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Fluid publishing powerhouse. Bring your vision to life with Affinity Publisher, the next generation of professional publishing software. From magazines, books, brochures, posters, reports and stationery to other creations, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication.
Engineered for advanced technology
Engineered with the same no-compromise vision as our acclaimed photo editing and graphic design apps, thousands of global professionals have contributed to the development of Affinity Publisher to meet the demands of the 21st century designer.
Pioneering performance
Superpower your layouts with the latest and greatest publishing technology. The refreshing lack of unnecessary or obsolete features in Affinity Publisher means it runs like the sweetest dream, even on the most content-heavy documents.
Spectacular layouts
With essentials like master pages, facing page spreads, grids, tables, advanced typography, text flow, full professional print output and other amazing features, Affinity Publisher has everything you need to create the perfect layout - whatever your project.
Text to match the power of your words
Free yourself from the constraints of tired, traditional text layouts. Let Affinity Publisher help you visualise your text in creative new ways and flow it seamlessly through your document.
Text styles
Link the style of your text across all pages in your document
OpenType support
Open up all stylistic features of the latest OpenType fonts
Text decorations
Add lines and borders to elements of your typography
Drop caps
Add drop capitals to any paragraph
Text on a path
Draw any curve and type along it
Artistic text
Gain creative control over titling and other stand out text
Flow options
Avoid orphaned or widowed lines, among many other features
Baseline grid
Ensure the baseline of your text is aligned across all columns and spreads
Perfect graphics
Whatever the brief calls for, you can rely on Affinity Publisher to handle all the standard file types you'd expect, leaving you free to create the most ambitious, content-rich combination designs, pulling in raster or vector assets from multiple sources.
Fine tune your images
Ensure your images match the brilliance of your layout. Affinity Publisher comes with a full collection of powerful, non-destructive adjustment layers to make crucial image corrections right there in your document.
Advanced design tools
Create and edit vector graphics in your layout using the powerful pen, node and comprehensive shape tools - all with fine control over gradients and transparency.
Unrivalled compatibility
Import and export to all major raster and vector files, including layered PSD, PDF and EPS formats.
Full colour control
Affinity Publisher can handle RGB, LAB, greyscale and CMYK colour spaces, with advanced control over professional colour requirements for print.
Professional Output
Pantone support, end-to-end CMYK and ICC colour management are just part of it. You can also open, edit and output PDF/X files, set overprint controls and add bleed, trim and crop marks for press-ready output.
And so much more.
Here are just some of the other capabilities built into this incredible app.
Instant undo history
Instantly scrub through hundreds of undo steps with the history slider. Plus, save your history with your document.
Rotate canvas
Rotate your whole document by 90, 180 and 270 degrees.
Smart colour picker
Dedicated colour picker tool to accurately pick a colour, including single point or averaged sampling over an area.
Asset management
Create sets of regularly used assets which can be instantly accessed and dragged onto your project.
Transform panel
Precisely adjust an object's position, size, rotation and shear.
Transparency tool
Drag a transparency gradient over any object, with support for linear, radial, elliptical and conical types.
Glyph browser
Browse the full set of available glyphs for any font.
Stroke panel
Offering full control over dashed line styles, arrowheads and pressure properties.
Customisable keyboard shortcuts
Affinity Publisher comes loaded with default keyboard shortcuts, but you can tailor to your own muscle memory.
Add noise
Apply noise to colour fills for a textured look to your work.
Preview mode
Instantly switch from viewing grids, guides, bleed and margins to a completely clean preview of your document.
Blistering performance
Pan, zoom and scroll through documents at 60fps.
Organisational tools
Organise your documents with the section manager and automatically generate indexes and a table of contents.
RELEASE NOTES:
Fixes
General
Fixed crash at startup due to bad OpenCL drivers (really this time)
Document / Spread setup
Document size presets create incorrectly sized pages if the Document DPI doesn't match the preset DPI
Business card templates shouldn't be facing page
Import / Export / Resources
Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images
Improved Brush and Asset categories alphabetical sort options
Fixed crash choosing Add Pages from File with 'After Last Page' selected
Replacing a scaled Picture Frame image wasn't maintaining placement
Convert to Picture Frame does not use default saved settings, cf Convert to Text Frame
Renaming then re-linking a cropped PDF or AF document scales the un-cropped document
Missing Content Status for placed PDFs
Placed PDF Page Box / Maximum Content calculated incorrectly
Add Pages from File could handle z-order badly when moving page content
Renamed Export Area 'With background' option to avoid confusion. Fixed other Export UI inconsistencies
Text
Added Preferences option to normalise text breaks on copy to clipboard
Unwanted auto-correct capitalisation caused by exclamation and question marks
Inline text objects should not have Text Wrap options enabled
Text Style Editor > Next level should use "[Same Style]" rather than "[No Style]"
Active text Selection on pasteboard not always drawn correctly
Decrement paragraph level would sometimes find the wrong previous style
Fixed potential hang moving pinned nodes
If spaces are overset, squeeze them up to keep the caret within the frame
Performance improvements generating text wrap shapes in complex cases
Table Format Panel previews always rendered as RGB
Hyperlinks to Anchors can point to incorrect Anchors if Anchor name has been duplicated
Paragraph Decoration has no "inherit state" when used as "based on" style
Alignment context toolbar options for table cells don't work
Not enough space to show Text Style shortcut on Windows
General
Fixed Assets and Symbols transforming when dragged onto resized Artboards or Groups
Fixed Live filters that have any position controls being broken on saving and re-opening the document
Guides added via Guides Manager are now clamped to Spread size
Master Page Guides could be applied incorrectly when a Master is applied to only one page of a facing page Spread
Transform panel ignores ruler origin in line mode
Performance improvements when Preflight panel showing lots of errors / warnings
Printing
Print auto-rotate not always triggered when other paper properties changed
Stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects on certain printers
Some Printer Drivers (Canon) return inconsistent status codes while printing
Fixed printing issues when the Print Spooler service has been stopped
System Requirements:
- Windows® 10 (1607 Anniversary update or higher)
- Windows® 8.1
- Windows® 7 (Service Pack 1; Aero enabled)
- Windows-based PC (64 bit) with mouse or equivalent input device
- DirectX 10-compatible Graphics Cards and above
- 4GB RAM
- 593MB of available space; more during installation
- 1280x768 display size or better
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