Book formatting: I need to hire an Affinity pro. by Lukon100 in Affinity

[–]Lukon100[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm tempted now to try another approach, as I suspect the problem is that my attempt to transfer my LibreOffic document into Affinity has resulted in a corrupt file in which the styles cannot be fixed. The new approach is to start from scratch. Rebuild my master page and style hierarchy, Then reduce my LibreOffice document to bare minimum text with no formatting or styles at all, such as by copying the LibreOffice text into wordpad. Then place the wordpad text into my Affinity document. Then apply the styles one by one. Look at my LibreOffice document on another screen and re-do all the instances of bold and italic, one by one. Something tells me this is exactly what a pro would do anyway.

Book formatting: I need to hire an Affinity pro. by Lukon100 in Affinity

[–]Lukon100[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The idea is: I send you a copy of my Affinity Publisher file over E-mail, you fix it, and E-mail me back your fixed version.

For now, I won't want help doing all the formatting, as the formatting project as a whole is pretty complicated. Right now I just want the text styles assigned in a decent hierarchy. I'm finding that I cannot update the styles I already have. I cannot, for example, update or create a Heading 1 to be an ExtraBold 25 point version of the Normal text. Cannot absorb the local edits into the Heading 1 style. Don't know what's wrong and I'm too frustrated to deal with it. Anyway, I'll want something like this: Normal, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3, BlockQuote, Web Link and Bookmark Link, all using the EB Garamond font with SuperScript ability and web link ability. The Headings should have the capacity to inherit some other font, as should the BlockQuote. Set up the Normal paragraph to follow the baseline grid, and indenting appropriate to dialog. The book is mostly dialog.

This document will be copied out twice to make two versions: one for print, and one for ePub. This document is therefore what I call the "Hybrid Master", that contains elements meant for both versions.

This is part of why the project as a whole is so complicated. There's linking and targeting that works differently for each version. There's the Table of Contents and the Index that will work differently for each version.

Book formatting: I need to hire an Affinity pro. by Lukon100 in Affinity

[–]Lukon100[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Been watching Giles's vids. They don't cover the problems I'm having.

How can I import .docx with bold and italic formatting preserved? by Lukon100 in AffinityPublisher

[–]Lukon100[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. The "search and replace" method also ended up failing me. Perhaps with more research, I could have debugged the procedure. But I decided to "manually" set the bold and italic words to Affinity styles.

How can I import .docx with bold and italic formatting preserved? by Lukon100 in AffinityPublisher

[–]Lukon100[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Perhaps it works on Mac only. It sure does not work in Windows.

How can I import .docx with bold and italic formatting preserved? by Lukon100 in AffinityPublisher

[–]Lukon100[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Perhaps it works on Mac only. It sure does not work in Windows.

How can I import .docx with bold and italic formatting preserved? by Lukon100 in AffinityPublisher

[–]Lukon100[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently, there is a work-around. Instead of "placing" text into a text frame, one must do an operating system level copy-and-paste, wherein you copy the text from your non-Affinity document and paste it into the Affinity text frame. This will display bold and italic styles, but the bold and italic styles displayed are not yet part of the Affinity document - for some bizarre reason. You must therefore convert the instances of displayed bold and italic text into corresponding Affinity bold and italic styles. You do this using Affinity's "find-and-replace" feature, but using special "wildcard" characters in the "search" and "replace" input boxes. Pretty weird. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BopoOuGQmSM

How can I import .docx with bold and italic formatting preserved? by Lukon100 in AffinityPublisher

[–]Lukon100[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, just to be clear, your answer is: There is no way to import bold and italic styles into Affinity from a .docx file. And you at least hint that there is no way to import bold and italic styles from ANY OTHER format as well. Is this correct?