DavidK

As a past PagePlus/PhotoPlus user I find the missing save, undo, redo, print etc. toolbar icons the most annoying "feature" of the Affinity products. The only thing that is more annoying is that I cannot directly import PagePlus files into Affinity Publisher and have to do this through a PDf file, which loses all the formatting for mutli-page documents and any master pages I had set up.

I'm trying to print an A4 poster, scaled up to A1. I used to be able to do this very easily in PagePlus X9, but it doesn;t seem to work in Affinity Publisher. I've found the the tiled printing settings, but it doesn't matter waht I do, it still prints as A4 size on A3 paper. Unfortuantely, the inbuilt help only mentions that yo can print tiled, but not how. I've scaled up my document by 275%, (which is what I needed to do in PagePlus), I've set paper size to A3 and model to Tiled, but it just will not print in the scaled up size. This works perfectly in PagePlus, but I really don't want to, and shouldn't have to, start again and recreate my poster in PagePlus. Thanks, David

I bought Affinity Publisher when it was finally released, but I find myself still using PagePlus. As a PP user since version 2, the differences between the two programs are too much for me to pick up Publisher when I have something to do quickly. I have just needed to update my labels for the choir I am in and found that exporting from PP to Publisher via a PDF does not preserve the fact that there was a master page, nor does it allow me to print multiple labels to a page without some serious time being spent on reformatting the document. I feel that Serif has let its user down very badly with the lack of either a direct import process or a separate conversion program to convert PPP files to Publisher. I will still use PP until Serif gets their act together. I was planning to buy Publisher for Windows so I could work on either my Mac or PC, but at the moment Publisher is just not up to scratch for me. As a very long term customer, I am very disappointed and can see me looking at other packages if things do not improve soon, although I would loathe doing that as I have many years of PPP files that I still use as templates for new documents.

This is really disappointing news. I've used PagePlus since version 2 and I'm really happy with it. However, I am really fed up with Microsoft Windows and have now bought a Mac. I only use my PC for PagePlus now and was quite hopeful when I was told that Serif are developing a Mac publisher program. Whilst most of my publications could probably be imported via a PDF version this is not ideal. If there is another product out there for Mac that would read ppp files then I would buy it. As it is I will probably keep my Windows PC and see what the free upgrade to Windows 10 brings!