Tyson of the Northwest Posted September 28, 2018 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
fde101 Posted October 2, 2018 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
A_B_C Posted October 2, 2018 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
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