The screenshots shown in this tutorial use Affinity Publisher and Affinity Photo for Mac OS. All books going into OneBookShelf's print-on-demand program require these two PDF files, the cover file and the interior file. In this tutorial, we will address how to set up one digital file for the interior and a separate one for the cover. The software publisher, Serif, offers Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher at a very low cost for each, but does not offer them as a package currently. Affinity Publisher is a desktop publishing application Affinity Photo is a raster graphics image editor and Affinity Designer is a vector graphics image editor. All are available for both Windows and Mac OS.

(Paper stock varies between the formats, so it's important to create different covers for each format you wish to create.)Īffinity is a software suite that includes Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher, and Affinity Photo. If you want to prepare a book in different formats, download the specific PDF cover templates and prepare different color cover files. Templates for the interior and cover can be downloaded on the Template Generator Page. The only exception involves creating the cover template.

No matter the format, the process is nearly identical. Books can be prepped using Affinity for black-and-white, standard 70 color, and premium color formats. This basic tutorial provides guidance on how to use Affinity Publisher and Affinity Photo to create your content and prepare print-ready PDF files.

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