DarkClown Posted November 13, 2021 Posted November 13, 2021 I'm trying to import 200 pages of text into publisher. I've got a master pages assigned to an initial first 2 pages.Is there a way to tell publisher to automatically add as many pages as required,and fill the connected pages automatically with the pasted 200 pages of text? Or do I have to add all pages manually and connect all 200 textframes now manually? regretfully the affinity help file in German is no really helpful Thx for your ideas! Cheers, Timo Quote i7-12700KF, 3.60 GHz, 32GB RAM, SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet, Windows 11 Pro - AP, AD and APublisher V1 and V2https://www.timobierbaum.com
Old Bruce Posted November 13, 2021 Posted November 13, 2021 1 minute ago, DarkClown said: I'm trying to import 200 pages of text into publisher. I've got a master pages assigned to an initial first 2 pages.Is there a way to tell publisher to automatically add as many pages as required,and fill the connected pages automatically with the pasted 200 pages of text? Or do I have to add all pages manually and connect all 200 textframes now manually? What format is the text file? Is it a text file or a PDF or something else? Are you working with Single pages or Facing Pages for the spreads? The instructions will differ. 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.
MikeTO Posted November 13, 2021 Posted November 13, 2021 18 minutes ago, DarkClown said: I'm trying to import 200 pages of text into publisher. I've got a master pages assigned to an initial first 2 pages.Is there a way to tell publisher to automatically add as many pages as required,and fill the connected pages automatically with the pasted 200 pages of text? Or do I have to add all pages manually and connect all 200 textframes now manually? Create the template the way you like it using master pages. Place the text into the last page's text frame - it will then be overset (overflowed). Shift click on the overset/overflow red triangle (right side near the bottom). Publisher will create and link as many pages as required. DarkClown 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
DarkClown Posted November 13, 2021 Author Posted November 13, 2021 1 hour ago, Old Bruce said: What format is the text file? Is it a text file or a PDF or something else? Are you working with Single pages or Facing Pages for the spreads? The instructions will differ. It's pre-formatted Word text from the Clipboard (trying to past it with CTRL+v in a text frame). But it could as well be pure ASCII Text - doesn't matter - no need for the format. Facing book page (of course also in the master page) in a dedicated section of the publisher document. Quote i7-12700KF, 3.60 GHz, 32GB RAM, SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet, Windows 11 Pro - AP, AD and APublisher V1 and V2https://www.timobierbaum.com
DarkClown Posted November 13, 2021 Author Posted November 13, 2021 56 minutes ago, MikeTO said: Shift click on the overset/overflow red triangle Arrggh ... it is SHIFT+ Click .... all I needed to know ... Thx alot! Quote i7-12700KF, 3.60 GHz, 32GB RAM, SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet, Windows 11 Pro - AP, AD and APublisher V1 and V2https://www.timobierbaum.com
Old Bruce Posted November 13, 2021 Posted November 13, 2021 On your master page make a text frame for each page and link them. These will hold the text from the clipboard when you paste it into the Actual Page. Make a single page, not two, and using the text caret click into that text frame. Paste your text. Now you will have all the text ready for the Shift + Click on the text overflow mentioned by MikeTO. The reason I say use one page, not two, is that there can be problems with the text flowing if you use the left page of a two page spread to flow the text. Just be sure to have the Master Page Text Frames linked and you'll get left and right pages with text. 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.
Bruce.Dickson Posted April 28, 2022 Posted April 28, 2022 (edited) This reasonable-sounding solution is not intuitively obvious and not detailed enuf. It calls for a video tutorial for new people. I'm trying to format an exist 100 page book in AP. The problem may be getting teh text frame to populate for all pages in teh Master Page so txt can flow into all pages. What's this topic called? Again another good video tutorial topic. If a video tutorial for importing large amounts of text (txt, rtf, docx) a link to it should be on this forum page Amazon KDP uses Robert Chalmers AfPub video tutorials on Youtube as their "bible" for at least several topics. This page: "Linking text frames" https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Text/linkingTextFrames.html?title=Linking text frames is a text version of many newbies trying to make books can begin. For newbies it's only good for the theory because it's about 30 separate steps. Hence the usefullness of videos. It appears to me the bottleneck on documentation is VIDEO showing one method at a time to import large amounts of text. This will reveal the necessity for text frames and how to make teh Master Page generate new text frames. So far, spening about 4 hours on this without the official manual, not too clear at all yet. Edited April 28, 2022 by Bruce.Dickson Quote
Bruce.Dickson Posted April 28, 2022 Posted April 28, 2022 More clarity on what I believe is a weak area of documenntation. Attached are two images. First shows 100 pages of a .txt file placed into a page 1 text frame. You can see it runs over. Second image shows page 2 HAS A TEXT FRAME; yet, the text from page one is NOT flowing into page two. WHAT AM I MISSING? Quote
walt.farrell Posted April 29, 2022 Posted April 29, 2022 10 hours ago, Bruce.Dickson said: Attached are two images. First shows 100 pages of a .txt file placed into a page 1 text frame. You can see it runs over. Second image shows page 2 HAS A TEXT FRAME; yet, the text from page one is NOT flowing into page two. WHAT AM I MISSING? The frames in your second image do not appear to be linked, therefore text won't flow automatically between them. If you would like them to be linked, click the linking triangle on the lower right side of the left text frame, then click in the right text frame. To automatically create more pages for the text from the first image, make that page active, and the red dot on the lower right should become a red linking triangle. Shift+click on it. Publisher will create additional pages, with the same Master(s) applied, and flow all the text. MissC 1 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
Bruce.Dickson Posted May 5, 2022 Posted May 5, 2022 Yes, thank you, Walt. Once I learn a lot more, maybe I'll make a VIDEO showing all these variables. Have to learn first what it means when lines turn green. walt.farrell 1 Quote
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