DrZigZag Posted February 22, 2018 Posted February 22, 2018 I truly could use publisher today. This is the workaround I have to do to produce a 12 Mini page booklet with printer spreads 4.5" x 6" How soon can we get Affinity Publisher. Publoo, CalvinCoolridge and peter 3 Quote
Staff MEB Posted February 22, 2018 Staff Posted February 22, 2018 Hi DrZigZag, Welcome to Affinity Forums Affinity Publisher will be available as a Public Beta this Summer (Northern Hemisphere), Nero, CalvinCoolridge and 000 3 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
Publoo Posted February 23, 2018 Posted February 23, 2018 I have the same problem ... I'm missing Affinity Publisher for happiness. Quote
Staff MEB Posted February 24, 2018 Staff Posted February 24, 2018 The dev team is way to busy for anything else: Publisher, Affinity Designer for iPad, a DAM.... VectorCat, Boldlinedesign and 000 3 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
GarryP Posted February 24, 2018 Posted February 24, 2018 Don't forget about using a camera to read facial gestures. When I frown or look confused I want it to automatically process the undo function. Actually, no, scratch that; it would undo pretty much everything I create. lwampler, Mithferion and 000 3 Quote
Lon in MacArkansas Posted February 24, 2018 Posted February 24, 2018 Any chance it will make my morning toast and coffee? Lon "I want my Maypo" in MacArkansas 000 1 Quote
Alfred Posted February 24, 2018 Posted February 24, 2018 Quote frankly I thought print was dead You’re kidding, surely?? Don’t you ever have days when the postal service delivers more junk mail and advertising flyers than anything else? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Alfred Posted February 24, 2018 Posted February 24, 2018 46 minutes ago, Lon in MacArkansas said: Lon "I want my Maypo" in MacArkansas I think you’re showing your age, Lon! Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
RonReed Posted February 27, 2018 Posted February 27, 2018 On 2/22/2018 at 11:37 AM, DrZigZag said: I truly could use publisher today. This is the workaround I have to do to produce a 12 Mini page booklet with printer spreads 4.5" x 6" How soon can we get Affinity Publisher. If you are desperate there is always QuarkXpress 2017, the 'other' professional application. The new Quark is quite good. Any professional should be able to get up to snuff on it pretty quickly. 000 1 Quote
Bigmanfrank Posted March 2, 2018 Posted March 2, 2018 No to Quark, No to Adobe, Yes to Affinity! peter 1 Quote
PaulEC Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 Or get Serif's PagePlus X9! Now a "legacy" product, so very cheap, but still eminently usable, and, going on received opinion, more fully featured now, than Affinity Publisher is likely to be for quite some time. John Rostron 1 Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 11 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad "Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance." (GBS)
Alfred Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 57 minutes ago, PaulEC said: Or get Serif's PagePlus X9! Now a "legacy" product, so very cheap, but still eminently usable, and, going on received opinion, more fully featured now, than Affinity Publisher is likely to be for quite some time. From the screenshot in the OP, it seems that @DrZigZag is a Mac user. PagePlus only runs on Windows. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
GarryP Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 There's a chance that PagePlus might run on OS X under Wine - https://www.winehq.org/ - but I've never tried it. It looks like some versions work and some don't: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=999 Quote
Alfred Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 31 minutes ago, GarryP said: There's a chance that PagePlus might run on OS X under Wine - https://www.winehq.org/ - but I've never tried it. It looks like some versions work and some don't: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=999 One version on the list got a ‘Gold’ rating, but that was PagePlus 5.0 from twenty years ago. The rating for recent versions is ‘Garbage’, which doesn’t sound very promising! Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
GarryP Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 Yeah, I agree, it doesn't look very promising but they were all tested using pretty old versions of Wine. If the OP can get hold of a trial version of PagePlus - from who knows where - they could give it a try without spending any money. Another solution would be to find an old copy of Windows and run it in a VM. (Windows XP will probably be fine but I couldn't find any minimum requirements on the Serif website.) Quote
MikeW Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 There are two options for running across all 3 major OSs. That would be Scribus and Viva Designer. I dislike Scribus for a number of reasons, but have used it in the past for some client work. Viva Designer is viable depending upon what one does with a layout application. I use it for a couple clients and while I find there are certain oddities in how it does some things, it has been stable and capable of what I need it for. Quote
PaulEC Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 Quote From the screenshot in the OP, it seems that @DrZigZag is a Mac user. PagePlus only runs on Windows. Sorry, my bad, not being a Mac user I didn't notice that! Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 11 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad "Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance." (GBS)
Alfred Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 1 hour ago, GarryP said: Another solution would be to find an old copy of Windows and run it in a VM. (Windows XP will probably be fine but I couldn't find any minimum requirements on the Serif website.) They used to have the minimum requirements listed on the website, but now that PagePlus has been relegated to ‘legacy’ status I think the info is only available via the user guide. Anyway, PPX9 will run on 32-bit XP SP3, or on any later 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
GarryP Posted March 4, 2018 Posted March 4, 2018 Thanks for adding that information Alfred. It's good to have that sort of thing documented somewhere. Another option, if you have a copy of Windows, is running it in a bootable partition via Boot Camp Assistant, but the version of Windows you can run depends on the version of OS X you have. Quote
Heitor Posted March 5, 2018 Posted March 5, 2018 You can always try scribus https://www.scribus.net/ Not too bad compared to inDesign... but hey, at least is Open Source and for Linux, Win and Mac OS X. SrPx 1 Quote
peter Posted March 31, 2018 Posted March 31, 2018 I never had any joy with DP on WINE. Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111
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