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.īut the pricing wouldn't be enough, on its own, to make me love this product. During the COVID lockdowns they even halved the price which was a classy thing to do and helpful for many people. For one thing, it's a one-time payment, and an inexpensive purchase at that. There's much to like about Affinity Publisher. Not even Adobe does that with its tools (so I hear)! 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. And that’s not even getting into the weeds about its “Studio Link” feature. It can do just about anything you need a print designer to do. Heck, Affinity posted a video a year ago of its product specialist designing a branded restaurant menu. The layout features work well for magazine designers, too. Who needs MS Word for “design”? Of course, it doesn’t benefit just novelists or book designers. The fact that Publisher accounts for several dozen page sizes and layouts makes it even more versatile. Whatever the layout need, Affinity Publisher can do it (probably) easily and repetitively with the master page feature. Every odd page to have a bleed graphic behind the text, or wrapping around it? Sure. Need that first page of the chapter to have no headers or footers? No problem. Need a bottom right page number on “recto” pages? Done. 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. I think anyone who cares about the quality of printed material needs to add this one to his or her toolbox, especially if they’re ready to toss out the subscription model from their budgets. ![]() Those fancy PDFs I’d like to give as subscriber bonuses to my new and future readers also benefit from Publisher being cheaper than Adobe InDesign and better at formatting than Microsoft Word. That professional-looking paperback novel sitting on my bookshelf three feet to my left tells me that Affinity Publisher is just right. Maybe Affinity Publisher does exactly what I need it to do without it throwing a bunch of stuff at me that will ultimately confuse me. ![]() Do I want to spend $600 a year to design the interiors of two books (and maybe the odd pamphlet) a year, or do I want to spend $50 once for the same ability? (Actually, I bought it during the 50% off sale, so I paid only $25 for it.) Maybe Adobe InDesign is better. As a self-published writer, I need a tool that will help me create the best editions of paperback or hardcover books that I can, and I refuse to pay an expensive monthly subscription for that privilege, especially if I’m designing these interiors only when I’m ready to print, which can be as infrequent as two or three times a year.
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