And in general, it is both capable and very easy to learn. Released in June 2019, in some respects, Publisher doesn’t yet have the feature depth of its competitors.
#Affinity publisher vs indesign professional
The latest addition to Serif’s Affinity suite, Publisher, is designed to provide a professional layout environment similar to InDesign or Quark Xpress. Earlier this week, we covered Affinity Photo, and later we’ll also cover Affinity Designer. But quite a few might find these new apps (or a mix of apps) to be exactly what they need. We know some artists are OK with Adobe’s subscription plans, and none of what you’ll read is to suggest that Adobe’s solutions are anything but capable. Saving roughly $10-30 per month is a big deal for many artists, especially in challenging times. Canceling a Creative Cloud subscription and/or subscribing to only one or two apps, can drive the cost down from the default $52.99/month (and counting) to $20.99/month for most apps or $41.98/month for two.
Ultimately any switch has to benefit the user in terms of cost, efficiency, or both. It’s worth pointing out that these are not product reviews or how-to articles, but a general comparison between applications. To do their part, Serif has temporarily reduced its prices by 50% for the entire suite. If you are a creative professional or an aspiring digital artist looking for alternatives to Adobe’s subscription plans, now is a great time to consider a switch.
#Affinity publisher vs indesign series
The Rocket Yard has readied a new series for our friends in the creative space, to introduce the Affinity suite of applications from Serif. Many OWC customers are impacted, including creative professionals like photographers, illustrators, and graphic designers-and now Work From Home (WFH). I don't love InDesign like I once did but I didn't see anything in Publisher that would make me want to ditch the Creative Suite.COVID-19 has dramatically changed the way millions of people work. There's a lot of muscle memory with keyboard shortcuts, app preferences, and general workflow that just made working in Publisher a chore. I realize you can create custom styles but let me start with a clean slate and decide how I want to structure and name thngs.Ī lot of other issues really stemmed from nearly two decades of experience with InDesign and all the other Adobe Creative Suite apps. InDesign has limitations and I've developed methods to work around only allowing a single character style applied a text at a time but I'll take their approach any day. I loathe Word and implementing paragraph styles, in the same way, was a huge mistake. Paragraph styles were a mess in Publisher. I've been able to hack a solution together but PDFs don't export the file properly. I didn't see a way to do this in Publisher.īinding along the top edge was a nice feature that I'd like to see officially supported in InDesign. This lets you set columns and margins consistently across all master pages easily. This is handy if you want to layout something a gatefold or barrel fold brochure where successive pages are trimmed ~.125" smaller as the page folds in. InDesign allows you to mix multiple page sizes n a single document. Publisher appears to require a table on each page which means when you need to make updates you will need to move a lot of copy around as the table rebreaks. In InDesign, the table head repeats when it breaks across the page and the content continues to flow.
I've had documents where a single table takes up 5 or 6 pages.
One feature I use in InDesign ALL THE TIME is spanning tables across multiple frames. I liked the direction table styling was headed but tables, in general, were not well implemented. Some of this could due to unfamiliarity to Publisher but if it's not intuitive, to begin with, that's a knock against it in my opinion.