Affinity Publisher 2 at Mac App Store analyse

A next-gen version of the Mac App of the Year software, Affinity Publisher 2 delivers an incredible design experience. Whether you’re creating a book, magazine, marketing materials, social media template or something else, it has everything you need to make beautiful layouts ready for publication. And with the ground-breaking ability to fully integrate with other Affinity apps, it’s completely revolutionizing the way creatives work. REFINED & REDESIGNED WITH POWERFUL NEW FEATURES • Fully redeveloped UI, tool, and button icons • Completely revamped Layers Panel • Book creation and management – combine multiple Affinity Publisher files as chapters, with linked text styles, table of contents and indexes • Footnotes, sidenotes, and endnotes via new Notes panel • Style Picker Tool • Quick grid • Autoflow of multiple images and multi-page PDFs • Layer visibility override for placed linked files (PDF/DWG/DXF and Affinity files) • AutoCAD DWG/DXF import, place, and edit • Place linked web images using their URLs • Resave packages with auto-update of resources • Force scale of stroke, effect and fills on object resize PROFESSIONAL LAYOUT TOOLS • Facing page spreads • Live master pages, including nested master pages • Image frames with intelligent scaling options • Advanced guides, grids and snapping • Tables and custom table formats • Wrap text around any object or image with fine padding control • Create text frames of any shape • Link multiple text frames together across your document • Text column dividing lines ADVANCED TYPOGRAPHY • Full control over character and paragraph styles • Comprehensive OpenType support • Text decorations, drop caps and initial words • Flow text along any path • Advanced flow options and hyphenation • Baseline grid and text frame rulers 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 • Incredibly smooth gradient and transparency controls • Live preview of all effects, blend modes and image adjustments BUILT FOR YOUR WORKFLOW • Fully optimized for the latest Mac hardware and operating systems, including M1 chips • IDML & XLSX import • Section manager to organize your documents • Pan, zoom and scroll through documents at 60fps • Regular Expressions search and replace • Savable undo history with alternate futures • Customizable keyboard shortcuts and savable presets, including studio layout presets for the UI layout • Smart master pages • Automatically generate indexes and table of contents • Manage and create anchors • Consolidate images linked from various locations into a single folder • Merge multiple documents together into a single file • 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 • Convert pixel layer to image node • Integrate text and image links into documents by merging from external data sources • PDF passthrough PROFESSIONAL OUTPUT • End-to-end CMYK, PANTONE© and spot color • Crop, bleed, and registration • Live preflight checking • PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 output for professional print 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