BerndBrot Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 As I long time INDD-User (from CS zu CC 2018) I just want to thank everybody at Affinity for making this dream happen. Even it is a beta version it looks fantastic and very stable. Simply: Congratulations!!! T Real, solaris, aenimanu and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Couldn’t agree more!! Finally, a real alternative to the complete Adobe workflow(s) is almost here. If Publisher can open INDDs or IDMLs that will help reduce the issues of maintaining Adobe products long term due to the enormous pile of legacy files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grotesker Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Yes, this is quite amazing for a Beta, very impressive indeed, thank you. It may not do .idml but has a really good crack at .pdf files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carles Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 I agree, also a long time Indesign user. Publisher have more features than i expected. A specially appreciate they added an option to add a shortcut to any text style. It's also nice they have mixed Paragraph & Text styles in one palette (showing both paragraph and character styles at the same time). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Simpson Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 I add my congratulations, as both an ID and Quark user. Sure there are some issues and glitches, but for a Beta that's been out a matter of hours, this excellent. Nice intuitive fee. I'm not too concerned about legacy InDesign stuff. I have a translator for ID to Quark, and Quark can import PDFs and covert to native objects, but although both work, they either don't work perfectly, or are painful to use, so I suspect this is complex development job, an effort in itself. I'd rather Affinity focus on making Publisher great. Already, using it is like breathing clean air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcheetah Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Yeah absolutely, I second that. This software looks already awesome. From what I’ve seen at the moment, I’m in especially in love with the following features: Text Flow with different distances on each side for free shapes (not even InDesign does support that atm) Setting a distance to initials Different Borders on different sides (AWESOME) Pages panel can scroll as you scroll the document Paragraph spacing is comprehensive (sum spaces before and after, ignore space for same style, …) Comprehensive bullet points, although yet images or vectors as bullet points are still missing So many text settings can be set relative to baseline, ascender, descender, etc. This is awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kirton Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 I am very impressed with the look and feel of Affinity Publisher and will transfer one of my PagePlus Projects into Affinity Publisher format as a basis for learning the new interface. My hearty thanks to the entire Affinity team involved in this Beta release. The product looks awesome and very professional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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