Professional desktop layout app Affinity Publisher launches on Mac

Developer Serif’s Adobe InDesign competition is now available on Mac App Store.

The app has been inwards a gratuitous world beta stage since concluding August.

A pro page blueprint app for Mac in addition to Windows akin to InDesign in addition to Quark XPress, Affinity Publisher lets y'all combine images, graphics in addition to text alongside precision in addition to fine command y'all ask inwards lodge to create professional person layouts gear upward for publication, hold upward it full-blown magazines, uncomplicated books, attractive brochures, colorful posters, reports, stationery in addition to beyond.

Like other Affinity apps from Serif, Publisher is fully integrated alongside Affinity Photo in addition to Affinity Designer, letting y'all launch these apps alongside a click of a push from inside Publisher, in addition to vice versa. It’s a truthful integration, non merely a push that launches an app, in addition to it takes payoff of Serif’s StudioLink technology. “It’s the well-nigh fluid workflow always conceived inwards a creative suite of applications, in addition to the argue nosotros named our apps Affinity,” Serif explains.

Although Affinity Publisher cannot opened upward InDesign’s .indd files, the app is easier to purpose without existence less capable than InDesign thus everyone who has deemed InDesign an practise inwards frustration may uncovering Affinity Publisher appealing. An iPad version of Affinity Publisher is inwards the works, too. Moreover, upcoming updates to the iPad versions of Affinity Photo in addition to Affinity Designer volition allow those customers locomote alongside Publisher documents.

Serif also updated Affinity Photo in addition to Designer alongside Mac Pro in addition to Pro Display XD compatibility.

Affinity Publisher: features highlight

Serif has shared the commutation features of Publisher for Mac.

Professional layout tools

• Facing page spreads.


• Live psyche pages, including nested psyche pages.


• Image frames alongside intelligent scaling options.


• Advanced guides, grids in addition to snapping.


• Tables in addition to custom tabular array formats.


• Wrap text roughly whatever object or paradigm alongside fine padding control.


• Create text frames of whatever shape.


• Link multiple text frames together across your document.

Advanced Typography

• Full command over grapheme in addition to paragraph styles.


• Comprehensive OpenType support.


• Text decorations, driblet caps in addition to initial words.


• Flow text along whatever path.


• Advanced menses options in addition to hyphenation.


• Baseline grid in addition to text frame rulers.

Perfect images in addition to graphics

• Link or embed images inwards your document.


• Place PSD, AI, PDF, JPG, TIFF, PNG or Affinity files.


• Correct in addition to elevate images alongside non-destructive adjustment layers.


• Precision engineered pen in addition to node tools for creating vector curves in addition to shapes.


• Boolean operations to add, subtract, combine in addition to carve upward shapes.


• Incredibly smoothen slope in addition to transparency controls.


• Live preview of all effects, blend modes in addition to paradigm adjustments.

Built for your workflow

• Automatically generate indexes in addition to tabular array of contents.


• Section director to organize your documents.


• Pan, zoom in addition to scroll through documents at 60fps.


• RegEx search in addition to replace.


• Saveable undo history alongside alternate futures.


• Customizable keyboard shortcuts.

Professional output

• End-to-end CMYK in addition to spot color.


• Pantone library included.


• Crop, bleed in addition to registration.


• PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 output for professional person print.

Full integration alongside other Affinity apps

• Link to your other Affinity apps straight from Affinity Publisher alongside StudioLink.


• The well-nigh fluid workflow always conceived inwards a creative suite of applications.


• Instantly switch to the advanced photograph editing features of Affinity Photo in addition to precise vector tools of Affinity Designer without leaving the app.

For additional details, check out the official website.

More pro apps striking Mac App Store

Earlier this morning, Photoshop maker Adobe released the long-anticipated Lightroom for macOS on Mac App Store, its bit major app on the store after Photoshop Elements 2019. This is right away possible because Apple a twelvemonth ago relaxed sandboxing restrictions thus that major developers could seat their apps on Mac App Store without breaking whatever rules.

Here’s Harris’s review of Affinity Designer for iPad alongside Apple Pencil support and other perks.

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Thus far, a few major apps direct maintain returned to Mac App Store, including Panic’s splendid FTP client Transmit, Microsoft’s Office suite and the powerful text editor BBEdit. More app makers volition render to Mac App Store later on this year, including Bloom, Feral, Corel, Aspyr, Black Magic Design, Intua in addition to Houseparty.

Pricing in addition to availability

Affinity Publisher requires macOS Mavericks 10.9 in addition to newer.

Although the app supports whatever Mac model powered yesteryear Intel’s Core ii Duo or ameliorate alongside 4GB RAM minimum, the to a greater extent than resources y'all direct maintain the better. Although Affinity Publisher doesn’t ask the latest hardware similar complex games do, you’re recommended to purpose it on a fairly modern Mac alongside 8 gigabytes of RAM.

Grab Affinity Publisher from Mac App Store for $40, a xx percentage launch discount.

It’s a pocket in addition to proceed inwards heed that the app doesn’t include whatever subscriptions.

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