StretchLearn Course

Design and publish real books, magazines, and brochures in Affinity Publisher

Master pages, linked text flow, styles, and preflighted PDF export without a subscription

Beginner9 hr 50 minSelf PacedRegistered

Course Overview

What this course is designed to develop

This course teaches Affinity Publisher as a professional desktop-publishing tool, the affordable answer to Adobe InDesign. You will set up documents with correct bleed and margins, structure pages with master pages and a baseline grid, flow long copy through linked text frames, control typography with paragraph and character styles, build a contents page with the Fields and cross-reference features, and use StudioLink to edit images and vectors without leaving the file. By the end you will have laid out a complete multi-page publication and exported a preflighted PDF/X file ready for a commercial printer.

Learning Outcomes

What the learner should be able to understand, build, or execute.

Set up multi-page documents with correct facing pages, margins, columns, and 3 mm bleed

Structure publications with master pages, auto page numbers, and a baseline grid

Flow long-form copy through linked text frames and resolve overset text

Control typography with paragraph styles, character styles, and proper hyphenation and justification

Build tables, place and wrap images, and edit them in-place with StudioLink Personas

Run Preflight and export a press-ready PDF/X-4 with bleed, crop marks, and embedded fonts

Curriculum Preview

Inside the curriculum: a structured path from fundamentals to execution.

Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.

Module 1

Module 1: Getting Oriented and Setting Up a Document

Understand what Affinity Publisher is for, set up a multi-page document with the right margins and bleed, and learn the interface and Studio panels that drive layout work.

3 lessons

Why Affinity Publisher, and What It Is ForContent · 40 min

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Creating a Document: Pages, Margins, and BleedContent · 50 min

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The Interface, Studio Panels, and the Pages PanelContent · 50 min

LMS Access

Module 2

Module 2: Master Pages, Grids, and Page Structure

Build the repeating framework of a publication with master pages, automatic page numbering, guides, and a baseline grid that aligns text across columns and spreads.

3 lessons

Master Pages: Build Once, Apply EverywhereContent · 50 min

LMS Access

Automatic Page Numbers, Sections, and FieldsContent · 45 min

LMS Access

Guides, Columns, and the Baseline GridContent · 50 min

LMS Access

Module 3

Module 3: Flowing Text and Controlling Typography

Bring long-form copy into the document, link it across frames and pages, and control its appearance precisely with paragraph and character styles and proper hyphenation and justification.

3 lessons

Text Frames and Linked Text FlowContent · 55 min

LMS Access

Paragraph and Character StylesContent · 50 min

LMS Access

Hyphenation, Justification, and Fixing Bad SpacingContent · 45 min

LMS Access

Module 4

Module 4: Images, Tables, Preflight, and Press-Ready Export

Place and wrap images, edit them in-place with StudioLink, build tables and a contents page, then preflight and export a press-ready PDF for printing or sharing.

3 lessons

Picture Frames, Image Wrap, and StudioLinkContent · 55 min

LMS Access

Tables and a Table of ContentsContent · 45 min

LMS Access

Preflight and Press-Ready PDF ExportContent · 55 min

LMS Access

Built for Application

A complete learning path, not a one-off inspiration hit.

This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.

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