This tight integration is a huge plus, as long as you stick to this suite of apps. An iPad version of Publisher is in the works which Serif hopes to have ready by next year, and it will be bringing Studio Link to that platform as well. This also means that the current iPad apps can open and read Publisher documents. Not all tools are present in all apps, though: Studio Link is only available through Publisher, but it means that you could pass on your files to other users who may not have the Publisher app, and they’ll still be able to preview your work and make some changes if need be.
However, you can open any file in any app if you want to. afpub, but that’s to ensure that when you double-click on a file, it will open in the right app. Use all the tools from Affinity Photo and Designer directly from within Publisher (Image credit: Serif) (Image credit: Serif) Compatibility issuesĪnother important feature of this trio of apps is that their file format is identical. Not only does this speed up your editing processes, but the switch between personas is so effortless it becomes second nature to swap between tools in that manner. Click on the Photo or Designer icon to change Publisher’s ‘persona’, which means the tools are changed from Publisher’s to those of the other apps. Top-left of the interface are the three Affinity app icons. Essentially you never have to leave Publisher when working on a project, and this has the advantage of keeping you totally immersed in the layout creation process, making image alterations you know will work perfectly with the rest of your pages. If you have Affinity Photo and/or Designer installed on your machine, you can access these apps’ tools directly within Publisher. What this does is actually pretty clever. Serif has found a solution to this merry-go-round: get rid of it altogether. So you have to hop to your image editing app, save your changes, perhaps even reimport it back into your DTP program… How many times have you had to cycle through apps to get your work done? Say you add a photo to your page layout but need to tweak it in some way, do some color correction or image manipulation. Mousing over fonts in the menu is a quick and convenient way to preview fonts directly on your layout (Image credit: Serif) (Image credit: Serif) Seamless integration The change is instant and this is a great way to choose the perfect font for your needs.Īll of this is nice and all, and could entice some folks on a budget to try the app out as a means of avoiding an ongoing Adobe subscription, but responsiveness and elegance isn’t really a killer feature.
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Highlight some text for instance, and as you scroll over different fonts, you can see the highlighted text update before you even click on your selected font. This kind of responsiveness and on-the-fly changes are felt throughout.
#AFFINITY DESIGNER VS PUBLISHER PRO#
Moving an image warps the text instantly, so you can see the changes and be as precise as you need to be, even on an old computer (we tested it on a 2014 MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM and an ever-dwindling amount of storage space). So, how does Designer actually handle?Ĭonsidering it’s a brand new app, released in late June 2019 (despite the fact it’s already at version 1.7.1), it runs remarkably well.Įverything feels quick and responsive. The latter includes text styles, text on a path, OpenType support, flow options to avoid orphaned or widowed lines, advanced guides and grids, support for double page spreads, master pages, and so forth.īut an app is more than the sum of its features. Looking at Serif’s website, it seems like it’s covering all the bases, with support for multiple types of image formats (such as AI, JPEG, PDF, PMG, PSD or TIFF), and tools we’ve all come to expect from any DTP suite. So how good is Publisher at desktop publishing?
This review is about Publisher, but we have to mention Photo and Designer as well, for reasons that will become clear later on. Serif Affinity Publisher at Serif Europe US for $54.99.Drag an image or a text box around, and the content alters instantly (Image credit: Serif) (Image credit: Serif)
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