Affinity Publisher Public Free Beta Available NOW

[Patrick Connor 2,699]

The Affinity Publisher 1.7 free public beta is now available for Mac and Windows.

Please go to the Affinity Publisher page and press the "Download for Free Now" button to add it to an affinity store basket.

[iMatt 20]

Just downloaded my copy now!

[Jens Krebs 286]

Hurray. Downloading as we speak. Thanks, Patrick!!

[StuartRc 1,331]

Thank you

Installation successful

[Matthias 153]

Yeah. Excitement!

[af-user 64]

Congratulations

[iMatt 20]

As some suspected,  Aff Pub does indeed have vector and photo personas which seem to link to Aff Des and Aff Photo. However, I get the message ''A compatible version of Affinity Designer/Photo is required''. Perhaps this means Des and Photo need updating to the same 1.7 version as Pub.

[KnikmanAV 6]

@iMatt... as the announcement on the publisher page says...

 

[Patrick Connor 2,699]

3 minutes ago, iMatt said:

As some suspected,  Aff Pub does indeed have vector and photo personas which seem to link to Aff Des and Aff Photo. However, I get the message ''A compatible version of Affinity Designer/Photo is required''. Perhaps this means Des and Photo need updating to the same 1.7 version as Pub.

 

From the Publisher page...

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We will have deep integration with our other apps (check out the persona buttons!) However, we need to push an update to Photo and Designer before this works - we’ll let you know when.

 

[nezumi 121]

Now thats a surprise! I dont really need it for what I do BUT I will probably end up purchasing it anyways if you guys will keep great pricing that you have. Finally something to take care of that damn tables I hope

[Jens Krebs 286]

IT CAN WORK WITH SEVERAL DIFFERENT COLUMN WIDTHS IN ONE TEXTFRAME!!!!!!

You guys are geniuseses!!!!

[Przemysław 52]

Woo-hoo! 

[Wojciech Krakowiak 21]

 

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We don’t recommend you use it for any important production work at this time.

Of course an october's edition of magazine, that I'm making, will be made in Publisher

[A_B_C 1,728]

Oh my goodness … 

[Redbrit 3]

Can't wait for this download. Pulling my hair out with InDesign at the moment and really want to see if the workflow is as awesome as the other Affinity software.

[Alfred 3,881]

3 minutes ago, A_B_C said:

Oh my goodness … 

As Mae West famously remarked, “Goodness has nothing to do with it!”

[SillyWalk 28]

Sweet mother of all that is good and pure!

[pioneer 35]

Is there a setting somewhere where I can use the mouse scroll to zoom in on the document rather than the page scrolling? And thank you to Serif for this long awaited part of the suite. 

[Schnesen 0]

Woohoo, Happy beta release day Affinity team. 

I'm really looking forward to try it out. I put a little private project on hold because I wanted to do it with Publisher to give it a first shot with a real thing. 

[E9B6 5]

The tutorials are excellent - there is so much already in the beta! I am a Pageplus user since version 1 - cannot wait to get Publisher up and running in its final version.

Excellent work Serif

[dutchshader 384]

Just now, pioneer said:

Is there a setting somewhere where I can use the mouse scroll to zoom in on the document rather than the page scrolling?

yes, edit preferences tools

[Chris_K 1,052]

1 minute ago, pioneer said:

Is there a setting somewhere where I can use the mouse scroll to zoom in on the document rather than the page scrolling?

@pioneer If you go into Preferences > Tools there is an option to change it there

[Jarle Petterson 0]

Hey!

Just downloaded the beta and am, of course, overexcited by the prospect of buying the final version, once ready for release. Before it is, however, would it be possible to set up a text frame with a desired number of columns, rather than inserting x number of linked text frames (an InDesign trait that I miss, along with snappable columns on master pages)?

I'm really looking forward to playing around with this!

Cheers,
Jarle P
Norway

[pioneer 35]

Thank you, missed it in my eagerness to play with the program. :-)

[Sam Neil 41]

is there a feature like multiple page view like PagePlus? I am unable to find it.