Affinity Publisher is Apple’s Mac App of the Year

[Arun Sarkar 148]

Congrats!  Serif

[mac_heibu 456]

20 minutes ago, Jens Krebs said:

You're either ahead of your time or member of a very secret beta club -- in both cases: WOW!

  Sh…t happens! Of course I meant CC 2020! Sorry for that, Jens!

[Richard Liu 25]

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ConCats! Curious what Affinity app will win 2020.

Seriously, I hope none.  I do not have Affinity Publisher, but I do rely heavily on Affinity Photo.  I am dismayed at how long some features remain broken, while others seem trapped in a cycle of breaking, being fixed, then regressing.  A long thread about compatibility with Apple Photos is an example of the former.  And it is still not possible to print directly (i. e., without merging layers or exporting to another format ... except PDF) an .afphoto that uses live filters. In my experience as a software developer for a major Swiss bank and a large Swiss pharmaceutical company, it is sometimes necessary to put new software and new features on the back burner in order to fix the foundations of existing products.  This would be a good time to do so.

[RNKLN 112]

Publisher is a great piece of software. Congrats with this award!

[R C-R 3,696]

So has any other software company gone three for three for so much Apple award recognition for their version 1 apps?

All three sport Editors Choice badges on the Mac App Store. AD is an Apple Design Award Winner & the other two are App of the Year winners. Currently in the US Store all three are on the Top Paid apps list.

Correction: I forgot that both iPad apps are also Editors Choices, & both are on the Top paid list. So I guess we could say Affinity has gone five for five.

[Madame 282]

Congratulations to my favourite software company!  
Very deserved! 

[78deluxe 11]

Don't care about Apple, but well deserved recognition (once again).  

Hopefully the much larger market (over 75%) which is the Microsoft Platform also provides you with the same level of acolade and recognition.  

[Seneca 379]

1 hour ago, 78deluxe said:

Hopefully the much larger market (over 75%) which is the Microsoft Platform also provides you with the same level of acolade and recognition. 

Feeling better now?

[Tim Pro 2]

Congratulations! You are the best! 

[Murfee 142]

Congratulations to all the team, your hard work has paid off, looking forward to the Mac beta for Photo 

[Uwe367 110]

Congratulations Serif. Well done

[78deluxe 11]

17 hours ago, Seneca said:

Feeling better now?

Not until Affinity has achieved world domination.  

 

[Oval 420]

2 hours ago, 78deluxe said:

world domination

[Barry Gibbs 1]

Hi Patrick its excellant news that Apple have announced that Affinity publisher is the Mac app of the year, but what about Affinity Photo? you have said this is being looked into regarding the error when loading edited picture to Apple photo's. what I can't understand is how some people have Affinity Photo with Catalina but others don't. I appreciate there is no end time for this issue to be resolved but why can some get Affinity with Catalina and others don't? 

[ronnyb 900]

Congrats Devs! Keep up the great work! We're ready for Publisher on iPad to win next year...

[Patrick Connor 3,642]

@Barry Gibbs

This thread is not the right place for this discussion. The very next photo beta/release on Mac will resolve this issue. 

[IndigoMoon 54]

What, Again??! Wow, congrats to the whole team!!! But you surely know, that you screw up expectations for 2020

Keep on the great work!

[loulou 5]

On 12/3/2019 at 6:47 PM, appaulmac said:

Congratulations! And well deserved. Keep up the great work.. of keeping me off of any Adobe products :p

Sorry for the laughing smiley, but I had to laugh so hard. Adobe I avoid now too like a plague. I was before a real Adobe fan-girl and here I am now

[Bri-Toon 649]

Congratulations, team! I kind of expected this, but it's still rewarding, ain't it?

[Michael S Harvey 28]

Serif are certainly a spectacularly industrious company. Congratulations on the Apple Award it is well-deserved. Your legacy applications were also award winners in their filed as I remember. Particularly PagePlus. I hope Affinity Publisher will go from strength to strength and become a new industry standard that will remain powerful and affordable for users and professionals alike.

[MikeV 10]

Wow! Again! Congratulations. Richly deserved.

As exciting as this award is, the absolute killer news is this little gem tucked away in your award announcement:

'There’s some great stuff coming in our 1.8 update (including IDML import in Affinity Publisher!) which should be with you early in the New Year… '

I see a very large Adobe rock coming off a lot of shoulders in early 2020.

 

[iMatt 25]

Well done Serif! Having used Adobe CS - CS4 and CorelDraw 7 - X8 with PageMaker in between, very happy to be firmly in the Affinity camp.

[SeanZ 0]

Congrarts. But I havnt used it yet.

[Barry Gibbs 1]

On 12/5/2019 at 2:09 PM, Patrick Connor said:

@Barry Gibbs

This thread is not the right place for this discussion. The very next photo beta/release on Mac will resolve this issue. 

 

On 12/5/2019 at 2:09 PM, Patrick Connor said:

@Barry Gibbs

This thread is not the right place for this discussion. The very next photo beta/release on Mac will resolve this issue. 

I know this is on the wrong thread, But any news on when the beta/release  will be updated. Also why are some people not experiencing the same problem as some of us?

[markw 155]

11 minutes ago, Barry Gibbs said:

I know this is on the wrong thread, But any news on when the beta/release  will be updated. Also why are some people not experiencing the same problem as some of us?

If you have not already found it there is a beta now that can mostly work with Apple Photos on Catalina. It can be found here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/104964-affinity-photo-customer-beta-180163/