The latter includes text styles, text on a path, OpenType support, flow options to avoid orphaned or widowed lines, advanced guides and grids, support for double page spreads, master pages, and so forth.īut an app is more than the sum of its features. Looking at Serif’s website, it seems like it’s covering all the bases, with support for multiple types of image formats (such as AI, JPEG, PDF, PMG, PSD or TIFF), and tools we’ve all come to expect from any DTP suite.

So how good is Publisher at desktop publishing? This review is about Publisher, but we have to mention Photo and Designer as well, for reasons that will become clear later on.

Serif Affinity Publisher at Serif Europe US for $54.99 (opens in new tab).

Create your own brushes too.Drag an image or a text box around, and the content alters instantly (Image credit: Serif) (Image credit: Serif)

High quality raster tools for texturing, masking and finishing artwork.

Flexible text handling including comprehensive support for OpenType.

The best pen tool, node tool, curve editing, geometry operations, and smart shape tools available.

Use the strengths of vector and raster behaviors for the best of both worlds.

Live effects, blend modes, image adjustments, and raster and vector masks for any part of your design.

Rock solid vector tools that work just the way you want them to.

Advanced Lanczos 3 image resampling plus Bicubic, Bilinear and Nearest Neighbor methods.

Professional CMYK, LAB, RGB and Grayscale color models.

Seamless switching between tools and editing modes for frustration-free design.

Live pixel and retina view of vector artwork, wireframe view, split screen mode.

Optimized for documents of any complexity, zoom to over 1,000,000% for absolute precision.

Live gradients, transforms, effects and adjustments.Panning and zooming is always live at 60fps.With continuous innovation and development, the result is a ground-breaking application that will revolutionise how you work. Built from the ground up over a five-year period, every feature, tool, panel and function has been developed with the needs of creative professionals at its core. Language: Multilingual | File size: 751 MBĪffinity Designer is the fastest, smoothest, most precise vector graphic design software available.

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