Files of interest in Affinity Publisher

[Amontillado]

Is there a way to store a file of interest in the Resource Manager or otherwise bundle an external file with an Affinity Publisher document?

For instance, I use BBEdit's notebook feature as a copy editor. It works sort of like Scrivener for plain text. I transfer copy to AP by telling BBEdit to remove blank lines which makes paragraph breaks just one newline, then select all, copy, and undo to restore my double-newline paragraph breaks. In AP, Paste without format gets my text loaded and I can use consistent AP text styles.

It would be nice to be able to archive the original copy in the AP document. Is it possible to place or otherwise embed additional files in AP, files that do not appear in the AP output?

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, Amontillado said:

It would be nice to be able to archive the original copy in the AP document. Is it possible to place or otherwise embed additional files in AP, files that do not appear in the AP output?

No.

Though you could consider:

• Creating a Master Page that you do not apply to anything, adding a Text Frame to it, and Placing the text file into that Text Frame. It won't actually be the file, of course, just its contents.
  or
• Creating a Text Frame in the pasteboard (to the right/left of some page), and Placing the text file into it. Again, it will be the file content, not the file.

[Amontillado]

Thanks, Walt - very creative ideas and I appreciate them. I shall give that a shot.

Affinity Publisher has become increasingly important to me. By the time a letter needs a photo with a caption, I start thinking of BBEdit plus Affinity Publisher and a letter template as a word processor.

I also deliver some documentation as PDF files, which I always create in AP. Sometimes I have to deliver Word files, but, eww. You would think in these enlightened times friends wouldn't ask friends to use Word.

Have a great day!