cindym Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 I'm considering moving my QuarkXpress documents to Affinity. The largest docs I have are 600-800 page books. We don't do very fancy work, but need to know if Affinity can handle our document size. Most of our docs are only a few pages - less than 20 Thanks for any experiences or advice on this! Quote
MikeW Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 My answer? Probably. Maybe. Not really. It all depends on what your content is, especially for the longer documents, how you use master pages, swatches are a mess in my opinion. PDFs can be iffy. There is no automation in APub. But really,you should use the trial version and see for yourself. Just remember that the trial version runs for 7 days that begins at first start. So plan to set aside time and quickly try remaking from scratch a good representative body of your past Q work. Mike Quote
walt.farrell Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, MikeW said: Just remember that the trial version runs for 7 days that begins at first start. 10? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
MikeW Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: 10? Likely I am remembering incorrectly. I couldn't find the info on the website. Quote
Joachim_L Posted February 20, 2020 Posted February 20, 2020 From my experience: I converted a 300 pages manual from PDF and it worked. Only problem were the technical drawings exploding into million pieces. So I had to simplify snapping. But overall a good performace even on an average machine. But as said, install the trial and test yourself. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed
cindym Posted February 20, 2020 Author Posted February 20, 2020 thanks to all! I will definitely do the due diligence testing, but wanted to know if there were any known gotchas before I spent time. c Quote
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