How many times have you had to cycle through apps to get your work done? Say you add a photo to your page layout but need to tweak it in some way, do some color correction or image manipulation. Mousing over fonts in the menu is a quick and convenient way to preview fonts directly on your layout (Image credit: Serif) (Image credit: Serif) Seamless integration

The change is instant and this is a great way to choose the perfect font for your needs.Īll of this is nice and all, and could entice some folks on a budget to try the app out as a means of avoiding an ongoing Adobe subscription, but responsiveness and elegance isn’t really a killer feature. Highlight some text for instance, and as you scroll over different fonts, you can see the highlighted text update before you even click on your selected font. This kind of responsiveness and on-the-fly changes are felt throughout. Moving an image warps the text instantly, so you can see the changes and be as precise as you need to be, even on an old computer (we tested it on a 2014 MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM and an ever-dwindling amount of storage space).

So, how does Designer actually handle?Ĭonsidering it’s a brand new app, released in late June 2019 (despite the fact it’s already at version 1.7.1), it runs remarkably well.Įverything feels quick and responsive. 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).Drag an image or a text box around, and the content alters instantly (Image credit: Serif) (Image credit: Serif)

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