How would I set up a greeting/thankyou card in Affinity Publisher (or Designer I guess)?

[filoplume]

Hi,

5x3 1/2 or 5 1/2x4.  Any size that I can send off to a printer.  Standard image on the front, page on the other side, page inside, back page.  That would open from the bottom.  Side would work too.

I do not see any presets in APub.

-paulw

[jmwellborn]

1 hour ago, filoplume said:

Hi,

5x3 1/2 or 5 1/2x4.  Any size that I can send off to a printer.  Standard image on the front, page on the other side, page inside, back page.  That would open from the bottom.  Side would work too.

I do not see any presets in APub.

-paulw

The information provided a few days ago in the Desktop Questions topic A4 Greeting Cards in Affinity may possibly help you out.

[Alfred]

6 minutes ago, jmwellborn said:

The information provided a few days ago in the Desktop Questions topic A4 Greeting Cards in Affinity may possibly help you out.

Here’s the thread:

 

[filoplume]

Great!  I should be able to apply that information to what I want to do.

Thank you both!

-paulw

[filoplume]

All right.  Maybe that thread is somehow helping me and I do not know it, but what I want to do is create a card in Affinity Publisher (preferably not Designer as most articles and videos that I have found are using it) that is about 5 inches wide and 4 inches tall.  That is what my local printer used for our Christmas card last year.  And she had envelopes for it that fit great.

It is going to fold in the middle and I want to be able to have content on each page/section.

Attached is the PDF from them from last year.  It is 4.25x5.5"  I think they want the standard bleed (.125) if I remember correctly.

This stuff makes my brain hurt like the math word games did in school (if two vehicles were traveling...._ 🙂

-paulw

2020PeanutsChristmasCard.pdf

[v_kyr]

See for example (though you would have to adapt it to your needed card size format) ...

• How to Create a Greeting Card Template in Affinity Designer

[filoplume]

H

8 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

See for example (though you would have to adapt it to your needed card size format) ...

• How to Create a Greeting Card Template in Affinity Designer

Hi,

Is it the same for Designer as for Publisher?    I think the process would be somehow different when setting up the document.  I will check it out.

Thanks!

-wp

[filoplume]

5 minutes ago, filoplume said:

H

Hi,

Is it the same for Designer as for Publisher?    I think the process would be somehow different when setting up the document.  I will check it out.

Thanks!

-wp

I meant it the other way around, sorry.

-pw

[filoplume]

2 hours ago, v_kyr said:

See for example (though you would have to adapt it to your needed card size format) ...

• How to Create a Greeting Card Template in Affinity Designer

That looks like it isn't going to help me what I want to do, especially using Publisher.

Thanks

[v_kyr]

4 hours ago, filoplume said:

That looks like it isn't going to help me what I want to do, especially using Publisher.

• How to Create a Festive Greetings Card in Affinity Publisher

• https://robert-chalmers.uk/affinity-downloads/#  (look for the sample template there)

[PaulEC]

6 hours ago, filoplume said:

That looks like it isn't going to help me what I want to do, especially using Publisher.

What exactly is it that you want to do, that is different to the example you posted?

[filoplume]

7 hours ago, PaulEC said:

What exactly is it that you want to do, that is different to the example you posted?

Hi,

I will study and go through How to Create a Greeting Card Template in Affinity Designer (tutsplus.com) again, but I would rather use Publisher and I need to have content on all four pages (front, inside 1, inside 2, back).  It didn't look like the tutorial did that.  And I will have to change the size, of course.

Thanks

[filoplume]

8 hours ago, v_kyr said:

• How to Create a Festive Greetings Card in Affinity Publisher

• https://robert-chalmers.uk/affinity-downloads/#  (look for the sample template there)

What a great resource the second link is!  I have learned a lot from affinity revolution and the Udemy courses I bought.  And the Affinity workbooks are good but there isn't anything in the Publisher book or the Affinity tutorials that I have noticed specify how to set up a Publisher document for something as simple as I want to do.  I guess it is so easy that it is over my head:-)

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, filoplume said:

What a great resource the second link is!

I wonder @Paul Mudditt is aware that there’s a “Mud’s Macros” zip file download on that page.

[Paul Mudditt]

22 hours ago, Alfred said:

I wonder @Paul Mudditt is aware that there’s a “Mud’s Macros” zip file download on that page.

Thanks for the heads up @Alfred, I know Robert quite well, I have helped him quite a lot over the years from my Affinity Facebook groups including with my Macros file. Since I do this just for fun I’m OK with him referencing it but thanks again for pointing this out.

[filoplume]

FYI, here is a short play-by-play of what I ended up doing to get my card done:

-I imported last year's PDF from my local printer into Affinity Publisher.  That gave me the measurements and the layout.  11"x4".

-I dragged a vertical ruler to the 50 yard line (center of the field)

-Replaced last year's images with the new ones, etc....

-Sent it off to the printer and they said it was fine.  They told me I didn't have to make any changes and I had my cards in about an hour.

Here's the thing:

This year's PDF that I sent to our printer contained images that were all upright.  They told me all they did was to print double-sided

When I did that at home, the inside pictures were inverted when I printed out the PDF So I inverted those inside images, making them upside down.  It worked!  I attached a summary of the layout in Publisher format and the PDF.

Was the printer mistaken when she told me they didn't have to do anything?  Or is there a difference when printing on a home/Windows printer?

Anyway, the cards look great and now I am signing them and mailing them out in time for Christmas (I hope!).

Thanks everyone and Merry Christmas!

CardLayoutInverted.afpub CardLayoutInverted.pdf

[Old Bruce]

28 minutes ago, filoplume said:

Was the printer mistaken when she told me they didn't have to do anything?  Or is there a difference when printing on a home/Windows printer?

Major difference. And then with another Print Shop you may be given different instructions yet again.