I am so grateful for your detailed tutorials. I have spent an enormous amount of time looking for the right software for putting my book together. I use Microsoft Word and knew I needed something else to assist me with my book. Once I found affinity, I knew I needed great tutorials. And here you are, giving exactly what I have been searching for. Thank you, thank you.
Hi there EmpathicOne, I'm really glad that the tutorials are helping you to get to know Affinity software. By continually using Affinity Publisher you will discover more. Kind Regards to you....
5:50, the 'widowed line' was the entire paragraph, and it seems the widow check decided the entire paragraph was on the page, so there was nothing to be done.
At 08:47 -- the end of the section on baseline grid -- you say "So everything's fine," but everything is NOT fine. When you scrolled through the pages, aside from the fact that page 1 doesn't have a page number ... many of the pages don't fill out the page to the bottom of the baseline grid. The entire point of using a baseline grid is to have the text on each page have the same number of lines, start at the top margin, and end on the bottom margin. You showed how to activate baseline grid, but the program isn't doing it.
Use the baseline grid manager at the top of the page between preview mode and the snapping magnet. That is the whole doc, he did it to individual pages
Thank you for these tutorials. I just finished Part 1, lining up part 2. I have a 300? page manuscript I want to layout w Affiinity Publisher; I wrote it in Scrivener, have exported to MSWord, but still have some formatting things to sort out before I'm ready to press 'send'. These videos at least show me what I'm trying to do.
Hi there Driver49, Thank you for your message. I'm really glad that the tutorial has helped you on your journey with Affinity Publisher and finishing your book project. Kind Regards to you.
@@RoryMolePublishing And thank you for writing back. I wonder if you're available for a consultation should I need it? I tried loading my MS Word doc into Publisher per your instructions and... well, my 300 page book turned into 1900 pages! Not sure why that was, though I get that there are surely some formatting tricks to learn (I'm exporting for Scrivener). if that's something you can consider, let me know how I can reach you directly. Thanks again, --PS
I was a bit astonished that you do not use the Base style und cascading masters. To have pages without a master is not a good solution IMHO. There are some points where you changed individual items or pages where I believe you could have used AP settings to get them right.
If you watch the first video you will see me setting up master pages to link with the documents of the book. Thanks for your suggestions though. There are quite a few ways to lay out a book.
Honestly I need help on deciding what is the best tool for writing a Computer Science Textbook. I am computer science guy but venturing into writing for the first time. I know Affinity is good but I need other suggestions. I am going to learn from scratch and wouldn't wanna waist time. Thank you in Advance
Hi there, From what I have seen over the years, people write books using Microsoft Word. This software is the most popular writing tool for any kind of book you would like to produce because of it's word processing ability. I must be honest with you that I have not had any client approach me to lay out an academic book for them let alone a computer science book. I am sure that it would be doable to lay out. I presume that there are all sorts of coding parts and other diagrams that you might need to formulate as part of the book with illustrations too. Illustrations can be handled from within Affinity Publisher at any stage including the layout stage if you wish to do it that way. I suggest that you compile chapters in Microsoft word for the text part of the book. One MS Word document for all text with spaces for coding, equations and illustrations to be inserted later on. Then build the graphics part of the book separately in any of the Affinity Apps by single documents saved at a decent resolution. It might be a good thing to get all the Affinity Apps, (Photo, Designer and Publisher). You can't go wrong with these. Once you have everything ready for layout, then go to Affinity Publisher and compile the layout. This I think is the best approach that I would do. In place of MS Word there is Google Docs to consider. Hope this helps you decide what to do and where to start. I wish you all the best for this project. Regards to you.
@@RoryMolePublishing thank you so much for your insights. I really appreciate. I guess things like Table of contents, Index, Glossy can be generated with Affinity seamlessly. I'll give it a try. Thank you so much. I am already working with MS word. I simply want the final copy to look really professional. A friend proposed Adobe InDesign. So I had divided attention. Thanks again for your detailed explanation
I use to be a typesetter, back in the day, and I know all about widows and orphans, I know in Part 1 you set this document to avoid both, but when you scrolled through these pages, I see plenty of them. Why do you have your chapter headings down so far on the page? Is that to make room for illustrations?
Hi there Jet, Thanks for your comment here. I agree, I needed to fix the problems with widows and orphans through adjusting some of the settings in text styles which I did later. There is a great article on the Book Designer website which discusses this issue. Have a look at this. The advocate using Adobe InDesign for book layout. www.thebookdesigner.com/pagination-styles-shall-we-kill-the-widows-orphans/ Quite interesting.
In the part where you are showing how to create sections, you put the section name in and that becomes the header for the right-hand pages. But the first page of chapters should have a page number, but should NOT have a header. So you later show how to remove that by clearing the master from those pages, but that also removes the page number. You stated that we don't want a page number on the first pages of chapters, but that's incorrect. we DO want a page number (at least, in American publishing).
Hi there Mr. Patterson, It is not easy to know why you are experiencing crashes while using the section manager. I am running all the new v2 Affinity Apps on a 2013 Macbook Pro with no issues. It could help if you asked this same question on the Affinity Forums. Just go to Affinity's website and click on the menu link (three horizontal lines) on the top left hand side of their main page. Then click on "user forum" and it will take you to the forums page. Find the appropriate forum to post questions for affinity publisher and you should get some response from someone there. Hope this leads to a solution to your problem. Regards to you.
@@RoryMolePublishing It is unlikely that Mr. Patterson will receive any useful help from the Affinity forum. He will probably receive several responses from other end users of Affinity Publisher, and they will offer what they think is helpful advice -- but it's almost guaranteed to not address the problem. Serif (Affinity) itself does not participate in the "support" forum, which rather defeats the purpose.
I am so grateful for your detailed tutorials. I have spent an enormous amount of time looking for the right software for putting my book together.
I use Microsoft Word and knew I needed something else to assist me with my book.
Once I found affinity, I knew I needed great tutorials.
And here you are, giving exactly what I have been searching for.
Thank you, thank you.
Hi there EmpathicOne,
I'm really glad that the tutorials are helping you to get to know Affinity software.
By continually using Affinity Publisher you will discover more.
Kind Regards to you....
Thank you.
5:50, the 'widowed line' was the entire paragraph, and it seems the widow check decided the entire paragraph was on the page, so there was nothing to be done.
At 08:47 -- the end of the section on baseline grid -- you say "So everything's fine," but everything is NOT fine. When you scrolled through the pages, aside from the fact that page 1 doesn't have a page number ... many of the pages don't fill out the page to the bottom of the baseline grid. The entire point of using a baseline grid is to have the text on each page have the same number of lines, start at the top margin, and end on the bottom margin. You showed how to activate baseline grid, but the program isn't doing it.
Use the baseline grid manager at the top of the page between preview mode and the snapping magnet. That is the whole doc, he did it to individual pages
@@ianblanchard4476 Thank you so much!!! This was driving me nuts
If you triple click anywhere in the line of text you are trying to copy, it will select that whole line, without returns or spaces.
Thank you for these tutorials. I just finished Part 1, lining up part 2. I have a 300? page manuscript I want to layout w Affiinity Publisher; I wrote it in Scrivener, have exported to MSWord, but still have some formatting things to sort out before I'm ready to press 'send'. These videos at least show me what I'm trying to do.
Hi there Driver49,
Thank you for your message.
I'm really glad that the tutorial has helped you on your journey with Affinity Publisher and finishing your book project.
Kind Regards to you.
@@RoryMolePublishing And thank you for writing back. I wonder if you're available for a consultation should I need it? I tried loading my MS Word doc into Publisher per your instructions and... well, my 300 page book turned into 1900 pages! Not sure why that was, though I get that there are surely some formatting tricks to learn (I'm exporting for Scrivener). if that's something you can consider, let me know how I can reach you directly. Thanks again, --PS
@@driver49 You can email me at :- rorymole@gmail.com
I was a bit astonished that you do not use the Base style und cascading masters. To have pages without a master is not a good solution IMHO. There are some points where you changed individual items or pages where I believe you could have used AP settings to get them right.
If you watch the first video you will see me setting up master pages to link with the documents of the book.
Thanks for your suggestions though. There are quite a few ways to lay out a book.
Sir can you save that as a template and share it here? Thanks
nice
Honestly I need help on deciding what is the best tool for writing a Computer Science Textbook. I am computer science guy but venturing into writing for the first time.
I know Affinity is good but I need other suggestions. I am going to learn from scratch and wouldn't wanna waist time.
Thank you in Advance
Hi there,
From what I have seen over the years, people write books using Microsoft Word. This software is the most popular writing tool for any kind of book you would like to produce because of it's word processing ability. I must be honest with you that I have not had any client approach me to lay out an academic book for them let alone a computer science book. I am sure that it would be doable to lay out. I presume that there are all sorts of coding parts and other diagrams that you might need to formulate as part of the book with illustrations too. Illustrations can be handled from within Affinity Publisher at any stage including the layout stage if you wish to do it that way.
I suggest that you compile chapters in Microsoft word for the text part of the book. One MS Word document for all text with spaces for coding, equations and illustrations to be inserted later on. Then build the graphics part of the book separately in any of the Affinity Apps by single documents saved at a decent resolution. It might be a good thing to get all the Affinity Apps, (Photo, Designer and Publisher). You can't go wrong with these.
Once you have everything ready for layout, then go to Affinity Publisher and compile the layout.
This I think is the best approach that I would do.
In place of MS Word there is Google Docs to consider.
Hope this helps you decide what to do and where to start.
I wish you all the best for this project.
Regards to you.
@@RoryMolePublishing thank you so much for your insights. I really appreciate.
I guess things like Table of contents, Index, Glossy can be generated with Affinity seamlessly.
I'll give it a try. Thank you so much. I am already working with MS word.
I simply want the final copy to look really professional. A friend proposed Adobe InDesign. So I had divided attention. Thanks again for your detailed explanation
I use to be a typesetter, back in the day, and I know all about widows and orphans, I know in Part 1 you set this document to avoid both, but when you scrolled through these pages, I see plenty of them. Why do you have your chapter headings down so far on the page? Is that to make room for illustrations?
Hi there Jet,
Thanks for your comment here.
I agree, I needed to fix the problems with widows and orphans through adjusting some of the settings in text styles which I did later.
There is a great article on the Book Designer website which discusses this issue.
Have a look at this. The advocate using Adobe InDesign for book layout.
www.thebookdesigner.com/pagination-styles-shall-we-kill-the-widows-orphans/
Quite interesting.
In the part where you are showing how to create sections, you put the section name in and that becomes the header for the right-hand pages. But the first page of chapters should have a page number, but should NOT have a header. So you later show how to remove that by clearing the master from those pages, but that also removes the page number. You stated that we don't want a page number on the first pages of chapters, but that's incorrect. we DO want a page number (at least, in American publishing).
I wasn't sure about this, but I have a copy of Alice in Wonderland and there are no page numbers on the chapter pages.
My Section Manager crashes after the 7th section. Any tips on why this happens?
Hi there Mr. Patterson,
It is not easy to know why you are experiencing crashes while using the section manager.
I am running all the new v2 Affinity Apps on a 2013 Macbook Pro with no issues.
It could help if you asked this same question on the Affinity Forums. Just go to Affinity's website and click on the menu link (three horizontal lines) on the top left hand side of their main page. Then click on "user forum" and it will take you to the forums page. Find the appropriate forum to post questions for affinity publisher and you should get some response from someone there.
Hope this leads to a solution to your problem.
Regards to you.
@@RoryMolePublishing It is unlikely that Mr. Patterson will receive any useful help from the Affinity forum. He will probably receive several responses from other end users of Affinity Publisher, and they will offer what they think is helpful advice -- but it's almost guaranteed to not address the problem.
Serif (Affinity) itself does not participate in the "support" forum, which rather defeats the purpose.