![]() Here’s the magazine opened in the Publisher persona, with all the tools you’d expect of a DTP package, such as the option to create text frames, tables etc: Let’s take this spread from a sample magazine that’s provided with Affinity Publisher as an example. ![]() With Affinity Publisher, you don’t have to leave the application – select the Affinity Photo ‘persona’ and edit the photo on page, using all the tools you would have in the full-blown application. If you want to tweak a photo in an InDesign layout, you have to leave InDesign and fiddle with the brightness etc in Photoshop. StudioLink alleviates one of the pain points of using the Adobe suite, namely having to flick between different applications to make edits to photos and illustrations. The biggest selling point of Affinity Publisher – and the big reveal the company held back for last week’s launch – is StudioLink. What’s the killer feature that would make me switch (aside from the price)? What’s performance like? And how compatible is it with InDesign files? Affinity Publisher review: what’s the killer feature? ![]() ![]() Instead, I’m going to focus on the three key questions that I think any Adobe InDesign user would ask when considering whether to move to Affinity. If you want to get a clearer grasp of the main features, I suggest you take a look at the excellent Affinity Publisher tutorials. Suffice to say that I think Affinity Publisher is a highly competent publishing package with most of the tools that professionals will seek, let alone the enthusiast market that Serif is chasing. I’m not going to go through the package, describing the key features and their pros and cons. Whilst Adobe wants a £50 monthly stipend for the three software packages listed above, Affinity will sell you each of its products on a standalone, old-school, one-off licence that costs less than a month of an Adobe subscription.Īffinity Publisher launched last week and I’ve spent the past few days playing with its huge range of powerful publishing tools. Your posts have always been enlightening and it would be an opportunity for me to explore.Affinity’s chief selling point is price. If there are any test cases you would like me to stage, I'm at your service. You could use that to position foot notes at the end of a chapter, I suppose. I believe the option to position the notes below the text causes them to appear after the text in the case where the text flows to multiple frames. Footnotes can appear below the text, at the bottom of a column, at the bottom of the text frame, or below the text frame. In Affinity Publisher, the footnote is tied to the text block. There are differences between footnotes in Publisher and Word.Ī footnote in Word is, as far as I know, something that appears at the bottom of a page. When I "place" a docx file with footnotes in an Affinity Publisher document, the footnotes appear as intended, and are imported as Publisher footnote objects. For general use, you probably want reflowable, which is only available in Apple Pages for word processing documents (Pages has two modes, word processing and desktop publishing). For ePub, are there any desktop publishing tools that do much good? In Apple Pages, for example, you can export either a word processing or a desktop publishing document to ePub, but there are limitations.Īn Apple Pages desktop publishing document can only be exported as fixed layout.
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