philhendry

I'm really excited about this! I've been an Indesign user since it came out, and Pagemaker before that... I can't afford to upgrade to the Cloud version, and the old version I was using (CS5.5) won't run under High Sierra, so I'm well and truly stuck. I haven't really tried it properly yet, but I've had a quick fiddle about.
I have two things I'd like to see - the first has been mentioned several times already, which is the ability to import Indesign documents. The second relates to working in the document. It'd be very useful to be able to move the ruler/grid zero to a specific point (as previously requested for Designer): it makes working things out much easier than always having to subtract margin widths; sometimes moving the zero to a particular place in a column helps.

Yes, yes, yes!!!!   That is a feature I have been hoping for ever since the first time last year we were asked for suggestions.  I am sure that everybody who has ever used InDesign (and before that Pagemaker) has found that particular feature a godsend.  Particularly now that we are (I hope) temporarily stuck with gazillions of points, being able, for example,  to drag a new zero point to 306 (25p6 picas) would be a huge help. 
There must be thousands and thousands of fed-up Adobe victims waiting for the first commercially-ready version of Affinity Publisher.  I do so hope that they will consider this.  Meanwhile, we can import and edit InDesign documents if they are first converted to PDF.  Not ideal, but very workable in the meantime. 

I'm really excited about this! I've been an Indesign user since it came out, and Pagemaker before that... I can't afford to upgrade to the Cloud version, and the old version I was using (CS5.5) won't run under High Sierra, so I'm well and truly stuck. I haven't really tried it properly yet, but I've had a quick fiddle about.
I have two things I'd like to see - the first has been mentioned several times already, which is the ability to import Indesign documents. The second relates to working in the document. It'd be very useful to be able to move the ruler/grid zero to a specific point (as previously requested for Designer): it makes working things out much easier than always having to subtract margin widths; sometimes moving the zero to a particular place in a column helps.

This is absolutely lovely software in the making.  I have had a bit of a learning curve, but the tutorials are worth their weight in gold. I am amazed at the wonderful things the developers have thought of!  The online HELP is also right there where I need it.   And for all of us book writers who have saved our books in PDF, fed up with InDesign and thoroughly discouraged about not being able to edit them with anything else, there is WONDERFUL news.  I just imported a PDF of one of my books, and it turned up as beautifully as could be, recognizing every type face and every photograph, plus the format for every illustration and text wrap, and it is EDITABLE!!!!!!!!
 I had an unexplained crash while trying to do something entirely different, but that is entirely to be expected.  The report duly went off to Serif.
So thrilled that this has arrived!!   Just wish that the document setup measurement options included measurements in picas.  It is a wee bit unnerving to have a page that is 792 points long rather than 66 picas.  However, I have made myself a conversion chart.  36 picas= 432 points, 42 picas = 504 points, etc. etc. etc.
Thank you, thank you!! 

Yes, PLEASE give us the option to specify picas as the default unit of measurement. This is how I've set up every Quark or InDesign doc I've worked on for decades. For example, when I drag a guide out, I want to see that it's at 25p6, not so many hundreds of points. And I almost never work in inches.
Thanks!

This looks like final piece of the ultimate CC graphic design killer. This is a truly robust beta effort.
Hoping the tutorials keep coming with progressively deep drills into the features.
Oh, the things I can do with an extra $600 per year!
Great job. Thanks.
Now back to playing around before taking Publisher for a serious spin.

I've joined the forum for just one thing (at the moment) - this issue. I'm getting older - in my fifties - and my sight isn't what it once was. I've always been short-sighted, and wear glasses - which correct my vision very successfully. Nowadays, with the advent of presbyopia, I need more than one pair - and I have a pair which I use mostly for work at the computer. 
 
I want to like AD. There's so much about it that's good - or even great. I want to use AD. I'm not rich enough/making enough money to afford Adobe's CS subscriptions, so I'm still stuck on CS5.x; that stops me upgrading OS X beyond Yosemite, unless I stop using CS... And I want to stop using CS!! (To stop, I'll also need a replacement for Indesign, but that's a whole other issue!)
 
I don't like the dark interface. In fact, I don't just not like it - I'm mostly working for print, and the contrast between my page and the interface is simply too great. I'd love to use AD for all my work, but I can't... I get a splitting headache within about ten minutes, however I adjust the interface. I don't get that with any of the other software I use - because either by default, or by selecting the right options in preferences, I can get a set-up which is 'easy on the eye'. 
 
White/Light Grey background and dark or coloured text and icons (preferably with adjustable sizes) would enable me to use the software. I keep trying. I keep hoping, against hope, that today, I won't get a headache.

What we oldies and wimpy-eyed ones need is a UI designer/developer with less than perfect eyesight.  :D