The announcements came in a keynote address during an event at Serif’s Nottingham, UK, headquarters today. While Publisher itself will come to iPad later, owners of Affinity Designer and Photo on iPad will be able to open, edit and export Publisher documents, on the move, from today. The company also revealed it has updated the pioneering iPad versions of Affinity Designer and Photo to handle Affinity Publisher documents. The result is a massive streamlining of the creative workflow. While Affinity Publisher has its own impressive selection of built-in vector and photo editing tools, StudioLink means for the first time, graphics and images in a layout can be edited using a full array of professional tools, without the need to switch to a different app. In a world-first, Serif’s brand new StudioLink technology means owners of its vector design app Affinity Designer and image editor Affinity Photo can use them right there in an Affinity Publisher layout, simply by clicking the relevant product icon. Serif today launched Affinity Publisher and revealed a unique new way of working which the company says is set to revolutionize how creative professionals work. So, will it work for everyone, for all ther projects, today? No.īut it works for enough users that (from informal information I've heard) it provided a significant number of sales, and revenue, for Serif.Affinity Publisher has launched today on macOS and Windows And others will insist that their favorite feature is critical and the program shouldn't have been released without it. And even with those, some will insist that Footnotes/Endnotes are critical, and it shouldn't have been released without them. Many of us would rather have Publisher now, with its current set of functions, than wait another year or two for an initial version that would include support for ePub and for In Design files. Without all of these export options right from the start, plus opening of In Design files, Affinity Publisher will never take the professional design market away from Adobe and saying that they might do this in future isn’t good enough. So yeah, I would like to see everything in Publisher at some point. Yes, once you touch the ebook with Sigil, you basically lose the ability to do updates with ID or Publisher. So if I had to do that with Publisher, I could live with it, particularly if I was taking care of things not yet supported by Publisher, rather than fixing buggy output. I regularly edit ePubs using Sigil, fixing things ID did not get quite right. *not* buggy) and see solid ePub support roll-out in phases. Hopefully, we can expect better from Affinity/Serif (i.e. We should all remember the slow evolution of ePub support in ID, beginning with a very buggy implementation in CS5.5. i haven't seen any numbers on this, but with my own buying habits, I see the great majority of ebooks are simple text books, some with photo sections, but rarely with photos that have to be in a certain place in relation to the text (outside of the cover and some chapter "numbers" that are images). Fixed layout books are important to certain market segments (kids books, graphic novels, etc.) but IMO remain relatively limited overall. Independent publishers want to have one platform to output both print and ebooks. Having said that, it is also true that ebook sales as a percentage of overall sales are starting to flatten, so print is hardly going to go away. So, looking forward when this is eBook compatible.Ī little under 1/3 of Amazon book sales are ebooks, and it's becoming common for a print book to have a Kindle alternative. Until that happens, there's really not much to do with the software, since eBook is a far bigger industry for indie authors. InDesign is so expensive, and I was looking forward to a cheap alternative to allow me to create eBook files with low delivery costs on Amazon (those pesky delivery charges)! Hopefully, they'll fix this soon, and this will become a viable option for publishers to use! Also, when that time comes, hopefully they'll also allow images to be embedded as repeated images without increasing file size-again, delivery charges. I’ve said it before, this is a deal breaker. This is where Affinity are getting it wrong by not providing ePub export as a basic feature. Talk of alternative ePub creation software like Jutoh and Sigil is missing the point, yes you can use other programs to create ebooks but why would you want to start from scratch with clunky software when, using InDesign you create one beautiful layout and export for print or ePub.
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