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.
OPTIMIZED FOR IPAD
• Fully integrated and optimized 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 organize your documents
• Savable 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 color
• 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
2.4 is here! Free for all V2 customers, the latest update to Affinity Publisher brings some key new features and improvements, including:
• Set selection box – choose default selection box from the ‘cycle selection box’ choices
• Double-tap an object while in Node Tool to switch to the Move Tool
• Ability to lock ‘Behind’, ‘Inside’ and ‘On Top’ insertion targets
• Spacebar modifier allows you to toggle ‘Lock Children’ behavior on/off while moving an object
• Space Horizontal / Vertical now considers key object – using even space distribution on a multiple selection will now behave differently if you have a key object nominated
• Size / Rotate objects to same – three new choices have been added in Alignment Options to make all items in your current selection adopt the same width, height or rotation
• 32-bit HDR PNG support added
• Many more improvements and bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Editors’ Choice
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.
Major glitches
In the long run I think Publisher will be a great iPad app but at present (October 29, 2023) it still has major bugs that were being discussed in tutorial videos a year ago.
1. I get the standard iPad keyboard on my screen instead of the switchable Affinity keyboard. What should be there, above the numbers, is a a set of menu options, such as a pair of scissors and an icon for toggling between keyboards (the other has options specific to Publisher—inserting special characters, maths, inserting page breaks, and so on). I once managed to access that menu keyboard (no idea how) but couldn't get back to the QWERTY keyboard until I reinstalled the app.
2. The app still struggles with cloud services on the iPad. I have not had that problem with other apps.
3. Support staff are deeply hidden, nearly inaccessible. They must be Top Secret.
Because I have severe neuropathy I don't find it easy to work with any interface. That's not a problem with the app but it does predispose me to being impatient with bugs and glitches.…I think the app has so much potential and is already significantly ahead of Adobe's mobile apps, I'm not inclined to give up. It's definitely a viable alternative to InDesign.
External display support on iPad not fullscreen
External display support working with tools now but the app does not take advantage of the full screen
Developer Response ,
If you still need help with this, please email affinitysupport@serif.com
In-App Purchases
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Information
- Seller
- 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 $12.99
- Affinity V2 Universal License $114.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.