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Affinity publisher price6/12/2023 I think they are on the right track, but there is a long way to go. ![]() Look for more on Affinity products on our sister site, In the meantime, we have published a “First Look” here: What matters to me is the ability to create awesome designs - great type, great color, great output options, etc. That may be compelling from a hobbyist or student perspective, but it’s not compelling from a “pro” perspective. Publisher is clearly a 1.0 product, and my sense is that it’s greatest strength so far is that it will be inexpensive. If there were a design tool better than InDesign, I would love to tell the world about it. I had a simple answer: Just make QuarkXPress better than InDesign. They asked me what they could do to convince me to start recommending QX again. Here’s a short story: About 15 years ago, after I had mostly stopped using QuarkXPress and started using (and recommending) InDesign, I had a meeting with some executives form Quark. Thank you, Kathleen! Please do come back and tell us what your experience with Affinity Publisher is over time. ![]() Right now InDesign is King of the Hill and I can’t see anyone toppling them. ONE! Talk about a waste of money to upgrade :(Īnyway–I’m rambling on. And Quark 10 and Quark 15–one single job came in. In that time, each and every Quark file had to be converted to InDesign. We had a few Quark 7 jobs during that time, but not many.Īnyway–I kept my Quarks upgraded to Quark 8, Quark 9, and recently Quark. We haven’t done a full Quark job since InDesign 2 or InDesign 3. I’ve had the same experience with upgrading my Quarks. But only on the off-chance that we get such a request. Now–once it comes out, I’m sure the company I work for will be asked if we have it, and I will probably buy a copy for myself to learn it, and the company will buy a couple. publisher buys the rights to that book, they have us convert to InDesign.Īnd that’s what will happen with Affinity Publisher. There are still some Quark hold-outs (mainly in the UK), and when the U.S. ![]() The book industry is too heavily invested in Adobe (at least the publishers that I work with). I can’t see them being a giant killer, like InDesign was against Quark.
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