Affinity Publisher – basic course

• Basic typographic terms
• Work with publisher
• Create simple documents
• Create text and graphic frames
• Work with paragraphs and characters
• Work with tables
• Define colors
• Import texts and graphics
• Create simple graphics
• Print and export the document

Basics of work in Microsoft Windows or macOS.

Using the program

• Work environment
• Application preferences
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Rulers, guides, document grids
• Display modes

Document creation

• Creating a new document
• Document properties
• Pages and spreadsheets
• Page templates

Working with text and setting text

• Artistic text
• Text frames
• Text frames linking
• Text flow
• Text editing
• Inserting gaps, special characters and glyphs
• Separating characters

Text formatting

• Local character formatting
• Local paragraph formatting
• Character styles
• Paragraph styles
• Tabs

Colors

• Color mixing
• Swatches

Graphics and effects

• Assets panel
• Formats for import and export
• Drawing in the Publishers
• Formatting objects
• Transformation and duplication of objects
• Transparency
• Effects

Combination of graphics and text

• Layers
• Text wrapping

Tables

• Table creation
• Import table
• Formatting and editing the table

Outputs from Publisher

• Prepress
• Export to PDF
• Export graphics

Previous courses

Typography in Practice [TYPO1]

Related courses

Affinity Photo – basic course [AFFPH1]

Affinity Designer – basic course [AFFDES1]

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Adobe InDesign – Basic Course [INDE]

Adobe InDesign – Advanced Techniques [INDE2]