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Hi

Have a client who wants to be able to make last minute copy changes to a newsletter designed by me, she has a Mac, I use Windows 10.

Will Affinity Publisher allow cross platform editing without disturbing the integrity, layout and font metrics of the page design?

Deal is I would email her the finished design with copy placeholders, and she would swap placeholder text with new copy.

If file integrity is possible, I'd buy a copy of the program for both platforms.

Thanks in advance

Tom Scott.

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I believe that files are completely interchangeable between the two platforms. I've opened .afpub files uploaded to these forums from both, and both have worked. Buy, buy, buy... 😃

(Or get the 90-day free trial and give it a whirl before you do.)

EDIT: as long as you both have the same fonts...

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Affinity Photo 2.0.3,  Affinity Designer 2.0.3, Affinity Publisher 2.0.3, Mac OSX 13, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel.

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The installed fonts will be the biggest issue, and the version of the fonts.

Exporting a Package file, and zipping the .afpackage and the images and fonts directory may be safest. Of course, you need to make sure the fonts you've used have licenses that allow you to share them that way.

-- Walt
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Thanks for the information, no problem on the fonts, we will stick to Google fonts for consistency with the web platform, what she doesn't have I'll load for her.

What's the learning curve on Affinity Publisher? What are the quirks?

Have years with Photoshop and CorelDraw, somewhat less with InDesign, none are perfect, but doesn't that make life interesting.

Appreciate the prompt assistance.

 

Best Regards

Tom S.

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18 hours ago, Thomas.Scott said:

Thanks for the information, no problem on the fonts, we will stick to Google fonts for consistency with the web platform, what she doesn't have I'll load for her.

What's the learning curve on Affinity Publisher? What are the quirks?

Have years with Photoshop and CorelDraw, somewhat less with InDesign, none are perfect, but doesn't that make life interesting.

Appreciate the prompt assistance.

 

Best Regards

Tom S.

Welcome to the forums☺️  If you (and possibly your client) can spend a little time watching the official Affinity tutorials for Publisher (see the topic above, “A Guide to Learning Affinity Software”) you should become comfortable with its basics quite easily.  At that point if you are stuck, do ask your questions here in the forums.  There are many very experienced people who will be glad to help you, I am certain.  And no question is a silly one.  I should know, because they have rescued me over and over again!


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MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB  SSD storage
,  Ventura 13.6.   Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1.  
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