Reply To: Affinity Publisher

Thank you, Kathleen! Please do come back and tell us what your experience with Affinity Publisher is over time.

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. They asked me what they could do to convince me to start recommending QX again. I had a simple answer: Just make QuarkXPress better than InDesign. If there were a design tool better than InDesign, I would love to tell the world about it.

Publisher is clearly a 1.0 product, and my sense is that it’s greatest strength so far is that it will be inexpensive. That may be compelling from a hobbyist or student perspective, but it’s not compelling from a “pro” perspective. What matters to me is the ability to create awesome designs — great type, great color, great output options, etc. — with as little effort as possible.

In the meantime, we have published a “First Look” here:

Affinity Publisher: First Look

Look for more on Affinity products on our sister site, CreativePro.com