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You could buy a copy of of Publisher & get most of Designer & Photo integrated with the personas . I'm the same as you and would like to see the same or even better a full integration of Designer & Photo which I'm told isn't likely to happen. As a long time user of Fireworks I just like everything in one single app, whilst I appreciate Fireworks is nowhere near Photo in terms of bitmap editing.

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I do have Publisher, yes. The trio of apps and their integration with one another is great almost beyond words.  In this example, Designer seems the better tool because of the way I can use artboards - as many as I need - with their ease of manipulability. To me it seems logical to include Photo persona.

I do recognize the significance of the developers’ producing 3 world-class creative tools over a short span of years — for Mac, PC, and iPad. I hope that Publisher for iPad is to come.

:)

 

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17 minutes ago, VectorCat said:

In this example, Designer seems the better tool because of the way I can use artboards - as many as I need - with their ease of manipulability.

You can do that in Publisher, too.

Switch to the Designer Persona, then use File > New, and in the resulting dialog first uncheck Default Master Page, and then check Create Artboard

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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6 minutes ago, VectorCat said:

Walt, that is *excellent* information..thank you for sharing it.  I’m doing this work in Designer also because it supports iPad as well as Mac.

I am going to make use of this tip, however.

Note that you can save your project as a .afdesign file from Publisher, too. And, even if you save it as .afpub, it can be opened in Designer on iPad.

But, good point about being on the iPad. I forgot to check which forum I was responding in. But I'm afraid that, for now, your options on iPad are limited. I presume you can "Edit in Photo" as you can on the desktop, but I think that's about it.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Note that you can save your project as a .afdesign file from Publisher, too. And, even if you save it as .afpub, it can be opened in Designer on iPad.

But, good point about being on the iPad. I forgot to check which forum I was responding in. But I'm afraid that, for now, your options on iPad are limited. I presume you can "Edit in Photo" as you can on the desktop, but I think that's about it.

Ok, so...I could go back and forth between designer  for iPad and publisher for Mac using this method?

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8 minutes ago, VectorCat said:

Ok, so...I could go back and forth between designer  for iPad and publisher for Mac using this method?

Yes, you can also open publisher files in Designer on iPad. 

M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB   lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen).
Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

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7 hours ago, VectorCat said:

And publisher on mac can open designer files from iPad?

Yes file format is compatible across all platforms and packages so long as they are on similar version numbers e.g. 1.7x

 

Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on macOS 15.0 Beta Sequoia on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB
Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on  Windows 10 Pro.  (revived !)
Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18(22A5326f) 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography

The hardest link to find https://affinity.help

Mud’s Macros Library:-

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/156842-muds-macros-v11-library-content-aware-move-added/

 

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thank you for the confirmation, Paul...this is extremely helpful to know.

My workflow is probably similar to that of many Affinity users: I want a pipeline, so to speak, among all of my production and design machines: Mac Pro, iPad Pro, Mac Book Pro.

Seems I can have just exactly that. It’s a very good spot to be in.

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On 7/17/2019 at 5:54 AM, Paul Mudditt said:

Yes file format is compatible across all platforms

According to the Live presentation the only difference in Files is the type description eg. .afxxx and this is just so the OS knows which version of the app to open to give access to desired ui tools. 

You can create multiple Artboards in a Designer file and open and use artboards on Photo. All Photo lacks is the ui interface to create new artboards. I suspect you could simply copy paste to add more.

M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB   lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen).
Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

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1 hour ago, DM1 said:

You can create multiple Artboards in a Designer file and open and use artboards on Photo. All Photo lacks is the ui interface to create new artboards. I suspect you could simply copy paste to add more.

Yes, you could copy/paste to add more.

 

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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