![]() In the middle is a giant area where you lay out your pages. If you have a text box selected, the Context Toolbar will show you the font and character and paragraph options available, but if you select an image it will change to things like fill and stroke and corner radius options. Basically it means that the options up above change depending on what you’re doing. Some of the tools are familiar, like a pen tool for drawing vectors and a pencil for drawing lines and some geometric objects.Īcross the top, you’ve got what Serif calls the Context Toolbar. ![]() The right side is full of tabs like Layers and Colors and Styles, while the left sidebar is a column of small icons for the different tools. ![]() The Affinity Publisher interface is very comfortable if you’re familiar at all with Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. With great freedom comes great responsibility, right? Affinity Publisher Interface You have complete control at all times about how your document is laid out. You can override the layouts iBooks Author chooses, but I found that even more problematic.Īffinity Publisher operates on the opposite premise. I found its layout decisions unpredictable at best and baffling at worst. I have to say that after a few days of messing around, with no knowledge at all about how layout programs are supposed to work, I’ve already got my travelogue looking better than in iBooks Author or Pages.įundamentally Apple’s applications are designed to do the layout for you, and you’re not supposed to worry your pretty little head about its decisions. When Affinity Publisher went into beta, just for grins and giggles I decided to see if it would allow me to create the book the way I wanted it. My goal is to have my story laid out with the photos placed artfully within the text, much like my blog posts. In the same story, I told you how it was even harder to use the recently-announced book features in Apple’s Pages. I’ve been trying to get around to doing this for years now.īack in March of this year, I told you about the trials and tribulations I encountered attempting to use iBooks Author to create an iBook from my travelogue emails. One year Wally Cherwinski suggested I make each one into an iBook so I’d have them for posterity, not saved in a bunch of emails. There are actually 100 people on distribution and every year I give them the option to get off.Īnyway, these letters are a bit of text with a lot of photos that help tell the story. I like to think that it’s entertaining (it is definitely silly) and people even ask me to get on distribution. Some of you know about this but every year when we go on vacation, I write a daily travelogue to my family and friends. I haven’t exactly been planning my next car ad, but I do have a problem to be solved. I’m just trying to give you enough information to maybe give the beta a try yourself if you think it sounds fun or useful to you. It’s in beta so that wouldn’t be fair, and I’ve never used a layout program before in my life so I’m not at all qualified to do it when the product is released. You know those cool layouts they have on the better car websites where the text smoothly swoops around the shape of the car, and it’s got neato reflections and such? Affinity Publisher is the kind of app you use to make those neato layouts.ĭisclaimer – This is not a review of Affinity Publisher. You can download it from /… Affinity Publisher beta is a layout program that you would use to lay out magazines and brochures and online advertising type things. I’ve spent $50 on each app, and $20 on their iPad versions, so I’m out $120, which is about 1 year of Photoshop plus Lightroom.Īffinity Publisher, as I mentioned, is only out in beta, but that means you can play with it for free like I am. I’d never even used a vector-design program before Affinity Designer. And yet I’ve been able to do some pretty cool stuff with Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. ![]() You know I’m no artist, and I’m only a passable photographer if you squint and round up. Like their other products, Affinity Publisher beta is available for both Mac and Windows at /…. They’re at it again, this time with a beta for a product called Affinity Publisher as a competitor to Adobe InDesign. Later they developed Affinity Designer as a challenger to Adobe Illustrator to compete in the vector-design arena. They first came out with Affinity Photo as a challenger to Adobe’s Photoshop. As you’re well aware, I’m a fan of the Affinity products from a company called Serif. ![]()
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