I now have a much bigger problem when trying to export my .afpub doc to KDP.

[Neil26]

Wow! I just figured out my own problem. When exporting my manuscript as a PDF to KDP for publishing, KDP said my document was exported to them in the spread mode which they can't use. After trying everything that was suggested I was totally baffled. I was brand new at using Affinity Publisher when I first set up the document. Now I have a much bigger problem! 

It looks like when I set up my master page I used a two-page spread as a page. Now all of my pages actually have two individual pages included for one page number. Please don't laugh too hard because I have spent hundreds of hours making my book look perfect. I am really in need of some kind of fix to return those pages into two pages each. I hope there is a guru out there who might have a solution to my problem that won't entail starting all over from scratch. I am so close to publishing yet still so far!

I am sure that no one who has used Affinity Publisher has ever made that mistake.

Thank you in advance for putting on your thinking cap for me.

Neil 😭

[Wosven]

You're probably another victim of the classical (but damn!) "Export by spreads" default option in APub...

Select "Export by pages" or similar in the drop down menu.

Be warned that you'll need to select manually this option each time you export a document using facing pages.

Since people at Serif don't spend their days exporting a lot of PDF, they put this by default. But it's a pain for everyone else.

[Neil26]

3 minutes ago, Wosven said:

You're probably another victim of the classical (but damn!) "Export by spreads" default option in APub...

Select "Export by pages" or similar in the drop down menu.

Be warned that you'll need to select manually this option each time you export a document using facing pages.

Since people at Serif don't spend their days exporting a lot of PDF, they put this by default. But it's a pain for everyone else.

No. It wasn't Affinity's fault at all. I unknowingly set up my master page with a spread showing and AF set that up as a single page instead of two. That's why when I export the pdf as single pages it does that exactly. My pages were formatted with two text pages on each one. How dumb is that? I thought I was only a few minutes away from finally publishing the book I worked on for 10 months. What can I do to divide those pages into two separate ones each?

[Old Bruce]

5 minutes ago, Neil26 said:

thought I was only a few minutes away from finally publishing the book I worked on for 10 months. What can I do to divide those pages into two separate ones each?

Show a screenshot with some typical pages.

If the book is mostly text then there are some simple things to do. Lots of images/photos/drawings more problems. 

[Neil26]

[Neil26]

Just now, Neil26 said:

Here is a screen shot. As you can see I have lots of photos(70). What my thinking is perhaps i can create a new document and somehow cut each page in half and place it on a single page. Would that work?

[Old Bruce]

Is the text all linked? Meaning is it one long section?

I am guessing that the Preface page is page 2 in your document, instead of the probable actual pages two and three.

You have a Page size, forget about the size of the spread. Make a new Facing Pages document with the page size the size of the 'page' in your screenshot. Half the width of the 'page' there will be the right width for the actual new page. Set the margins for Inner Outer top and bottom. 

Make the new document three pages long. Place  text frames on page 2 and copy the text from old 2 onto new 2  and 3. Make two new pages and repeat until eventually you find a point where you have lots of linked text continuing onto many pages. Use the Shift Click on the overflow triangle to autogenerate pages filled with text. 

To put the pictures in, open both documents and copy the pictures on page x and paste them onto the appropriate new pages. Use the same Text Wrap to force the text away from the pictures. This will force the text to overflow, so make some more pages. Go back and copy paste some more pictures.

You should wind up with the same number of pages.

[Neil26]

Thanks for taking the time to answer. So what your describing is that there is no easy way to fix this except to start over on a new document and cut and paste everything? I have unlinked most pages. Are you saying to re-link them all? I thought it might be easier if all of the pages were un-linked. Wrong?

[Wosven]

If each page is independent, effectively, you can copy-paste from one document to the other.

But if you've got a version with linked text frames, it can be faster. You'll need either way to check page by page with your PDF with spreads.

[Neil26]

Thank you for your help on this. It looks like I am going to be busy for many hours again. But if that's the only way to fix this then I will be starting tomorrow. Thanks again my friend. 👍😇