Using Master Pages in Affinity Publisher | Low-Content Books

[@RachelHarrisonSund]

Do you use Affinity Publisher and have you taken advantage of master pages yet? Let me know in the comments, and thanks for watching!

[@mikemcknelly7362]

I am making a short edged 8.5x11 address book and was wondering if there was a quick way to set up text flow with page numbering? we connected and numbered the pages by hand and that took forever. Please Help

[@WolfQuantum]

Back in the late 90s and early 2000s I used Page Maker, Quark, and InDesign. I wanted to get back to a real publishing program, but I don't have any reason or the money for the big names. I was planning on buying Affinity Publisher, but put it off. Tonight I found it on their site on sale for half off. It also came with three different templates for free. Perfect timing for finding these videos.

[@amyprice6965]

FANTASTIC and HELPFUL video! Thank You, I'm excited to go practice with my new "MASTER' knowledge!

[@gemlady72]

Thank you for this great Affinity Publisher tutorial. I’m learning so much. Please keep ‘em coming!

[@RachelHarrisonSund]

Glad you're finding them useful!

[@rdhcreations]

I love Affinity Publisher. I signed up for the free trial and used it for 2 days and just went ahead and purchased it.

[@i.m.hidden2788]

Thanks, Rachel! I knew most of that but the "edit detached" was a new hack. Much appreciated!

[@diyday21]

Great video Rachel! Thanks!

[@glennfleming]

Nice and clear, Rachel! I've been using Master Pages for over 25 years in both Quark and In-Design and, as you know, both applications have a slightly different way of producing them. I got my 30 day trial today and thought "Oh, no! Here we go again!". Now - you've shown how to do it without the usual frustration of learning and finding out for oneself! Lazy rules!! Thanks!

[@charitysquid4057]

Rachel, I am glad I discovered your videos! I just purchased Publisher and didn't know where to start. I didn't really like the videos from Publisher themselves. I like the way you explain things so easily. I was using Google Slides and it was somewhat limited. I will be watching all of your videos from now on!

[@Tashasplayground]

Great video! Just downloaded the free trial and this answers so many questions I had! Thank you.

[@RachelHarrisonSund]

Glad to help!

[@judithsimanton5260]

Thank so much for your videos. They are helpful for my work as I am working on inserting content for a designer who is using Affinity and I am new to all this.

[@rich_h483]

I bought it on Black Friday but yet to take full advantage of it, loving these videos on it.

[@RachelHarrisonSund]

Awesome, glad you got the deal!

[@terryfennell1941]

I haven't done much with Publisher yet but I did use Master Pages in its predecessor, Page Plus. They are very useful when you want the same information on several pages or when as I did produce posters monthly for concerts.

[@3PairDesigns]

Rachel! Thank you for this! I actually saw your older video from last year where you showed how to do an easy planner in Affinity Publisher and so I went and bought it. It was 50% off, I was thrilled! Then I replayed that video and went right along with you for that tutorial again and created a planner. It looked alright for a first swing at it in a brand new platform, but when I finished and added my own artwork, etc., I found my margins were very slightly off and KDP said 'no bueno!'. I went back and redid the whole thing from the beginning because I didn't have a full understanding of Master Pages! It was fine because I learned even more that second go 'round. I am still for some reason having a very slight issue, but at least now, thanks to this tutorial, I know how to fix it. Fingers crossed. Thank you so, so much! You are a blessing! 😊👍

[@mikethompson9030]

Yay! Another Affinity Publisher tutorial! Until Serif gets it together offers the hardback manual to go with their Photo and Designer books, you're my go-to!

[@RachelHarrisonSund]

Thanks, Mike!

[@beckycannon9873]

I am using Affinity Publisher and have some experience using master pages, but am still learning how to do some things. Thanks for this tutorial! I knew a lot of it but I picked up a couple of really valuable tips!

[@RachelHarrisonSund]

Thanks, Becky!

[@uhoku_official]

Hello Rachel, i love your content, thank you for sharing your knowledge. recently purchased the affinity suite for desktop and iPad. I have finalized 2 illustrated children books and am planning to upload my illustrations in affinity publisher to add my text. My concern is that I’ve been thoroughly looking for a tool to convert my book to epub with fixed layout and I’m out of ressources. The tools a looked into were developed for text books. Would you have any recommendations? Thanking you, Julie

[@MaximShelkov]

This was a good video, I am working on creating a guitar method book for my music school. Your videos are helpful thank you for taking the time to make them.

[@RachelHarrisonSund]

You're very welcome!

[@AndyMorrisArt]

Another excellent video. I was just about to get the Affinity suite of tools, it's a great price right now, but then I realized my old pc won't support it, so I started down the rabbit hole of which new computer should I buy. I was hoping to find something under $400 with adequate hardware but I'm wondering in your opinion what PC or Mac do you recommend for Affinity Publisher and Designer?

[@k15photos]

I had used master page once, accidentally, and it really made so much of an impressions on me I had to make sure I take time to learn moer of it and how to make full use if it

[@pinktweedy3325]

I am getting to grips with Affinity Publisher and finding it much easier and quicker to learn than Affinity Designer. Thanks for the tutorial, I think I have it now.

[@luxurycardstore]

Thanks for a really good tutorial. I think Affinity Publisher is awesome. I have 2 questions. Scenario- you have an 80 page document and most of those pages have multiple masters applied. If I wanted to delete only 2 out of 3 masters on only 35 of the 80 pages, how would you do that without deleting all 3 masters? Question 2, how would you apply that without having to do it 35 times? Thanks!

[@RachelHarrisonSund]

You're welcome! What you can do is duplicate the master page that you'd like to remove from those 35 pages, then right click on it, choose Apply Master to Pages, then specify the pages that you'd like the master to remain applied to. Once you've done that you can delete the original master. I just did a quick test and that seemed to work. You'll just have to be mindful of the "Remove Existing" check box to see if/how that affects the other masters that are applied to those pages.

[@luxurycardstore]

@@RachelHarrisonSund Thank you thank you thank you. I have been trying to figure this out for a while. You are a master of your craft

[@commonsense955]

One of the BEST training videos I've seen in a LONG TIME! THANK YOU!! Question: We are about to begin composing a number of stand-alone chapters (or if you like, "books", which will probably also be combined into a larger volume in the future). For each stand-alone chapter, I am curious how you would suggest dealing with the cover page, which will have unique content/graphics, et al compared to the remaining pages in chapter(s). Your removing the first page from the master pages (starting at time stamp 9:01)seems to be one way of doing so. Are there any other useful ways or better ways of doing so, and under what considerations??? Thanks in advance.

[@MJFITTV]

Hi Rachel, I'm loving your teaching. Thank you. I'm considering Affinity Publisher and wondered if I can merge my current pdf files within the program? I'm having trouble keeping the bleed when I merge my interior pdf files.

[@tinysmallfryskitchen8610]

Must admit I need to apply myself a bit, I loved page plus and really understood that. Now I’m starting again with affinity nothing appears to be where I’m expecting it. I shall persevere though thanks to your excellent videos.

[@mcnastycrkali6884]

New to kdp, this video eye opener. Need help margins in the program.

[@3PairDesigns]

p.s. as intimidating as Affinity Publisher can be, I love it. There is a learning curve, but it is well worth it. It is a great mid-range desktop publishing program that packs a real punch for an extremely reasonable price. I am glad you told us about it. :-)

[@gareyford9071]

I'm probably missing something, but you are the second creator I've clicked on to find out how to create a master page. It seems everyone assumes first-time users already know how to create a master page. It might be just me who doesn't know how to do this, and it's not a default, at least on my latest version.

[@vickylatorre2969]

Hi Rachel, thank you so much for all the videos you make for us. I was wondering if you could tell us how to make the page number to show underneath of each page in the page view column on the left. Mine doesn't show. Thanks again.

[@vickylatorre2969]

Is somebody is having this problem to, you just have to change your font size in your device. I have a pc with windows 10. After making the text smaller now the numbers are showing :)

[@feliciafoster5115]

I currently use purchased (or free) templates for my interiors. But the more I think about it, customized interiors are really the way to go, if I want my LCBs to stand out from the rest. I like the idea of taking advantage of the free trial to see how steep the learning curve is.

[@RachelHarrisonSund]

I agree, custom interiors are definitely the way to go for long-term success!

[@kamranshamim9984]

Hi Rachel, Hope you are doing good. Do you know What is the license duration of Affinity tools ?

[@am0oma]

Great video, thank you a lot 👍

[@mikearst2940]

Thanks kindly for this video - very clear steps. I'm gradually sliding back toward the world of publishing after being out of it for a long time (in those old days, with QuarkXPress). First task: make a template for book publishing (a small photo portfolio) via the MagCloud book system, which would be a good "sandbox" because it's very affordable. The process overall is: publishing-software template to publishing-software document, save to PDF, then upload PDF to MagCloud. MagCloud doesn't yet have any templates in Affinity Publisher format, so I'd need to make one for myself. On the one hand it doesn't _sound_ horribly complicated, but I've been away from this for many years and am unsure how to go about learning as deep a program as Affinity Publisher. Suggestions on how to proceed would be much appreciated, and thanks in advance.

[@RachelHarrisonSund]

Hi Mike, welcome back to the world of publishing! I have to admit, I've never heard of MagCloud. I've also never used QuarkXPress, so I can't say how similar Affinity Publisher is to Quark. It's almost exactly like InDesign though, so if you have any experience with that software, AP will be a piece of cake to wrap your head around. Publisher offers a free trial, so you could always download it and play around for the trial period and see how far you get with it. Let me know if you end up trying it out!

[@mikearst2940]

@@RachelHarrisonSund Thanks for your reply. I was leaving the business at the time QuarkXPress was starting to fade out in popularity. I never used InDesign. (There were no such things as layers in publishing programs at that time.) I'll definitely try the evaluation version of Publisher. MagCloud was, I think, acquired by Blurb. They don't have Blurb's comprehensive book-creation tool that you can download. Another difference seems to be that they are good for making very short and low-cost books (if you choose saddle-stitch binding, as few as 8 pages + cover; minimum 20 pages if you choose perfect binding). A photographer often seen on Facebook and KZbin* has been trying out MagCloud for short tests - both color and b&w - and has been getting very good-quality results. B.t.w. I found a couple of the Affinity Revolution videos really good, so thanks for that recommendation. * If you search the kzbin.info KZbin channel for "book" you can find a few examples.

[@mikearst2940]

One interesting challenge with MagCloud (or is this true of all self-published books?) is that they of course expect photographic files to be in an RGB color space, but if you're including text they want it in CMYK. Is it even possible in Affinity Publisher to have an RGB document with little "islands" of CMYK like that? In any case they insist: no spot-colors for the text. That whole bit is a little mysterious to me yet.

[@SheilaLowe]

I have been using QuarkXpress for about a year after being forced by Windows 10 to give up Corel Ventura Publisher. Is Affinity a better option for newsletters and books?

[@happybackchiropractic]

Rachel you’re awesome. Thx so much. Im curious, can AP create a fillable pdf form with fillable fields, buttons and check boxes?

[@nounix]

Hi Three very quick questions please 🙏(well, the required replies are short/quick lol!): 1) If I want to apply a black background to all pages of my document via a master page, the only way to do this is to create a rectangle with a black fill and drag it to cover the entire master page's white canvas (and apply this master page to all the pages), correct? (*ie. There's no way to just set black as the default canvas color for this document, or for the master page which will be applied to all pages.) 2) If I want to apply different elements to the document's pages (eg. page numbers / black background rectangle / shape), for EACH element I want to apply to the rest of the pages, I should create a SEPARATE master page for it, right? (*ie. I should not create ONE master page which contains ALL the different elements I want to apply throughout the document, and just apply this master to all the pages - because if the master has a black rectangle background, and a page number, in it, I would want the black rectangle to be the lowest layer on each page, while the page number on the top of the list..) 3) How do I "tell" the app on what LAYER LEVEL to apply the master page in the pages that it's applied to (given that the master page, as opposed to the rest of the pages, only contains ONE layer: the element that will be applied throughout the document - eg. a page-number layer on its own)? (*eg. if all the pages have photos that take up the entire page - so each page has multiple layers of photos - if I want to apply a page number to all these pages, this applied layer needs to be ABOVE all the pages' layers so that the page numbers are visible. But, by default, AP applies this page-number layer on the master to the BOTTOM of the layers' list of each page, making the page number invisible as it's hidden behind the all photos' layers which cover each page! So to fix this, the only way I see possible, is to MANUALLY drag the page-number layer to the top of the layers' list for EACH of the 100+ pages... : 🙄 Which of course beats the purpose of master page instant global application lol) THANK YOU!!

[@ThatHolisticMom]

hey. I'm not able to edit the text from the templates I brought it just opens as one big image no editable text. what should I do?

[@mahmoudfathy7840]

I bought that book and now I have ideas for the rest of my life

[@SierraRectoday]

Kind of using, but using wrong based on this video. Thanks for the help

[@RJMartinez]

Awesome video ❤

[@RachelHarrisonSund]

Thanks, RJ!

[@manishkr8522]

thanks !!

[@elizabethw3841]

Great video - but what if I want to apply a Master Page to a range of pages? Say 50-100. When I type "50-100" it only ends up putting the master page on the next page after that range: pg. 101. I don't know why this is happening. :( I also tried applying the Master Page to ALL pages and it only puts in on the last page. ??

[@tkarlmann]

Is there sny way to re-use a Master Page created in another (Publisher) Document? -- Without having to re-do all those fields?

[@pikolowet]

Hey, my masters do not automatically update pages I have used my master page on. I have to update them manually. Do you know why?

[@yesyoucanwithMarilynn]

Probably a dumb/crazy question, but am new to everything. Is there a way to put multiple master sheets - 3 together to form a repeating pattern in a journal or do you have to go in and manually insert different master pages in each section? Probably not asking this correctly, but it is driving me crazy doing 3 pages of one master and then 1 page each of 3 other masters. Thanks

[@malhamishery9]

Thank you

[@saritasharma8470]

How to upload a low content book designed in affinity publisher as there is a difference in file type from the one required by KDP ?

[@aomaromlil2720]

hi thank you for all your videos, it helped me a lot. last week I created a coloring book of 124 pages 8.5 * 11 inches, and I tried to upload it, but when I get to the page to choose the price, I have this msg "We found an issue on an earlier page of your title setup. Please go back, review your information and save in order to continue " i don't know if you had any idea about this problem

[@RachelHarrisonSund]

Hi Jacob, I haven't seen this before, but I would just follow their instructions and go from there.

[@aomaromlil2720]

@@RachelHarrisonSund I already tried everything without any success thank you

[@relaxingsnoozy1189]

Great

[@hasibulislam1280]

Could you please tell us if the Amazon.com book "9816 niches for low profit book" is worth it?

[@struttinyourstuffmobilebou8132]

Is Affinity Publisher the same as Affinity Designer?

[@samrak9459]

😍

[@yoursbangla3201]

Definitively I dont know how that book has 9816 niches with his search result, but I think I invested in almost 10.000 ideas!

[@jomherber2544]

The art of bookmaking, layouting and print design has a long and fascinating history, deeply rooted in crafts that need comprehensive professional training and education. Why do you, as a professional designer, foster vanity publishers flooding print on demand platforms with booklets often lacking even the most basic standards of professional print design? What's the sense of diluting a professional driven market with amateurs' work??

[@luxurycardstore]

I'll answer this one for you Rachel - Because the public has proven time and time again that they will buy what these "amateurs" are producing. If there were no validity or saleability to what these "amateurs" make, I'm pretty sure Amazon would have killed the POD programs by now. However not only did they not kill KDP they doubled down and put their money where their mouth is. Hopefully we won't see you hanging around KDP. Please make sure you don't pollute our "amateur" lake with any of your "faux highbrow" drivel.

[@jomherber2544]

@@luxurycardstore I replied in a new thread. Best regards

[@RachelHarrisonSund]

Hi Jom, I couldn't agree more with your comments regarding the art of bookmaking. But what's also true is that the industry of self-publishing is thriving, and it's here to stay. This means that publishing fiction, nonfiction, low-content, and the like is now fully accessible to nearly everyone on Earth, regardless of their level of skill or training. The entire point of self-publishing is to open up the field to "amateurs". And this industry would be booming regardless of my presence on KZbin. What I aim to do with my channel is offer my acquired design and self-publishing knowledge to those who most likely would be self-publishing regardless of my existence on YT, but are interested in building and elevating their own skills in the name of creating higher quality books. Those that aren't concerned with flooding the market with thousands of poor-quality books generally aren't consuming my content.

[@struttinyourstuffmobilebou8132]

So Affinity Publisher is different that Affinity Designer. I think I just purchased and downloaded the wrong program...lol Focus Sharlene, focus! lol

[@shaongazi5238]

Rachel you’re awesome. Thx so much. Im curious, can AP create a fillable pdf form with fillable fields, buttons and check boxes?

[@abdurrouf5011]

Could you please tell us if the Amazon.com book "9816 niches for low profit book" is worth it?