• From: Roma, Italia
  • Registered: 2025-10-05
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Topic: Question about the book panel.

Let's talk about Affinity V3 layout studio for a moment.
In short, the question is:
If I have to lay out a 150/180 page book, would you recommend using the Books panel and dividing it into chapters to create small files that can be merged together, or creating a single file, leaving the Books panel alone, which, according to several forum posts (now discontinued), has proven to be unreliable?

Thank you very much... smile

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Affinity Suite 2.6.5    Affinity Studio V3

sorry for my English.

2 Reply by JAmedia (edited by JAmedia 2025-11-17 11:15:39)

  • From: Tamworth Staffs UK
  • Registered: 2025-10-04
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Re: Question about the book panel.

Lets not.  affinity.studio by Canva  has its own section. https://punster.me/serif/viewforum.php?id=22
This section is for Affinity Publisher.

BTW  in the last email from Serif (Europe) said "This isn’t a version three. It’s something else entirely. An all-in-one, customizable app, combining photo editing, vector design, and page layout in one smooth, powerful space"

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  • Alfred
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Re: Question about the book panel.

The general consensus about Books feature in PagePlus (Serif’s original DTP application) seemed to be that unless your publication has a large number of pages with high-resolution images it’s really only needed on a modern computer if you’re handling a collaborative project. For example, it was used for the Affinity workbooks.

A major downside to splitting an Affinity Publisher document into ‘books’ is that you can’t do a global ‘find and replace’ (e.g. to change the name of a character across all chapters of a novel). The same still applies to Affinity by Canva, as far as I can see.

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4 Reply by street79 (edited by street79 2025-11-17 15:16:26)

  • From: Roma, Italia
  • Registered: 2025-10-05
  • Posts: 9

Re: Question about the book panel.

@JAmedia

Sorry for the wrong section,, it won't happen next time.


@Alfred

Thanks, search is important. Until there's a development in this area, I'll stay away from the Book panel.

Imac 27" macOs Monterey 12.7.6     
Affinity Suite 2.6.5    Affinity Studio V3

sorry for my English.
  • From: Tamworth Staffs UK
  • Registered: 2025-10-04
  • Posts: 136

Re: Question about the book panel.

street79 wrote:

@JAmedia
Sorry for the wrong section,, it won't happen next time.

No worries, you should get a better response in the affinity.studio section, especially as it moves away from Affinity Publisher V2 there will be crucial differences surfacing.

www.JAmedia.uk, primarily an Affinity Publisher V2 user for books and magazines.
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[128GB Ram | NVIDIA 3080TI 2GB | MB ASUS ProArt B550| ]

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