or via the Paragraph or Character studio panels in Photo, just as they are in Publisher. What Photo lacks is automatic-hyphenation, and Find/Replace if you have enough text to need it. Plus, of course, multiple pages which might be needed unless the short story is short enough to fit on one page. adorablebookworm 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adorablebookworm Posted January 14, 2020 Author Share Posted January 14, 2020 Thank you so much for the information. I appreciate it! I think I will use Publisher for this project. I've been excited to look through it, but haven't had a chance yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 1 hour ago, walt.farrell said: What Photo lacks is automatic-hyphenation, and Find/Replace if you have enough text to need it. What about the picture frame tools, pin to text, text wrap, etc., (most of which I barely know how to use)? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 2 hours ago, R C-R said: What about the picture frame tools, pin to text, text wrap, etc., (most of which I barely know how to use)? Good point. Yes, those are missing from Photo, too. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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