A Shallow Dive into the great Affinity Publisher

Half a 58keys Three Biscuit Guide to Affinity Publisher and into magazine design. A favourite app and a truly favourite topic for me.
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[@lorensims4846]

Yes, page design is very different from writing but equally important.

[@johnnyragadoo2414]

A delightful video!

[@barryporter6993]

basically a style sheet.

[@ashcross]

Useful and interesting as always, William, thank you. Although everyone is a bit worried about AI taking over creative jobs, desktop publishing reminds me that software has been democratising all sorts of skills over decades. The ability to create good quality magazines from home, using DTP, is one example. Sourcing images from Pexels instead of an expensive image library is another. Maybe AI is just a continuation of this, but of course we didn't reckon on software that had 'intuition' and 'intelligence'. Where is the creativity or humanity when we can just tell AI to create us a magazine filled with content? The next decades are going to be very odd for us (ahem) old timers.

[@TherealPaulMounts]

Great as always. A sort-of non AD tip - I get scripts from various writers that I have to “text-clean” all the time. I used to do special character search-and-replace in MS Word to get rid of all of the double spaces, multiple tabs/returns, but there is a way to do this in Pages that works great (and would be easy to build a shortcut for on a Mac). This video runs through it pretty thoroughly:

[@FOBob-sr1fd]

I would love a short demo of the batch job feature. 😃

[@tripley66]

I did indeed enjoy this, and the end stories. I did download Affinity Publisher, trial version, after your recent video. Fiddled with same, and then deleted....having no experience with prior software of the same type. BUT that does not keep me from enjoying what it can do and how you do it. The closest I come to a similar experience is uploading an EPUB file to kindle to publish a paperback and getting those awful messages that 'cannot print' and you gotta do something or this will self explode, or something like that. I try not to take it personally.

[@peterc2248]

Arrgh, saw the notification and thumbnail and went giddy with excitement BUT I'm heading out the door to an avoidable posh do. Can you tell I'd rather stay home and watch your (very brightly lit) sachet through this 'applicatione fabulosii'? TTFN but catch you in the morning with coffee and Anadin Extra :-)

[@ghost-user559]

Have you used the Studio Link feature much yet? It’s brilliant to switch between Designer and Photo apps while staying in Publisher. Don’t use it very often but in theory it’s very nice to have.

[@websiteckron8591]

Started also with quark depression… try to learn affinity..

[@anthonygladman6558]

Maaaaate... one text frame for the whole page set to two columns. Flow to same again on the recto and you're laughing. You can fiddle about with the gutter to your heart's content.