Ability to create a template

[Ken Cope]

Hi,

I've looked at the videos and am now 'playing' with the app. Some great features, it was worth the wait!

One thing I'm missing is the ability to save as a template file. I regularly want to open a new blank document with all the settings ready so that I can just populate it with extra pages and content. I suppose I could create a single, master apub document then, when I begin, save it under a new name (as long as I remember!), but it would be great if we could create a template file to share with co-workers - then we would all be working to the same 'house-style'.

[Peter Werner]

You could just enable the write protection option in Finder/Explorer for a regular publisher file that you want to use as a template, then it won't save over the original by accident.

[Ken Cope]

21 minutes ago, Peter Werner said:

You could just enable the write protection option in Finder/Explorer for a regular publisher file that you want to use as a template, then it won't save over the original by accident.

Yes, that's a great idea, thanks for sharing.

[Dolly Levi]

Or Serif Affinity could add the ability to create a template

[Ken Cope]

Yes, this would be preferable

[RenWaller]

I agree with the idea of creating the ability to make templates. That was definitely a go to feature for me in Indesign (INDD>INDT).

[jrkay]

I agree, templates take much of the hassle out of starting a new publn. with all the style choices and tweeks relevant for that type of publn.

[rcheetah]

On 8/30/2018 at 3:28 PM, Peter Werner said:

You could just enable the write protection option in Finder/Explorer for a regular publisher file that you want to use as a template, then it won't save over the original by accident.

I would also prefer templates over write-protection. Sadly, mac os handles write protection pretty strangely. E.g. you can't move a folder that has a protected file inside. It’s not like write-protection but more like a complete lock inside the file tree.

[Alfred]

9 minutes ago, rcheetah said:

Sadly, mac os handles write protection pretty strangely. E.g. you can't move a folder that has a protected file inside.

That doesn’t sound strange to me! Write protection implies that you can’t modify or delete the file; if you could move the containing folder you would be moving all the files in that folder to a new location, and ‘move to new location’ is equivalent to ‘copy to new location and then delete from original location’.