All these things work similarly to InDesign, but are positioned or located differently in their respective palettes and menu selections. Placing objects is easy as drag and drop, or using the File>Place option from the menu. The key thing with Affinity Publisher is to get to grips with Master Pages, Character Styles, Paragraph Styles, the various spacing and indent tools, and flowing text around objects. So, having downloaded it and played around for about half an hour, I'm in the usual situation of "this looks powerful but it doesn't work the way I'm used to working".ĭoes anyone have any experience using it? Any tips or tricks? Anything helpful to an ex-InDesign user? I had been hesitant about it being able to support books with large page counts, but that showed that it clearly was. ) about how it was used for the recent Lyonesse RPG. One of the big influences was this article from ( Lawrence Whitaker From everything I've seen it looks to be comparable to InDesign in terms of features (at least for the sort of features needed by an RPG author working alone - if you're working on magazines where you have to collate the work of 50 authors on a monthly basis then InDesign is probably better), and it's only around £50 for a permanent license, which would get you less than three months of InDesign subscription. I could upgrade to the latest version, but I hate subscription software on principle, so doing that was kind of a last resort.Īfter some searching around, I discovered Affinity Publisher. Long story short, I just bought a copy because my old copy of InDesign (the last pre-subscription one) is no longer fully supported by Lightning Source (the printers that DriveThruRPG use). So, I was wondering if anyone here had any experience with Affinity Publisher?
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |