Affinity Publisher From Serif Released Today

[JoeM]

Just downloaded it and it looks pretty nice. Available now for 20% off: $39.99.
Take that, Adobe InDesign and Quark! miley-laughing001:

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/

[mstudio]

Watch the keynote if you can, pretty impressive. I was using the beta so it was 34.99. Money well spent. The way it’s integrated with their photo and designer program is a very nice feature.

[archipirata]

That's a no brainer. Does everything InDesign does and more for the price of a 1 month Creative Cloud subscription.

[S. Pupp]

Affinity is a giant killer.

[datbeme]

Coming into this doing ZERO research, so I'm taking the forum's word for it. Is is really a sufficient substitute for ID? I did numerous heavy duty projects in ID about 3 years ago, but I haven't touched it since, so obviously this isn't mission critical. But—just in case something comes up—I'm torn between maintaining an older OS that can support CS5.5 or transitioning to something like this. Same for Illustrator, I guess.

[JoeM]

mstudio wrote:
Watch the keynote if you can, pretty impressive. I was using the beta so it was 34.99. Money well spent. The way it’s integrated with their photo and designer program is a very nice feature.

I also had the beta and got the $34.99 price. I would have honestly paid double for it and have purchased all of Serifs apps in an effort to support them. I gave up Adobe CC, which I had through my employer, when I retired but had purchased the whole CS 6 knowing it would be the last non subscription version, and had Quark 15 so I have been covered for the last couple of years. But my plan is to move to all Affinity apps as my old Adobe and Quark become non useful for typical work.

[mstudio]

JoeM wrote:
[quote=mstudio]
Watch the keynote if you can, pretty impressive. I was using the beta so it was 34.99. Money well spent. The way it’s integrated with their photo and designer program is a very nice feature.

I also had the beta and got the $34.99 price. I would have honestly paid double for it and have purchased all of Serifs apps in an effort to support them. I gave up Adobe CC, which I had through my employer, when I retired but had purchased the whole CS 6 knowing it would be the last non subscription version, and had Quark 15 so I have been covered for the last couple of years. But my plan is to move to all Affinity apps as my old Adobe and Quark become non useful for typical work.
Exactly. My thoughts as well. It doesn’t look like CS 6 or my version of Quark will be supported after Mohave. I’ve been waiting for Publisher.

[mstudio]

datbeme wrote:
Coming into this doing ZERO research, so I'm taking the forum's word for it. Is is really a sufficient substitute for ID? I did numerous heavy duty projects in ID about 3 years ago, but I haven't touched it since, so obviously this isn't mission critical. But—just in case something comes up—I'm torn between maintaining an older OS that can support CS5.5 or transitioning to something like this. Same for Illustrator, I guess.

For 40 bucks, give it a try, I think you will like it.

[Robert M]

Hi everyone,

I hope at some point Publisher will be able to directly open InDesign files. Until then, at least it can open PDFs created by InDesign, which will allow me to far more easily recreate docs I've created in it. Not a perfect solution but at least I'm no longer locked into Adobe hell anymore. Worth the bucks to buy all three of their apps.

Robert

[Winston]

How useful would these be to someone whose publishing experience is limited to using AppleWorks, WordPerfect and Word? At one point I had a copy of Photoshop Elements, but didn't make much use of it.

I find myself frustrated when I want to either do a better job fixing up a photo than iPhoto or Photos does, or want to draw something, most recently a design for a flag. So I've done some work with layers and basic drawing tools, as well as some editing of images to use in a layout.

I'm interested in doing more work with design, and would like to be able to create publishing layouts, but not interested in a big learning curve or things that take an enormous amount of time to get right. This would be for personal use, not as part of my career.

I also like the idea of companies that are trying to shake up entrenched and frustrating vendors, and don't have any special love for Adobe.


Thanks.

- Winston