So I've now used Affinity Publisher twice to create photography books. Or rather, I am working on the second one now. For some reason, every time I save my projects, they will lose data on images and I have to re-add the images. Its happened many times now.

Does anyone have any idea why this keeps happening?

I'm very close to doing a much larger book with many more images. I don't want to have to re-add 100 files every time I reopen the saved project.

Hello everyone, this is my first time doing a Souvenir magazine for a church anniversary, so i'm a bit nervous😅. The Magazine will be **8.5 by 11inches**.

**Grid System****:** What are the reccommended column and row guide size for a clean layout?.

**Advertisements****:** How do I properly place advertisements while keeping in mind the spacing so they don't itch on each other, the sizes are Half page, Quarter page, Full page and Business listing.

**Running Heads& Headlines:** Does each headline title and banner have to have the same style or can it be different across each page?

I planned to have a Running head for each page for the Ministry title because each page has a Ministry Name. Then the headline text directly below styled in a banner kind of thing. I decided to do it that way because the ministry name and headline title cannot hold in the running header. E.g. Music Ministry — The Voices That Lift Our Worship.

**Finding Inspiration:** What magazines can I draw inspiration from, for a Church anniversary Sounvenir magazine. I'm mostly seeing some good design and layout from funeral memorial magazines as well as some yearbooks(for profile or awardees pages).

Lastly, Is it okay to use print export presets, such as Press Ready, for high-quality commercial printing, or are there other export settings you would recommend?

If there is anyone who is experienced in designing and printing souvenir magazines and can share any tips or best practices for a successful and properly printed magazine I would really appreciate it. 🙏🏼☺️🥹

Hi,

I know there is a dedicated subgroup for Affinity 3, but I miss a place where one can focus on page layout only. We publishers are a tiny minority, so our issues get easily lost among the questions from illustrators.

This would be the right group to continue focusing on that side of the program. Maybe updating the group name could help it continuing to be the right place for this matter?

Hi. A really strange thing is happening with my Frame Text tool. I created a font (which I have been using just fine for years now). Today, my "M" started acting up. The "M" itself yields more a cluster of dots/lines. When I tried it on a different line, it made the text that followed into similar dots and lines. When I deleted that "M," that same text went back to normal

I make layouts with AI a lot now (be gentle). Claude gives me an HTML report in minutes. Getting that into a proper layout file used to mean rebuilding it by hand, box by box, font by font.

So I built idmly. Drop in the HTML, get back a real .idml. Not a flattened PDF, not an image trace. Real text frames, named paragraph and character styles, brand swatches, linked images, editable charts.

I built it for InDesign people, but IDML is the bridge format Publisher reads natively. If you've ever opened an IDML from a client or collaborator and watched the styles fall apart on import, that's usually because the source file was built sloppy. A clean IDML in means a clean import out. I haven't run a full Publisher round-trip test myself yet, which is honestly why I'm posting here. If you try it, I want to know what breaks and how it does.

What it handles well: multi-page reports, CSS columns (real multi-column frames), borders, tables, image-heavy pages. Ran a 30-page client file through it last week, tweaked a couple of elements, straight into production.

What it'll choke on: gnarly text reflow edge cases. Next thing I'm fixing.

First 2 pages of any file convert free, no account. Full license is $49 once. No subscription, I hate them too. Looking for people who've felt the pain of a half-broken IDML import. Go break it. idmly.com

A number of my pages have a square of discolouration over some of the images. See image attached. Can anyone help with this problem. TIA.

Dear Community,

I‘m working on a small informational flyer for my workplace in Affinity publisher on Ipad.

I‘m used to work on a desktop PC and had my file packaging routine from Indesign.
But Recently my file seems to have troube linking to it‘s images when I want to re-open my file to work on it again. Last time I manually replaced all the images but i don‘t want to do it everytime.
Also I don‘t want to embedd all the images since it would blow up the file size immensely and I’d like to be able to fluidly work in the app without it crashing :D

Did anybody here have had the same problem working on Ipad?

How do I solve it?

I‘ve put some screenshots for explainability. They‘re german tho, i wrote the translation next to it.

Thanks for your help!

Worth checking out if you've been curious about this pixel stretch effect.

So I build a book for my photography to sell online. When I go to export the PDF file, for some reason many of the images will have a strange artifact.Where it will look like the top half of the image is torn and bleeds into a random image from later on in the document. I tried exporting a single page from the book , but when I only export a single page , it doesn't replicate the problem.

EDIT: problem solved. The issue was the "rasterize everything" setting. After I turned it off, the pdf exported correctly.

Hi,

I've been using Affinity Publisher for years now, and have successfully laid out five novels with it. I love the software, and had switched from InDesign to it back in 2020.

I'm now laying out a new novel and when I placed the text from a Word document into my new project, on many (but not all) of the pages, the last line is underlined. However, nothing in the software shows that it's underlined, except that visually, I can see it on on the pages in the software. When I export to a PDF, the underlines are not there.

When it appears, it's always the last line on the page, even if I change what the last line is, the underline remains on the last line. It's so very weird.

I think this is just some visual bug that has nothing to do with the actual layout. Like I said, when I export, the underlines are gone. It's only in the text box on the pages.

Has anyone seen that? If so, is there a way to get rid of them? It's very annoying.

I publish a print newsletter for a very small non-profit. We are all volunteers. For about nine years, I have been using MS Publisher. But now Microsoft is discontinuing Publisher, and I have to switch. I have selected Affinity. I will be using version 3.2.

Is there any book or online guide specific to those of us switching from MS Publisher to Affinity, particularly one that, for each feature of MS Publisher, describes the corresponding feature in Affinity?

I don't use the elipsis character, but instead have it as the Chicago Manual of Style says, which is " . . ." But when I lay out my book, I need to make each occurrence of it to not wrap to the next line, but stay together on the same line. I remember there's a way to set text to do that, but I can't remember.

Does anyone know how to do that?

HI Guys... I can't figure out what is going wrong here....
When I move the text box on the left page of the Master Page spread...it move the text on the right pages? and vice versa... very strange... but I'm sure it' something so simple. Here's a link to a screenrecording. https://share.zight.com/eDu4kRNz if anyone can help me out.

I am literally learning as I go. I created a 40 page document. Do those pages include the cover?

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I'm assuming the cover will be a separate document, but i wasn’t sure.

Am looking for insight. My iPad Apps apparently are *all* showing abysmal layer behaviour:

Layers and objects that are at the bottom, seem at the top and vice versa. The curves were originally part of a set of combined curves (an old logo), and when releasing these curves, this messy situation happened. This seems a serious bug, and while the iPad versions won't get an update as v3 for iPad is in the works, but I am wondering if other people have encountered this, and if there's a way to recuperate these files/paths, or if that file is lost "forever".

Hi y'all. I'm a photographer working on pitching a coffee table photography book to a publisher. To do that, I need to build the book as a pdf. To be frank, I am struggling. I'm not a graphic designer and I find this sort of user interface overwhelming.

If anyone has any suggestions for videos thar are designed for beginners or anything else that may be helpful, I would appreciate it.

Edit: i appreciate everyone who has offered advice, but my question was not about amazon kdp. I am well versed in printing options and drawbacks on different options. I'm not pointing this out to chastise anyone. again, I appreciate you trying to give me advice, but I keep having to repeat the same answers to a question I didn't ask. Thank you for trying.

Bonjour à tous

J'ai imprimé un livre en format livret mais je coince sur le fait de comment plier le page afin de faire en sorte qu'elles se suivent à la lecture.

Il y a 446 pages, je ne peux juste pas rabattre le côté gauche au côté droit c'est bien-sûr trop épais.

Quelqu'un peut-il m'aider svp 🙏🏻

I'm having a problem with Data Merge in Affinity Publisher and I'm trying to figure out whether it's a bug, a limitation, or simply something I'm doing wrong.

I have a document set up with Facing Pages enabled. A single Data Merge record should populate image frames on both the left and right pages of the layout. The image paths are stored in separate CSV columns, and the image files themselves are valid (JPG, PNG, and TIFF).

The problem is that after generating the merged document, all text fields are populated correctly on both pages, but the images only appear on the left page. The image frames on the right page remain empty. I've verified that the image paths are correct and that the frames are linked to the appropriate Data Merge image fields.

I've attached two screenshots:

• The Master Layout showing picture frames on both pages.
• Sample pages from the generated document showing the issue.

As a workaround, I disabled Facing Pages in Document Setup, so all pages became single pages instead of spreads. I then created two separate master layouts: one for the left page and one for the right page. After that, I generated all left pages first, then all right pages, and finally placed them in the correct order manually. This way, all images show up correctly.

The workaround works, but it's obviously not ideal.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Is there a way to make Data Merge populate image frames on both pages of a layout while keeping Facing Pages enabled, without having to generate the left and right pages separately?

I made a master page with a spot for page number in the lower left-hand corner, and it came with a black border that I can't seem to get rid of no matter what. I'd really rather not have this on each page in the document, how do I remove it?

- I've looked at the Decorations in the Paragraphs bar, none are being applied

- Stroke under Decorations has been set to none.

- No border should be applied.

Where is the setting to remove borders form text boxes? I've been looking online and have found almost nothing for this specific issue. Can anyone who's seen this before assist?

Having an issue with Affinity on Ipad—I recognize it’s not supported anymore and thus, this might just have to be something I live with—

I’m using an apple magic keyboard and have found this pop up comes up regularly when I am editing on it, and it disallows me from typing until I click on it once or twice.

It’s not the END of the world, but I can’t figure out what it is or why it’s happening and it *is* annoying?

Hello,

I've been trying to print a pdf from affinity in a booklet format. I know there are other ways but I'd like to understand why the native method doesn't work for me, whereas it seems it should work fine, because i'm not doing anything special : print > Microsoft print to pdf > all the normal parameters.
At first I found something saying i should check the scale of my pages, and indeed, they were the wrong format, which was also why the preview appeared red, which signals to me that perhaps the software decided to export blank pages instead of defaulting to trimming the pages. Fair. So, now, if the preview looks normal, it should work, right?
Well, I did another try and again got white, empty pages.
And now, when I try at all, "Microsoft print to pdf" only allows me to save my file as XPS file, which to a newbie like me is completely confusing.

So, there you have it, the "print to pdf" export is not working for me.

I'm using firefox to read my pdfs by the way, but it also shows up white on other readers such as edge or onlyoffice.

The version of affinity is called "april 2026 (4425)"

I'm not used to publishing queries on forums, so don't hesitate to ask me for more info and details!!

Thank you for your help.