Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad 4+
Publishing Layout PDF Design
Serif Labs
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
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Work wherever and whenever you want without compromise, with Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad, the on-the-go version of our award-winning desktop publishing software. This equally powerful page layout and design app has everything you need to create books, brochures, posters, reports, letters, portfolios, magazine layouts, book covers, ebooks, and so much more.
OPTIMISED FOR IPAD
• Fully integrated and optimised iPad gesture controls to speed up your workflow
• Command controller hosting on-screen modifiers
• Quick Menu for context-sensitive access to commands
• Context bar for all tools
• Sliders for various attributes
• Zoom to fit/zoom to previous, snapping and preview mode options
• Metal accelerated to achieve blazing-fast performance, even when editing large images
• Sensitive to pressure, tilt and angle, the app harnesses the full power and precision of Apple Pencil
• Full iCloud drive integration allows for seamless file management, storage and sharing
• External display support with separate configuration options
PROFESSIONAL LAYOUT TOOLS
• Facing page spreads
• Live master pages
• Advanced guides, grids and snapping
• Tables and custom table formats
• Wrap text around any object or image
• Create text frames of any shape
• Link multiple text frames together across your document
• Footnotes, sidenotes and endnotes
ADVANCED TYPOGRAPHY
• Full control over character and paragraph styles
• Comprehensive OpenType support
• Write text along any path
• Advanced flow options and hyphenation
PERFECT IMAGES & GRAPHICS
• Link or embed images in your document
• Place PSD, AI, PDF, JPG, TIFF, PNG, DWG or Affinity files
• Correct and enhance images with non-destructive adjustment layers
• Precision engineered pen and node tools for creating vector curves and shapes
• Boolean operations to add, subtract, combine and divide shapes
BUILT FOR PRODUCTIVITY
• Section manager to organise your documents
• Saveable undo history with alternate futures
• Smart master pages
• Automatically generate indexes and table of contents
• Manage and create anchors
• Save documents as template files to re-use time and time again
• Collate your document alongside all used image and font resources into a folder using the Package feature
• PDF passthrough
• Autoflow of multiple images and multi-page PDFs
• Running headers
• Cross-references
ADVANCED OPTIONS FOR PLACING CONTENT & IMPORT/EXPORT
• IDML & XLSX import
• Import/export from Adobe InDesign ® and other programs
• Layer visibility override for placed linked files (PDF/DWG/DXF/PSD and Affinity files)
• Place linked web images using URLs
• Dropbox API integration to retain placed resource linkage across multiple devices
• AutoCAD DWG/DXF import, place and edit (maintaining layer structure and scaling)
PROFESSIONAL OUTPUT
• End-to-end CMYK, PANTONE© and spot colour
• Live preflight checking
• PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 output for professional printed works
FULL INTEGRATION WITH OTHER AFFINITY APPS
• Instantly switch to the advanced photo editing features of Affinity Photo and precise vector tools of Affinity Designer without leaving Affinity Publisher with StudioLink
• The most fluid workflow ever conceived in a creative suite of applications
What’s New
Version 2.4.2
Bug fixes and stability improvements.
Ratings and Reviews
Editors’ Notes
On desktop, Affinity Publisher won our Mac App of the Year Award, providing all the tools necessary to lay out a large-format photo book, a poster for a school play, or a brochure for your small business. The new Affinity Publisher 2 lets you do all this and more using an interface optimized for touchscreen.
Released too early but now becoming great!
Promised to update my review if and when basic missing features were added (ie. import PDFs without breaking paragraphs of text into hundreds of individual text boxes,etc).
Happily, Affinity is now adding the basic features users expect of a top publishing app and it’s starting to deserve a seat alongside Affinity Photo and Designer.
In all the apps there remain a list of unintuitive oddities that logic alone will not solve, requiring you to keep having to hit the astonishingly poor range of practical help and support videos. Support documentation is so terrible that you’re forced to search for third party solutions, ALL of which seem to be horrible!
It’s also the ONLY app I know which places your work at risk (1990s style) by NOT SAVING what you’ve created (‘live’ seems to mean ‘unsaved’), forcing you to manually keep saving, and it keeps asking if you want to overwrite previous versions or ‘save as…’, leaving you confused and unsure if your work is safe. It’s another illogical, confusing workflow, but I know the team trying to simplifying things.
Affinity publisher 2 gets 4 stars from me because it’s obvious that the developers are working hard to create - what will undoubtedly become - the No.1 publishing/design/photo apps in the world, and that effort absolutely deserves our patience and support!
Not yet there, Mouse support!
As much as i love the idea of this on the ipad, it has got its flaws in regards to mouse support, i own a third party mouse that works fine on most apps but seems not be able to scroll and move on the pages, the only thing it works for is general cursor movement and clicking but lacks the full connectivity to make it feel like a desktop app.
hope this gets added or fixed
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Information
- Provider
- Serif (Europe) Ltd.
- Size
- 1.7 GB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Serif (Europe) Ltd
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Free 7-Day Trial £0.00
- Publisher 2 for iPad Licence £17.99
- Affinity V2 Universal Licence £159.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
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