Adobe to Affinity

[Post-man19]

Before making the leap from Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc., I would like to know if vector art can be prepared (for pre-press) within Affinity Photo.  I'm reasonably sure that it can in Affinity Designer, but oftentimes while working on a file such as a business card, poster, etc. for commercial printing, I have worked in Photoshop and prepared resolution independent files and sent them out as high-res PDFs for a the printer's PDF workflow.  I obviously can do this in illustrator, but when working on simple projects other than page layout and/or illustration, if I'm working in Photoshop I don't always change to Illustrator or InDesign.  Thanks for any input.

[firstdefence]

Welcome to the forum,

In all of the Affinity apps you can create a new Print Press-ready document, see a screenshot below from Affinity Designer.

This screenshot is from Affinity Designer 1.6.x version

This screenshot is from Affinity Designer 1.7 beta release.

Essentially the only difference is you can set your bleeds at the time of document creation instead of after document creation in 1.6.x : 

 

[Fixx]

Affinity Photo can create and export to PDF press ready vector art and text. Notice that text objects show as pixel rendered versions in Photo document but they export to PDF fine as normal live text, not as bitmaps. Also it is worth noticing that using effects and blend modes mostly renders as bitmaps in export.