Staff Ash Posted June 6, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 6, 2019 Hi All, We're thrilled to announce that Affinity Publisher will be launched at Affinity Live on the 19th June - and it's also available to pre-order now with a 20% discount. We are going to live stream the event keynote at 6.15pm (BST) which will also include announcements on our future plans and perhaps a few surprises. For more info check out our spotlight article here. Would be great if you could join us... Thanks, Ash <EDIT> Here is a video of the event </EDIT> A_B_C, Glicky, Rob Hind and 28 others 24 7 Quote Managing Director Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) / Apple M1 Max / 64GB / macOS 12.0.1 iPad Pro 11-inch 3rd Gen / iPadOS 16.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJT963 Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 To all, RE: AFFINITY DESIGNER VS AFFINITY PUBLISHER I confess when I purchased AFFINITY DESIGNER, I thought it was a replacement for SERIF-PagePlus-9. I still use PP9 more so than AFFINITY DESIGNER, mainly because I find PP9 more intuitive with the UI in just finding basic tools & the help file in AFFINITY DESIGNER not much help either. I do on accasions give AFFINITY DESIGNER a further attempt with some success, but can get so frustrated at times, I end up going back to PP9 to get the task done. I just updated it to ver 1.7.0.367, so not too sure if any fundermental changes. Is there an update list somewhere ? Anyway rant over, I really wanted to know what the main differences are between AFFINITY DESIGNER & AFFINITY PUBLISHER ? & perhaps the latter would suit me better ? Over & out, CJT963 bakdoc 1 Quote Over & out, CJT1963 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 28 minutes ago, CJT963 said: I really wanted to know what the main differences are between AFFINITY DESIGNER & AFFINITY PUBLISHER Designer is vector based app like Illustrator or CorelDRAW and Publisher is layout app like InDesign or QuarkXPress. Mark Oehlschlager, jmwellborn, Friksel and 1 other 4 Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen Death Knight Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 I opened up the Publisher Beta just now and noticed that the other two Personas had activated for me. Not going to spoil it, but you developers are absolute mad lads. No wonder the development took so long. Not regretting pre-ordering this program. Can't wait till the 19th! Zoot, Mark Ingram, Copper Star Media and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 18 minutes ago, Frozen Death Knight said: I opened up the Publisher Beta just now and noticed that the other two Personas had activated for me. Is it a joke, or what? They don't work for me. How did you make them work? bakdoc 1 Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 26 minutes ago, Petar Petrenko said: Is it a joke, or what? They don't work for me. How did you make them work? There seems to be a bug in the older 1.7.0 Publisher beta versions (.337 and .371 have been mentioned, I think) that enables the new Personas when the retail versions of 1.7 Photo and Designer are installed. That does not occur with the current beta version, .376. OzNate, Friksel, Petar Petrenko and 1 other 2 1 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Ohhhh, why I didn't try it? Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen Death Knight Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 45 minutes ago, Petar Petrenko said: Is it a joke, or what? They don't work for me. How did you make them work? Nope, it's not. Walt explained it pretty well. Messaged you btw. No spoilers in it I assure you (unless you want them ; D). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lgoodwin Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 4 hours ago, CJT963 said: To all, RE: AFFINITY DESIGNER VS AFFINITY PUBLISHER I confess when I purchased AFFINITY DESIGNER, I thought it was a replacement for SERIF-PagePlus-9. I still use PP9 more so than AFFINITY DESIGNER, mainly because I find PP9 more intuitive with the UI in just finding basic tools & the help file in AFFINITY DESIGNER not much help either. I do on accasions give AFFINITY DESIGNER a further attempt with some success, but can get so frustrated at times, I end up going back to PP9 to get the task done. I just updated it to ver 1.7.0.367, so not too sure if any fundermental changes. Is there an update list somewhere ? Anyway rant over, I really wanted to know what the main differences are between AFFINITY DESIGNER & AFFINITY PUBLISHER ? & perhaps the latter would suit me better ? Over & out, CJT963 I've been using publisher for several months now. IN the earlier beta stages it was not as functional as PP. Now, the latest release beta, which is, I think, similar to the release candidate, is clearly superior to PP9. It still does NOT open PP files, I believe, so you would need to start a fresh file, but I can now do everything I could with PP 9, and more, as efficiently, if not more so. Len G Oregon KipV 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KipV Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 3 hours ago, walt.farrell said: There seems to be a bug in the older 1.7.0 Publisher beta versions (.337 and .371 have been mentioned, I think) that enables the new Personas when the retail versions of 1.7 Photo and Designer are installed. That does not occur with the current beta version, .376. Reinstalled! So cool. Quote New Internet Book Project | Another New Website Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoot Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Is there going to be training material available for Publisher? The 16 little intro videos were awesome, but they're now out of date and the statement there never really came to fruition... Quote Here’s a selection of tutorials to help you get started with Affinity Publisher. More will be added regularly over the coming weeks and months as we get ready for launch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 11 hours ago, walt.farrell said: There seems to be a bug in the older 1.7.0 Publisher beta versions (.337 and .371 have been mentioned, I think) Interesting. They removed link for downloading these versions, so I can't try the Personas. Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scapa Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 21 hours ago, Ash said: We are going to live stream the event keynote at 6.15pm (BST) which will also include announcements on our future plans and perhaps a few surprises. For more info check out our spotlight article here. Would be great if you could join us... Thanks, Ash Any chance you guys update the Affinity TV App on Apple TV for a live stream of the Event (and catching up the new set of turorials?) Would be pretty cool. Nevertheless, looking forward to Affinity Live!! josethadeu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 12 hours ago, Petar Petrenko said: Designer is vector based app like Illustrator or CorelDRAW and Publisher is layout app like InDesign or QuarkXPress. I have used Affinity Publisher to produce vector graphics using the Pen Tool and exported designs in various formats, including PDF, as a bitmap format png and as a vector format svg. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 4 hours ago, William Overington said: I have used Affinity Publisher to produce vector graphics using the Pen Tool and exported designs in various formats, including PDF, as a bitmap format png and as a vector format svg. William The same can be don with Photo, but Designer has more dedicated Vector Tools. Best regards! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 On 6/6/2019 at 10:13 AM, Ash said: Hi All, We're thrilled to announce that Affinity Publisher will be launched at Affinity Live on the 19th June - and it's also available to pre-order now with a 20% discount. We are going to live stream the event keynote at 6.15pm (BST) which will also include announcements on our future plans and perhaps a few surprises. For more info check out our spotlight article here. Would be great if you could join us... Thanks, Ash @Ash Can you say please what is the event in total please? For example, is it a presentation in a studio or is there an actual gathering of staff and some invited guests as well? For example, are you going to get some A4 frames from Tesco and ask beta testers to post electronically A4 PDFs produced using Affinity Publisher by next Wednesday and then you could select some or all of what you get by next Friday and have some of your staff print them out and frame them and then have an exhibition at the Affinity Live event and maybe include a view of the exhibition in your presentation on the internet? William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 8 minutes ago, William Overington said: @Ash Can you say please what is the event in total please? For example, is it a presentation in a studio or is there an actual gathering of staff and some invited guests as well? For example, are you going to get some A4 frames from Tesco and ask beta testers to post electronically A4 PDFs produced using Affinity Publisher by next Wednesday and then you could select some or all of what you get by next Friday and have some of your staff print them out and frame them and then have an exhibition at the Affinity Live event and maybe include a view of the exhibition in your presentation on the internet? William I dare to say that it will be like this one, a previous edition of the event: Best regards! Interior Book Design, OdatNurd, William Overington and 1 other 3 1 Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 18 hours ago, William Overington said: @Ash Can you say please what is the event in total please? For example, is it a presentation in a studio or is there an actual gathering of staff and some invited guests as well? For example, are you going to get some A4 frames from Tesco and ask beta testers to post electronically A4 PDFs produced using Affinity Publisher by next Wednesday and then you could select some or all of what you get by next Friday and have some of your staff print them out and frame them and then have an exhibition at the Affinity Live event and maybe include a view of the exhibition in your presentation on the internet? William @Ash Just in case you do decide to have the exhibition here are three PDFs, each A4 in size, that I have produced using Affinity Publisher. All are published on the web as well. They were testing different things. Please note how for the poem one can copy out the text and paste into another application, such as WordPad, and get the underlying plain text of the poem, notwithstanding that the display from the PDF document has ligature glyphs. That is a great facility in Affinity Publisher. I produced the picture using Affinity Publisher. Of course, if you do have the exhibition I accept that my three submissions for consideration may not get through to the final selection, but hopefully some other beta testers would each also send in one or more A4 size PDF documents, portrait format or landscape format. William white.pdf lady_1.pdf lady_2.pdf Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff evans Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 Will not be purchasing anything else from this company! Their support is non-existent. Purchased Affinity Designer and Photo when they were first released. Since then there have been numerous requests to incorporate the facility to open and save dxf/ dwg files in Designer. all requests have been ignored!! This is a feature that is required by a lot of designers. The first request for this was August 2014!! still being requested now but the requests are never answered. So beware when purchasing. Here is the forum with the requests: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monzo Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 Hi, Lookig forward to the official release of Publisher - just a query on discounts - as a beta user I've been offered an additional discount, but will this work for Mac? I purchased Photo and Designer via the App Store, so will the discount still apply? Just curious as to how this will work if I click the pre-order option for the Mac version. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 18 minutes ago, monzo said: Looking forward to the official release of Publisher - just a query on discounts - as a beta user I've been offered an additional discount, but will this work for Mac? I purchased Photo and Designer via the App Store, so will the discount still apply? Just curious as to how this will work if I click the pre-order option for the Mac version. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted June 8, 2019 Staff Share Posted June 8, 2019 @monzo Before launch its not available to pre-order from the Mac App Store (or Microsoft Store) sorry, but is available right now from the Affinity Store. When we launch Affinity Publisher on the 19th June, the current public "20% sale on everything" will be extended for a bit to include Affinity Publisher from all stores. So you can either choose to stick with the Mac App Store (buy after launch) or (as a beta tester) benefit from a slightly better offer by getting the 30% Affinity Store pre-order. Non beta testers are currently offered the pre-order at a 20% discount. Hope that is clear. J.A 1 Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monzo Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Patrick Connor said: @monzo Before launch its not available to pre-order from the Mac App Store (or Microsoft Store) sorry. When we launch Affinity Publisher on the 19th June, the current public "20% sale on everything" will be extended for a bit to include Affinity Publisher from all stores. So you can either choose to stick with the Mac App Store (buy after launch) or (as a beta tester) benefit from a slightly better offer by getting the 30% Affinity Store pre-order. Non beta testers are currently offered the pre-order at a 20% discount. Hope that is clear. Ah ok thanks - is it possible to purchase/download the Mac version from the Affinity store and bypass the App Store? Sorry for the newbie question - I bought Windows versions of Photo and Designer via your store, but I bought the Mac versions via their App Store. Didn't realise I could buy Mac versions direct - if so I'll buy it via your store and get the extra beta discount. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 24 minutes ago, monzo said: Didn't realise I could buy Mac versions direct Until late last year you could only buy the Mac versions through the MAS. Patrick Connor 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monzo Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 37 minutes ago, Alfred said: Until late last year you could only buy the Mac versions through the MAS. Ah ok thanks, so I can grab the Mac version from the Affinity store? To be honest I'd prefer using that to the App Store anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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