grahamm7 Posted April 7, 2020 Posted April 7, 2020 I realised that most of Serif apps such as Page Plus, Draw Plus, Movie Plus that I use are now legacy products superceeded by Affinity products. So I have just purchased Affinity Publisher. But it doesn't seem to have any compatibility with Page Plus (latest). I thought at least I could import my Page Plus documents? It seems to import Adobe stuff. Does this mean that I can't pull my Page Plus files into Affinity Publisher Quote
Move Along People Posted April 7, 2020 Posted April 7, 2020 - Patrick Connor 1 Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here
Staff Patrick Connor Posted April 7, 2020 Staff Posted April 7, 2020 @grahamm7 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums There is quite a comprehensive discussion on this topic here, and this and many others have been tagged "PagePlus". To save a lot of reading, haakoo has already given you the best work around. Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon
grahamm7 Posted April 7, 2020 Author Posted April 7, 2020 I see all the Serif users have posted about the lack of import or compatibiity between Serif Page Plus and Affinity Publisher. I stuck with Serif Page Plus for DTP. As I have Office 365 I have MS Publisher. So I think I will change over to MS Publisher . MS will probably at least have an import or compatibility between files. So OK I have just wasted £23.99. And I will increase my cynacism about Software Companies. You also have no plans to move Movie Plus forward etc. So I think my years with Serif are coming to an end. It is not just the finacial cost but all the learning one has invested. Quote
Staff Patrick Connor Posted April 7, 2020 Staff Posted April 7, 2020 4 minutes ago, grahamm7 said: So OK I have just wasted £23.99 Well, as you bought from the Affinity store you have 14 days to try it, as explained in the order email. If this does not suit your needs simply email AffinityReturn@serif.com before that ends for a full refund. Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon
walt.farrell Posted April 7, 2020 Posted April 7, 2020 14 minutes ago, grahamm7 said: As I have Office 365 I have MS Publisher. So I think I will change over to MS Publisher . MS will probably at least have an import or compatibility between files. Though I do not use MS Publisher, and thus do not know for sure, I would be very surprised if MS Publisher could import your PagePlus files. You either need to stay with PagePlus if you need to work on those projects, or perform some kind of migration of them in order to use them with MS Publisher. The migration is likely the same in either case, assuming that MS Publisher can open PDF files like Affinity Publisher can. As for learning curve, you'll also have one switching from PagePlus to MS Publisher. 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
grahamm7 Posted April 7, 2020 Author Posted April 7, 2020 I am going to have a learning curve whether I go from Serif Page Plus to Affinity Publisher or Serif Page Plus to MS Publisher. I am not a large user of DTP but have self-published 2 books using Page Plus. I don't see why Serif made this quantum leap to Affinity. Maybe to satisfy Apple Mac usage who knows. But I am not happy that what ever I do I am now having to learn - get used to new packages. So I will have to make my decision but I don't think it will be Affinity. emmrecs01 1 Quote
PaulEC Posted April 7, 2020 Posted April 7, 2020 By far the easiest thing to do (like myself and, I suspect, many others) is to move over to Affinity Publisher for new projects, but keep PagePlus for editing old projects and for things like Mail Merge which aren't (yet) available in APub. I can assure you that APub is MUCH better for serious DTP than MS Publisher! emmrecs01 1 Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 11 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad "Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance." (GBS)
R C-R Posted April 7, 2020 Posted April 7, 2020 On 4/7/2020 at 1:48 PM, grahamm7 said: I don't see why Serif made this quantum leap to Affinity. That has been explained many times in many places but the short version is they wanted to: start with a clean slate, designed from the ground up to be as efficient as possible, run on multiple platforms, & to use a common "native" file format that all the Affinity apps could open & edit without conversion of loss of data. It was revealed in the Affinity Live 2019 Keynote event that introduced StudioLink that at about 27:30 in the video the Affinity name was chosen to suggest the affinity the apps in the suite have for each other. Patrick Connor 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
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