Love to hear that. Let me know if there's anything in particular you are struggling with as far a designing your first book. Would be a huge help as I'm actively looking for ideas about what to make videos on.

Keep at it. It didn't come naturally to me either. It's just a lot of trial and error until you land on the numbers that make it work, but once you do you'll have a template that you can use over and over.

Glad you thought so! Thanks for watching.

Yes, you can absolutely use Affinity Publisher to create a PDF to use for Amazon KDP.

@@RyanMungia Thank you. I am a not for profit and have a very generous license from Affinity. This will give lots of opportunities for local artists who work with us to publish small photo books

Thank you so much

Glad you liked it!

Appreciate the support

I'm glad you found it useful!

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You'll have to adjust the top and bottom margins slightly. Try it with 48 pt for the top margin and 60 pt for the bottom margin. That'll give you six rows with 12 pt alleys, aka space between the rows. You may also want to make the left and right margins 48 pts to match.

Anything in particular you want to see? Just lmk

@ I need to learn about Drop Caps in Affinity Publisher. I know a bit about the “how” but I need to know more about the “when.” Your presentations are so helpful!

@@ChristopherBriscoe I can def. yap about drop caps for a minute or two. Thanks for the kind words and the suggestion!

Love to hear it

Glad you think so

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So glad you like it bro. I'm only doing KZbin at the moment (balancing client work and making videos is already a lot) but who knows, that could change?

@RyanMungia i can totally relate. Those 2 are already a lot to manage

Love to hear it, especially coming from a fellow typography nerd. Thanks for watching!

That's an interesting take and makes complete sense. It'll be fascinating to see how that develops in the coming months/years. I started using Affinity this year, so not too long relatively speaking. I've found it pretty intuitive, though I'm still learning new things all the time. That said, I also continue to use Adobe because as a freelancer it's required by many of of the vendors and clients I work with. Thanks for your thoughts-long-winded comments are always appreciated!

@ I have been in biz for over 20 yrs. Mostly do branding / graphic / web. I am getting rid of adobe month end. Most stuffwe do now can be in pdf. What I have noticed recently and I am not sure if it’s me learning Affinity more but ai files come over much better now it seems. Again it could be me. I think a mistake I was making before was when I would bring something over in an AI file when you get that box that comes up I don’t think I was checking to keep the text and then it was not only outlining it but just doing some other weird stuff so I think that’s what it is. The thing I love about affinity is that it’s so much smoother than Adobe and the whole like integration just makes so much sense and now that I use Final Cut Pro for video and let’s be honest I mean, I don’t do real heavy animation I can use Canva for that. There’s a lot of stuff you can do in those programs now that you can pretty much do animation unless again like if you’re doing high-end stuff than obviously you gotta do after effects but oh my God after effects I mean, talk about a clunky program anyways always fun to talk shop.

​@@roguewavecreative Super interesting to hear. I was doing stuff for a restaurant recently and the manufacturer making its coasters would only accept AI files. That has been my experience for the most part, but anecdotally I've heard of others making the switch without too much hassle. I agree, though, Affinity is super smooth and a great software. Always a pleasure talking shop!

@ I think there is a website or something out there where you can convert files to ai.

Synth and you shall receive.

Glad to hear. I’ll definitely do more on this subject. Thanks for watching!

Absolutely! I can definitely go over that in another video. You’e on the right track-paying attention to details like exporting really can add up to make a big difference. Thanks for watching!

You're so welcome!

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I'm glad you enjoyed the video! And 14 books-impressive work! For your question, have you tried adding a "hair space" or "thin space"? You can add a vertical guide where you want the Chapter Headings to align, then insert a few hair spaces (Text > Insert > Spaces & Tabs) to each heading to align them perfectly. Another option is using a monospace font for the numbers to ensure consistent widths and get rid of that wavy effect.

Thank you so much.

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for the feedback. Will definitely keep that in mind for future videos like this.

Thanks, Bob - glad you liked it!

So glad to hear.

Good catch-I totally missed that. Thanks for pointing it out. I'll definitely keep it in mind next time.

I might know a way to make different gutters for rows instead of universal gutters. If so, will make a quick video about it. But yeah I know what you mean about it feeling counterintuitive after spending so much time with InDesign. My main issue is that a lot of clients/vendors I work with only accept Adobe files. But that's a completely different topic. Anyway, hopefully Affinity keeps improving the product over time (I think it will)

@@RyanMungia Oh yeah that sounds like a big problem. I read about a program that converts indd to afpub and I believe vice versa when I was looking for a way to open my indd files but I forgot the name and the price is just as expensive as the affinity bundle. I wish there was a better way. But a video about row gutters sounds amazing and I would appreciate it a lot!!! 🙏