![]() ![]() ![]() With the Style Picker tool (desktop only), you can copy/paste object styles, text formats, layer effects, stroke and other attributes throughout the document for consistency. You can create three types of notes, which are footnotes, sidenotes and endnotes. When you do, your reference information automatically updates, including table of contents, indexes, page numbers and styles.Īnother new tool is the Notes tool. With this new desktop feature, you can combine multiple documents in to one file. The best feature for those who collaborate with others on the same project is the Books tool. What's new in Publisher 2? Glad you asked. Grab it soon to get the Launch Sale Discount! Read on for a review of Publisher 2 by Serif. I’m pretty sure I know what tools I need and what tools have been commonly available in the industry standard software.If you work with page design and layout, you can now take your work anywhere with Publisher 2 for desktop and iPad. I have been doing professional graphic design for over 30 years. Creating these using Power Duplicate is very tedious and time consuming, and wears out both my finger and my mouse button. There could be over 100 individual rulings on a single page. I may need to create, for instance, 39 rules on a 171 mm tall page, or even more for page sizes up to ISO B5 (176 x 250 mm) in both horizontal and vertical directions, often in multiple groups with different spacings. A lot of these are made of sheets of paper with various configurations of rulings. And Quick Grid only works on Shapes, not on Lines, besides which, you cannot specify a precise coordinate offset.Īs I said before, I make personal organizer products. Power Duplicate in the Affinity Suite does NOT do this without hitting “Duplicate” 38 times, if I want 38 copies. In both InDesign and many other graphics programs, I can select any object, or even a group of objects, select “Step and Repeat”, input a precise offset and a number of repeats, and it instantly creates the array. Overall, I think the Affinity suite is a good addition to the marketplace, and I am looking forward to seeing how responsive the developers are in the future to professional users who are looking for an alternative to Adobe’s usury. It’s possible an Apple Pencil would help mitigate some of these issues, but I’m not about to spend $100 on a tool that I really shouldn’t need only to find out it’s only marginally better than using a Bluetooth mouse. There are also some pretty severe user interface problems with the iPadOS version, to the point where I don’t really find it particularly useful for serious work, but I hope the app improves with time to the point where I can more confidently travel with just an iPad, in the event that I need to produce some documents on the road, without having to schlep the MacBook Pro all over Hell and Creation. ![]() ![]() Step and Repeat is pretty crucial to my workflow, to the point where re-creating my designs, which for the past 15 years have been produced in Adobe InDesign, in Affinity Publisher V2 is far more tedious and time-consuming than it really ought to be, simply because this one feature is inexplicably absent. One of the things I do is produce personal organizer products, for personal organizers such as the Filofax system. This is not really something that I think needs to be explained to anyone who has worked with the industry standard software applications for even a short period of time. When I raised this issue in the support forums, I got dogpiled by men who don’t seem to understand the concept of Step and Repeat, who demanded visual documentation of my workflow so they could judge whether or not I was “doing it right”. I was one of the team that produced d8 Magazine in the mid-1990s. I know this, because my experience with professional page layout software goes back to 1991, when I began working for a digital printing service bureau. Step and Repeat is a feature that has been a standard part of design software for over 30 years. Or maybe it’s just that they are a European company, I don’t know. I have so far found there customer support forums less than optimally helpful, as they seem to be populated mainly by fanboys who don’t actually do professional publishing work and take any criticism of their idol very poorly. For one thing, the most egregious missing feature I’ve come across is a lack of a competent “Step and Repeat” function, but the precision does seem to be there sufficient for professional pre-press work, as far as I can tell. There are some quirks to the interface of Affinity Publisher V2 that make me think this is not really a tool that can completely replace Adobe InDesign, at least, not yet. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |