Hopefully there are some Affinity Publisher users here. I am just looking for basic guidance on workflow. I understand how to compile and I’ve figured out most of the steps to setup a layout and font default font families.
Do you recommend compiling one .docx file for your manuscript from Scrivener or do you compile them by chapter?
My experience is with inDesign, not Publisher, but I think you would definitely want to compile everything into one docx to place in Publisher. Not doing that is just asking for work.
For a Scrivener > docx > Publisher workflow, the downside to Publisher (as opposed to inDesign), as I see it, is that Publisher will not override incoming styles with its own defined styles. In my workflow, custom defined styles in Scrivener are sent on into the compiled docx. When this is place into my stock inDesign doc, when it sees style names that match, it styles them according to inDesign. This is desirable, because your page layout program has styling abilities the Scrivener and Word lack. In fact, my Scrivener style definitions do not even attempt to show the finished typeset look of things — those custom styles are purely so those passages are tagged with a style name that ends up coming into inDesign.
I am not entirely sure how you would adapt this workflow to Publisher, given that Publisher always defers to incoming styling, but maybe the above will be useful to you in some way.
GR,
Thank you for the advice - I’ll probably play around with the one document and see how Publisher handles the right side chapters etc. I’ve got my styles in Scrivener using the fonts I will in Publisher so I’m ok with it using the incoming styling. It should make any adjustments minimal.
ATB,
Terry