Note Cards

[Mabel Lucy]

I just started the Affinity Publisher trial.

I have used Microsoft Publisher for 20+ years on a PC and was hoping to replace it with Affinity Publisher on my iMac.

I want to do a top fold 5.5 x 8.5 note card as I am able to do with MP.  I cannot find a size for this standard note card in Affinity Publisher. Is this feature lacking in Affinity Publisher?

I also form text around the shape of an image. Will this feature be available?

Thank you.

[h_d]

Hi @Mabel Lucy and welcome!

The default print presets in Affinity Publisher are geared towards multi-page publications with a vertical fold/binding edge, but there's no reason why you can't create your own custom presets and templates. In the New Document dialog you could set the the height to twice the depth of the card and the width to the full width, in the units you want. (Presumably inches?). You'd also need to set margins, bleed, colour format etc as required :

 

This gives me a document like this, into which I've drawn a horizontal guide for the fold line:

 

I'm not familiar with Microsoft Publisher but I suspect that Affinity Publisher doesn't 'hold you hand' quite as much, so you may need to do some experimentation.

For "forming text round an image", have a look in the Help for "Text on a Path", if this very rough example is the sort of thing you're after:

Hope this helps,

H

[walt.farrell]

Or, rather than doing it completely manually, as @h_d, you could do something similar but using more of the Publisher functions: