Tyson of the Northwest Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 Since Publisher currently does not support merging I was wondering what sort of options we would have for a workaround? Is there any documentation of the format of afpub? I was thinking I could potentially write a tool to generate a file that would walk a data source, create elements, size them and place them on pages, then apply the appropriate master page to the page. From there I could open it in Publisher and modify it appropriately. Alternatively is there (or will there be) api or plugin support where we could develop such a plugin independently? I am developing a Card game and being able to merge from my content source database (or csv export) would make this a perfect product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 There have been indications that the file format may not be 100% stable between now and the release so I don't think they would be too interested in spending time on publishing it at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 It is very unlikely that the file format(s) of the Affinity Suite will ever be made public: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/31716-file-format-specification/&tab=comments#comment-153942 One of the key developers also provided technical reasons for this: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/31716-file-format-specification/&tab=comments#comment-154178 Hope that helps … Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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