
Select New Book from the Panel Preferences menu.Click Create Book on the panel (available if no books are open).

insert pages, in order to maintain facing-pages spreads. Where only one stray page exists between consecutive chapters, Affinity can 'pad' the document, i.e. Where one chapter ends with a left page and the next chapter starts on a right page, Affinity can merge these stray pages into a facing-pages spread. Stray pagesįor books that contain facing-page spreads, there are two behaviors that determine how stray pages-single pages at the end or start of consecutive chapters-are handled. If the document will be added to multiple publications, it is recommended that you add a copy of the document to each one. upon receiving a version that has been copy-edited.Īdding a document as a chapter automatically modifies its file-for example, to fit the pagination of the book. Replacing chapters can help in a collaborative workflow, e.g. Multiple selected chapters can be opened at once by -clicking one of the selection and then selecting Open. Multiple selected chapters can be opened at once by double-clicking one of the selection. One chapter at a time can be replaced or rearranged. Multiple chapters can be simultaneously added or removed. How your publication is divided into discrete documents is your decision, which may be influenced by your production workflow. Managing a book's chaptersĮach document added to a book may represent a literal chapter of your publication but it doesn't have to. If you wish to use the document in older versions, make a copy of it and add the copy to your book instead. When you add a document created in an older version of Affinity to a book, you'll be warned that proceeding will modify the document, making it no longer usable in older versions of Affinity. Books are created and their contents managed using the Books panel, on which you can add, remove, replace and rearrange chapters.
