benged123 Posted March 21, 2024 Posted March 21, 2024 I have built a book of short stories (with photos) in AP. I want to be able to juggle the stories around in the chronology. Do I want to make a Page Break at the end of each story? Do I want to make each story a Section? The idea is to be able to bop the stories around in different chronologies (till the order seems appropriate) and have the page numbering (there is a TOC) not get messed up. All ears (and appreciation), Ben Quote
Old Bruce Posted March 21, 2024 Posted March 21, 2024 11 minutes ago, benged123 said: The idea is to be able to bop the stories around in different chronologies (till the order seems appropriate) and have the page numbering (there is a TOC) not get messed up. My personal opinion is that this ordering of the stories should not be done in publisher. It should be done earlier, before you start work laying out the book. If you have your heart set on it I would suggest using a word processor to break the text into the individual stories. Then you can more easily "bop the stories around" by deleting the text flow and replacing it with another story. Then you'll need to add or delete pages with all the headaches involved in altering the text flow because of changing the number of pages from odd to even. With having illustrations for each/some story(s) you get a much more massive set of headaches regarding text flow. Again the following is just my own personal opinion. I would not take on a job like this. If I were to wind up in a situation where this reordering was happening over and over then I would be tempted to hand off the "work in progress" and just walk away from it, taking the loss. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Bryan Rieger Posted March 21, 2024 Posted March 21, 2024 Hi @benged123, You should probably take a look at the 'Books' feature in Affinity Publisher, which allows you to create your stories in separate documents and then manage them through the Books panel where can can add, remove, replace and rearrange chapters. Quote
benged123 Posted March 21, 2024 Author Posted March 21, 2024 Aw shucks. i thought this was going to be easy. Ha, Old Bruce, I'm doing this for my 96 year old Mum (librarian for 30 years, now completing her first book). And Bryan, I'm going to see if I can find a tutorial on the 'Books' feature. Also, if it takes to much effort to understand, I think I could create a 'new' project, and then pull over the specific stories (from my current version) into the 'new' project ... in the proper order. I will post back here, whatever solution seems to be the easiest. Thank you gentlemen! Quote
MikeTO Posted March 21, 2024 Posted March 21, 2024 10 minutes ago, benged123 said: Aw shucks. i thought this was going to be easy. Ha, Old Bruce, I'm doing this for my 96 year old Mum (librarian for 30 years, now completing her first book). And Bryan, I'm going to see if I can find a tutorial on the 'Books' feature. Also, if it takes to much effort to understand, I think I could create a 'new' project, and then pull over the specific stories (from my current version) into the 'new' project ... in the proper order. I will post back here, whatever solution seems to be the easiest. I recommend creating it as a single document and not as a Book - the Book feature is intended for complex documents with many images to reduce the load on your computer. A book of short stories will be text heavy, not image heavy, and using the Book feature will add unnecessary complications. I recommend either: Create each short story as a separate Story (a linked series of text frames). You can then reorder your short stories by reordering pages Create the entire book as a single Story and separate short stories by page breaks. You can then reorder your short stories with cut and paste I've provided examples of all the options in the free manual I've shared in this forum. The link is below in my signature. Good luck. Bryan Rieger 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.5, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
benged123 Posted March 21, 2024 Author Posted March 21, 2024 Aha! MikeTO ... I just watched a tutorial on using the 'Book' format. I like better what you are suggesting. I'm going to look at your manual. This is Ace!! Thank you. Probably saved me two days of trying to figure out the 'Book' mode. I also like being able to scroll through the pages at any time, to get a sense (using the thumbnails) of how the whole will read – like the ordering of the photos so they don't get photo heavy in one section of the book. I'll report back how it works ... Ben Quote
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