GT70 Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Hello to everyone, a simple question: have I problem to create with Designer a book about 200 pages? What kind problem can I find? Can I use Designer like InDesign or similar app? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Affinity Designer really isn't the right software for documents with more than a handful of pages, since it lack pagination features and linked text frames. Affinity Publisher, when it eventually arrives, should be able to do these basic things, but it hasn't even been released to public beta yet. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Try using Serif Page Plus. It isn't InDesign, but it might do for your book. Note this is now a legacy program meaning that, whilst there is support, there will be no future updates. Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 23 minutes ago, John Rostron said: Try using Serif Page Plus. It isn't InDesign, but it might do for your book. Note this is now a legacy program meaning that, whilst there is support, there will be no future updates. PagePlus is a good option, but it's only available for Windows. John Rostron 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT70 Posted October 27, 2017 Author Share Posted October 27, 2017 Mhhh...thank to everyone. I have a mac so PagePlus is a bad alternative. I could pay for Serif, but do you know if I'll take a rebate in future Affinity Publisher? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 There are native Mac applications with perpetual licenses also available. QuarkXPress, which has a deal that expires soon, and Viva Designer. VivaD is a scaled back alternative compared to QXP/ID, but I do have a client in Germany that uses it so I need to as well. A bit over half of my client work is in QXP, the remainder is ID. But expect to spend more money. Serif won't likely be giving PP users a discount. They could opt to, but at the current price of PP it seems doubtful to me. Add to that, APub isn't likely to be an expensive option, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Another solution, predestined for larger book authoring and publishing, is FrameMaker! Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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