
Just like Affinity Designer Affinity Publisher also sends RGB data to the printer. Highres monitors are all fine, but in order to really judge microtypography or to see how the printed page is working, if a textbook with side column is clearly structured and legible or to judge the layout's text-size there is no alternative to printing the document in original size. Januar 2021) Deutsche Version Printing Black The order reflects which non-existent, non-functioning or challenging to use features hinder my workflow the most. To bring it back round to where I started, you get all of this performance, functionality and support for a very reasonable one-off price.Affinity Publisher as a replacement for InDesign?ĭuring the past few months I took a closer look into Affinity Publisher and had to solve a couple of real-life projects. I never got that kind of support from Adobe. It turned out to be a bug and within a couple of days they had fixed it and made a beta available publicly. There's an active user forum, and having posted there a few times I've received good support from the developers, who even went to the trouble of analysing my files and diagnosing a problem. I have not found anything I did in Adobe's equivalents that I cannot do in the Affinity apps.

So much so that I was even able to use them satisfactorily on an ageing 11-year-old laptop when my main machine was unavailable for a month. I would say I am an enthusiastic amateur rather than a professional user, but I do push the programs beyond just simple functionality. They have a common interface so once you've learned to use one, you are a long way towards using them all.įunctionally, they do everything I need and more. I have Photo and Designer on both my Mac and iPad, and can't wait until the long-promised Publisher iPad version comes out.Īll the apps can be interlinked to share functionality. I use all three apps - Photo, Designer, and Publisher. I might have come for the value, but I have stayed for the software.


Like so many others, I came to Affinity after becoming disillusioned with Adobe's subscription pricing.
