One thing I’d like to bring into this conversation just so all the viewpoints are out there: I’m not switching for matters of cost as much a deep hatred for the subscription model. Even before getting the beta I knew I’d be waiting until 2.0 or beyond before even considering a permanent switch… too much of my livelihood depends on InDesign right now. I think they are on the right track, but there is a long way to go. Look for more on Affinity products on our sister site, In the meantime, we have published a “First Look” here: What matters to me is the ability to create awesome designs - great type, great color, great output options, etc. That may be compelling from a hobbyist or student perspective, but it’s not compelling from a “pro” perspective. Publisher is clearly a 1.0 product, and my sense is that it’s greatest strength so far is that it will be inexpensive. If there were a design tool better than InDesign, I would love to tell the world about it. I had a simple answer: Just make QuarkXPress better than InDesign. They asked me what they could do to convince me to start recommending QX again. Here’s a short story: About 15 years ago, after I had mostly stopped using QuarkXPress and started using (and recommending) InDesign, I had a meeting with some executives form Quark. Thank you, Kathleen! Please do come back and tell us what your experience with Affinity Publisher is over time. Right now InDesign is King of the Hill and I can’t see anyone toppling them. ONE! Talk about a waste of money to upgrade :(Īnyway–I’m rambling on. And Quark 10 and Quark 15–one single job came in. In that time, each and every Quark file had to be converted to InDesign. We had a few Quark 7 jobs during that time, but not many.Īnyway–I kept my Quarks upgraded to Quark 8, Quark 9, and recently Quark. We haven’t done a full Quark job since InDesign 2 or InDesign 3. I’ve had the same experience with upgrading my Quarks. But only on the off-chance that we get such a request. Now–once it comes out, I’m sure the company I work for will be asked if we have it, and I will probably buy a copy for myself to learn it, and the company will buy a couple. publisher buys the rights to that book, they have us convert to InDesign.Īnd that’s what will happen with Affinity Publisher. There are still some Quark hold-outs (mainly in the UK), and when the U.S. The book industry is too heavily invested in Adobe (at least the publishers that I work with). While this is the full scope of what we are implementing for 1.9, the link between your account and your apps will open up the possibility for us to offer other features and services in the future which we think you will like.I can’t see them being a giant killer, like InDesign was against Quark. In a couple of weeks however this will be expanded to include all of the store content you may already own. We appreciate it is of little use if you only use Publisher. If you register the beta app you will initially receive a free brush kit (the luminance brush kit) for testing purposes. This is of particular use to customers who have more than one of our apps, or run our apps on different devices and operating systems as all your content will automatically be available across all of them. This will have the advantages of you being able to stream any content you have purchased or received for free from the Affinity store directly to all your apps without having to manually install them. We have now added the ability to link your Affinity app to your Affinity account through a new app registration process. Product registration and store content streaming The colours used for Bleed and Margin guides are configurable by the user and saved with the document.Configurable Bleed and Margin Guide Colours.Additionally it is now possible to hide overflowing Path Text if desired. Additional controls now make it possible to avoid flowing text onto both sides of a curve.This can be helpful to keep text aligned with other page elements and ensure predictable consistent layout. Text frames now support an ‘Initial Advance’ property.It is now possible to convert a Pixel Layer to an Image or Picture Frame plus content.Convert Pixel Layer to Image Node / Picture Frame.This will generally give better results on output. When placing a PSD we now use the flattened bitmap representation in the file rather than interpreting the file content ourselves.When such a file is encountered during PDF export it can be embedded verbatim in the output PDF ensuring 100% fidelity. It is now possible to flag placed PDF files for PDF passthrough.Bookmarks can be added via the Anchor Panel or automatically generated from a Table of Contents.Bookmarks provide a listing of flagged content that are present within a PDF document.
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