Shorono Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 When you are working on larger magazine projects it is essential that you have some sort of copywriting program that streamlines the movement of text from the writers to the designer. Alfred and PaoloT 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 1 hour ago, Shorono said: When you are working on larger magazine projects it is essential that you have some sort of copywriting program that streamlines the movement of text from the writers to the designer. My preference is that they use plain text files. Put them in folders/directories with the article's name on the folder and I can sort by date, revision or title etc. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Plain text files are ok for english material and well time separated workflows, but giving writers access to magazine project document helps to make last minute corrections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 Apple's Pages is a robust app and able to import and export MS Word .doc files, and it's free and has web app as well, including markup and collaboration ability... seems like a no brainer to plug in to Pages... Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Sonoma 14.4.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsun Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 I have another use case for this feature and a reason I'd like to request it. I've been using InDesign as a kind of complex typesetting engine that allows me to do layouting with a GUI, while I manage my text (for manuscripts, etc.) as plain-text and with version tracking (git). This has been working great for me, since InCopy is a plain-text format and I can use git to track changes, merge old versions back into the current one, etc. Would be great to have external linked text documents (rtf, markdown, plain-text, even doc) for Affinity Publisher! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinksitdo Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 Old post but +1 for the Use Case from bsun above. I use Indesign to automatically layout chapters of a thesis. All wopywriting is done in Markdown (ulysses) and I have a automated batch process to convert .md files to .incopy. I can then open indesign and automatically update the file. Indesign should be used for Layout NOT copywriting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 It would be great if Publisher could import and export Markdown files. They are simple text files, with a very simple formatting syntax, that can be imported and exported by many text editors, or just written directly, due to its clarity and simplicity. Paolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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