Affinity Publisher 2.0 for Book Formatting Part 2: Affinity Publisher 2.0 for Self-Publishing, #2

ALSO BY M.L. HUMPHREY

Affinity Publisher 2.0 for Self-Publishing

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Affinity Publisher 2.0 for Book Formatting Part 2

Affinity Publisher for Self-Publishing

Affinity Publisher for Fiction Layouts

Affinity Publisher for Ad Creatives

Affinity Publisher for Basic Book Covers

Affinity Publisher for Non-Fiction

Affinity Publisher for Self-Publishing Collections

Affinity Publisher for Book Formatting

Affinity Publisher for Ads and Covers

Data Analysis for Self-Publishers

Sell That Book

AFFINITY PUBLISHER 2.0 FOR BOOK FORMATTING PART 2

M.L. HUMPHREY

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter or Section Names for Headers or Footers

Single Table of Contents

Use Two Types of Page Numbering

Columns

Indexes

Images

Image Adjustments

Merge Multiple Books

Miscellaneous

Conclusion

Appendix A: Quick Takes

About the Author

Copyright

INTRODUCTION

This book is a continuation of Affinity Publisher 2.0 for Book Formatting Part 1 which covered how to create a basic black and white print title using master pages, text styles, and a simple accent image. That book also covered how to flow text and export to PDF along with other beginner-level topics.

This book will assume that you already know all of that material and build from there by covering more advanced print-formatting topics, including how to insert a single table of contents, multiple tables of contents, and an index. We’ll also cover how to use chapter names instead of the book title in headers or footers, how to have multiple columns of text on a page, how to merge multiple book files into one, and how to insert images into the body of your document.

It is the equivalent of Affinity Publisher for Non-Fiction, which was written for the original Affinity Publisher.

If you bought Affinity in late 2022 or later then you probably have version 2.0 and this is the right book for you, but it’s best to double-check. You can tell when you open Affinity which version you have because the launch screen for version 2.0 will say Affinity Publisher 2, like in the screenshot below:

At this point I have formatted over a hundred books in Affinity, but most of those were in the original version of the program, so what I’m doing here is saying, I know how to do this in the original Affinity program, how does that now work in Affinity Publisher 2.0. Which means that I may not catch all of the new bells and whistles.

But my approach does work and when you finish reading this book you will have a way to do all of the topics listed. I can’t promise it’s the absolute, most efficient way, but it does work and it works well enough I haven’t felt the need to track down a better solution.

Okay. So.

Let’s dive in and start with the easiest topic: how to use chapter names instead of the book title for the header or footer. (Again, I’m going to assume you know what was covered in Part I so already have formatted master pages to work with.)

CHAPTER OR SECTION NAMES FOR HEADERS OR FOOTERS

In Part 1 we set up master pages that used the book title in the header. The Text and Text master page looked like this:

As mentioned in that book, that title that you see in the top right header in that screenshot is actually the Title field and the text you’re seeing there is what we entered for Title in the Fields panel.

But if you want to use chapter or section names instead, then that works a little differently. So first step if you’re working from an existing file like we are here, is to delete the existing field from that text frame.

Go to the master page, click on the Artistic Text Tool, click on the text frame that contains the title, Ctrl + A to select the text, delete.

(If you weren’t working from an existing file, then create a place for your text to appear like the text frame we have here for the header.)

The next step is to click into the text frame if you haven’t already, go to the Text menu option, go down to Insert, then Fields, and then Section Name.

And there you have it:

Note that it inserts the field name

If you’re adapting an existing file, make this change for all of your master pages that use the Title field. For me that’s Text and Text and Chapter Start and Text.

Updating the master pages or formatting them to incorporate the Section Name field is step one. Next, you need to give Affinity section names to use. If you were using just the book title before, you’re probably going to have a Section Manager that looks like this:

There are only two sections in the document, one for the front matter, one for the main body and backmatter. And the only reason you have two is because you want the start of the first chapter to be numbered page 1.

Note that neither section has a name. The Section Name field is blank and none is listed in the left-hand section listing.

Here, in contrast, is the Section Manager for one of my non-fiction titles:

Note that for the selected section, the Section Name field on the right-hand side is now populated (with the text Introduction) and that a section name is listed for all of the sections in the section listing on the left-hand side of the dialogue box. For example, Section 5 – Introduction and Section 7 – Basic Terminology.

That Section Name field has to be populated for Affinity to use section names.

For each section you will manually input the value, so it does not have to match the chapter name, which is helpful when a chapter name is too long.

It’s also helpful for when you want to have a header that spans multiple chapters. For example, when I create an omnibus of my fiction titles, so three of them in one book, I have a section for each novel. The text I use in my header is the title of the novel not the individual chapter names.

Let’s go create some sections now to see how this works.

In the Pages section of the Pages panel, find the start point of the first chapter