Affinity Publisher gives you all the tools you need to easily mix your images, graphics and text to create beautiful layouts. It will allow you to create ready to print books, magazines or brochures, but also social media templates, website mock-ups and so much more. Publisher lets you control virtually any aspect of your projects. You can: create advanced layouts with live master pages, advanced text and image frames and custom tablesuse flexible text tools like text styles, text on a path, artistic text and moremanage graphic assets link and embed images, icons or vector files, place files like PSDs, AIs, PDFs, TIFFs etc. collect resources gather all assets that you used in the project and organize them in one, easily exportable folderThese are just some of the Publishers features that will allow you to create fantastic, ready to publish layouts. And you will learn all about them from this book. First, you will learn how to use Publishers interface: how to use the toolbar and the context toolbarwhats a Studio and how to customize itthe best practices when using the programs interfaceTo get started you will discover how to work with documents: how to create and setup new documentshow to use document templatesNext, we will start working with pages. You will learnhow to add and edit pages and how to organize themhow to set up spreadsand how to work with master pagesIn any desktop publishing program working with text plays a major role. Thats why you will learn how to add and manage text in Publisher: how to add and manage artistic and frame texthow to use the most important text panels: the Character and Paragraph panelshow to create text styles for faster text design manipulationshow to add text on custom paths and inside shapesVast majority of your print project will include some kind of external assets, like documents, graphics and images. Thats why next you will learn: how to place documents and imageshow to crop the images using picture framesand how to manage all of your resources gathered within one documentLastly we will take a look athow to export and save your documentsand how to check them before exporting, using the Preflight featureBy the end of this course you should be able to start working with Affinity Publisher independently.
