Affinity Publisher 1.8 also uses the company’s StudioLink technology to make Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo tools directly available in an Affinity Publisher layout. Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher work together or independently and are sold separate. For existing users, the new v1.8 versions are a free update. One of the most requested features for Affinity Publisher is now available in 1.8—the ability to import InDesign Markup Language (IDML) files. This means you can now migrate your InDesign documents directly into Affinity Publisher instead of via PDF import or copy/paste operations.
Affinity Photo is a professional photo editing tool with all the power you’ll ever need. Live retouch tools work in real time and its speed means there’s no waiting to see your results. Non-destructive editing, raw processing and end-to-end color management are standard, so Affinity Photo has all the features required to make beautiful photographs spring to life.
Affinity Designer is a vector graphic design solution used by professional designers, artists, and creatives who are working on illustrations, icons, branding, UI designs, typography, print projects, mock ups, web graphics, pattern designs, and concept arts.
Affinity Publisher 1.8.5
Affinity Photo is part of the Affinity creative family, sharing a common file format with Affinity Designer, Affinity’s vector drawing illustration program, and Affinity Publisher, the company’s most recent product and a direct rival to Adobe InDesign – the version 1.8 update brings the ability to open InDesign documents directly. Serif dropped a big update for Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher. A lot of these are small but very useful updates like templates, sma.
Affinity Publisher is professional-grade publishing software built to rival Adobe InDesign. From magazines, books, brochures, posters, reports and stationery to other creations, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication.
Affinity Photo 1.8.5 fixes & improvements:
- Fixed many tablet input problems (by reverting the default input method to be Low Precision mode, the same as in 1.8.3).
- Added tablet input preference (in Tools section) to opt-in to High Precision mode, or Windows Ink mode
- (NOTE: previous command line options --legacy-wintab and --disable-wintab are now ignored).
- Fixed cursor disappearing following keyboard shortcuts that display dialogs, while using a brush tool
- Fixed raster Crop Tool units multiplying incorrectly on the context toolbar
Affinity Designer 1.8.5 new features & improvements:
- Fixed many tablet input problems (by reverting the default input method to be Low Precision mode, the same as in 1.8.3).
- Added tablet input preference (in Tools section) to opt-in to High Precision mode, or Windows Ink mode
- (NOTE: previous command line options --legacy-wintab and --disable-wintab are now ignored).
- Fixed cursor disappearing following keyboard shortcuts that display dialogs, while using a brush tool.
Affinity Publisher 1.8.5 new features & improvements:
- Fixed many tablet input problems (by reverting the default input method to be Low Precision mode, the same as in 1.8.3).
- Added tablet input preference (in Tools section) to opt-in to High Precision mode, or Windows Ink mode
- (NOTE: previous command line options --legacy-wintab and --disable-wintab are now ignored).
- Fixed cursor disappearing following keyboard shortcuts that display dialogs, while using a brush tool
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Part of the so-called 'Affinity trinity', Affinity Publisher is Serif's answer to Adobe InDesign. The three apps work together beautifully thanks to the StudioLink feature, so you can edit images in Affinity Photo, create illustrations in Affinity Designer, and pull everything together in a gorgeous creation in Affinity Publisher.
For anyone who has worked with InDesign, there's good and bad news, and it's worth getting to grips with this sooner rather than later. While Affinity Publisher supports IDML, there is -- unfortunately – no INDD support. This means that it is possible to work with files in Publisher that you have created in InDesign, but it's not as seamless or as simple a process as many people would like.
With the bad news out of the way, let's focus on the good. Affinity Publisher has a great deal to offer and, like the rest of its stablemates, it delivers powerful tools with style. There is a massive undo history which gives you great flexibility for rolling back unwanted changes. It would be easy to overlook Publisher because of its association with Serif, but this really is a professional-level tool.
The beauty of Affinity Publisher is its flexibility. It will fit perfectly into professional print workflows, and preflight alerts will draw potential problems to your attention before it is too late. There's support for smart master pages and although there are no templates bundled with the software to help you get started, it is possible to save your own files as templates for speed up the creation of subsequent documents. Publisher does, however, include a number of sample documents that help to give an idea of what it is capable of.
Affinity Publisher Update
When it comes to dealing with text, there is OpenText support and handy options such as text on a curve. As for images, you can import directly from Affinity Photo, or add images in numerous popular formats. Editing is possible thanks to the availability of non-destructive adjustment layers.
Ordinarily, there is a trial available that last just 10 days, but at time of writing this has been extended to 90 days. You'll need to register online though, as even the trial needs a serial code, which you can do here.
Affinity Publisher 1.8 Software
Verdict:
A hugely impressive piece of software with an almost unbelievably low price tag. Just about the only thing that used to count against Affinity Publisher was its lack of support for InDesign files, but the recently added IDML import option address thing making it hard to turn down.