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Topic: Formatting 120 page book in PagePlusX9

I've used PagePlusX9 with success but mostly for single page docs. But now I need to formatt my 120 page book. I see in the discussions a mention for something called "BookPlus". Is this a part of X9? Or do I need a separate program to do this work?

I mostly looking for guidence of getting the pages settings to persist in X9 throught the book except that I need two different side margins to account for more spacing because of the gutter. One page might have the gutter on the right and another on the left.

Thanks friends. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.


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Re: Formatting 120 page book in PagePlusX9

BookPlus is included in PagePlus X9, but it’s really aimed at multi-author books with lots of illustrations: the official Affinity workbooks were prepared in PPX9, using BookPlus to bring together the work of several contributors. For a 120-page book with a single author you shouldn’t need it, especially not on a modern PC with a decent amount of available hard drive space and RAM, even if your book is heavily illustrated.

The ‘Facing Pages’ layout option in PP gives you mirrored margins by default, allowing for an inner (gutter) margin which is larger than the outer margin.

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Re: Formatting 120 page book in PagePlusX9

Alfred wrote:

BookPlus is included in PagePlus X9, but it’s really aimed at multi-author books with lots of illustrations: the official Affinity workbooks were prepared in PPX9, using BookPlus to bring together the work of several contributors. For a 120-page book with a single author you shouldn’t need it, especially not on a modern PC with a decent amount of available hard drive space and RAM, even if your book is heavily illustrated.

The ‘Facing Pages’ layout option in PP gives you mirrored margins by default, allowing for an inner (gutter) margin which is larger than the outer margin.

Thanks for your expert help on this Alfred. I think I see where I can go with this now.

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Re: Formatting 120 page book in PagePlusX9

Mobiusman wrote:

Thanks for your expert help on this Alfred. I think I see where I can go with this now.

You’re welcome. Let us know how you get on!

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