Template

[dog_eared]

How do I use Affinity's Cookbook Template.  Can it be 'exported'? as a stand alone book?   Can I setup "GoTo" from my contents page?

[walt.farrell]

You mean one of these 2 Templates?

If so, you create a new document using it, edit it making any changes you want to make, and then Export it as a PDF or Print it directly.

 

12 minutes ago, dog_eared said:

Can I setup "GoTo" from my contents page?

Sorry; I'm not sure I understand that question. If you're asking whether you can click on an entry in the generated TOC (assuming there is one, or you add one) in the PDF, and have the PDF viewer go to that page, then yes.

[dog_eared]

Thanks Walt. I don't think I explained myself properly. 

Firstly; using the cookbook template as an example I wanted to know if there was a procedure for a 'goto' .  If ,say, there was a recipe on page 72 for cake. I would show this on the contents page.  What I would like to do is click onto the item on the contents page which would then take me to the recipe on page 72.

Secondly; once I have a completed book can I export it for use outside of Affinity or would the recipient have to have either a PDF reading program or Affinity?

 

[walt.farrell]

30 minutes ago, dog_eared said:

What I would like to do is click onto the item on the contents page which would then take me to the recipe on page 72.

Your Contents page should be a Table of Contents, as that is how TOC entries work, automatically.

Alternatively, if you don't use a TOC, you can create an Anchor on your recipe, and a Hyperlink pointing to it on your Contents page.

31 minutes ago, dog_eared said:

Secondly; once I have a completed book can I export it for use outside of Affinity or would the recipient have to have either a PDF reading program or Affinity?

You would export it as a PDF, and the recipient would use a PDF viewer.

[Old Bruce]

You will need to have the Anchors panel (View > Studio > Anchors) open in order to "GoTo" page 72 from the ToC page inside Affinity Publisher. Once you finish and Export as a PDF (making sure to have the Bookmarks and Hyperlinks turned on in the Export panel's More section) then the people you send it to can open it in a PDF viewer or a web browser.

The big caveat is that the Anchors panel shows the Anchors in an alphabetic list, not as they are in the book. Here is ToC for my work in progress Dore illustrated bible. 

[dog_eared]

10 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Your Contents page should be a Table of Contents, as that is how TOC entries work, automatically.

Alternatively, if you don't use a TOC, you can create an Anchor on your recipe, and a Hyperlink pointing to it on your Contents page.

You would export it as a PDF, and the recipient would use a PDF viewer.

Thanks Walt

[dog_eared]

Thanks Walt.  Sorry it has taken me so long to respond.  I have tried what you have suggested but have failed miserably.  In order to simplify things for myself I created two pages.  The first page was to be my TOC and the second the destination.  When setting up the pages I used the 'Anchor' listing and added 'hyperlink' then on second page 'insert anchor'  But nowhere can I find within Affinity any indication that these instructions worked. How do I know my page 1 is a TOC page?  How do I set a 'goto' item ? How do I set an 'anchor' (if that's what I have to do) on page two?   Do these instructions work within Affinity or only when I export as PDF, (that did didn't work at all).  Sorry to be a pain but I am not finding Affinity at all intuitive. (You wouldn't believe I taught its forerunner 'PagePlus' for five years !!)