I haven't purchased Affinity Publisher yet (I do own Designer), but I'd like to chime in and also say I'd also love templates. It was not just for professionals wanting to escape Adobe but also for hobbyist and enthusiast photographers wanting something more powerful than the several amateur level photo editors, all of which cost considerably more than AFPhoto. QuarkExpress still limits its market to publishing professionals, as reflected in its price of $975 for one year of upgrades and support.ĪFPub at $50 can surely tap into the market of millions of people who are not publishing professionals but who can benefit from a publishing application. We ended up using MS Publisher for newsletters, tutorial documents, and other printed matter. It did not seem appropriate for the needs of my group. I remember looking at QuarkExpress in 1987 when it first came out. You compared AFPub to QuarkExpress in the sense that neither provides templates. MSPub does it as four pages which at print time are printed on one side of a single piece of paper in the appropriate locations and orientations. In AFPub it is made as four separate frames on one side of a single sheet of paper with two of the frames printed upside down. It requires a lot more manual effort than MSPub, but it is not difficult once you see the concept. At least some of them also want templates.Īlso in that thread, an afpub file for producing a greeting card in the manner of MSPub. I assume beta testers are professionals who have need of the advanced capabilities of AFPub that I'll never need. AFPub beta testers requested templates more than a year ago. Thanks outlining how to make a trifold flyer.įor my thoughts about templates.
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