create tri-fold publication

[Longtimer]

How is a tri-fold publication created in any of the three Affinity Apps? Like it was possible in DrawPlus

[R C-R]

I'm sure there are several ways to do that in the Affinity apps, but since Affinity Publisher is still in beta & not recommended for production work, what I would probably do for now is to use Designer & create two artboards, one for each side of the document, sized to the dimensions of the unfolded page, & use guides as needed to indicate where the folds will be.

[Longtimer]

Alternately in Publisher:-

Open a Landscape page.

Open a table using the Table Tool.

Delete/Add columns in the table so that there are three columns.

Stretch and position the table so that it fits across the page. This will give a good division of the page in to three.

OR

Create a rectangle about the size of one third of the page. Copy and paste it twice so that you have three identical rectangles. Arrange them neatly/touching side by side.

Join the three and adjust them to fit the page.

Now work in the three rectangles. (They can be removed if not wanted once the document is designed).

Repeat for the other side of the document.

You will have to work out where the front page of the trifold should be in your design and similarly the other pages.

Unfortunately Designer has no way of creating a rectangle divided into columns and rows as did DrawPlus and using the table creating tool in Publisher is a stop gap method.

 

[Sharkey]

On 12/26/2018 at 3:17 PM, Longtimer said:

How is a tri-fold publication created in any of the three Affinity Apps? Like it was possible in DrawPlus

If your on a Mac just use 'Pages'

[v_kyr]

2 hours ago, Longtimer said:

Unfortunately Designer has no way of creating a rectangle divided into columns and rows as did DrawPlus and using the table creating tool in Publisher is a stop gap method.

You can try to overcome to this with setting up some snapping grid, guide lines, anchored framed text ... etc.