Bad form, imo.īut the important stuff is the 'Safe Area', 'Trim' and Bleed Area. And the sublayers in the template are not named. Mostly because I felt that since I was the only one to use this and it was going to be for my own work, it was superfluous and thus axed 'em all like Lizzy B. I had to delete some of the template's 'extra' stuff, like who's the letterer and other info. That way if you have any 2page spreads, they'll be kept together as ComiXology wants 'em. Just make sure that when you export you select the 'All Spreads' option in the PDF export setting. What I like about those templates at Blambot is that they're set up for print and PDF export that ComiXology requires. I suggest you go to Blambot and look at his downloadable templates (which Designer can open, I know because I bought a copy of the templates). Hope to do that this week.Īs far as the tech side of APub for comics, Look at some of the templates around for comics. I'm dealing with some medical issues (chemo is a bear!) and I've not messed around with a large page count yet. I mention this just as a way to show how badly independent comic creators need a good affordable lettering solution for comics. Comic Life is okay, but so far, my experience with Affinity Publisher Beta is very positive. I'm sweating and getting the shakes just remembering it.

So I had to go over each page, select the text and choose the right font, one by one. I was burned once - I had lettered an entire graphic novel, about 60-odd pages and for some reason Clip Studio just stopped acknowledging the fonts I chose for dialog and captions (two different fonts, btw). No special characters, no ligatures, no replacement pairs, etc. The lettering in Clip studio would have to improve just to suck badly. The most glaring thing is that Clip Studio doesn't do anything beyond just rendering the letters of an OpenType font. And of course the name change happened the very month my book was published!) (for those not involved in comics, first there was Manga Studio then the same app got renamed Clip Studio Paint by the CelSys, the company that owned it. When I was (plug time!) writing the Manga Studio 5 Beginner's Guide forPackt Publications, I had no nice words for the way It handled text. To say it's lacking is like saying the Sun is just a tad hot. Oh yeah, the text handling in Clip Studio Paint.

Removing a template in comic life 3