Even at this early beta stage, there are a dozen or so video tutorials showing you how to perform tasks such as wrap text around images, create a baseline grid or drop tables into documents. Serif is superb at creating video tutorials for all of its products, and Affinity Publisher is no exception. You can create master pages that apply the same elements to every page (or selected pages) in a document. Drag in from the rulers at the top or sides, for instance, and you’ll create a guide to help you line up images and other page elements. It follows many of the same conventions as InDesign, too. The interface is very similar, the tools are almost identical, and it follows the tried-and-tested method of controls on the left, swatches/panels on the right, content in the middle. If you’ve ever spent any time in InDesign (and I spend half my life in it), then you won’t feel like a fish out of water in Affinity Publisher. But is it as good? Affinity Publisher: features While we don’t know how much Affinity Publisher will cost yet, it’s safe to say it won’t be nearly as expensive as InDesign. Serif’s apps, on the other hand, cost less than £50 as a one-off purchase. A month’s subscription to Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite – which includes Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign – costs around £50 per month. Serif’s Affinity brand is exploiting the fact that Adobe now wants to chain professionals to expensive subscriptions. I’ve only had time to toy with it for a couple of hours, but my first impressions are that Adobe should be very worried indeed.
But is Affinity Publisher a genuine threat to InDesign? Affinity Publisher: the pricing modelĪffinity Publisher was made available to download as a free beta yesterday. Now Serif is taking a mighty swipe at another of Adobe’s cash cows: desktop publishing.
Serif’s Affinity brand has already punctured the notion that professional-grade photo editing and animation tools must cost serious bucks.
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