Martin03 Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 I am going to prepare a 24 page magazine using photos and text. Which would be best, Affinity Photo or Affinity Designer? I would appreciate some guidance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIPStephan Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Affinity Publisher. ;) Alfred and anon1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Martin03, VIPStephan has the right idea. You could make a 24 page magazine in Designer but Designer isn't made to do those kind of things and it would be tough. If you were to use Designer, you would be causing yourself a lot of unnecessary headaches. You should never use a photo app to do layout, it would be even worse than using Designer to make a magazine. Affinity Publisher, which hasn't been released yet, would be the kind of tool that you would use to do something like make a 24 page magazine. Right now your only choices are Adobe's Indesign or Quark Xpress. Xpress is more expensive but you can buy a perpetual licence whereas with Indesign you have to buy a subscription. If you have time, you can wait for Publisher to be released but it will take some time. Publisher is expected (I believe) to be released as a beta at the end of this year. So the actual release won't be until sometime in 2017 (I would suspect). Whatever you choose, you should use a program that is made for layout. Best of luck, Hokusai Petar Petrenko 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Right now your only choices are Adobe's Indesign or Quark Xpress. Those two are the obvious commercial choices, but there are open source alternatives such as Scribus. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 16.7.2 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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