Best workflow for big manuscripts

[chrleon]

Hi folks, new Affinity Publisher user here. I used to do graphic design for print, in newspapers, advertising, books etc. But that was in Indesign, and I had a flow of working when the manuscript changed. I could do linked imports and use the Story Editor. 

I understand that Publisher has a different workflow, but setting up a book where the manuscript might change a bit, after first setup in Affinity, what is the best workflow?

Thanks.

[dominik]

2 hours ago, chrleon said:

Hi folks, new Affinity Publisher user here. I used to do graphic design for print, in newspapers, advertising, books etc. But that was in Indesign, and I had a flow of working when the manuscript changed. I could do linked imports and use the Story Editor. 

I understand that Publisher has a different workflow, but setting up a book where the manuscript might change a bit, after first setup in Affinity, what is the best workflow?

Thanks.

Hallo @chrleon,

currently there is no linked import of text files to APub. And no Story Editor. So there is no way of workflow that will automatically update text changes that were made outside of the app.

You could reimport the entire text but most likely you will loose some of the formating that was done in APub after the import.

Maybe others may come up with a workflow they have found. But in this regard APub has to evolve a little more.

d.

[MikeTO]

3 hours ago, chrleon said:

I understand that Publisher has a different workflow, but setting up a book where the manuscript might change a bit, after first setup in Affinity, what is the best workflow?

Check out the Books chapter of the free Publisher manual I wrote for the pros and cons of the different ways you can structure a long book in Publisher. You can download the manual from this forum using the link in my signature.

Cheers,

Mike

[chrleon]

Thank you for the replies. That PDf is a great read, @MikeTO.