Publisher or Designer - Greeting and birthday cards

[Peoke]

I will primarily be using affinity for creating simple greeting and birthday cards. Should I go with Publisher or Designer. I am a little confused. In my mind Publisher is best suited for that, but I think I've read somewhere that Designer can to do most of what Publisher can, so should I just go with that?

[firstdefence]

Why not download the trials and see which suits you best.

Publisher, is more of a document layout app, so, mags, books, newsletters. It has vector and raster capabilities but if you want to create simple greeting cards I’d look at Designer.

[carl123]

1 hour ago, Peoke said:

I will primarily be using affinity for creating simple greeting and birthday cards.

If the birthday cards are to be printed and consist of a front page, 2 middle pages and a back page then get Publisher

If they are just single sided one-page cards or for electronic distribution only, then I would buy Designer.

[Alfred]

Designer would probably be simpler to use than Publisher if all you’re creating is greeting cards. For cards which are blank inside you only need one page, and if you wanted something on the inside spread in Designer (which doesn’t have pages, as such) you could always use artboards instead.

https://affin.co/designertrial

https://affin.co/publishertrial

Each trial runs for ten days counted continuously from the moment you first launch it, and the trial clock cannot be reset, so it’s probably best not to try them both at the same time. The shared file format means you can use the second trial to open any files saved during the first one.

[Pšenda]

2 hours ago, Peoke said:

creating simple greeting and birthday cards

Do you insert photos or parts of them at your cards, which you must edit accordingly beforehand? Then APhoto would come in handy :-)

[Old Bruce]

 

3 hours ago, Peoke said:

I will primarily be using affinity for creating simple greeting and birthday cards. Should I go with Publisher or Designer.

I would choose Designer over Publisher due to the greater number of tools for graphics in Designer. Either will get the job done but I think it will be more fun with Designer, Publisher has tools for publishing long form works which are heavy in text and you just don't need those. Also Publisher on its own lacks a dedicated Pixel Persona where you can create raster artwork with pixel tools, granted they are in turn less powerful than Photo's tools but they will get the job done.

Make two Artboards in your Greeting card document and then print out the inside and outside at home on one sheet of paper, fold and you are done.

 

[firstdefence]

I did this in Affinity Publisher: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=121455

 

Edited December 20, 2020 by firstdefence

[jmwellborn]

@carl123  Your updated avatar has me in stitches!   Nothing like good old fashioned British humor to save the day.  Merry Christmas to you and yours in spite of it all!