Day 17 of Thingadailies:
Today I spent a bit of time working out the guides (which are the lines you place to make sure things are lined up however you want them). For the most part, everything is straightforward, but since Affinity treats the paperback spread as one page, it means things get messed up when the spine width changes.
For comparison: Adobe InDesign treats the paperback spread as three pages: back cover, spine, and front cover. Then it jams them together to create one PDF. So when the width of the spine changes, it doesn't affect the guides on the front cover.
I was hoping I could tie some of the guides to the right side of the page (ie, a guide at -0.25 inches would be 0.25 inches from the right edge), but there's no way to do that. So... It's all kind of a pain in the butt, but it's not that hard to do the math. I'll just create a spreadsheet that does the calculations based on spine width and tells me where to put the guides.
Today's font: Tilt Neon
And the paperback spread:
Here's the back cover copy in all its cyberpunk glory:
Her Skin Holds the Fate of the World
Ten years ago, a drunken brawl left Yana unconscious in a back alley butchershop — a low-budget clinic where the pharma giants supply medtech in return for testing.
Now Yana is The Butcherbird, the thief famous for getting past any security, thanks to the circuits living in her skin. With every job she takes, the list of people trying to catch her gets longer. Even her agent thinks she should retire.
But Yana hides a secret under her skin. The pharma giant that created her threatens the world’s very existence. And Yana may be the only one who can stop them…
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