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Contents
Introduction
What is Affinity Publisher?
Features
New features in v1.9/1.10
User interface
Interface Visual Reference
Toolbar
Persona Toolbar
Context toolbar
Personas
About Personas
Designer Persona
Photo Persona
Get started
App registration and content syncing
Create new documents
Open documents
Document setup
Importing documents
Save
Viewing
Zooming
Document templates
Pan/Scroll the Document view
Editing files in other Affinity apps
Pages, spreads and sections
About pages and spreads
Add, arrange and remove pages
Spread setup
Select and view pages
Navigating pages
Adding sections
Numbering pages
Master pages
Editing master pages
Editing master page content
Master pages advanced
Creating master pages
Applying master pages
Detaching and linking master pages
Migrating edited master page content
Assets
Using assets
Browsing assets
Custom assets
Drawing curves and shapes
About lines, curves and shapes
Draw curves and shapes
Edit curves and shapes
About geometric shapes
Draw and edit shapes
Selecting and aligning nodes
Transforming curves and shapes
Color
About color
Color models
Color spaces
Color management
Using OpenColorIO
Selecting colors
Sampling colors
Global colors
Spot colors
Overprinting
Color chords
Gradient editing
Transparency
Transparency editing
Layers
About layers
Creating layers
Selecting and editing layers
Tagging layers
Arrange/manage layers
Layer opacity
Layer blending
Layer blend ranges
Image layers
Layer clipping
Layer masking
Using adjustment layers
Layer colors
Object control
Selecting objects
Grouping objects
Duplicating objects
Aligning objects
Joining objects
Creating compounds
Distributing and spacing objects
Ordering objects
Targeting objects
Isolating objects
Finding objects
Transforming objects
Rotating and shearing objects
Pinning objects
Rasterizing
Convert objects to curves
Styles
Copying and pasting objects
Object defaults
Text
Working with text
Artistic text
Frame text
Text on a path
Shape text
Editing
Editing text
Special characters and glyphs
Hyphenation
Capitalization
Font Manager
Text frames
Text frame setup
Filler text
Importing text
Flowing text through frames
Fitting text to frames
Linking text frames
Text wrapping
Paragraph level
Paragraph formatting
Leading and inter-paragraph spacing
Indents
Bullets and numbering
Using multi-level lists
Tabs
Initial words
Drop caps
Character level
Character formatting
Tracking and kerning
Optical alignment
OpenType font features
About superscripts and subscripts
Text Styles
Using text styles
Creating and managing text styles
Removing text styles
Text style types
Checking text
Find and replace
Auto-Correct/Check Spelling While Typing
Spelling
Tables
Creating tables
Editing tables
Sorting tables
Creating custom tables
Placing external content
Embedding vs linking
Placing content
Picture frames
Resource Manager
Using stock photos
Advanced
Table of contents
Index
Fields
Hyperlinks
PDF bookmarks
Merge documents
Data merge
Publishing and sharing
Print
Export as graphic
Share
Preflight
PDF publishing
Publishing PDF files
Spot colors
Overprinting
Setting bleed
Packaging
About packaging
Creating packages
Opening packages
Design aids
Using undo, redo and history
Clip to Canvas
Rotate document view
Grids
Baseline Grids
Ruler and column guides
Margins
Rulers
Measuring guides
Dynamic guides
Snapping
Curve snapping
Constraints
Layer effects (FX)
Using layer effects
3D Effect
Bevel/Emboss
Color Overlay
Gaussian Blur
Gradient Overlay
Inner Glow
Inner Shadow
Outer Glow
Outer Shadow
Outline
Adjustments
Applying adjustments
Black and White adjustment
Brightness and Contrast adjustment
Channel Mixer adjustment
Color Balance adjustment
Curves adjustment
Exposure adjustment
Gradient Map adjustment
HSL adjustment
Invert adjustment
Lens Filter adjustment
Levels adjustment
LUT adjustment
OpenColorIO adjustment
Posterize adjustment
Recolor adjustment
Selective Color adjustment
Shadows/Highlights adjustment
Soft Proof adjustment
Split Toning adjustment
Threshold adjustment
Vibrance adjustment
White Balance adjustment
Workspace
About workspace modes
Changing the UI appearance
Accessibility
Customize
Keyboard shortcuts
Workspace
Tools panel
Toolbar
Tools
Layout tools
Move Tool
Node Tool
Pen Tool
Picture Frame Rectangle Tool
Picture Frame Ellipse Tool
Place Image Tool
Data Merge Layout Tool
Vector Crop Tool
Fill Tool
Transparency Tool
Color Picker Tool
View Tool
Zoom Tool
Text tools
Frame Text Tool
Table Tool
Artistic Text Tool
Shape tools
Rectangle Tool
Ellipse Tool
Rounded Rectangle Tool
Triangle Tool
Diamond Tool
Trapezoid Tool
Polygon Tool
Star Tool
Double Star Tool
Square Star Tool
Arrow Tool
Donut Tool
Pie Tool
Segment Tool
Crescent Tool
Cog Tool
Cloud Tool
Callout Rounded Rectangle Tool
Callout Ellipse Tool
Tear Tool
Heart Tool
Cat Tool
Panels
Anchors panel
Assets panel
Character panel
Color panel
Constraints panel
Effects panel
Fields panel
Find and Replace panel
Glyph Browser panel
History panel
Hyperlinks panel
Index panel
Layers panel
Navigator panel
Pages panel
Paragraph panel
Pinning panel
Preflight panel
Stock panel
Stroke panel
Styles panel
Swatches panel
Table panel
Table Formats panel
Table of Contents panel
Text Frame panel
Text Styles panel
Transform panel
Appendix
Supported file formats
Contacting us
Copyrights
Glossary
Importing Affinity add-ons
About Affinity add-ons
Extracting add-ons
Importing assets
Installing fonts
Importing styles
Importing swatches palettes
Importing templates
Extras
Hardware acceleration
Third-party support
Using pen tablets
Using a trackpad
Using Sidecar
Using Surface Pen
Using Surface Dial
Keyboard shortcuts
Preferences
Expressions for field input
Search
Favorites