In InDesign you’d either have to extend the text frame or go into the Story Editor to see the missing text this simple button makes it far easier to see how much text is overset, allowing you to edit it to fit without leaving the design environment.Ĭreating fading images is a snap in Publisher, using the novel Transparency Tool. One of the innovations is Publisher’s ability to show overset text by clicking a tiny eye icon on the right of the text frame. Dockable panels display all the information you need, with a comprehensive menu system that clearly shows all the available tools. The interface will be familiar both to users of Affinity’s other products and to seasoned InDesign users. Here, we’ll take a quick look at some of the key features.
Affinity publisher review for free#
But you can download the beta for free and try it out for yourself, to see what goodies are in store when the final version ships. Publisher is still very much in beta form, which means it’s not fully stable and so shouldn’t be used for production work. And unlike InDesign, Publisher will be available as a one-off purchase with no ongoing subscription costs. And, as with Photo and Designer, it manages to come up with some novel approaches all of its own. It replicates most of InDesign’s power and functionality. Software developer Serif has been taking on Adobe with Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer targeting Photoshop and Illustrator users respectively, and they’ve just released the first public beta of Affinity Publisher, which aims to take on Adobe’s page layout powerhouse, InDesign.Īs we now expect from Affinity products, version 1 is a fully-fledged, powerful application that provides a comprehensive working environment with an extensive toolset.
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