![]() I’ve gotten around this glitch by creating separate Left and Right masters for my current project, but even then Affinity Publisher really does not want to allow for the creation of a single right page master, it keeps trying to reset the margins as though it were on the left. It also does not have footnote support at present, which makes it less than ideal to layout my novels 6. Unfortunately, while this gives a page the correct layout, if text has been added to a text frame that was part of the master page it will be erased when the correct master is applied. And these attributes will only be changed when the master page is reapplied. That is, if a left page is moved to the right, it will keep it’s left page settings, instead of being reformatted for the right side of the document. ![]() All the pages move down, as they should, but they don’t repaginate. But problems arise when a single page, which uses master page spread, is added above existing pages in a project. Text boxes may also be set up in master pages and will be able to have text entered when applied to a page, which is wonderful. Master pages for documents which have facing pages 5 can be set up in a left-right spread, which is perfect. For example, it’s Master Page support is rather quirky. This isn’t to say Affinity Publisher is not without flaws. Affinity Publisher boasts master pages, a good table of contents generator, and a fantastic assets manager to store elements which will appear throughout a project. It’s table support isn’t as robust as Mellel’s 4, but as a frame-based application it’s much better for complex layout. And the way Mellel handles text styles is as good as any application I’ve ever used 3īut then Affinity Publisher arrived on the scene, and I fell in love. It was still a bit clunky for the type of project that is our directory, but Mellel’s ability to handle long form text, combine with seriously improved table support, really made it a contender. ![]() The first was Mellel 4.2, which added the type of table support I’ve been wanting for years from this application. This summer two contenders hit the market. This made zero sense to me, and so for the past several years I’ve been looking for an alternative. If I wanted to reference a way I’d laid something out, or check out my master pages, I literally would have to pay for another month of access to read my own file. I hated the subscription model, particularly because it meant that when we were done paying through our publishing cycle I couldn’t open my own project. When the 6.0 version ripped out features I needed for my project InDesign filled the hole, but I was never happy with it. Before the 6.0 redesign I’d been using Apple Pages for this book, as it handled what I threw at it better than anything else 2. It was a nice tool to use, especially for the type of data I needed to include, and had several features I required to make the layout work 1. The beauty of this approach is that each chapter is independent - if I add more pages to chapter 1 it will push out all of the other chapters and keep the chapter names on each page straight - I never have to worry about it again.For the past several years, I’ve been putting together ABCNJ’s Annual Directory in Adobe InDesign. I then clicked the overflow icon and Publisher created the other pages in that chapter for me, all linked together. When I added the text for chapter 1 to its only page, it resulted in an overflow condition. Then I applied the body master to all of those pages. I created one real page for chapter two and applied the chapter 2 master to it. I created one real page for chapter one and applied the chapter 1 master to it. ![]() I created a set of master pages for the page numbers and chapter names - one per chapter. Here's how I set up my book which is divided into several chapters. ![]()
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