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Post by verhaden on Mar 20, 2020 5:32:10 GMT -6
Just wanted to link this as a heads up. I'm too locked into the Adobe ecosystem to make the switch, but if you're an aspiring hobby book/zine creator, you might want to check out Affinity Photo (Photoshop), Designer (Illustrator), and Publisher (InDesign). affinity.serif.com/en-us/They're on sale right now. Publisher is certainly better than Word, Scribus, or MS Publisher. |
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Post by thegreyelf on Mar 20, 2020 10:38:21 GMT -6
I'm using Affinity Publisher for Elf Lair Games products right now. It's fantastic. Userfriendly, powerful, and outstanding technical support. The latest version adds the ability to combine multiple files (its version of the "Book" function from Adobe) and also boasts some compatibility with InDesign via the .idml file format.
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Post by talysman on Mar 20, 2020 12:17:49 GMT -6
I'm using Affinity Publisher for Elf Lair Games products right now. It's fantastic. Userfriendly, powerful, and outstanding technical support. The latest version adds the ability to combine multiple files (its version of the "Book" function from Adobe) and also boasts some compatibility with InDesign via the .idml file format. Does it allow flowing text into linked frames, the way InDesign does? I use LyX and am quite happy with it, but the one thing InDesign did that LyX doesn't do is the linked frames thing. LyX is LaTeX-based, so frames in LyX are exceptions to the main text (pull quotes, tables, etc.) and not a way to conceptually lay out a bunch of text. |
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Post by thegreyelf on Mar 20, 2020 13:08:51 GMT -6
Assuming I'm understanding what you're asking, Yes, it works just like InDesign. You link the frames you want to flow and it flows right over. I have not figured out how to automatically link frames from one master page to the next yet, but I'm sure there's a way to do it (I just haven't sussed it out).
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Post by thegreyelf on Mar 20, 2020 13:09:28 GMT -6
I laid out an entire chapter this morning in Night Shift, 22 pages or so, with artwork and all, in about a half hour.
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Post by Starbeard on Mar 20, 2020 14:18:44 GMT -6
Thanks for the heads up, just what I was waiting for.
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Post by thegreyelf on Mar 20, 2020 17:52:04 GMT -6
talysman, this might be of some use: affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Text/flowingText.html?title=Flowing%20text%20through%20framesWhat I did was create a 42 (or so) page document with my master pages and all the text frames set up, page numbering set in, etc. all for your basic 2-column layout, then I saved that as a template. When I'm ready to do a new chapter, I just open up the template and dump the text right into it, then do the layout tweaking, adding art, etc. from there. Tables can be a BIT clunky, but they're not too bad. You basically need to create the table from scratch in the layout software, setting the text flow (jump/tight/around, etc.) then copy/paste your table text from your Word (or whatever) table into your Publisher table. Publisher will preserve bold, italics, and underline but strips out all other formatting when you bring the text over.
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