vikingtone Posted February 10, 2023 Author Share Posted February 10, 2023 The 2000+ files is just the Jockey Club History, which is just one small part of the whole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 59 minutes ago, vikingtone said: The 2000+ files is just the Jockey Club History, which is just one small part of the whole So you want the entire website. Thought it was just that part. OMG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingtone Posted February 10, 2023 Author Share Posted February 10, 2023 nono - beginning just the bit regarding Jockey Club History, to begin with. Later, about 9-10 more parts - I'm hoping it doesn't get to be the whole thing - the idea makes me feel quite ill kenmcd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_d Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 I hope you're being paid... Quote Affinity Photo 2.0.3, Affinity Designer 2.0.3, Affinity Publisher 2.0.3, Mac OSX 13, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 21 minutes ago, h_d said: I hope you're being paid... A lot. 😀 h_d 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_d Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 Following on from my previous rather flippant remark. I would just repeat, in all seriousness, that you should not be embarking on this work unless you are being properly paid for it and unless you have the skills and knowledge to accomplish it. If you don't, then I hope you have the strength to tell whoever asked you to do it that you will need more help/training/support. You should not expect Affinity Publisher to offer an immediate solution. First and foremost it is not a pdf editor or a data management tool. But it goes deeper than that. As far as I can see you are being expected to unpick someone else's laborious work and to recast it into another format. In my opinion you should first be looking at ways of extracting, categorising and structuring the original information into a database or a format like .xml. Once you have control of the structured data, then you can present it in any number of ways. Affinity Publisher may be helpful then. But what you cannot do is take .pdfs, or Word docs, or any sort of pre-formatted text of this complexity, and expect Publisher to sort it out for you. It can not. Publisher is a desktop publishing application. It is a page layout tool, not a data management tool. Again, and with all respect, control the data before you start on the presentation. dominik and loukash 2 Quote Affinity Photo 2.0.3, Affinity Designer 2.0.3, Affinity Publisher 2.0.3, Mac OSX 13, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingtone Posted February 11, 2023 Author Share Posted February 11, 2023 I don't accept payment - I do get the odd crate of beer, but usually I don't want anything. I have time on my hands and a need to keep the aged grey matter ticking, and I have no need of anything. A happy place, which I am only too well aware of and appreciate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingtone Posted February 11, 2023 Author Share Posted February 11, 2023 h_d thank you for your post. I did not in any way expect AP to unpick the complexity of the layout - I did that by hand in html editor. All I wanted from AP was a way to flow the text in a PDF, which it is perfectly capable of as long as the pages are inked manually and individually. So I was not expecting miracles I was hoping it would simply do what it is patently capable of doing. However, I have found a solution to my problem which does not involve traveling via PDF. I apologise if you feel that asking for help was a waste of your time h_d 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_d Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 9 minutes ago, vikingtone said: I apologise if you feel that asking for help was a waste of your time Not in the slightest, and I'm sorry if my post came across that way. I'm glad you got it sorted, with or without Publisher! Quote Affinity Photo 2.0.3, Affinity Designer 2.0.3, Affinity Publisher 2.0.3, Mac OSX 13, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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