Affinity Publisher review: how compatible is it with InDesign files? Any changes made since the last save were lost. There was no automatic document recovery when the crashes occured, either. Switching between personas has been responsible for one of those, which suggests there’s more work to do on improving the stability of this feature, which didn’t benefit from the stress test that inclusion in the beta would have provided. On the downside, I’ve seen more than one crash during my few days with the ‘finished’ version of Publisher. Given that most creatives tend to use Macs, it was sensible to optimise for them first.
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While I’ve not tested it myself, performance of all the Affinity apps is meant to be much smoother on Mac than it is on PC, although Serif is working hard on improving the latter. Yet, as you can see from the video, performance is strong on this 50-page document laden with graphics: My laptop doesn’t have dedicated graphics – it’s a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga with a 2.6GHz Intel Core i7-6600U and 16GB of RAM.
The video below shows how well Affinity performs when doing stuff like moving images around a page and reflowing text. It’s much quicker to load and much more responsive with large documents than InDesign is on the same PC. The raw performance of Affinity Publisher is impressive. So what about performance? Affinity Publisher review: what’s performance like compared to InDesign? That means an overall, one-off cost of around £120 for all three apps, which is still cheaper than three months of a Creative Cloud subscription. It’s worth noting here that you need Affinity Photo and/or Designer installed on the same computer if you want to take advantage of their personas. When I want to go back to Publisher view, I just click on the Publisher icon in the top left. You’ll notice how the controls on the left-hand side of the window have changed to the photo-editing tools instead of the Publisher tools. 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.
Affinity designer vs publisher software#
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.
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