It’s available as a standalone app or as part of the Affinity V2 Universal License, a creative design suite that includes Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. So, if you’re looking to avoid Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription and don't mind the higher upfront cost, this desktop publishing software delivers. This includes options to copy effects from one object to the next, select similar objects to alter them all at once, or create a grid of objects in seconds.Īffinity Publisher 2 runs on Windows, Mac, and iPad for a one-off purchase. Document design is a breeze - and we especially liked the time-saving tools that range from small extras like easy footnote creation to more serious object manipulation. That said, the page layout designer has seen a raft of improvements, particularly in efficiencies for designers up against the clock. And our only real complaint was with the size of icons and labels that might appear quite small on pixel-dense displays. It’s fair to say interface isn’t anything we haven’t seen before (but perhaps that’s not a bad thing it made navigation effortless).

Affinity Publisher 2 is the big upgrade over Serif’s original version of the popular Adobe InDesign alternative.

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