Q: I made a 16 page half sized zine. But when I go to export it as a PDF only half of the pages show up. Am I missing something?
I like seeing all the pages laid out and the text flow is great, but I'm stuck at the export and I'm afraid I'm going to half to flatten all the pages and copy them into a new doc.
You can see my page layout and the working doc. Interior pages don't show up on export and neither do the covers. I'm following the numbering on the pages in the template.
Also word to the wise - With this kind of text flow it's really difficult to develop different parts of the book at different times, you kind of have to have your book all pre-prepared and it all in pretty linearly.
I didn't realize that when I got started, I like to jump around and build pages organically at different rates and the text flow wasn't great for that. I ended up ignoring most of it and doing a lot of copying and pasting.
If I needed to layout a text heavy book that was already processed it would be an absolute godsend.
Thanks for the response. I think I screwed up somehow. *user error* I did figure out how to export all of the pages but The two pages (1 & 8 of the book) were still missing. It must have happened somehow when I was importing the template. Ugh. I have imported the same template and it works fine. I'm flattening through PDF and copying and Pasting. So it goes...
One additional suggestion: it'd be great if the instructions on this page could be included as a document in the zip file of templates itself! Thanks again!
omg!!! i havent tried these yet but thank you so much!! i was thinking like 2? months ago about seeing if i could use affinity publisher for zines but not being very proficient, i just felt confused! this seems like a great place to even just start! thank you!!
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Q: I made a 16 page half sized zine. But when I go to export it as a PDF only half of the pages show up. Am I missing something?
I like seeing all the pages laid out and the text flow is great, but I'm stuck at the export and I'm afraid I'm going to half to flatten all the pages and copy them into a new doc.
You can see my page layout and the working doc. Interior pages don't show up on export and neither do the covers. I'm following the numbering on the pages in the template.
Also word to the wise - With this kind of text flow it's really difficult to develop different parts of the book at different times, you kind of have to have your book all pre-prepared and it all in pretty linearly.
I didn't realize that when I got started, I like to jump around and build pages organically at different rates and the text flow wasn't great for that. I ended up ignoring most of it and doing a lot of copying and pasting.
If I needed to layout a text heavy book that was already processed it would be an absolute godsend.
I'm not sure what's going on here. I think I'd need to see your export settings
Thanks for the response. I think I screwed up somehow. *user error* I did figure out how to export all of the pages but The two pages (1 & 8 of the book) were still missing. It must have happened somehow when I was importing the template. Ugh. I have imported the same template and it works fine. I'm flattening through PDF and copying and Pasting. So it goes...
These really helped me out, thank you so much for these! Wonderful work and great tutorials!
One additional suggestion: it'd be great if the instructions on this page could be included as a document in the zip file of templates itself! Thanks again!
omg!!! i havent tried these yet but thank you so much!! i was thinking like 2? months ago about seeing if i could use affinity publisher for zines but not being very proficient, i just felt confused! this seems like a great place to even just start! thank you!!
Compliments to the chef
Thank you so much for these!
Thank you, these are a great start.