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I want to make sewing patterns, they will be very wordy descriptive patterns for the newest of sewists, consisting of lots of text, lots of photos but also some drawn pattern pieces. Most the pieces are rectangular in nature so pretty easy to draw with vectors. I will need to make the file into a downloadable PDF so my question is will Publisher or Designer be the best choice or if I really have to option 3 Adobe Acrobat.

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I would say Designer.

Publisher is like Adobe's Indesign, which is used to create books and leaflets and such.
If it's just a 'one page' design, just use Designer. You can export a PDF after you're done with the design.

And Adobe Acrobat is a PDF reader by design, although it got fat with useless features...... ;)

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33 minutes ago, RobWu said:

And Adobe Acrobat is a PDF reader by design

Not really, one has to distinguish between Acrobat (Acrobat Pro) and Acrobat Reader. See for example also here. - However, yes for the OP Affinity Designer is the overall better choice for his sewing stuff needs!

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Thank you, so Designer will be able to handle formatting the text?  It's basically just a very wordy numbered list of steps with lots of photos. 

Yes I should have said it was thinking Adobe Acrobat Pro, which I'm trying to avoid going with because it is so expensive and it seems that what I need is really quite basic features. 

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27 minutes ago, Jaeyde said:

Thank you, so Designer will be able to handle formatting the text?

Designer is as it's name implies mainly meant for creating vector art graphics etc. It offers Frame Text for some longer text parts here, though isn't meant to be that much a replacement for the creation of multi page oriented text books, brochures, manuals etc. - For the later Affinity Publisher is better suited!

29 minutes ago, Jaeyde said:

It's basically just a very wordy numbered list of steps with lots of photos.

How many pages long? - So if it's more like a small book, brochure or manual etc. then Publisher, which is meant to be a DTP based app instead.

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I’m guessing they will all be between 15 and 30 pages long but half of the pages are pattern pieces that need to be cut out and taped together in some instances. Those pages will exclusively be just the vector drawn patterns, the other half of the pages will be text and photos. 

I suppose what I’m really asking is if either program could handle both the vector pattern pieces and the text and photos together, or if I needed both programs. If I needed both is it possible to then import one into the other before exporting  to a pdf? 
Thanks for your help.

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57 minutes ago, Jaeyde said:

Those pages will exclusively be just the vector drawn patterns, the other half of the pages will be text and photos. 

57 minutes ago, Jaeyde said:

I suppose what I’m really asking is if either program could handle both the vector pattern pieces and the text and photos together, or if I needed both programs.

If you already have ready vector drawn patterns and thus don't need to newly create these, than Publisher will be enough here. But in case you have first to create such/those vector patterns, then having Designer too will be helpful!

57 minutes ago, Jaeyde said:

I suppose what I’m really asking is if either program could handle both the vector pattern pieces and the text and photos together, or if I needed both programs. If I needed both is it possible to then import one into the other before exporting  to a pdf? 

Both apps can import/place bitmap & vector graphics and handle text here, they can also open/place/import thus exchange/reuse each others app files here. Though, as said before, Publisher is predestinated (much better suited) for creating/setup & handling longer multi-page documents here! - Where Designer in contrast would be the more ideal one for creating/drawing the vector patterns instead!

 

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