I understand Version 2 has fixed this issue, but if it hasn't, I'll go back to what worked before. So, I combined the exported pdfs to Preview and stitched them together with a minimum of fuss. While doing something else, like pulling weeds, the proverbial light bulb went on: What ho! if Publisher can't handle the huge file, Apple Preview should be able to.

(Being naturally bullheaded and stubborn doesn't do any harm either.)Īfter making every greenhorn goof on Volume I, I was totally stumped when Publisher crashed after my combined chapter files got too big. My time as a mainframe programmer in the days when our glorified adding machines required a city block's worth of housing, air-conditioning and a team of flunkies to mount and dismount tapes and disks, taught me a.) NOT to trust computers unreservedly b.) Patience and c.) how to devise sneaky work-arounds to technical glitches. I'm currently in the final stages of resurrecting the works of 'Bracebridge Hemyng,' a nineteenth-century London barrister-turned sensational novelist who created 'Jack Harkaway.'Ī friend created a video 'book trailer' on YouTube for the Civil War volumes: I purchased the suite of programs and the updated versions and have not regretted that decision.Īfter the steep, but not daunting, learning curve from knowing absolutely zero to being able to actually produce print-ready pdfs, I edited, designed, illustrated and published a three-volume introduction to (U.S.) Civil War paper ephemera, and a reprint of a Victorian 'dime novel' between August 2022 and February 2023. With some book projects that had been rusticating on the back burner for decades, I shopped around for a powerful, yet affordable, publishing software and kept coming back to Serif Affinity.

Back in my misspent youth, I was an historian, a museum curator, a darkroom technician and magazine editor, and wrote several books and many articles. (Admittedly, I was a programmer/analyst on the mainframe IBM360 during the 1980s.) However, my previous experience is thus analogous to a dirigible mechanic trying to fix a modern fly-by-wire fighter jet.

Greetings from someone who never used desktop publishing software until age 75.

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