I want to thank the whole team for all of their hard work in getting this great software out, bang on the time it was promised to Beta Testers.
Love the slick way that the personas work... very nice. (you need to add some award emoticons to the forums)
To see the launch annoucement event go here affin.co/live19 or watch on Vimeo here
On June 19th 2019 Affinity Publisher, our most ambitious app yet, was launched at Affinity Live 2019, streamed live from our HQ.
We are over the moon to release the first version of Affinity Publisher, we think it will revolutionise desktop publishing. Much in the same way Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer have shaken up professional photo editing and graphic design.
StudioLink Complete integration of Affinity apps
With Affinity Publisher, you can directly link to your other Affinity apps through StudioLink. The first technology of its kind, this revolutionary feature takes the pain out of publishing by allowing you to instantly switch to the advanced photo editing features of Affinity Photo and precise vector tools of Affinity Designer without ever leaving the app. It’s the most fluid workflow ever conceived in a creative suite of applications, and the reason we named our apps Affinity.**
Fluid publishing powerhouse
Bring your vision to life with Affinity Publisher, the next generation of professional publishing software. From magazines, books, brochures, posters, reports and stationery to other creations, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication.
Engineered for advanced technology
Engineered with the same no-compromise vision as our acclaimed photo editing and graphic design apps, thousands of global professionals have contributed to the development of Affinity Publisher to meet the demands of the 21st century designer.
Spectacular layouts
With essentials like master pages, facing page spreads, grids, tables, advanced typography, text flow, full professional print output and other amazing features, Affinity Publisher has everything you need to create the perfect layout – whatever your project.
Double page spreads
Live master pages, including nested master pages
Image frames with intelligent scaling options
Text wrapping with fine padding control
Custom shaped text frames
Link multiple text frames together across your document
Advanced guides, grids and snapping
Tables and custom table formats
Text to match the power of your words
Free yourself from the constraints of tired, traditional text layouts. Let Affinity Publisher help you visualise your text in creative new ways and flow it seamlessly through your document.
Text styles: Link the style of your text across all pages in your document
OpenType support: Open up all stylistic features of the latest OpenType fonts
Text decorations: Add lines and borders to elements of your typography
Drop caps: Add drop capitals to any paragraph
Text on a path: Draw any curve and type along it
Artistic text: Gain creative control over titling and other stand out text
Flow options: Avoid orphaned or widowed lines, among many other features
Baseline grid: Ensure the baseline of your text is aligned across all columns and spreads
Perfect graphics
Whatever the brief calls for, you can rely on Affinity Publisher to handle all the standard file types you’d expect, leaving you free to create the most ambitious, content-rich combination designs, pulling in raster or vector assets from multiple sources.
Link or embed images with full resource manager
Place PSD, AI, PDF, JPG, TIFF, PNG or Affinity files
Pin graphics to float or be placed in line with your text
Full colour control
Affinity Publisher can handle RGB, LAB, greyscale and CMYK colour spaces, with advanced control over professional colour requirements for print.
End-to-end CMYK
Spot colour support
Pantone library included
ICC colour profiles
More information can be found here and Tech Specs and a full feature lists are here
You can buy Affinity Publisher 1.7 now from the:
Affinity Store: macOS [10.9 or above] & Windows [10 (Anniversary Edition or above), Windows 8.1 & Windows 7 (Service Pack 1)]
Mac App Store : macOS [10.7 or above]
Microsoft Store: (Windows 10 Anniversary edition or later)
If you have questions about Affinity Publisher please use this forum, as this thread is only for responses to the announcement.
** requires other Affinity (ver 1.7) applications to be installed on the same machine to enable the StudioLink feature
Before the announcement I thought the idea to switch between apps was a great idea, but now we see how we really can work in the same workflow instantly is much better than I could imagine. Actually a very briljant idea!
I say; Adobe eat your heart out! Next year 3 milion Affinity users.
Thanks Serif for this Studiolink idea! This is indeed a great timesaver and makes everything even more fun to work with!! I'm so glad I once made the switch to use products made by this enthousiastic and clearly passionate team with a great vision!
I often press TAB to hide the UI, then Cmd-0 to show my layout in all its glory.
If I quit Affinity Publisher in this state and open it again later, the UI is still hidden—which makes sense as it’s the last/previous state.
However, if I then hit TAB again, nothing happens. I have to select…
Disable “View > Studio > Hide Studio”,
“View > Show Context Toolbar”,
“View > Show Toolbar”, and
“View > Show Tools”
… manually. I always try to remember un-hiding the UI before I quit the app, but I always forget
Carsten
By the way: I can‘t wait to finally buy! You are doing a great job. Thank you!