Migrating from InDesign to Publisher - what's better/what do you miss?

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[madiko]

18 hours ago, MikeTO said:

left aligned, ragged right

Exactly, that is, what I meant. (No sharing or aligning right)

InDesign helps a lot with this (automated), especially in consort with hyphenation to it's bare minimum. To do it by hand is very cumbersome. Especially with living texts and you do not want to do this work again and again.

I very much hope, Affinity considers to put this to work. Adobe InDesign safes me a lot of work that way.

 

Thank you for the answers! Have a nice day.

[MikeW]

If the request is for the InDesign Balanced Ragged Lines feature, it's been requested/talked about here:

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/65732-balance-ragged-lines/

In general, it can work well. If applied to a book-length work, it can really slow down ID.

When used on shorter pieces, like two-line headings, bullet lists, pull-quotes, etc., the first line will always be longer by default. This balance method can be overridden via scripting, however, so the first line is shorter, a point of discussion brought up in the linked thread.

[Dazmondo77]

Not seen anyone mention proper inline, flowing tables or printable/PDFable slug area.

[MikeW]

12 minutes ago, Dazmondo77 said:

Not seen anyone mention proper inline, flowing tables or printable/PDFable slug area.

These have been requested in various threads in the past. 

[Juhani]

Good list, but you forgot about spaning text/paragraphs across columns within one frame, which is pretty much the only actual dealbreaker for me right now to transition a magazine layout over to Publisher.

Of couse Serif should start thinking about offering its users some better Font options like Adobe does, even if comes as part of an optional monthly subscription. Right now if you're not part of CC, your next stop is probably Monotype, which is quite expensive.