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Mac

Hardware

Mac Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Mini
Mac with Apple M1 chip or Intel processor
4GB RAM minimum
Up to 2.8GB of available hard drive space; more during installation
1280x768 display size or better
Supports regular, retina, and expanded gamut DCI-P3 displays

Operating System

10.9 Mavericks
10.10 Yosemite
10.11 El Capitan
10.12 Sierra
10.13 High Sierra
10.14 Mojave
10.15 Catalina
11.0 Big Sur

Windows

Hardware

Windows-based PC (64 bit) with mouse or equivalent input device
Hardware GPU acceleration^*
DirectX 10-compatible Graphics Cards and above
4GB RAM
938MB of available hard drive space; more during installation
1280x768 display size or better

^* Requires:

Windows 10 April 2020 update (or later)
Direct3D level 12.0-capable card

Operating System

Affinity Store version

Windows^® 10 (1607 Anniversary update or higher)
Windows^® 8.1
Windows^® 7 (Service Pack 1; Aero enabled)

Microsoft Store version

Windows^® 10 (1607 Anniversary update or higher)

Overview

It’s Fast—Really Fast

Pan and zoom at 60fps
Stunning scroll speeds as you edit or preview
Objects respond immediately to transformation
Real-time gradients, effects, blend modes and adjustments
64-bit multi-core optimisation and hardware acceleration

Beautiful By Design

Built from the ground up for page layout professionals
Stylish and uncluttered interface

Efficient Affinity File Format

Compact and fast native file format
Fully editable in Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo

Highly Customisable

Light or dark user interface
Create and save your own custom keyboard shortcuts
Create your own toolbars and toolbar layouts
Reorganise on-screen panels, float or dock as preferred
Create and save Studio panel (and toolbar) presets
Tweak UI tool size and choose monochrome or coloured buttons
Search Preferences and set up Affinity Publisher to your taste
Work in pixels, points, picas and physical document units

Rich History

Instantly undo/redo over 8,000 History steps
Save History so you can undo steps later even on different computers
Undo actions performed in other Affinity suite apps
Cycle Futures feature prevents history loss after editing from undos
A seamless AutoSave protects against unexpected shutdowns

Naturally Easy to Use

Follows Industry conventions for the most popular shortcuts
Context toolbar displays options for the active tool only
Quickly hide all tools and panels for a bigger design preview
Work with multiple publications and multiple displays
Document presets or save your own custom document setups
Tailor tool behaviours and UI settings in Preferences

Professional Samples

Explore professional samples to trigger your imagination

Learning Made Easy

Access over 50 categorised video tutorials - every one shot in 4k!
Comprehensive in-app product Help
‘At hand’ Hint Line for help with current actions

No Subscription

For a single, one-off price you will own the current version (v1) of the app (on your chosen operating system). It’s yours to keep and you’ll even receive free updates of the software until version 2 becomes available (no planned date currently). You can then simply continue using the version you have or choose to upgrade to version 2 for an additional cost.

Registration and Account Access^*

In-app registration (optional)
New
In-app access and viewing of your Affinity account
Affinity Store content synchronisation
New
Install free and purchased Affinity Store content

Languages

English (US and UK)
German
French
Spanish
Portuguese (Brazilian)
Japanese
Italian
Chinese (Simplified)
Russian

Page Layout essentials

Import

Adobe^® Indesign^® IDML
PDF
Adobe^® Photoshop^® PSD
Adobe^® Illustrator^® AI (containing PDF stream)

Easy Setup with New Document dialog (for desktop only)

Thumbnail-based
Presets for different types of output, e.g. Press Ready
Create your own custom page presets
Choose number of pages, facing pages and bleed
Arrange facing pages vertically/horizontally
Access Publisher templates (.aftemplate)

Spread Setup

For current, specific or all spreads
Override document dimensions and margins
Scale content when resizing documents
Lanczos 3, Bicubic, Bilinear and Nearest Neighbour resampling methods
Mixed spread orientations

Master Pages

Share page elements across many pages
Editing master page elements updates all pages simultaneously
Created pages are auto-linked to default master page
Edit frame content independently of master page
Smart master pages preserve edited master frame content when replacing master pages
Detach text and picture frames from master to independently resize/format
Transform master page content to spread
Edit master page from any publication page
Hierarchical master-on-master page support
Multiple master pages per page

Sections

Split publications into logical ‘chapter’ sections
Create new sections from targeted pages
Different page numbering styles per section
Name sections for chapter identification on headers/footers
Control starting page number
Reference last page in section or at publication end

Page Navigation and Viewing

Ultra responsive page scrolling
Pages panel scrolls with page scrolling
Page locator
Instantly switch between favourite zoom levels
Zoom to Spread
Navigator Panel for pan/zoom control
Save favourite view settings in the Panel
Preview Mode

Text Frame Setup

Multi-column support with column rules
Dedicated Text Frame Panel for advanced frame setup
Control insets, gutter and vertical alignment
Variable column and gutter widths
Change column widths by dragging
Set same gutter values on ≥3-columns simultaneously
Link text frames to flow text through
Unlink/delete frames in frame sequence
Frame sequences intelligently reflow on frame deletion/detachment
Align to baseline grid
Initial baseline text advance (sets vertical distance on first line of frame text)

Placeholder Text

Autofit to frame (non-editable) or normal text behaviour
Use your own custom filler text
Language specific

Adding Text to Text Frames

Place external file directly into new or existing text frame
Import Word DOCX and RTF files
Copy/paste from InDesign, Word, RTF and most other text editors
Paste as unformatted text
Scale or reflow text directly from text frame
Vertically align frame text
AutoFlow creates new ‘framed’ pages from overflowing frame text
Fit text frame to contained text
Create text frames from shapes

Artistic Text

Perfect for a front page headline or chapter title
Text always scales
Takes layer effects (blurs, shadows and glows)

Text-on-a-Path

Type text along a custom curve
Control start and end points
Set text on both or either side of lines
Convert shapes to text paths
Control all the normal text attributes including baseline
New
Path text overflow control

Placing Content

Images (PNG, JPG, TIFF, SVG)
PDF
PDF passthrough for absolute output fidelity (for desktop only)
Microsoft^® Word^® DOCX, RTF and plain text
Spreadsheet data (XLSX) - Microsoft^® Excel^®, Apple Numbers, LibreOffice
Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher documents
Adobe^® InDesign^® IDML
Adobe^® Photoshop^® PSD
New
PSD flattened image representation
Import multiple images into Place Images panel then place click-by-click
Choose page to view for placed documents
Convert pixel layers to image layers
New
DPI/scaling control for placed images and documents

Preview and Place Stock Imagery

Search for Stock images within Affinity Publisher
Royalty free providers (Unsplash, Pexels and more)

Picture Frames

Picture Frame Rectangle and Ellipse tools
Intelligent image fitting to frame (Scale to Max/Min Fit)
Create from shapes (geometric or pen drawn)
Use presets or customize your own frames
Size picture frame to content
On-page pan, zoom and rotate controls
Clear picture frame fills on population
New
Convert pixel layers to picture frames

Tables

Present data in tabular form
Add, remove and resize columns and rows directly from table
Autofit/distribute rows and columns
Comprehensive cell formatting and merging
Create custom table formats
Save any table for later use
Align to baseline grid

Pinned Objects

Pinned objects move as text reflows
Intelligent pinning to nearest text
Float or inline (as character)
Position by eye or via Pinning Panel (for precision)
Float in relation to pin, frame, column, margin or page edge

Text wrapping

Flow frame text around picture frames, text frames, images and tables
Change distance to text (separate directions or uniformly)
Edit the wrap outline to tailor wrapping

Interactive links for digital publishing

Hyperlinks (to page, web address, file or email)
Create in-document anchors for hyperlinks to target
Table of contents and Index entries automatically hyperlink
Anchors panel to create/manage anchors
Include PDF bookmarks for TOC entries and anchors

Fields

Insert document information (Author, Title, Date/Time)
Add document statistics
Section fields for headers and footers
Continued on/from text frame references

Merge Publisher documents

Import your choice of pages
New
Import sections
Choose page insertion point
Text style merging
Import master page(s)
Import index marks

Dedicated Panel for TOC management
Multiple Tables of Contents
Create for document or section
Choose text styles to generate content
Create different text style sets
Ignore line breaks and Include inline images options

Index

Generate index from inserted index marks
Dedicated Panel for index management
Find and index additional matching words from panel
Create cross references

Data Merge

Merge text and image links from external data sources
New
XLSX spreadsheet, TSV, CSV and JSON data sources
Merge direct to page (certificates, letters, greetings cards)
New
Merge into a repeating grid layout (business cards, mailing labels, badges, passes)
Data Merge Layout Tool for grid layouts
New
Repeat same data record or different record per grid cell
Filter data records

Professional Typography

Pro Font Support

Create elegant text with OpenType, True Type and Type 1 fonts
Use OpenType features (ligatures, swashes, stylistic alternates and sets)
Insert placeholder text while constructing designs
Insert special characters and symbols
Copy and paste style between objects
Font fallbacks

Live Font Previews

Fonts are previewed instantly while creating or customising text
Access fonts by collection for efficiency
Browse recent, used or favourite fonts (previously set as favourites)

Live OpenType Feature Previews

Typography panel shows live feature previews
Easily select the right Stylistic Set every time
Preview Ligatures, Contextual Alternates, Swashes and more

Glyph Browser

Quickly insert special characters into your text
Display in glyph or Unicode order
Browser will track current font selection
Filter by font subset, e.g. Cyrillic
Search by glyph name, glyph index or Unicode value

Characters and Paragraphs

Style text with on-screen panels you can dock, move, and resize
Adjust kerning, tracking, shear, baseline and other character attributes
Easily set leading, indents, tab stops and justification
Multi-language auto-hyphenation
Optical character alignment (hanging punctuation)
Paragraph spacing
Bullets and numbering
Initial words formatting
Add decorations (paragraph rules)

Text Ruler

Visually set tabs and indents
Displays above any selected text frame
Use alongside Paragraph Panel
Reposition ruler vertically onto ‘target’ paragraphs

Checking your work

Spell checking on the fly, or on demand, and customise the dictionary
Check against any dictionary installed
Autocorrect (uses replacement and abbreviation lists)

Text Styles

Ensure text appears consistent
Apply character and paragraph styles
Pre-supplied styles
Easily update styles cross-document
Design from scratch or from text selection
Style hierarchies
Style groups
Multi-level numbering schemas
Import styles from target document
Delete unused styles
Delete all styles and create your own

Find and Replace

Fonts, traits, attributes or text formatting
Character or paragraph styles
Search for ‘No style’
Special characters
Regular expressions support (Locale Aware)
Locate found text on page

Management

Resource Management

Missing resource alert on document load
Linked/embedded placed image policy at document setup
Dedicated Resource Manager for image/document management
Display placed image or document status
Convert resources from embedded to linked (and vice versa)
Linked image use offers much reduced file sizes
Relative resource links are honoured
Collect linked resources into a ‘sidecar‘ folder for project portability

Layer Management

Each page has its own layers
Organise using layers, groups and layer naming
Isolate, rename, lock and hide layers with easy shortcuts
Unlock all locked objects simultaneously
Show all hidden objects simultaneously
Limit the effect of adjustments by drag and drop
Drag and drop layers from one document to another (Windows only; floated and side by side)

Font Management

Missing font alert on document load
Dedicated Font Manager for your document’s fonts
Displays fonts used and font status
Show and replace missing fonts
Locate any fonts used

Packaging

Share projects easily
New
Original document remains unaffected
Include fonts and linked images
New
Show restricted fonts on package opening

Design Aids

Powerful Snapping

Snap text frames, picture frames, shapes and curves
Snap to grids, baseline grids, guides, column guides, canvas edges, margins, gaps and more
Snapping candidate control (last six selected or layer based)
Dynamic alignment works smoothly on snapping candidates
Save favourite snapping settings as new presets
Exclude objects from snapping

Ruler, Ruler Guides and Column Guides

Switch on vertical/horizontal rulers that use document measurement units
Spread (ruler) origin repositioned from ruler intersection
Create ruler guides in any measurement unit or by percentage
Reposition guides from ruler area when using multiple tools
Multi-column guides with gutter control
Customisable bleed and margin colours

Baseline Grids

Vertically align text baselines for more appealing layouts
For entire document or specific frames or tables
Control grid positioning relative to spread/page/margin
Precision object snapping to grid
Display grid only at a configurable zoom level
Set grid colour

Layout Grids

Create standard square and rectangular grids
Change grid colour and opacity
Snap to grid for accurate layout

Constraints

Scale and/or anchor objects in relation to the containing shape or picture frame
Select object edges to be constrained
Dedicated Constraints Panel for scale/anchor control
Max/min fit for fixed aspect ratios

Rotate document view

Rotate the page for easier editing of vertical text and packaging designs
Maps to popular graphics tablet and keyboard controls

Misc Design Aids

Inter-object measurement guides
Switch on pasteboard for off-page storage

Assets for easy access to stored page elements

Dedicated panel for asset storage
Store text frames, picture frames, and tables
Store any object to a custom subcategory
Easy drag and drop onto the page
Import/export assets
Access OpenAsset imagery with ease

Supporting Vector Design Tools and Operations

Pen and Node Tool

Instinctively and quickly create what you want in a few clicks
Change node types on the fly without interrupting your flow
Switch between Pen and Node tools with a key press
Multi-node selection, alignment and transform
Apply pressure, scaling, drawing, mitre and line end settings for organic strokes
Create custom saveable pressure profiles
Arrowheads

Tool and Mode Switching

One tool flexibly selects, moves, rotates, scales, and skews
Switch to the Move tool any time with a key press
Toggle between popular tools and temporarily change modes
Intuitively edit objects within groups without ungrouping
Optionally move parent objects without their child layers

Editable Shapes

Regular shapes are naturally smart with unique editing nodes
Easily customise shapes, achieve neat results with snapping geometry
Create perfect squares and circles by constraining primitives
Apply special and rounded corners as absolute or % values
Customise cogs, stars, arrows, pies, and 14 other smart shapes
Presets for shapes or save your own shapes

Live Gradient Fills and Transparencies

Draw gradients live in your design, instantly and smoothly
Apply colour and transparency gradients to fills and outlines
Easily adjust the nodes and rates of change for gradients
Use solid, linear, elliptical, radial, conical gradients and apply bitmaps
Aspect ratio control (bitmap fill/transparency only)
Linear and radial gradients respond to object scaling/shearing with skewed fill handle editing

Power Duplicate

Duplicate objects and repeat transforms all in one go
Create geometric patterns or repeating, scaling, rotating designs

Aligning and Distributing

Align to left, centre, right, top, middle, bottom
Works to selection bounds, spread (artboard), margins, first/last selected
Automatically distribute objects horizontally or vertically
Distribute to your choice of spacing
Alignment handles for precise alignment of a selection to a position on page
Change object Z-order

Transforms

Accurately position and scale objects to specific values
Use functions like +50% to scale objects relatively
Apply transforms about an anchor point selected in the Transform panel
Rotate using dedicated lollipop or from outside corner handles
Transform Panel is aware of object’s custom transform origin (anchor point will override)
Set a custom centre of rotation
Reposition objects by their custom transform origin
Skew using on-screen controls or the Transform panel
Flip objects with handy buttons

Boolean Geometry

Join, intersect, subtract, intersect, divide and combine shape outlines
Boolean operations are editable (Compound Shapes) without using Undo

Clipping

Add artwork within shapes and layers using Insert Inside and Paste Inside
Clip to object below with Move Inside and Move Outside
Also Insert Behind and Insert Above the current layer

Styles

Save combinations of fill, line and effects settings for reuse
Apply styles for design consistency, e.g. your favourite letterpress
Optionally scale styles with objects
Search for styles by style name

Textured Noise

Add noise to object fills and outlines, also as a gradient

Program Defaults

Apply your preferred object settings as defaults

StudioLink for Designer and Photo Interworking

With Designer Persona

Corner Tool

Neatly round and soften corners on shapes and lines
For single corners/nodes, a selection, or all nodes at once

Vector Paint Brushes

Access Texture and Image brush categories
Texture brushes include Pen, Paint, Watercolour and Pastel styles
Complete editability of an already applied stroke’s width, colour and opacity
Stroke stabilisation for perfectly smooth brush strokes
See a live preview at the brush tip before you apply your stroke
Create custom brushes using your own textures

Pencil Tool

Draw lines with an intuitive balance of accuracy and smoothing
Adjust weight automatically based on velocity, pressure, or use fixed width
Use stabiliser for super smooth pencil strokes
Sculpt mode for repeating and continuing strokes

Symbols

Simultaneous and automatic editing of repeating design elements
Create and store symbols in Symbols Panel
Replicate symbols as individual symbol instances
Synchronisation across instances by default
Switch off synchronisation for isolated edits
Edit distinct object properties independently of each other

With Photo Persona

Raster Paint Brushes

Introduce raster texture and shading to your page
Many brush categories (natural media, sprays, grunge and more)
Stroke stabilisation for perfectly smooth brush strokes
Retouch images with Dodge, Burn, Smudge and Sharpen brush tools
See a live preview at the brush tip before you apply your stroke
Control size, pressure, and speed interactivity with live brush settings

Pixel Selections

Confine edits to selected regions only
Adjustments and effects are masked to selection
Use regular shapes, pixel-width regions, freehand lasso, and selection brush
Select regions based on colour and tonal ranges
Grow, shrink, feather, smooth and outline selection

Refine Selections

Select fine detail like hair and fur with advanced refining
Set refinement border width, smoothness, mode, and feather size
Output refinement as a selection, mask, new layer, or new layer with mask

Professional image filters

Full access to non-destructive Live filters
Enhance your photos
Blur, sharpen, distort or add colour effects

Custom Brushes

Create completely custom vector and raster brushes using your own textures
Choose behaviour for pressure and velocity variance, corners, repeating areas and many other controls

Professional Colour, Compatibility, and Output

Professional Colour

True end-to-end CMYK for professional workflows
RGB, RGB Hex, LAB, CMYK and Greyscale colour models
PANTONE^® colour swatches
ICC colour management profiles supported
Seamlessly jump between colour modes
Lock to prevent colour mode switching

Pantone^® Colour Matching

PANTONE^® Goe^™
PANTONE^® GoeBridge^™
PANTONE^®+ Formula Guide Solid (V2)
PANTONE^®+ CMYK
PANTONE^®+ Color Bridge (V2)
PANTONE^®+ Metallic, Neon, and Pastels
Coated and uncoated variants

Smart Colour Picker

Dedicated Tool for sampling colour in your Document View
Accurately pick colour using a magnifier over any part of your display
Point or colour averaged sampling
Sample from current or all layers
Grab in the source colour space including CMYK, RGB and LAB colour
Simple panel-based Colour Picker as alternative

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Palettes and Swatches

Use colours and palettes based on all the available colour models
Automatically create palettes based on document colours
Import Adobe^® Swatch Exchange (.ase) files
Create complementary, analogous and other colour chords
Generate palette from any image

Global Colours

Update objects when their base colour changes
Tint levels are retained when base colour updates
Use as solid colours or in gradients

16-bits per Channel Support

16-bits per channel mode for accurate colour processing
Works on all supported hardware and operating systems without limits

Preflight checking

Live, manual or ‘at export‘ checking
Dedicated Preflight panel for centralised issue management
Configurable levels - warning or higher-priority error
Autofix available for many issues
Error/warning visual indicators (red/amber)
Save your own custom preflight profiles

Open

Affinity Photo (.afphoto)
Affinity Designer (.afdesign)

Import

Adobe^® Indesign^® IDML
PDF
Adobe^® Photoshop^® PSD
Adobe^® Illustrator^® AI (containing PDF stream)
EPS

Place

Affinity Publisher Free Trial

Adobe^® Indesign^® IDML
Microsoft^® Word^® DOCX, RTF or plain text
Spreadsheet data (XLSX) - Microsoft^® Excel^®, Apple Numbers, LibreOffice
Affinity Photo (.afphoto)
Affinity Designer (.afdesign)
Affinity Publisher (.afpub)
Adobe^® Illustrator^® AI (containing PDF stream)
PDF
Adobe^® Photoshop^® and Adobe^® FreeHand^® (versions 9 to 11)
PNG
TIFF
JPG
GIF
SVG
EXR (Open EXR)
HDR (Radiance)
Extensive RAW import library (auto-process on import)
DNG
HEIF with depth map (as separate layer)
Optional Artboard conversion to spreads (from Affinity Designer)

Export

PDF
Affinity template (.aftemplate)
PNG
JPG
GIF
TIFF
Adobe^® Photoshop^® PSD
SVG
EPS
EXR (Open EXR)
HDR (Radiance)

PDF and PDF/X compatible

Save designs as PDF for sharing
Edit and save PDFs for round-trip app compatibility

Desktop Printing/Save as PDF

Tiled
N-up (ganged)
Book printing
Booklet printing

Professional Printing

Full CMYK handling and ICC profiles
Spot colours
Overprint controls
Trim, bleed and crop marks
Bleed preview with bleed setup directly from new document
K-only greyscale images on CMYK output
Create CMYK PDF/X files for pro printing
Compatible with PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, and PDF/X-4

Live Blend Modes, Adjustments and Effects

Non-Destructive Editing

Apply to any object, layer, group—whether vector or raster
See effects, blend modes and adjustments instantly with no lag
Completely finish designs without switching to another app
Edit any time—all effects, adjustments, and blend modes are non-destructive
Set blend modes for strokes, layers, objects and groups
Selectively recolour artwork and designs without laborious reworking

Live Adjustments

Levels
White Balance
HSL
Recolour
Black and White
Brightness and Contrast
Posterise
Vibrance
Exposure
Shadows/Highlights
Threshold
Curves
Channel Mixer
Gradient Map with global colour support
Selective Colour
Colour Balance
Invert
Soft Proof
3D LUT (3D Look Up Table for complex adjustments)
Lens Filter
Split Toning

Live Effects

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Gaussian Blur
Outer Shadow
Inner Shadow
Outer Glow
Inner Glow
Outline
3D
Bevel/Emboss
Colour Overlay
Gradient Overlay
Layer Effects now work with global colours

Live Blend Modes

Normal
Darken
Darker Colour
Multiply
Colour Burn
Linear Burn
Lighten
Lighter Colour
Screen
Colour Dodge
Add
Overlay
Soft Light
Hard Light
Vivid Light
Pin Light
Linear Light
Hard Mix
Difference
Exclusion
Subtract
New
Divide
Hue
Saturation
Luminosity
Colour
Average
Negation
Reflect
Glow
Contrast Negate
Erase

Input Devices

OS X/macOS

Pressure-sensitive graphics tablet and pen
Force Touch and regular Trackpad
Touch Bar
Mac keyboards
Magic Trackpad and Magic Trackpad 2
Magic Mouse and Magic Mouse 2
Generic multi-button and wheel mouse
Dictation offered by OS X

Windows