Affinity Publisher

Vorteile

Tolle Software, um Bücher zu gestalten! Das schnelle und einfache Wechseln zwischen Affinity Publisher, Affinity Photo und Affinity Designer ist genial und spart extrem viel Zeit.

Nachteile

Da fällt mir kein Nachteil ein, da die Software alles bietet, was ich brauche.

Vorteile

Es ist einfach zu bedienen, man kann sich verschiedene Vorlagen für die Buchseiten erstellen. Das Setzen der Seiten ist einfach und gut über selbst definierte Absatzformate möglich, so dass man Änderungen einfach im ganzen Dokument weiterreichen kann.

Nachteile

Die Verwaltung von Buchkapiteln und deren Verlinkung in Inhaltsverzeichnissen führt zum Absturz. Das Arbeiten mit Tabellen wird nur rudimentär unterstützt. Fußnoten und Querverweise wurden erst nachträglich dazu gemacht und sind noch etwas sperrig in der Verwendung.

Vorteile

Affinity Publisher (AP) ist die preisgünstige Alternative zu Adobe Indesign. Während Adobe sein Produkt nur noch im Akonnemenzt zur Verfügung stellt, ist AP als sehr, sehr preisgünstige Kaufversion zu erwerben. Aber es ist nicht nur der Preis der Software, sondern auch ihre Funktionalität. Für den Workflow ist von Bedeutung, dass der Anwender ohne die Programm-Oberfläche zu verlassen zu den anderen Programmen von Affinity (die man natürlich auch separat erwerben muss) wechseln kann: Affinity Phote für Bildbearbeitung und Affinity Designer. Es gibt eine ganze Reihe von Features, die die Konkurrenz nicht hat oder die bei der Konkurrenz schlechter und weniger intuitiv zu bedienen sind.

Nachteile

Es gibt allerdings auch einige wenige Dinge, die der Publisher in der aktuellen Version (1.10.5) noch nicht hat: Zum Beispiel die Zusammenfassung von mehreren Spalten zu einer entsprechen breiten Spalte für die Überschrift. Weniger gut ist auch der Umgang mit den Ressourcen. So sind die erstellten Dokumente sehr "speicherfressend".

Vorteile

Affinity publisher is an easy-to-use page-layout program. The interface is simple and intuitive, and the functionalities on offer are designed to meet all page layout production needs.

Nachteile

Affinity publisher has two main drawbacks similar to those of other Affinity software. Its limited performance on a Windows environment and, of course, its dependence on other Affinity software.Publisher has been developed so that its full potential can be unlocked with the use of Designer and Photo.

Vorteile

I’ve been using Affinity Publisher for my genealogy and family history business, and it has been a game-changer. It’s a highly affordable alternative to Adobe InDesign with powerful layout and design tools that are perfect for creating professional-quality publications. The interface feels familiar, especially if you’re coming from Adobe, but it's streamlined and much easier to navigate.

One standout feature is the ability to switch seamlessly between Affinity's suite of products (Designer and Photo), making it a breeze to handle complex projects without exporting files back and forth. I also appreciate the one-time payment model, which saves a lot compared to monthly subscription fees.

Nachteile

A couple of areas for improvement: it could use a few more advanced typographic features, and exporting options aren’t as extensive as Adobe's. However, it’s constantly updated, and Serif (the developer) listens closely to customer feedback.

Vorteile

This a powerful program for the price. It is much more affordable than Adobe.

Nachteile

I wish it had the ability to import their old PagePlus files.

Vorteile

Used it as an alternative to adobe products. worked fine, especially if you know what you are doing.

Nachteile

Photo editing needs some expertise for sure. After the trial we decided the price point is not worth it as we could also use the original for around the same price.

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Vorteile

It's usability and one off purchase price. This is affordable software, without an expensive payment subscription plan and most importantly, it's a high quality product.

It's so easy to navigate and the differences from the big name, expensive options are easily figure-outable.

Nachteile

There was a learning curve but it is minimal really and relatively painless

Vorteile

Affinity Publisher is easily the best alternative to InDesign out there. It has just about all the features for an affordable one time payment. The program runs smoothly with good UI and has all the features I need on a regular basis. It also has the ability to switch between Affinity programs quickly and easily which is a huge plus.

Nachteile

It's only missing one or two very niche tools like form fillable PDFs. That being said, Publisher beats our InDesign for making mockups.

Vorteile

Affinity Publisher allows you to create a whole set of text styles you can switch from master to master. So, on a single file you can have all different sections of a Magazine and all the different styles and you don't need to work them separately.
If you have a one-man-army designer who does it all, this is the best tool as you can switch easily between Photo editing, to vector editing and back to document editing on a mouse-click.
You also have the flexibility of a text processor like Word where you can create the table of contents, for example, but you can now add different styles to this so you can have an attractive table of contents.
If you buy a set of brushes for Photo or Designer, you have them available also here.

Nachteile

Basically nothing. But this isn't a software meant to be used alone without it's companions Photo and Designer.

Vorteile

It is fast - build on game engine in core. You can work with one page document or hundreds of pages with a lot of images and different text styles, but speed will never drop down. It is stabile software and with excellent colour reproduction.

Nachteile

Affinity Publisher lack of some usefull but not mandatory features. There are no classical character and paragraph styles, but there are no combined styles like QuarkXpress have. The are no good indexing and footnote/endnote manipulation.

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Vorteile

Affinity Publisher is a clean, fast, feature-rich Desktop Publishing application which makes content creation and manipulation reasonably simple, but also has enough advanced tools that power-users will be satisfied with it as well. It integrates very well with the other Affinity applications (Designer and Photo) and works with files from many other applications as well. For the VERY reasonable price they charge this is a fantastic choice for Desktop Publishing Software.

Nachteile

The biggest criticism I have is that there aren't any document templates included out-of-the-box such as there are with other products like Microsoft Publisher. That being said, there are many options online which can be purchased to make up for this.

Vorteile

I love the usability and the inexpensive nature of the product as it gives me all the right things for cheaper than adobe.

Nachteile

I kinda wish for a deeper integration with pixabay and pexels with it staying up to date to the latest materials to gather more materials from inside of the application without having to venture out for it.

Vorteile

Ce que j'ai le plus apprécié dans Affinity Publisher, c'est sont ergonomie, ses palettes flottantes réglables, ses outils puissants et sa facilité d'utilisation.
On retrouve quasiment les mêmes outils, que les logiciels concurrents, pour un prix très très compétitif.

What I liked most about Affinity Publisher is its ergonomics, its adjustable floating palettes, its powerful tools and its ease of use.
We find almost the same tools as competing software, for a very very competitive price.

Nachteile

Je n'ai pas vraiment trouvé d'inconvénients pour l'instant.
Le fait de ne pas pouvoir incorporer l'extension de correction orthographique "ANTIDOTE 11"

I haven't really found any drawbacks so far.
Not being able to incorporate the spell check extension "ANTIDOTE 11"

Vorteile

Maquetación de revistas sumamente sencillo, permite incorporar una gran variedad de tipos de archivos gráficos

Nachteile

Cuesta aprender a utilizarlo al inicio, si estas acostumbrado a InDesign, es bastante similar

Vorteile

Ergonomie générale, facilité d'accès aux différents menus, présicion des ancrages, gestion des couleurs, accès direct à Designer et Photo

Nachteile

impossibilité de mettre une note de bas de page à une légende de figure ou de photo, pas de réelle notes de bas de page mais des notes de bas de colonne ou de zone texte, difficulté de définition des largeurs de colonnes tableau

Vorteile

Affinity Publisher gives us a platform that will cross connect between iPad and MacOS + easy connectivity to windows based users. Extremely powerful, yet easy to learn.

Nachteile

Affinity Publisher could use some functions that allow import of a larger format from other platforms.

Vorteile

After many years of using QuarkXPress, Publisher and Indesign, this was a natural fit into my workflow and easy to learn.

Nachteile

It doesnt have all the featires of the big names, but I am assuming that this will come with time. After all, neither did QuarkXPress, Publisher or Indesign in the early days. It would be nice to have auto updates on images and graphics that you import rather than having to re import them again if you do changes outside the program.

Vorteile

Once you become familiar with the tools provided, Affinity Publisher offers an abundance of options for editing text in any document. As someone who isn't a designer and doesn't create content from scratch, this cost-effective tool has been incredibly useful for me. It enables me to open documents from my graphic designer without the need to subscribe to Adobe or other expensive software. This is particularly advantageous for small entrepreneurs like myself who work closely with freelancers. I can easily make minor adjustments to the documents directly, saving valuable time that would otherwise be spent explaining these changes to the designer.

Nachteile

Affinity Publisher is indeed a professional software that requires some effort and understanding to become familiar with its features. I can relate to the experience of accidentally clicking on certain elements and then spending a considerable amount of time figuring out how to undo those actions. It can be particularly challenging when certain tools or options are hidden, leading to a search for solutions online.

Vorteile

Affinity Publisher is an excellent and affordable publishing software with a one-time payment of $69.99. This software does not require you to have a subscription to use it. It is also very user-friendly with lots of design support, pantone support, and other familiar creative tools. You can preview your whole project in the toolbar on the left hand side, viewing every page at once. It makes publishing your projects a breeze.

Nachteile

There is a bit of a learning curve with setting up each project. Even if you are familiar with other publishing software, watching a tutorial or two online is necessary to get the most out of this product.

Vorteile

The master pages feature is the highlight of this app, in my opinion, as it creates templates based on ODD pages, EVEN pages, FIRST pages, various conditions, and considers not just text layouts but also image layouts. Need a bottom right page number on “recto” pages? Done. Bottom left on “verso” pages? Got it. Need that first page of the chapter to have no headers or footers? No problem. Every odd page to have a bleed graphic behind the text, or wrapping around it? Sure. Whatever the layout need, Affinity Publisher can do it (probably) easily and repetitively with the master page feature. The fact that Publisher accounts for several dozen page sizes and layouts makes it even more versatile. Who needs MS Word for “design”? Of course, it doesn’t benefit just novelists or book designers. The layout features work well for magazine designers, too. Heck, Affinity posted a video a year ago of its product specialist designing a branded restaurant menu. It can do just about anything you need a print designer to do. And that’s not even getting into the weeds about its “Studio Link” feature. Thanks to that feature, users can update book or magazine photos directly in Photo or Designer without having to import or export out of Publisher. Not even Adobe does that with its tools (so I hear)!

Nachteile

Barring the fact that I can never remember all the hotkeys (I’d have to remove the cut-out hotkey sheet from the back of my Affinity Publisher Workbook to remember them all, and I’m not going to deface my book that way!—even if it’s designed for that purpose), the biggest “con” I have with Publisher is with the limitations it has with font design. Specifically, drop cap layout with margins can be improved, as well as the ability to combine bold and italics to form special case typographical designs. That said, this probably isn’t a fair con, since Affinity Publisher (and all three Affinity apps, for that matter) respects each fonts’ native design, and most of them aren’t designed with bold italic versions. But it would be nice to have the option to force a design style that merges bold and italics together, just in case. It’s fine, though. I’m really only annoyed with my margin limitations. The page design features more than make up for any con.

Vorteile

It allows my team to quickly produce both digital and print creative, including company magazine, has a clear no-nonsense interface, is tightly integrated with Affinity Designer and Photo, allowing to use both programs without having to switch to another app window, and is much more affordable than alternatives

Nachteile

My positive review is based on Affinity Publisher v1. We have already purchased a business version of v2 suite but have not been able to activate it so far due to a software glitch.

Vorteile

Being a small office (Just myself) it was increasingly a concern that I was paying a monthly subscription fee and some months it wasn't worth the time at all. With Affinity I can work daily or skip a month and I've already paid for the software.

Nachteile

The only inconvenience, is that Affinity software is separated. Publisher (is great for anything, especially Hard Print Quality, Pre-Flight tests, and even online publishing). But, because they are separate products most of us will need to buy all three (Photo, Publisher, and Designer). That said, it is still worth the value compared to the alternatives available.

Vorteile

I like how intuitive to use AP is. Contrary to Adobe Indesign it's easy to get around without a proper background in graphic design. It offers almost as many tools for a fraction of the price. I also greatly appreciate the opportunity to buy it once and be done, contrary to the ongoing trend of subscribe-only softwares forcing you to pay them for eternity.

Nachteile

I like it very much and I've never been displeased with it.

Vorteile

There's much to like about Affinity Publisher. For one thing, it's a one-time payment, and an inexpensive purchase at that. During the COVID lockdowns they even halved the price which was a classy thing to do and helpful for many people. The price is now back up at around $55 at the time of writing which, when compared to the cost of an ongoing subscription for InDesign, is a complete steal.

But the pricing wouldn't be enough, on its own, to make me love this product.

What I really love is that it's professional-level publishing software with excellent accompanying tutorials and enormously flexibility. I can create everything from simple flyers to complex magazines and brochures and I don't feel that I'm compromising on style or formatting in the least.

It's not complicated to figure out, and the ability to use master pages makes everything much faster and easier. It's more complex than Word in terms of output, but definitely not harder to learn.

There are two other programs in the Affinity stable - Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. Both work seamlessly with Affinity Publisher which is just a joy and a huge stress reducer - especially when I'm working to a deadline and I need everything to go without a hitch.

Nachteile

There aren't too many cons to Affinity Publisher. I do have a minor gripe about the Affinity Publisher book which looks really interesting but which costs almost as much as the software itself. I would have appreciated a PDF manual instead of an expensive, glossy coffee-book.

Vorteile

Affinity Publisher is packed with all the editing features we need and use in daily workflows and operations, and their studiolink technology really sets it apart as you can quickly switch to leverage the editing power of Affinity Designer or Affinity Photos directly within the app. It's also extremely fast and has a light load on your device, and best of all, you get to buy your license once and use it as long as you wish. No more monthly charges that bundle features we don't use.

Nachteile

Out of the 3 Affinity software this is the one that took the less getting used to, but there definitely is a small learning curve when switching to this suite. Once you get the hang of it though it gets pretty intuitive with all applications mostly using the same layout and design philosophy.

Vorteile

Affinity publisher is a very intuitive software package that allows the user to create professional, creative and visually impressive documents. The software is really inexpensive which makes it even more attractive.

Nachteile

The tools and capabilities of the software take a long time to learn and understand if the user isn't using it on a regular basis.

Vorteile

The workflow is very similar to that of Affinity Designer and Photo and has many common features, easy to layout pages and design documents and the associated file formats needed to import from external sources and then manipulate within the program

Nachteile

Nothing really, mostly it just works, there are a few quirks when it comes to layout where you need to be careful.

Vorteile

PRICE. Like most users of Affinity products I was initially attracted by the price. Now that Adobe 'rent' you their software I was looking for an alternative. You can't fault the price of any of the Affinity products. They could double the price and they would still be incredibly good value for money.

FEATURES. But that doesn't mean that Publisher is a budget product. Far from it. Once you get your head around the slightly different way of working, I have found that Publisher will do everything I ever asked InDesign to do. Yes InDesign has more 'features', but Publisher does everything I need. I designed market-leading magazines for more than 20 years, so I know what I am talking about.

Nachteile

LEARNING CURVE. As expected with any new software there is a bit of a learning curve. Affinity do things differently to Adobe. But stick with it, because once the penny drops and you 'get it' it all makes sense. I really like the way the Affinity Apps (Publisher, Designer and Photo) all work seamlessly together.

Vorteile

I like how easy it is to select what you'd like to do with photos. With drone photography (especially at night), you most likely will be taking photos with the auto exposure bracketing (AEB) setting which takes several photos really fast to allow the most light into the sensor to help the photos appear brighter at night. You'd simply take all of the photos and combine them. With a drone, you have to account for any type of movement like wind and the drone itself adjusting to the gps position where you have it hovering so each photo may be slightly off. Affinity has a photo combining/stacking option. When you combine the photos... it does a great job at stacking without it looking blurry. You can choose 3 settings that will show the difference in any effects used. You have a before/after (side by side is best), the before and after split photo then the regular photo itself that will show you the difference once applied.

Nachteile

I haven't figured this out yet, but when working with stacked photos I have a hard time seeing the difference in the before and after photo when doing side by sides. Maybe it's just me but I don't really see the difference unless I do a large effect like making the contrast really dark.

Vorteile

The ability to use both Affinity photo and Affinity Designer within Affinity Publisher make it the best desktop publishing application. This goes with affordable price with advanced pro features and user-friendly interface.
Affinity Publisher makes it much easier than InDesign to use automated table of contents.
Easy transition from InDesign as the interface is as easy and intuitive and no learning is required.

Nachteile

Limited interactivity because with only hyperlinks and bookmarks. You can't imbed multimedia files like in InDesign.
InDesign formats can't be opened directly except when the converter called IDMarkz is used.

Vorteile

Ease of use and to getting the first project completed. I use this for KDP book covers and interiors. Being able to publish book interiors and have no errors on upload to KDP is a major plus.

Nachteile

De-selecting the previous tool by selecting outside the work area should default to the arrow or move icon. Constantly having to select away from a text or other tool just to be able to move font or photo windows would be a help by making this change.

Vorteile

The integration of Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo is just superb. It provides a 3-in-1-functionality for the whole program and makes the suite just perfect.

Nachteile

Export for inDesign-Files, which is the industry standard is sadly still missing. Other than that, i am not missing any Features for my use

Vorteile

If you gave me the choice between InDesign or Affinity Publisher, 9/10 times I would pick publisher.

Affinity’s UI is similar to InDesign, but easy to learn and it’s UI is intuitive.

Also, you can open up designer and photo while working inside their and allows you to do multiple things within one app. It would be like being able to do the same work as Photoshop and Illustrator all within InDesign. Yes, it’s that’s amazing.

Nachteile

It does not have every feature InDesign has, but for the average designer you wouldn’t even notice.

Vorteile

The feature set nearly matches InDesign, but at a fraction of a cost. StudioLink to other Affinity apps make a particularly smooth experience that makes moving away from Creative Cloud feasible for cash-strapped amateurs or SMBs

Nachteile

There is very little to dislike, but if I had to find something, I would say that the three levels of menu bars, are a little unusual, and the spacing of the middle menu bar looks off.

Vorteile

Affinity Publisher is about as good as you can get for layout software compared to the other big subscription software. It has fully replaced layout for one of my employers since we did not want to move to the subscription model.

Nachteile

Some features common to Adobe indesign do not exist in this software as well as the learning curve while not difficult was a little time consuming.

Vorteile

I have never used any kind of publisher software until my school asked me to create a yearbook. I wanted lighter software so I went for Affinity publisher. It literally took me one day to master the software. it is very easy to use and intuitive. Its interface is very easy and makes any new user like myself learn the software with ease

Nachteile

Sometimes when you are working on a bigger project, when you open the project for the first time, most of the linked images are blurry and only become clear after some time. This was a problem when I wanted to show by boss how the project was going.

Vorteile

If you have no experience with InDesign, then this is easier to get started with, but if you have Indesign already, this is pretty similar, and give it some months and you will like it also.

Nachteile

The advanced features from InDesign is still missing, but most people never use those functions anyway.

Vorteile

Facilità e velocità di utilizzo, compatibilità di formati

Nachteile

Ogni tanto presenta piccoli bug nella navigazione dei font ed esportazione grandi files

Vorteile

I think that one of the best features of Affinity Publisher is its full integration with its sister applications (Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer). This is very useful because the application allows me to do all types of digital editing without ever leaving it.Another great thing about Affinity Publisher is that you only have to pay for it once. The price is also very affordable, especially considering that it has very similar features to a lot of the other popular premium desktop publishing editors out there.

Nachteile

I wish there were an easier way to add line numbers. I am an English teacher and use the software to create lessons, so this feature can come in very handy for me. However, there is always a workaround to solve this small problem, so I'm not too fussed about it.

Vorteile

Good functionality across the suite of Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher - easy to switch between the three program from within the interface. Mimics Adobe InDesign in many features which means deploying across our organisation was fairly easy.

Nachteile

Could be better support from supplier for training but there are more online videos now available.

Vorteile

Affinity Publisher is a great alternative to Adobe Illustrator.There is no monthly subscription needed, just pay once and the software is to be used for life!

Nachteile

There is no cloud functionality like Creative Cloud.

Vorteile

Totale compatibilità con formato file dei software più diffusi in commercio

Nachteile

Forse in certe funzioni non è molto intuitivo

Vorteile

The Affinity Plublisher software is very easy to use and allows you to edit text and more on the touch screen.

Nachteile

No drawbacks noticed on this software, everything pleases me, I recommend

Vorteile

Tutoriel au démarrage bien pensé, interface "propre", claire, fonctionnalités utiles et nombreuses

Nachteile

Comme la plupart des logiciels professionnels de PAO, nécessite un temps d'adaptation et un apprentissage des fonctions. Quelques bugs à l'utilisation.

Vorteile

in complementarity with affinity photo this software helps you to integrate text into your image design

Nachteile

I did not find any problem with this software

Vorteile

Affinité publisher est un logiciel d'édition de texte est facile à utiliser . L'utilisation sur iPad mais vraiment très utile et le permet de gagner en temps . Je l'utilisation en complément avec photo et designer

Nachteile

Aucun problème avec ce logiciel mis en part les mises à jour qui sont moins fréquents

Vorteile

The software is very competitively priced and affordable without compromising on features. The software runs well on pretty old laptop of mine. It works nicely.

Nachteile

It is not as powerful as other leading software like Indesign

Vorteile

I cannot afford Adobe anymore so switched to Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher. I make my own photography books with it and find it very easy to use. It works really well with Affinity Photo so designing a simple book seems easy! For more complicated projects loads of tutorials are available.

Nachteile

Haven't found any problems yet. I might found some as I work on more complicated book designs.

Vorteile

A very affordable perpetual license plan
A great alternative to Adobe InDesign
Easy to migrate, I was more or less able to just jump in and make some simple layouts
Good UI
Easy to use with other Affinity Apps

Nachteile

This is not my most used app, but so far I haven't found any problems with the software.