Multi-page spreads - draft manual section

[MikeTO]

For those interested in learning more about the new multi-page spread feature, here are a couple of dozen draft pages from the next edition of my manual. This extract likely still has some mistakes and it's possible that the features will change as the beta continues.

Please let me know in this thread of any errors or suggestions. I'll share the final version in my manual thread when 2.6 is released.

Draft for beta.pdf

** Hyperlinks and bookmarks aren't included in this extract so clicking on the blue cross-reference links won't go anywhere.

** I didn't include the Document Setup section in this extract but note that there's also a new Reflow Pages checkbox in Document Setup > Model. This is the same as the Pages panel menu's Page Move Options > Reflow Pages command.

[Sam Neil]

@MikeTO I sm curious - Is there a reason why your version of the manual has not become the official one? Why is Serif not snapping it up and incorporate into the official one? Seems very pointless to me (imho).

 

[MikeTO]

6 hours ago, Sam Neil said:

@MikeTO I sm curious - Is there a reason why your version of the manual has not become the official one? Why is Serif not snapping it up and incorporate into the official one? Seems very pointless to me (imho).

My manual was never intended to be a full manual, let alone an official one. It just started out as a guide to the Books feature.

Companies don't traditional user manuals because the market has shifted and the majority of users want to learn and consume content in different ways. Now that Affinity's online help is no longer installed on our computers, Serif will be free to incorporate more screenshots and even videos which will be very helpful. Online help is also much easier to keep updated than a traditional manual if you have to support a suite of three interconnected apps in multiple languages.

I believe Adobe stopped publishing a traditional manual for InDesign circa CS3, too. But I like manuals and writing this one has let me scratch an old itch.