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Same. I have hundreds of legacy InDesign files that I’m slowly converting to Affinity Publisher when I get the chance, so I’m currently paying an Adobe subscription just for that.
This week, though, someone sent me a bunch of work in Google Docs format, and the only way to get them out that preserves the layout seems to be exporting PDFs. Publisher has been doing a pretty good job of opening and converting those, so now I’m starting to wonder whether I can make do with just importing my old PDFs into Publisher, rather than loading the old InDesign files just to import IDML.
I bought my universal license direct from Serif and I’m pleased to support them with every penny as I’ve been using them since before Photo came out. Interestingly though, it appears you can also buy the universal license (including Windows versions!) as an in app purchase, of which Apple presumably do get a cut.
It’s a nice change from V1 that I can buy the universal license for Mac and iPad together (and know the Windows version is there if I ever need it) directly from Serif, but still use the App Store versions and trust that updates will be handled automatically without me getting a prompt to update when I load the app at the start of my work day.
Affinity photo is good but photoshop is better. I have both and would like to shed the adobe subscription but there’s no real competition to photoshop and I’ve tried them all.
Also, I find that I can’t upgrade from photo 1 to photo 2. It’s regular price is very cheap, so I don’t mind, but it might be a consideration for some.
I bought Affinity Photo at release, so I got seven years of free updates. I certainly don’t begrudge paying them £90 to upgrade all three apps on both macOS and iPad, as well as getting the Windows versions that I didn’t previously own. There isn’t specific upgrade pricing, but it’s always gone on sale often enough that I wouldn’t worry about waiting for the next one if I couldn’t afford it right now, and could make do with 1.9 for now.
I kinda suspect we might see more frequent paid updates now they have all three apps out on all three platforms, but they’ve still promised there’ll be plenty of free updates to come. Even if I end up paying them £100 every three years that’ll still be a massive bargain compared to the other guys.
That's really interesting as every time I finish a job now I package it with a print PDF and IDML for future proofing. How accurate do you find the conversions and do you miss any tools or features of InDesign?
What I am truly missing is an alternative to the Lightroom Classic workflow.
I have 350-375'000 RAW that are all cataloged in a number of Lightroom libraries, and perhaps 3-4'000 of these have edits logged on them. It would be a massive job to migrate all of this to another solution, and thus far I have never seen one that does the same. I used to use Aperture, and when that was decommissioned I moved to Adobe.
For sure I can do the edits in another solution, and I don't actually use Photoshop that much, and though I like Adobe Acrobat, there are plenty of other solutions that do the same. I like the other Adobe Creative Suite apps, but there are alternatives - it really is down to Lightroom Classic, the workflow, and my many files. And yes, I know there is an Adobe package that will serve my needs, but my wife is a student, and we have been on the student discount deal for years. "Luckily" enough she'll be a student for years to come (PhD.)...
I have 350-375'000 RAW that are all cataloged in a number of Lightroom libraries, and perhaps 3-4'000 of these have edits logged on them. It would be a massive job to migrate all of this to another solution, and thus far I have never seen one that does the same. I used to use Aperture, and when that was decommissioned I moved to Adobe.
For sure I can do the edits in another solution, and I don't actually use Photoshop that much, and though I like Adobe Acrobat, there are plenty of other solutions that do the same. I like the other Adobe Creative Suite apps, but there are alternatives - it really is down to Lightroom Classic, the workflow, and my many files. And yes, I know there is an Adobe package that will serve my needs, but my wife is a student, and we have been on the student discount deal for years. "Luckily" enough she'll be a student for years to come (PhD.)...
I have on very rare occasions done jobs that have required right-to-left text, so that’s the big one that’s missing from Publisher. Otherwise, no nothing at all that I miss from InDesign. I hate InDesign with a fiery passion and I always resented using it, whereas Publisher is a joy to use. There are a couple of things that I miss from the other apps (vector trace would be the biggy) but nothing I can’t work around.
I’ve not tried importing any complex layouts from PDFs yet. Like I said, this was a recent discovery from a client who sent my Google Docs files as a source, so the layouts were very simple. Some of the frame choices were a bit odd, but the layouts were accurate and it was perfectly usable.
Not sure if this info helps, but i saw this reddit post recently:
It's free so worth trying i guess?
It's free so worth trying i guess?
It’s bundled with monitor though, and companies may not find that monitor appealing for their purposes. This promotion also doesn’t ultimately address the issue that Pantone colours are more expensive than Ever.
Don’t get me wrong, if someone can take advantage of this, good for him/her. But no one would buy an expensive professional monitor just for the sake of Pantone colour.