Affinity Publisher Workbook

[Richard Kirton]

A few days ago I received the Affinity Publisher Workbook through the post and wish to relay my first impressions.

The book is masterly produced by The Affinity Team and I have to say is extremely well put together with plenty of projects and downloadable resources.

It was produced using Affinity Publisher and there is more than sufficient material to enable people to become masters of the excellent program.

There are many professional contributors who have added their experience to the book and I wish to thank them.

I have already picked up several tips and techniques and look forward to working my way through the plentiful projects.

Thank you for producing such a fine program and workbook.

I am confident that once I have worked my way through the book and tutorial videos by Ash Hewson, Andy Capstick and others, that I will be able to call myself a competent editor.

Thank you.

Kind Regards

Richard Kirton 

 

[walt.farrell]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, @Richard Kirton.

[weegiegrum]

Let me also add my praise for the extremely high quality of work in the workbook. I've just successfully completed the first tutorial - the RootBox leaflet - and it's certainly greatly enhanced my understanding of the program. I found that the troubleshooting took longer than the actual tutorial, for instance in trying to figure out why I couldn't get the bullets in the list to change colour without affecting the rest of it (I'd used paragraph instead of character style). I also had a weird unasked-for underline appearing in the Intro text (at least I don't remember asking for it! 😄. I'), but I figured it out eventually. It was a great sense of achievement when I finally completed the leaflet.

Now on to tutorial number 2 - wish me luck!

[weegiegrum]

47 minutes ago, weegiegrum said:

Now on to tutorial number 2 - wish me luck!

Hah! Fallen at the first hurdle - I am unable to extract some of the downloaded pictures because 'Error 0x80010135: Path too long'. It's affecting images 02, 03, 05, 06, 10, 12 in the MoonLotusDreams/images folder.

I bet this is one of those Windows things that doesn't happen on a Mac, isn't it? <sigh>

Off to troubleshoot... 🙄

 

**edit** - managed to work around it by using 7-Zip to extract instead of the standard Windows method. It might be a good idea to shorten those filenames anyway, to avoid further grief from other users, chaps!

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, weegiegrum said:

I am unable to extract some of the downloaded pictures because 'Error 0x80010135: Path too long'. It's affecting images 02, 03, 05, 06, 10, 12 in the MoonLotusDreams/images folder.

I get the same problem if I tell Windows File Explorer to "Extract All". Of course, if there was truly an issue with the path length, 7-zip wouldn't be able to perform the extraction, either.

So I'm not sure exactly what's going on.

[Jowday]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1880321/why-does-the-260-character-path-length-limit-exist-in-windows

[weegiegrum]

5 hours ago, Jowday said:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1880321/why-does-the-260-character-path-length-limit-exist-in-windows

...in which one of the suggested solutions is to use 7-zip:

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As to how to cope with the path size limitation on Windows - using 7zip to pack (and unpack) your path-length sensitive files seems like a viable workaround. .... Not really sure how it evades the 260 char limit set by Windows (from a technical PoV), but hey, it works!

 

[Jowday]

49 minutes ago, weegiegrum said:

...in which one of the suggested solutions is to use 7-zip:

Yep for example. Just shared the info about why Windows now supports paths up to 32.000 letters but just... can't and shouldn't do it in a real world corporate setup. Just disappointing that Explorer and the like returns errors.

I use Total Commander that supports long paths too but warns that "Some programs may not support them". I have accepted long paths many times with no problems whatsoever with the software I use.

[weegiegrum]

4 minutes ago, Jowday said:

Just disappointing that Explorer and the like returns errors.

Indeed. However, it was relatively easy to find and implement a solution to the problem. I was initially going to try the registry hack but that would have involved a reboot.

[Lmpessoa]

Let me add my 2p of disappointment then. Unfortunately not everyone can buy the book since they do not send it to anywhere in the world and thus I'm one of those unfortunate.

It would be very much nice if we could have a digital version of those books so people from other parts of the world could enjoy it too.