A little solo journaling TTRPG I am working on for a jam with a generous deadline: You get to play a dragon! A big one!
If anybody knows how to finally get rid of that damn path, let me know.
The tough part will be, that this is the digital version, and I aim to create the final not only in trad media but as an infinity card. Which will be super cool, but may cost me some nerve and sleep.
I'm working on a new book project and decided to use my Affinity Publisher software. In the past I've used Adobe InDesign but refuse to pay a monthly subscription for my Mac. I've used Affinity for small things, but so far not a book. It's working great! The book has nine chapters and looks like the final page count will be around 310. It's a nonfiction book about a caving expedition in the 1950s, I love all the old photos. #Nonfiction #Books #AffinityPublisher
Spent today on my second layout session using Affinity Publisher 2. Attempting a very simple no thrills, no art style layout for a little free ttrpg/FKR project I've written called 2D6REACT.
Take away from session 2:
1) Layout makes me want to headbut walls.
2) Delete everything and start again.
What's some (hacky) way to get some semi-scripted output for #AffinityPublisher? Its Merge capabilities seem rather early 90s, so not even simple IF conditions.
So if I were to design a #ttrpg spellbook, where there's an icon or color code indicating the magical tradition, I have to manually format 100+ sections?
I might need to take a closer look at either Typst, or my vows against Adobe…
ooooooh #AffinityPublisher can now handle more than 2 pages in a spread "making it easy to create trifold, gatefold, accordion-fold and other page arrangements."
I wish i had this back in the day.
I made my first zine!
How to train your cat (without meowing) is a 13-page PDF about talking to cats so they can understand and will (eventually) listen.
I am confused to hear that some people do not believe cats talk! What do they think they make sounds for, I wonder? (... and do they believe maybe other people also only make sounds...?)
Get the zine at https://ranarh.itch.io/how-to-train-your-cat
Dear Affinity, any thoughts why your Publisher app starts attempting to contact every page on my reading list/bookmarks/browser history including my health insurance provider on launch?
(You cunts.)
(Did I mention I fucking hate capitalism?)
PS. This is an app downloaded from the Mac App Store and it’s got a lovely, comforting, blue, Apple-approved checkmark to let you know that data is not collected. So it’s safe. *phew!*
Bit the bullet and got the #Affinity suite. Mainly because that while I love the #FOSS tools I have been using since I cancelled my #adobe package, there is some functionality missing there that has made my work processes slower and more difficult.
Plus the black week price on the Affinty V2 universal Licence package was pretty damn good.
Any #Fedtips for someone who is a complete noob to Affinity, but who is pretty well versed in #Photoshop, #Krita, #Inkscape, #Illustrator etc?
#Affinity はいいぞ！ 
#3D と #生成AI と縦書きを除いて #Adobe の DTP 御用達アプリ（#Illustrator #Photoshop #InDesign）でできることはだいたいできる
その 3 アプリのファイルフォーマットは実質共通（#Illustrator #Photoshop #InDesign がそれぞれのファイルをどのアプリでも非破壊で編集保存できることを想像してほしい）
#Adobe よりも動作が軽い！（自分比だけど、他の人からもよく聞く話
#Designer と #Photo を購入済みだと、#Publusher のアプリの中で機能や UI を #Designer と #Photo に切り替えて作業ができる（#Publisher が実質 3 アプリを統合したソフトにパワーアップする） 縦書きや日本語のオープンタイプフォントの機能は使えない（フォントの字詰め有効化とか）けど、擬似的に縦書きを有効にする文字を回転したフォントや、日本語の文字機能を #Affinity で使えるように改変したフォントを有志の方が提供してくれている（このあとのスレッドを参照）
しかもいまなら #Affinity の 3 つのアプリを #macOS #iOS 
Windows 
のすべての環境でしかもサブスクではなく買い切りでずっと使えるユニバーサルライセンスがブラックフライデーセールで通常の半額の 7,900 円で買える。
しかも、そもそも #AffinityDesigner には Anatolli Babii という人がつくったシンプルアイコンイラストみたいなデータがアプリ内蔵のアセットとして始めから収録されてて、このアイコンデザインを別のサイト（例えば下記）とかで買うと、普通に一万円を超えてくる。
https://www.iconfinder.com/families/simply-flat
セール前から、「アイコンデータ個別に買うより、ただでさえ #Affinity Designer （単体）を購入したほうが安い」という良くわからない状態だったのに、今のセール期間なら「有料のアイコンアセットが安く買える上に、3デバイスで3アプリをずっと使えるライセンスがついてくる」という価格設定のバグみたいな事が起きている
Any Affinity Publisher experts out there willing to help a comics creator who is drowning in a RAM issue while trying to export a large PDF?
(I have already tried upping limits and what not - it seems to be something that I, or the software, is fundamentally doing wrong)
@heiseonline ein Glück wächst mit #affinity (#affinityphoto, #affinitydesigner und #AffinityPublisher) eine Alternative nach.
Hey all! If the thought of giving Adobe more money bothers you, and you still want a suite of pro apps. You should check out the Affinity suite! It’s currently on sale, and you can buy the WHOLE SUITE for slightly more than Illustrator alone!
We are so happy to see that #Affinity supports now #VariableFonts in their complete design suite. Finally we can play around with #PurpleHaze and other variable typefaces. And according to @typearture, there is also full support of variable #ColourFonts 
#AffinityDesigner #AffinityPublisher #AffinityPhoto
I wanna add a couple more hashtags to this, apologies for the spam: https://hachyderm.io/@b4ux1t3/112480680224155062
Anyone who uses #AffinityPublisher or other #affinity products: What's, like, the third party affinity bible? The YouTube channel, website, or whatever that's not provided by the creators that everyone swears by? There's always a third party bible.
unwählbar ist bei der Europawahl auch „#diepartei“, weil auch hier Martin #Sonneborn irlichternd unterwegs ist und zum Beispiel dass Wagenknecht-Schwarzer-Manifest unterschrieben hat.
Die #Querdenker Szene ist derzeit stark auch auf Anti-#Windkraft-Kurs.
die #Freiburg’er #CDU. Immerhin kein #niveaulimbo wie in #Stuttgart, das muß ihr lassen. Dennoch ein wenig #affinitypublisher und die #wahlpakate sind dann doch etwas zutreffender.
It's time to start consolidating rules into something I can hand out for playtesting. I've got a ton of Graphic Design XP but NOT #AffinityPublisher (because 
adobe). Do this if you need help getting going too:
1. download this https://wizardthieffighter.itch.io/standardcat-template-pack not just a template, but also contains entertainingly presented important knowledge.
2. watch this to Understand Master Pages https://youtu.be/LssH6uCwD4g
3 watch this to see someone actually making a book of RPG stuff in it https://youtu.be/zMuj8ClLr4w
So, genug für heute. Mir raucht der Kopf! Mit Übersetzen und gleichzeitig in ein neues Programm einfuchsen, hab ich mich gut ausgelastet... #AffinityPublisher
Jetzt wird noch ein bisschen #StardewValley angeschmissen und gechillt.
Habe mir zu Ostern #AffinityPublisher gegönnt und es macht so viel mehr Spaß den Textsatz und das Layout mit einem geeigneten Programm zu machen. 
Das richtige Werkzeug für eine Aufgabe, macht so einen krassen Unterschied! Jetzt kann ich richtig wild rumspielen. Muahahaha!
Obwohl es natürlich nochmal Zeit frisst, sich reinzufuchsen, vor alllem wenn man nicht so im Thema ist, wie Leute die das beruflich machen. 
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