Linking files from my links folder to the Publisher document

[boorowaboy]

I attach two screen grabs to assist in finding what I am doing incorrectly

I have a large illustrated book which was originally designed in Indesign. I now want to reproduce it in Publisher and send to Blurb to print.

I have opened the original pdf sent to Blurb and it has successfully been placed page for page in the Publisher document. There are  faults in the images but I can sort that later. As you may be able to see I want to convert the images from embedded to linked as I have a full page image which is repeated across 30 + pages. The book is 300mm x 300mm so at 150dpi minimum the full page images are large hence the necessity to link as it would in Indesign. However as you can see from linking image the files are unavailable. Why? and I have placed them all in the same folder location as the Publisher file. See Links image. If I go to Replace then the image show as being available. Page 137 of the Publisher book say if I hold down the shift key with a list of images selected they will all update. This doesn't happen.

The fault with the opened pdf images is that some full page background images have arrived as bits. sometime 3 or 4 parts. They are the correct image but its in separate parts. Why?

One other question. Has any user of Affinity used the US company Blurb to produce books? I have been using them for several years and produced several excellent results. If you know them they have a special plug in for Indesign and so far just a long set of instructions for Affinity.

That is enough. Any assistance gratefully accepted.

[Joachim_L]

Welcome to the Affinity forums @boorowaboy!

Using the Make Linked button means, that the embedded file is saved under the destination where you hit the Link button. Instead you have to replace the images ... BUT Indesign has a nice export feature to minimise file size (could be voluntarily activated) discarding these parts of the image which are not visible. This means, when you replace the image they differ in size and will be placed differently.

Best would be, if you have an IDML file of your original layout to open with APu.

Regarding your tiled images: This could happen during export from Indesign, especially when there are fx applied to the image, like a drop shadow.

[boorowaboy]

Thanks Joachim

I have several questions if you have the time to respond.

1    Firstly what is APu I haven’t seen that term? I am still not certain about where I store the original pics for placing and linking.

2   Rejoining  split text files. (see images below)

Another fault is that the text in some columns is divided into two or three parts. I can rejoin them but the process of eliminating all the faults may be longer than doing the job from the beginning again, something I thought publisher would eliminate.

3   Copying a master to another Publisher Doc

Is it possible to copy master pages from one document to a new one? In order to create the publisher copy of my original Blurb file I recreated the text boxes and margins one of the PDF files which showed the grid and copied that as a grouped object to  publisher then drew the columns and finally deleted my sample text boxes. All very long winded and slow.

 

cheers

Adrian

 

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, boorowaboy said:

1    Firstly what is APu ...

It is an abbreviation for Affinity Publisher -- note that it is automatically underlined & if you hover a mouse pointer over it, a popup will appear showing that name.

[boorowaboy]

Thanks R C-R

Looks like answers from around the world.

Just out of interest are you a book designer? I would like to be in contact with a book designer as I have spent the last several decades designing books with;

A type scale, rapidograph, marked up galley proofs a scalpel then; Pagemaker, Quark and Indesign. This will be last program I ever want to learn and I would like as much assistance as possible.

cheers

 

[Joachim_L]

6 hours ago, boorowaboy said:

1    Firstly what is APu I haven’t seen that term? I am still not certain about where I store the original pics for placing and linking.

Sorry for being lazy, but Affinity Publisher is such a long term to write.   And where to store your pics for placing and linking ... it depends on your temper / workflow. I can only speak for myself, that a project I am working on consists of several folders like "links", "fonts", "temporary".

6 hours ago, boorowaboy said:

2   Rejoining  split text files. (see images below)

Just click one text frame and you'll see on the right side a small triangle, click that and then link it to another text frame and to another (if needed). Once all text frames are linked, the text has one "flow", so that you can delete the superfluos text frames and make one large text frame holding all your text. Means following your example, that you reduce 3 to 1 text frames for your body text.

6 hours ago, boorowaboy said:

3   Copying a master to another Publisher Doc

You can copy the contents of Master to a new one of course or use Add Pages from File to achieve that. But I would use Templates for this. Set up your default layout and export it as Template. If you have several templates I would make a folder structure for a better organization. When creating a new document, just click Templates on the left side, add the folder(s) where your templates reside and then select the wanted layout from the overview.

To make clear, this is my way of working, others may have a different approach.

[boorowaboy]

Hi Joachim

Thanks once again. I will try out your suggestions. I currently have three versions of my original Indesign file in APu. Each one is different test of the various suggestions. When I think I have the process pretty well understood then I will make a final artwork file. I will try an IDML tonight as my version of Indesign is to old to work on this Mac hence the use of Affinity.

cheers

 

[boorowaboy]

Hi Joachim

I have successfully opened the IDML in AFp with a version of Indesign CC so everything looking ok

cheers