Currently during my day job, I use Affinity Designer, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. I prefer Designer's workflow infinitely more than Adobe Illustrator's. Affinity Photo's workflow is about on a par with Photoshop, so I generally use the one I'm more familiar with, although my home devices don't have Adobe suite so my familiarity and workflow with Photo is improving.
InDesign is a wonderful product; I've used it for years. But recently I've been encountering the frustration of incompatible .indd files between CC and CS5 (my workplace owns multiple licenses); having to use .idml to convert between the two versions is awkward. My predecesor use CorelDraw and many of the source files are corrupt, unwieldy or simply missing, so I often have to recreate documents from PDF or even print versions. Switching between Corel and Adobe products is a jarring experience. Switching between Adobe and Affinity is fluid and doesn't involve that much of a learning curve.
Affinity Publisher (even at this early stage) is a delight. The excellent conversion from PDF to editable document is something even InDesign (still) can't do and Adobe Acrobat doesn't do particularly well. Yes, there may be some options missing from menus and a few workflow issues, but based on my experience with the Designer beta, I have faith that Serif will resolve these and Publisher will replace InDesign in my daily work.
My workplace is currently attached to their CS5 licenses (CC licenses are few-and-far-between, and more expensive due to the subscription model). When CS5 becomes too out-of-date, I can't see them upgrading to CC, so I sincerely hope they move towards Affinity products. I'm convinced Publisher will sell.
Currently during my day job, I use Affinity Designer, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. I prefer Designer's workflow infinitely more than Adobe Illustrator's. Affinity Photo's workflow is about on a par with Photoshop, so I generally use the one I'm more familiar with, although my home devices don't have Adobe suite so my familiarity and workflow with Photo is improving. InDesign is a wonderful product; I've used it for years. But recently I've been encountering the frustration of incompatible .indd files between CC and CS5 (my workplace owns multiple licenses); having to use .idml to convert between the two versions is awkward. My predecesor use CorelDraw and many of the source files are corrupt, unwieldy or simply missing, so I often have to recreate documents from PDF or even print versions. Switching between Corel and Adobe products is a jarring experience. Switching between Adobe and Affinity is fluid and doesn't involve that much of a learning curve. Affinity Publisher (even at this early stage) is a delight. The excellent conversion from PDF to editable document is something even InDesign (still) can't do and Adobe Acrobat doesn't do particularly well. Yes, there may be some options missing from menus and a few workflow issues, but based on my experience with the Designer beta, I have faith that Serif will resolve these and Publisher will replace InDesign in my daily work. My workplace is currently attached to their CS5 licenses (CC licenses are few-and-far-between, and more expensive due to the subscription model). When CS5 becomes too out-of-date, I can't see them upgrading to CC, so I sincerely hope they move towards Affinity products. I'm convinced Publisher will sell.