I'm sure you are all relieved.
A work around for bitmapping the artboards has been found that doesn't involve spending thousands of my hard earned blood-and-sweat stained dollars.
Someone notify Secretary of State Rubio!
No, I'm not running Photoshop from an external drive, you shouldn't do that, it's not right and proper, or advisable, so of course I tried that. Adobe wouldn't let me choose where to download the program. Fastest cancellation evah.
No, no, no, instead I brought an old laptop back from the dead, complete with it's installed copies of Photoshop and Illustrator. All the way from 2015! I kid you not. It's like that movie Ice Man, or whatever it was called, where they resuscitated a frozen cave man. Timothy Hutton was in it, and he was very good. It didn't end well though. Oh, yeah: spoilers. Hopefully my revived laptop from The Before Time will fare better than that poor, out-of-time caveman.
If you're as disinterested in tech minutiae as I am, you may not be aware of this, but all the ports and connectors in the last ten years have changed. Not only that, AirDrop wasn't a thing back then. Positively hyperbolic pre-historic!
Hopefully I haven't brought back long dormant viruses that will destroy civilization.
Whatever.
My need was greater!
So I've been porting pages back and forth between iPad, desktop, ancient laptop & Photoshop, desktop & Affinity, Dropbox all day.
My double spread working format has panned out. It'll make the layouts feel more connected. Affinity positions layers exactly in place when the file dimensions are the same, which has been helpful.
I've also streamlined my system a great deal since the last time I did this. Good file construction hygiene is key! Of course, I ALWAYS do things properly, with utmost attention to detail, never, ever cutting corners. Why, I don't even know the meaning of cutting corners (it means to do things in a half-assed expedient way out of laziness)! Never have I done that, which is why this process is so pain free and requires no milk & Reeses Pieces to motivate me. No, I'm eating an apple and guzzling V-8.
Trust me; Would I lie to you, anonymous imaginary internet reader? Never!
I should be done this messy process sooner than I'd thought.
Which brings me to a little lie I told earlier: Print prep is not the worst part of the process.
That would actually be promotion!
Ah, what necessary evils we must endure in this crazy universe of ours...
Now... more caffeine!
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