Affinity Publisher

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Affinity Publisher overview

Affinity Publisher delivers an incredible design experience. Whether you’re creating a book, magazine, marketing materials, social media template or something else, it has everything you need to make beautiful layouts ready for publication. And with the ground-breaking ability to fully integrate with other Affinity apps, it’s completely revolutionizing the way creatives work.

Refined & redesigned with powerful new features

Fully redeveloped UI, tool, and button icons
Completely revamped Layers Panel
Book creation and management – combine multiple Affinity Publisher files as chapters, with linked text styles, table of contents and indexes
Footnotes, sidenotes, and endnotes via new Notes panel
Style Picker Tool
Quick grid
Autoflow of multiple images and multi-page PDFs
Layer visibility override for placed linked files (PDF/DWG/DXF and Affinity files)
AutoCAD DWG/DXF import, place, and edit
Place linked web images using their URLs
Resave packages with auto-update of resources
Force scale of stroke, effect and fills on object resize

Professional layout tools

Facing page spreads
Live master pages, including nested master pages
Image frames with intelligent scaling options
Advanced guides, grids and snapping
Tables and custom table formats
Wrap text around any object or image with fine padding control
Create text frames of any shape
Link multiple text frames together across your document
Text column dividing lines

Advanced typography

Full control over character and paragraph styles
Comprehensive OpenType support
Text decorations, drop caps and initial words
Flow text along any path
Advanced flow options and hyphenation
Baseline grid and text frame rulers

Perfect images & graphics

Link or embed images in your document
Place PSD, AI, PDF, JPG, TIFF, PNG, DWG, or Affinity files
Correct and enhance images with non-destructive adjustment layers
Precision engineered pen and node tools for creating vector curves and shapes
Boolean operations to add, subtract, combine, and divide shapes
Incredibly smooth gradient and transparency controls
Live preview of all effects, blend modes and image adjustments

Built for your workflow

Fully optimized for the latest Mac hardware and operating systems, including M1 chips
IDML & XLSX import
Section manager to organize your documents
Pan, zoom and scroll through documents at 60fps
Regular Expressions search and replace
Savable undo history with alternate futures
Customizable keyboard shortcuts and savable presets, including studio layout presets for the UI layout
Smart master pages
Automatically generate indexes and table of contents
Manage and create anchors
Consolidate images linked from various locations into a single folder
Merge multiple documents together into a single file
Save documents as template files to re-use time and time again
Collate your document alongside all used image and font resources into a folder using the Package feature
Convert pixel layer to image node
Integrate text and image links into documents by merging from external data sources
PDF passthrough

Professional output

End-to-end CMYK, PANTONE© and spot color
Crop, bleed, and registration
Live preflight checking
PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 output for professional print

Full integration with other affinity apps

Instantly switch to the advanced photo editing features of Affinity Photo and precise vector tools of Affinity Designer without leaving Affinity Publisher with StudioLink
The most fluid workflow ever conceived in a creative suite of applications

What’s new in version 2.5

Updated on May 23 2024

Variable font support – allows you to work with fonts that provide fine-grained control of aspects of their appearance
QR Code Tool – makes it easy to add QR codes to documents, which can be scanned to perform actions such as visiting a web page of your choice
Typography dialog turned into a panel
‘Default preset’ for grid
DWG polylines import improvements
Many more improvements and bug fixes

Information

License

Demo

Size

784.3 MB

Developer’s website

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/

Downloads

659

App requirements

Intel 64
Apple Silicon
macOS 10.15 or later

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User Ratings

Derekcurrie

Dec 9 2022

1.10.5

5.0

Version: 1.10.5

Seriously, MacUpdate! The current version is 1.10.6 (six, not five). OK?

Dec 3 2022

V1.10.6 is out. "Bug fixes and stability improvements." It's essentially an update specific to macOS 10.13 Ventura but backwards compatible.

zlazkow

Sep 22 2022

1.0

I tried and tested Affinity. Awful piece of software. Don't be fooled looking at their smooth razor sharp photos jumping right into your eyes. Functions, features are scattered all over the place. They make it look as "top-of-the-line" application, really making an impression, creating a "glamour" effect using silky smooth black background, making it look alluring and exciting....but it is all Smoke. It's an illusion, to fool and blind the user, a smoke of cheap effects. SWIFT PUBLISHER beats affinity in everything: ease of use, in logical placements of every tool and features. Many features in affinity are repeated all over the place under different names, again to fool you, to make it look "sophisticated". In fact, it is far from being so. In addition affinity is also very very slow. SwiftPublisher is definitely The Best and so far has no competition. Don't waste your time. You might get a cheap euphoria effect when using A. in the first couple days, but I can guarantee you'll get disappointed after that. Affinity will get you nervous for many different reasons. SWIFT Publisher is also a much better value for your money.

ash-f

Dec 9 2021

1.10.4

Version: 1.10.4

This is the alternative to Indesign, a pro publishing tool. I think it's the most underrated among cheap publishing apps. People complain about its complexity should not use it. It's a PRO tool, not an armature tool, a pro tool for an armature price. Do not take its purpose wrong.

Oct 30 2021

1.10.3

Version: 1.10.3

v1.10.4 is out for all Affinity apps.

Apr 13 2021

1.9.2

Version: 1.9.2

Now at v1.9.3.

Mar 1 2021

1.9.1

Version: 1.9.1

I tried to like it again, but unfortunately it is too confusing, too many tools, some of them are hard to understand what for they are, what they do, and these are all over the place. The interface is confusing as well. It should be cleaned out and made simpler and easier to use. Not worth even $25.

Iztoubade

Feb 5 2021

1.9.0

Version: 1.9.0

Affinity Publisher must be the desktop publishing app with the best combo of ease-of-use and useful features being able to hand over a reliable industry-standard pdf to professional printers. When used together with the Affinity Designer app (for vector and pixel graphics) and Affinity Photo (for image treatment), which are incredibly well integrated together, the possibilities are endless. The pricing is also ridiculously affordable. That must be one of the most-for-the-bucks app around. Even though, they regularly offers discounts. Their support forum is a very active community with a lot of creative people interacting with the developers and a dedicated support team. A great example on how support should be done.

DanielaPaletti5904

Sep 20 2020

1.8.4

Version: 1.8.4

The indicated price does not correspond, I tried to buy it but the real price exceeds the double what appears above, for the rest I would have nothing else to say, I have tried it faith is very interesting.

Rayf

Mar 20 2020

1.8.2

Version: 1.8.2

Today, March 20, Affinity made the following announcements in support of the Creative Community: A new 90-day free trial of the Mac and Windows versions of the whole Affinity suite A 50% discount for those who would rather buy and keep the apps on Mac, Windows PC and iPad The introduction of the 90-day free trial and deeply discounted pricing is done in the hope that this will make life a little easier for people who rely on creative software to make a living, but may be stuck at home without their usual tools, or for students who might not have access to their Affinity apps on their personal devices. We plan to make the free trial and additional discount available until 20 April

DragonMaster

Mar 2 2020

1.8.1

Version: 1.8.1

GOODBYE and GOOD RIDDANCE Adobe!!! Huge advances. And, buy it and you own it. Fine support. Built for the Mac ground up.

Tim27

Feb 28 2020

This thing just keeps getting better! Download the trial if you haven't and say goodbye to InDesign or Quark forever.

Cookie08

Feb 26 2020

1.8.0

Version: 1.8.0

This really is a great app speed and fluid use and using the other app on the fly is great and is very flexible. I also used SwiftPublisher in the past this is in another league. Having used Adobe design etc in the past no more this is just great. Also a lot better value for your money.

Sep 6 2019

1.7.2

Version: 1.7.2

Love this app. It may be hard to believe but I deleted my QuarkExpress and iNdesign within a week of getting Publisher. Publisher will satisfy almost any publisher and the app gets better day by day!. Support is without rival. Flexible with virtually any file format. Something that gets rarely mentioned all of the Affinity apps integrate into one another main a huge inexpensive magnificent suite!!!

Jul 7 2019

1.7.1

Version: 1.7.1

I'm using for about 5 years SwiftPublisher to design posters. It is great, easy and pleasure to use. Before SP I used Pages, but when I discovered SP and what it can do, I never looked back. How it compares to Affinity Publisher ?

Big77

Jun 24 2019

4.5

The speed of Publisher and ability to pull in the resources of Affinity Designer and Paint on the fly are just awesome. High quality stuff for a good (non-subscription!) price.

Politically Incorrect Puppy

Jun 23 2019

Affinity Publisher is really an Adobe InDesign killer for desktop publishing for macOS and Windows. Presently, I'm learning how to use the software. So far, I think it's great. Can't wait for the Publisher workbook to be released! Also, I own the macOS and Windows versions of Designer and Photo - now the suite is complete with Publisher.

Fariborz

The developer “Serif Labs” is famous for developing very high-quality software and Affinity Publisher is surely no exception. However, it’s a pity no DEMO is available as this is a new software and unless someone is willing to take a leap in the dark it’s impossible to evaluate it beforehand. Fariborz AMIRSHAHI - Verona (Italy)

Stoob

May 30 2023

2.1

Version: 2.1