J.L.Trout Posted March 21, 2021 Posted March 21, 2021 (edited) Hey all! Does Affinity Publisher have an equivalent to a "book" file where I can string multiple documents together for rendering into full fledged PDF for print? I'm working on a graphic novel and I'm not keen on the idea of creating one massive super document when I can have a way to organize and see the entire project without having every chapter open. Here's an example (and link) from someone else's work online of an indesign book for reference: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vdcek7LPAH8/maxresdefault.jpg Edited March 21, 2021 by J.L.Trout Quote
John Rostron Posted March 21, 2021 Posted March 21, 2021 Hello @J.L.Trout, and welcome to the forums. I think that this is something one might look for in Publisher rather than Designer. It could be that Publisher's Data Merge might do what you want, looking at your posted images. John Quote Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo). CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
J.L.Trout Posted March 21, 2021 Author Posted March 21, 2021 2 minutes ago, John Rostron said: Hello @J.L.Trout, and welcome to the forums. I think that this is somethink one might look for in Publisher rather than Designer. It could be that Publisher's Data Merge might do what you want, looking at your posted images. John Oh, right, that's what I meant (derp!) Quote
J.L.Trout Posted March 21, 2021 Author Posted March 21, 2021 19 minutes ago, John Rostron said: Hello @J.L.Trout, and welcome to the forums. I think that this is somethink one might look for in Publisher rather than Designer. It could be that Publisher's Data Merge might do what you want, looking at your posted images. John Any comprehensive tutorials on how Data Merge works and should I expect much larger files? Larger files is what I'm trying to avoid. Quote
John Rostron Posted March 21, 2021 Posted March 21, 2021 This is the link to the official Affinity tutorial on Data Merge. John Quote Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo). CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
SillyWalk Posted March 22, 2021 Posted March 22, 2021 16 hours ago, J.L.Trout said: Hey all! Does Affinity Publisher have an equivalent to a "book" file where I can string multiple documents together for rendering into full fledged PDF for print? I'm working on a graphic novel and I'm not keen on the idea of creating one massive super document when I can have a way to organize and see the entire project without having every chapter open. Here's an example (and link) from someone else's work online of an indesign book for reference: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vdcek7LPAH8/maxresdefault.jpg The feature of the „Book“ in Affinity Publisher was mentioned by Andy in the article here: https://affinityspotlight.com/article/creating-the-affinity-publisher-workbook/ fde101, RNKLN, garrettm30 and 1 other 4 Quote iMac: 3,6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9 / Graphic: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB / System: Sonoma 14.1 (23B74)
vwatson Posted October 15, 2021 Posted October 15, 2021 I have Publisher 1.10.1, was this never implemented? I don't see a Books panel in my software. Quote
walt.farrell Posted October 15, 2021 Posted October 15, 2021 9 hours ago, vwatson said: I have Publisher 1.10.1, was this never implemented? I don't see a Books panel in my software. Not yet. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
walt.farrell Posted October 15, 2021 Posted October 15, 2021 1 hour ago, katrinrr said: how long do we have to wait? Until they decide it's ready to release. It will first appear in a beta, probably not in 1.10, but possibly in some later version 1 release (1.11, 1.12, ...). Serif usually does not reveal plans for upcoming features. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
garrettm30 Posted October 15, 2021 Posted October 15, 2021 12 hours ago, vwatson said: I have Publisher 1.10.1, was this never implemented? The original statement "sometime after 1.9 release," though it does suggest 1.10, does not necessarily require it. However, it may be helpful to know that 1.10 actually began as 1.9.4, but the particular improvements brought out in that minor beta eventually were judged by Serif to be more substantial than originally planned, so they changed the version number accordingly. That much is public knowledge. So we infer from that that 1.10 was not the intended next big release, and we assume that the features originally intended for what would have been 1.10 are therefore pushed back to a subsequent major release. Quote
vwatson Posted October 15, 2021 Posted October 15, 2021 I hope it's soon. I love the program and have a 200 page activity book I created with it, but the one-file approach is far too unwieldy for me to do that again. I much prefer the book-file approach with each chapter/section as a separate file. For now, Publisher is mainly sitting on the shelf, except for small projects. 🙁 Quote
Old Bruce Posted October 15, 2021 Posted October 15, 2021 We can currently add pages from file... Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
vwatson Posted October 15, 2021 Posted October 15, 2021 So, you create a master document, then Add each chapter or section as a file? If you do that, will it continuously number the pages from all the files as it would with a book file? Quote
wonderings Posted October 15, 2021 Posted October 15, 2021 Why not go the PDF route? Have a new file for each layout. Export to PDF and put together with a PDF viewer like Acrobat or put together in Publisher. You could even get it all setup and then change and simply update the PDF file once laid out in Publisher. Personally I like having everything in one document, though I can see issues with Publisher, unless they have corrected it. I did some tests a while back with simple text and Publisher became very laggy after 400 pages or so (if memory serves me). Quote
vwatson Posted October 15, 2021 Posted October 15, 2021 That seems like too much work to me? Plus I don't have a good pdf editor. I love the ease of using a book file and doing everything from within a single program. PaoloT 1 Quote
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