seacooter Posted January 13 Posted January 13 I'm brand new to Affinity Publisher but I have some experience with a similar product. My cover and text PDFs appear to be perfect when I look at the PDFs in Acrobat Reader. But when I upload the text to KDP it is all screwed up. The text appears both low (page numbers are not visible) and all copy is off center about a two thirds of a page to the right from the center of my pages and the rest shows up on the next page. I've tried to work around this problem for two days but I've been unsuccessful. Ant help will be most apprecated. Quote
GarryP Posted January 14 Posted January 14 Welcome to the forums @seacooter Can you show us (for an example page, or more than one page, which exhibits the problem): what the document looks like in Publisher, and; what the PDF looks like in Acrobat Reader, and; what it looks like when uploaded to KDP? If the PDF looks right in Acrobat Reader then there’s a good chance that it’s a problem with KDP, but we need to know more about what you have before we can understand what’s happened to it. The more we can see of what you can see the better we can help you (hopefully). Quote
KarinC Posted January 14 Posted January 14 It might be that you are exporting All Spreads instead of All Pages for your PDF. That will screw up the layout in KDP. Quote
seacooter Posted January 14 Author Posted January 14 No problem with my eBook. It's my paperback version. Considering all overnight I think I may have somehow messed up my master page for text. But here's the photos you asked for. If my master page gutters were set wrong would it cause this. Thank you. Quote
Old Bruce Posted January 14 Posted January 14 I am thinking that the page size, not the margin size, is too small. 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.
thomaso Posted January 14 Posted January 14 Did you check @KarinC's question for exported spreads vs. pages? The total page number in the KDP screenshot seems to be wrong, KDP seems to display centred spreads on every of its page previews, instead of centred pages on each page. Accordingly the displayed KDP spread 16/17 is a 'later' spread than in your .afpub. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
seacooter Posted January 14 Author Posted January 14 Thank you. I very well may have clicked spread instead of pages. I've started to create a new affinity document and be more careful. Quote
Catshill Posted January 15 Posted January 15 8 hours ago, seacooter said: Thank you. I very well may have clicked spread instead of pages. I've started to create a new affinity document and be more careful. It’s not you. Publisher has had a bug since it was released that defaults to spreads rather than pages even if this is what you previously set. Despite multiple requests it has never been fixed. Quote
thomaso Posted January 15 Posted January 15 11 hours ago, seacooter said: I've started to create a new affinity document and be more careful. The issue with spreads/pages mentioned is in the export options. If it is the culprit of your KDP problem, it is not necessary to create a new Affinity document, just export again and as individual pages, named "All Pages" in the "Area" settings. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
R C-R Posted January 15 Posted January 15 13 hours ago, Catshill said: Publisher has had a bug since it was released that defaults to spreads rather than pages even if this is what you previously set. Despite multiple requests it has never been fixed. It isn't a bug as such; it is just one of many things that is not 'sticky' in Affinity. Oufti and PaulEC 2 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Catshill Posted January 15 Posted January 15 50 minutes ago, R C-R said: It isn't a bug as such; it is just one of many things that is not 'sticky' in Affinity. You say tomatoes… R C-R 1 Quote
R C-R Posted January 15 Posted January 15 Just now, Catshill said: You say tomatoes… I say that a bug is usually considered as something that does not work the way its creators designed it to work, typically because of a programming error or failing to consider some possible states a document or the OS could be in that would cause mis-operation. So anything else is not a bug as such, although it could well be considered a poor design decision or shortcoming. PaulEC 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Meliora spero Posted January 15 Posted January 15 It’s an issue in Affinity that becomes a double problem for customers because Serif has failed to address it for years. During the same period, customers bear the cost of Serif’s mishandling of the software and feedback. Just waste time with words and definitions. The classic first-semester syndrome among young students. Out in the real world, among customers, it’s cause and effect that matter. Whatever you call it, Serif needs to make the right decision at the right time. They haven’t done that. Catshill 1 Quote Serif, did you foolishly fill the usability specialist role you advertised internally? If so, be transparent with your customers. Continuing without proper UX expertise both insults and affects your entire customer base.
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