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Adobe is implanting the generative AI into Indesign. It is in the current Beta. This is a HUGE time saver and feature that will change even more how people work with graphics in print and other fields like it. File has no bleeds? No problem. It is an easy fix now. This is something I generally fix manually and while not difficult to add bleeds manually this is just next level. This type of generative AI is a massive time saver and super helpful tool that will quickly become the standard and required tools. Something that will set apart Adobe from Affinity even more if there is no answer to this from Affinity I am afraid.

Good to hear!

Does this work? Transit resave.afdesign

File does not open in Designer 2 latest updates on my M1 Max Mac. What I can do though is make a new document and then place the designer file in that new document. **Update** I did quit Designer and restarted Designer on its own, then double clicked the file and it did open properly in Designer. First go around when it did not open was was Designer was closed and I just double clicked the supplied file which started the opening process.

there are free online converts for word to PDF. https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/acrobat/word-to-pdf?x_api_client_id=adobe_com&x_api_client_location=word_to_pdf Not sure if that is free or if you need an adobe account. If not free there are others that come up with a simple google search. A template is easy, but not necessary. In a matter of minutes you could have a document market out with the spacing required for what you plan to print onto the Avery label sheets. You are going to have to step and repeat anyways to fill up a page, measuring out the first label and the space between is not all that much more to do.

I think rather then try and make Publisher just like Indesign you will need to adapt to the Affinity way of doing things. I don't use the software option as I use Adobe for work, so it can be a little confusing trying to figure things out at first. Great community of people here though who are glad to help when you have questions.

It was clearly not meant to inform you, but the poster who I quoted in my post. It was also not thing I posted about to correct and inform. No one is questioning your networking knowledge nor is anyone asking. An irrelevant post to the thread, just as this offers nothing to the thread.

I am sure no one cares, but knowing what you are typing is just a little bit of knowledge that I think anyone would welcome. They are not interchangeable as they mean different things: Mac is an abbreviation for Macintosh, and used to describe the line of Apple computing products that includes the MacBook Pro, iMac Pro, MacBook Air and the iMac. MAC, in all caps, is an acronym for media access control address. Every device connected to a network – including Macs, tablets, phones, Windows computers and more – has a unique MAC address, which is used to identify the physical address of the device. A MAC address looks something like this: 00:00:00:a2:1b:c2 Not worthi a discussion, just a helpful bit of knowledge for the poster.

Just a little correction, it is Mac, not MAC which is unique network address on a computer, Mac or PC. I think there will be more resources under Canva if they wanted to explore a Linux version, though I have a feeling they would come up with the same conclusion Adobe had that the market is too small to warrant the expense of painting, developing and supporting on Linux.

PDF is the way to go, seems they are going way over the top with flattening things. If you were sending this to me I would simply want a high res PDF and would suggest having no compression on for any of the artwork. 1/8th bleed all the way around and file saved in CMYK. If you did not have bleed it would be a quick and easy fix, I rarely even bother telling clients to fix the bleed as it takes me a literally 2 mins to add bleeds myself for most jobs. Something like a magazine or large brochure is obviously a different story.

There are free conversion sites for just about everything. https://www.publishertopdf.com If there was a market for MS Publisher I am sure Microsoft would still be selling it.

Both are bad, but Canva at least can look nicer and has modern updated templates for someone to use. There are free online MS Publisher to PDF convertors so people can do that if they really want an old MS Publisher file.

I personally think Affinity Publisher is far too complicated for most people who used MS Publisher. I think the simpler conversion is to Canva itself. It has the templates and is super easy to use. Affinity Publisher is complex and powerful as a page layout app should be. I definitely feel your pain, I dreaded when anyone sent in a MS Publisher file for print.

Is this the future of commercial airline travel? The overhead shot just reminds me of the seat layouts when picking a seat for a flight!

In a subscription service new members does relate to growth and profits. What numbers are you using to show that Adobe is bleeding users? From what I have read they are seeing growth year after year, this is growth in users. For year end of 2023 they were estimated 10,000 new subscribers a day. Maybe there are new numbers that say something different, I have no real care if they are succeeding or not, I do like the product and don't see it going anywhere anytime soon as it is fantastic that the majority of people in the same field are using the same software and same version. No more fragmentation. You may have friends who are jumping ship, but I can tell you the vast majority of users are not jumping ship as the price would be insane to switch over to new software and deal with everything that comes with that. Huge industries depend on the software and will keep plugging along, just as we are at my company and everywhere else that I deal with. Not even a ripple of complaints from people who just want to use the software to get the job done. Internet is an echo chamber and would not say it gives a very accurate picture of what is really happening. BMW had issues with some motorcycles in 2005 to 2007 and the shaft drives. On the forums it was the end of the world, and made it seem like every bike in that year would spontaneously explode because of all the issues one read about every day. And while it was an issue, it was nowhere near as big as what one made it out to be by reading and the percentage was incredibly low for anything happening at all.