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<blockquote data-quote="Simon Miles" data-source="post: 9646934" data-attributes="member: 6963474">We are a (very) small non-professional publisher based in the UK. The initial draft of all our products has been done in Word using two columns of 11point, 14 for subtitles and such. Our favoured font is Footlight MT Light, but this is a personal preference as it looks a little bit more Olde Worlde and unusual than Times New Roman. We use Word so we can insert contents and index very easily. We put the art in roughly as well, mainly as place-holders for the final art. The whole thing is then exported in PDF and then imported to Affinity Publisher 2. This part of the process is a bit clumsy but once in Affinity you have a lot more flexibility that Word in terms of layout and text wrapping, although adding extra text is a pain and removing stuff also causes problems. Likewise Bullet-points are the bane of my life.We publish through DriveThru, which is pretty easy for the pdf only versions, but if you want Print on Demand there are a few loops you need to jump through, hence the extra step of going through Affinity. Drivethru do offer excellent, friendly support for this process. They produce templates that you can load straight into Affinity and then insert your text into that. Getting the page sizes the same is the key to it but you will always need to tweak the result afterwards, although I find this process quite good fun.We very deliberately went for a &quot;Classic TSR&quot; format, despite being OSR that is compatible with AD&amp;D 1st and 2nd editions as we like that look and feel (we are Grognards at heart, I suspect) and we are continually pleased with the final results. You can see more on the page samples we have on Drivethru - go through here: <a href="http://www.dunrominuniversitypress.co.uk" target="_blank">www.dunrominuniversitypress.co.uk</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Simon Miles, post: 9646934, member: 6963474"] We are a (very) small non-professional publisher based in the UK. The initial draft of all our products has been done in Word using two columns of 11point, 14 for subtitles and such. Our favoured font is Footlight MT Light, but this is a personal preference as it looks a little bit more Olde Worlde and unusual than Times New Roman. We use Word so we can insert contents and index very easily. We put the art in roughly as well, mainly as place-holders for the final art. The whole thing is then exported in PDF and then imported to Affinity Publisher 2. This part of the process is a bit clumsy but once in Affinity you have a lot more flexibility that Word in terms of layout and text wrapping, although adding extra text is a pain and removing stuff also causes problems. Likewise Bullet-points are the bane of my life. We publish through DriveThru, which is pretty easy for the pdf only versions, but if you want Print on Demand there are a few loops you need to jump through, hence the extra step of going through Affinity. Drivethru do offer excellent, friendly support for this process. They produce templates that you can load straight into Affinity and then insert your text into that. Getting the page sizes the same is the key to it but you will always need to tweak the result afterwards, although I find this process quite good fun. We very deliberately went for a "Classic TSR" format, despite being OSR that is compatible with AD&D 1st and 2nd editions as we like that look and feel (we are Grognards at heart, I suspect) and we are continually pleased with the final results. You can see more on the page samples we have on Drivethru - go through here: [URL='http://www.dunrominuniversitypress.co.uk']www.dunrominuniversitypress.co.uk[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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