Affinity ePub output.

[DuncanT]

I’ve watched the various forums for a reasonable answer to this request and seen the reasons why people say it is difficult to impossible for this to be implemented at present.

It seems to me that the solution is for Affinity to produce a programme that is purely for ePub output.

Ideally it would be possible to open an affinity publisher programme in it and manipulate the design.

For example; on import the programme would, ask what text you want to import, know how to deal with headers and footers. Strip out extraneous commands. Prepare indexes. Have protocols for displaying graphics, photos etc.

All in a wysiwyg way and flexible enough to take into account the various kindles, tablets and mobiles that the end users have.

I would be prepared to pay for this.

 

[Bryan Rieger]

If you're creating re-flowable ebooks then Vellum is probably what you're looking for. Import a Word doc, or write directly within the app, add images, choose styles, headers, etc and it handles all of the details and exports files optimized for the various ebook stores, as well as print ready PDFs.

Apparently Serif are currently working on fixed-layout ePub support which they hope to release later this year, and fingers crossed that Serif might reconsider adding re-flowable epub support in the not too distant future.

[Aisthetikos]

+1

reflowable ebooks FTW that it what I am missing

[nomi02118]

I think, if possible, the solution would be a new epub persona in Publisher that could be linked to the current document and update along with it. You could make text edits for example in the main document and the epub would update as well but keep all the particular epbub standard characteristics somehow. Not a programmer, just a user who has no idea how complicated all that would be. It would be a time saving option that I don't think anyone else offers. Kind of like the book option now or even integrated with that. Epub is one Publisher feature I could use for sure so any easy stable implementation of that would be awesome.