About Affinity Publisher
Affinity Publisher is a graphic designing software that helps creative professionals and publishers combine images, texts, and graphics to create personalized layouts for books, website mock-ups, and marketing materials. Administrators can unify text style across multiple pages, add lines or borders, and manage the baseline grid.
The platform enables managers to embed images, pin graphics, add drop caps, and type along curves to visualize text on a unified interface. Affinity Publisher allows teams to place files in PSD, PDF, AI, JPG, PNG, and TIFF formats on customizable layouts. Operators can also edit hues, saturation, opacity, and luminosity shifts, facilitating crucial image corrections across documents.
Affinity Publisher lets businesses control gradients, add shadows, bevels, glows, and other layer effects, and use bitmap fills to create and edit vector graphics. Designers can also add, subtract, divide, and combine shapes to streamline Boolean operations on a centralized dashboard.
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- Industry: Media Production
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Proffesional DTP solution on the market, with the best Price-Value ratio
Reviewed on 20/3/2022
After a many years of Adobe Indesign QuarkXpress using, we switch to Affinity Suite. Our main...
After a many years of Adobe Indesign QuarkXpress using, we switch to Affinity Suite. Our main products are magazines and catalogues, and other predominantly graphical creations. And we are absolutely happy with our Affinity solution for now. Excellent merge of DTP, photo and vector is came to you with full Affinity suite: Affinit Publisher + Affinity Photo + Affinity Designer. One must have trio.
Pros
It is fast - build on game engine in core. You can work with one page document or hundreds of pages with a lot of images and different text styles, but speed will never drop down. It is stabile software and with excellent colour reproduction.
Cons
Affinity Publisher lack of some usefull but not mandatory features. There are no classical character and paragraph styles, but there are no combined styles like QuarkXpress have. The are no good indexing and footnote/endnote manipulation.
Reasons for Choosing Affinity Publisher
First reason is subscription. Second is price. Third is speed. Fourth is creativity....Reasons for Switching to Affinity Publisher
We try and feel every solution. Indesign is to heavy, and for full DTP solution - price is to high, same story with Quark. Speed is problem with Quark and Corel. Ragtime is solid. but retro solution with high price, but excellent table data management. All in all, Affinity suite do our job with the most style of all of them.
- Industry: Online Media
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Perfect choice for books and magazines design
Reviewed on 13/4/2022
I use this to design books and, as I am also the artist, I can switch easily and draw something...
I use this to design books and, as I am also the artist, I can switch easily and draw something related to the story and then jump back to my book and keep working.
This allows me to offer more services to my clients who are always consuming services on-demand, and also allows me to create a product on record time.
Pros
Affinity Publisher allows you to create a whole set of text styles you can switch from master to master. So, on a single file you can have all different sections of a Magazine and all the different styles and you don't need to work them separately.
If you have a one-man-army designer who does it all, this is the best tool as you can switch easily between Photo editing, to vector editing and back to document editing on a mouse-click.
You also have the flexibility of a text processor like Word where you can create the table of contents, for example, but you can now add different styles to this so you can have an attractive table of contents.
If you buy a set of brushes for Photo or Designer, you have them available also here.
Cons
Basically nothing. But this isn't a software meant to be used alone without it's companions Photo and Designer.
- Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
An easy to use and intuitive publishing tool.
Reviewed on 27/11/2023
Picking up Affinity Publisher has been relatively easy if you have used any publishing program...
Picking up Affinity Publisher has been relatively easy if you have used any publishing program previously. There are a few quirks to work around, but that is normal with any new program. But I found plenty of advice and workarounds on the net to help me achieve what I was looking for.
Pros
After many years of using QuarkXPress, Publisher and Indesign, this was a natural fit into my workflow and easy to learn.
Cons
It doesnt have all the featires of the big names, but I am assuming that this will come with time. After all, neither did QuarkXPress, Publisher or Indesign in the early days. It would be nice to have auto updates on images and graphics that you import rather than having to re import them again if you do changes outside the program.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Alternative to other publiishing softwares
Reviewed on 8/3/2023
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Used it as an alternative to adobe products. worked fine, especially if you know what you are doing.
Cons
Photo editing needs some expertise for sure. After the trial we decided the price point is not worth it as we could also use the original for around the same price.
- Industry: Animation
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Best Adobe InDesign Alternative!
Reviewed on 21/9/2023
While not the industry standard, if you're an indie publisher, Affinity Publisher is the way to go....
While not the industry standard, if you're an indie publisher, Affinity Publisher is the way to go. It has all the basic tools you need and will run smoother than InDesign. I value speed over niche advanced tools, so the ability to switch between Affinity programs and the less taxing processing requirements has led to me to switch over from InDesign. And Affinity's price tag is a great bonus too.
Pros
Affinity Publisher is easily the best alternative to InDesign out there. It has just about all the features for an affordable one time payment. The program runs smoothly with good UI and has all the features I need on a regular basis. It also has the ability to switch between Affinity programs quickly and easily which is a huge plus.
Cons
It's only missing one or two very niche tools like form fillable PDFs. That being said, Publisher beats our InDesign for making mockups.
Affinity Publisher FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Affinity Publisher.Q. What type of pricing plans does Affinity Publisher offer?
Affinity Publisher offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$29.79/one-time
- Free Trial: Not Available
Affinity Publisher is available on a one-time license basis.
Q. Who are the typical users of Affinity Publisher?
Affinity Publisher has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Affinity Publisher support?
Affinity Publisher supports the following languages:
Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
Q. Does Affinity Publisher support mobile devices?
Affinity Publisher supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Affinity Publisher integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Affinity Publisher has
Q. What level of support does Affinity Publisher offer?
Affinity Publisher offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum
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