Yogi9409 Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 We are now well into September. I am very keen to know when Affinity Publisher will become available as that will enable me to completely leave windows? Besli and Clara Montseny 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted September 19, 2016 Staff Share Posted September 19, 2016 Affinity Publisher is in development but will not be out anytime soon. We need to make sure the product meets peoples expectations so we will take the time to get it right. Steps, Besli, Bri-Toon and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bunyar Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 Will you need beta testers out in the field? I am starting a side/personal project that is a magazine. And I am hoping to start building it with Publisher -- rather than using my work computer and InDesign. Don't get me wrong. I love InDesign. I just can't afford to pay such a steep price and have it as a subscription. I am glad to see Affinity is providing a straight product purchase model. So, I am really looking forward to Publisher. Keep up the great work. Thanks. Besli, Pickwick, Clara Montseny and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 It may take over a year before you can take Publisher to production work. I would not make any plans that include timetables AND Publisher. If you need to do magazines at certain time do it in Indy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diller Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 We are now well into September. I am very keen to know when Affinity Publisher will become available as that will enable me to completely leave windows? This one has been repeatedly pushed back. The best you can do is pretend that Affinity never mentioned Publisher. It was supposed to hit beta last year. Then it was supposed to hit this year. Now it's a matter of "wanting to get it right" which could mean that it is still years off. I renewed my Adobe subscription and to be honest I am loving the CC suite again. Jens Krebs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yogi9409 Posted September 20, 2016 Author Share Posted September 20, 2016 Expected to be in beta around the end of 2016 with a launch in 2017, from your own pages Are you now saying that this product has been pushed back, if so I have to express a degree of frustration as I have been waiting for this for some time? IMHO Serif would have been better advised to get all the Mac products on line BEFORE introducing affinity to Windows which already has the benefit of other Serif products. ShaBlanken, KipV and furtonb 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 Any new info about when final version of Designer and beta of Photo for Windows are going to come out? Besli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 IMHO Serif would have been better advised to get all the Mac products on line BEFORE introducing affinity to Windows which already has the benefit of other Serif products. I don't think we can assume that the developers who are working on the Affinity on Windows UI would have been able to make an effective contribution to either the core programming of Affinity Publisher or the UI programming for the Mac in a different programming language. Besli and Steps 2 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/ProAffinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 15.7.9 (iPad Air 2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yogi9409 Posted September 21, 2016 Author Share Posted September 21, 2016 This is very bad news. I was depending on publisher to complete my suite. At this rate, I might be better placed by going back to Adobe. I gave been a Serif user since PagePlus 3 and feel badly let down. At least they could let us know where they are at to enable fans to make a more informed decision about staying with Serif rather than leave us in limbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted September 21, 2016 Staff Share Posted September 21, 2016 We just don't know when Publisher will be finished. We can make guesses based on current progress and anticipated issues to but it's the unanticipated that often cause guesses to become invalidated. If you have fixed dates that you must release on then that absolutely leads to releasing broken software and that's not what we want to do. We made a prediction when we thought we might be ready but the dates were too optimistic. I will not make new predictions until we are more confident of an actual release window. If you need a DTP application, then PagePlus is still a fine product. If you need something more professional, then InDesign is also pretty good. Jens Krebs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chekka Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 I understand, that you do not give false promises. But can you say if the release date will be in a few months or rather in a year or more? Quote iMac (27", Late 2013) – 3,2 GHz Intel Core i5 – MacOS 10.14Adobe user since 1994, but now Affinity enthusiast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TonyBAdmin Posted September 21, 2016 Members Share Posted September 21, 2016 I understand, that you do not give false promises. But can you say if the release date will be in a few months or rather in a year or more? I will take longer than a few months. Jens Krebs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dave Harris Posted September 21, 2016 Staff Share Posted September 21, 2016 There will be a public beta which itself will probably take several months. So until that beta starts, Publisher will always be more than several months away. I would recommend not basing any future plans on Publisher at least until the beta starts. That will also be the first opportunity to see what features it has. As with our other products, we tend to release when it has enough to be useful to someone, and that someone may not be you. It's going to take years before it is anything like as full-featured as PagePlus or InDesign. Steps and Jens Krebs 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hntaba Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Oh Publisher ! Where for art thou Publisher ? Clara Montseny, edesigned, Rick G and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 guess it would be helpful to know the current state of development like done vs to do most things I´ve heard so far were about features that will not be available so it´s like you´re working on nothing specific and don't have a report although it has been delayed again now ..ough if you´d offer such a snapshot (by which I don´t mean a snapshot release) of your development it would be much clearer to see what you´ve achieved VS what is still to be done furtonb and JGD 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seneca Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 It's going to take years before it is anything like as full-featured as PagePlus or InDesign. I think Dave's post quoted above is quite clear and It's not what I wanted to hear unfortunately. Those of us who use inDesign professionally, will have to continue doing so for the foreseeable future and in my case it will most probably be the only DTP software I will have used till my retirement. It will be down to the next generation of DTP professionals to pick up the challenge of getting the Affinity Designer to become the inDesign challenger. I will of course try all the beta releases as they become available but will not expect much initially. Regards Quote 2017 27” iMac 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 • Radeon Pr 580 8GB • 64GB • Ventura 13.3. iPad Pro (10.5-inch) • 256GB • Version 16.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 On 21/09/2016 at 4:18 PM, Just J said: Oh Publisher ! [Wherefore] art thou Publisher ? What do you think they should have called it instead? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/ProAffinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 15.7.9 (iPad Air 2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chekka Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Is there a subscriber list for beta testing? Quote iMac (27", Late 2013) – 3,2 GHz Intel Core i5 – MacOS 10.14Adobe user since 1994, but now Affinity enthusiast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chekka Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Yes Page Plus X8 is still a wonderful Product, not X9. What’s wrong with X9? Quote iMac (27", Late 2013) – 3,2 GHz Intel Core i5 – MacOS 10.14Adobe user since 1994, but now Affinity enthusiast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 What’s wrong with X9? Read all about it! TonyB has, however, promised us a patch. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/ProAffinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 15.7.9 (iPad Air 2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianC Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 What’s wrong with X9? Can't seem to find a Mac version for starters ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiago1801 Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Most of people in THE WORLD have Windows no Macrappy, ok? So, if they should priorise anything, that should be softwares for WINDOWS cornishninja 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Their priorities should be to develop products that keep revenue flowing into the company. If they do not do that, the company will go out of business & everybody loses. They have said the Serif line was no longer doing that. The Affinity line is. End of story. KipV and Clara Montseny 2 Quote All 3 1.10.6, & all 3 V21.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.6; Affinity Designer 1.10.6; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Most of people in THE WORLD have Windows no Macrappy, ok? So, if they should priorise anything, that should be softwares for WINDOWS Better said, Wincrappy no Mac. :D rui_mac 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Most of people in THE WORLD have Windows no Macrappy, ok? Congrats! Desperately waiting for brain-deads to carry those childish "system wars" into this forum. Believe me, tiago1801, up to now we got along fine without sandbox quarreling. Clara Montseny, Petar Petrenko, Bikerbudmatt and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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