Serif Affinity Publisher v1.8.0.499 (x64) Beta Multilingual

Fluid publishing powerhouse. Bring your vision to life with Affinity Publisher, the next generation of professional publishing software. From magazines, books, brochures, posters, reports and stationery to other creations, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication.

Engineered for advanced technology
Engineered with the same no-compromise vision as our acclaimed photo editing and graphic design apps, thousands of global professionals have contributed to the development of Affinity Publisher to meet the demands of the 21st century designer.

Pioneering performance
Superpower your layouts with the latest and greatest publishing technology. The refreshing lack of unnecessary or obsolete features in Affinity Publisher means it runs like the sweetest dream, even on the most content-heavy documents.

Spectacular layouts
With essentials like master pages, facing page spreads, grids, tables, advanced typography, text flow, full professional print output and other amazing features, Affinity Publisher has everything you need to create the perfect layout – whatever your project.

Text to match the power of your words
Free yourself from the constraints of tired, traditional text layouts. Let Affinity Publisher help you visualise your text in creative new ways and flow it seamlessly through your document.

Text styles
Link the style of your text across all pages in your document

OpenType support
Open up all stylistic features of the latest OpenType fonts

Text decorations
Add lines and borders to elements of your typography

Drop caps
Add drop capitals to any paragraph

Text on a path
Draw any curve and type along it

Artistic text
Gain creative control over titling and other stand out text

Flow options
Avoid orphaned or widowed lines, among many other features

Baseline grid
Ensure the baseline of your text is aligned across all columns and spreads

Perfect graphics
Whatever the brief calls for, you can rely on Affinity Publisher to handle all the standard file types you’d expect, leaving you free to create the most ambitious, content-rich combination designs, pulling in raster or vector assets from multiple sources.

Fine tune your images
Ensure your images match the brilliance of your layout. Affinity Publisher comes with a full collection of powerful, non-destructive adjustment layers to make crucial image corrections right there in your document.

Advanced design tools
Create and edit vector graphics in your layout using the powerful pen, node and comprehensive shape tools – all with fine control over gradients and transparency.

Unrivalled compatibility
Import and export to all major raster and vector files, including layered PSD, PDF and EPS formats.

Full colour control
Affinity Publisher can handle RGB, LAB, greyscale and CMYK colour spaces, with advanced control over professional colour requirements for print.

Professional Output
Pantone support, end-to-end CMYK and ICC colour management are just part of it. You can also open, edit and output PDF/X files, set overprint controls and add bleed, trim and crop marks for press-ready output.

And so much more.
Here are just some of the other capabilities built into this incredible app.

Instant undo history
Instantly scrub through hundreds of undo steps with the history slider. Plus, save your history with your document.

Rotate canvas
Rotate your whole document by 90, 180 and 270 degrees.

Smart colour picker
Dedicated colour picker tool to accurately pick a colour, including single point or averaged sampling over an area.

Asset management
Create sets of regularly used assets which can be instantly accessed and dragged onto your project.

Transform panel
Precisely adjust an object’s position, size, rotation and shear.

Transparency tool
Drag a transparency gradient over any object, with support for linear, radial, elliptical and conical types.

Glyph browser
Browse the full set of available glyphs for any font.

Stroke panel
Offering full control over dashed line styles, arrowheads and pressure properties.

Customisable keyboard shortcuts
Affinity Publisher comes loaded with default keyboard shortcuts, but you can tailor to your own muscle memory.

Add noise
Apply noise to colour fills for a textured look to your work.

Preview mode
Instantly switch from viewing grids, guides, bleed and margins to a completely clean preview of your document.

Blistering performance
Pan, zoom and scroll through documents at 60fps.

Organisational tools
Organise your documents with the section manager and automatically generate indexes and a table of contents.

Whats New:

New Features and Major Improvements

Improved master page handling when adding single pages in a facing page document
Adding single pages to a facing page document with facing masters no longer shuffles master pages from left to right or vice versa.

Migrate frame contents when replacing Masters
Option to ‘Clear’ or ‘Migrate’ content when replacing a master which has modified text / image content on the target page. Available via Pages Panel ‘Apply Master.’ etc.

Re-order Master Spreads
Added the facility to re-order Master Spreads using drag drop in the Pages panel.

Merge Documents
Facility to merge specified pages from one document into the current document. Available via Pages Panel context menu or Document > Add Pages from File…

Linked ‘Embedded Document’ Resources
Better handling of Linked ‘Embedded Document’ resources to prevent files with such resources bloating on save.

Collect Resources
Facility to collect all up-to-date linked document resources in a single specified folder. Available via Resource Manager.

Find and Replace MRUs
MRU lists for recent Find and Replaces, available on the field drop menus on the Find and Replace Panel.

Anchor Panel
To manage Hyperlink Anchors. Access via View > Studio > Anchors.

PANTONE
Updated PANTONE Solid and Bridge Palettes for September 2019 update (Link)

Text Features
Last line outdent.
Drop Caps now let you set the number of characters dropped.
Indent to Here.
Add Right Indent Tab.

Insert from the Text Menu
Added additional fields, plus option to show the Fields Panel.

TOC
Added option to skip line breaks in a TOC.
Added option to skip or include inline images in a TOC.

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General Fixes and Minor Improvements

Open / Import
"Make a copy" and "Continue" buttons when opening a non-beta project file were reversed
Improve support for DeviceN bitmaps based on LAB colour space on PDF import

Document Management
When moving pages, transform pasteboard content so it doesn’t end up on spread
Margins change with document DPI on non-master pages

General / Tools
Added option to make bleed of embedded Affinity documents visible
Strokes on master page objects now extend into the page bleed area
Setting K-Only for a missing linked image caused crash
Linked images that fail to load now fall back to previews
Fixed Populate Picture Frames across multiple artboards
Convert to Picture Frame was disabled for EPS
(Win) Create Palette from CMYK images imports as RGB
(Win) Fix for inconsistent document tabbing

Text
Can now use / (Win / Mac) to link multiple text frames
When linking text frames stories are now concatenated
Preserve Manual Position not reflected correctly in Pinning Panel
Add special hyphenation rules for solidus (U+002F) to distinguish e.g. fractions
Changing spread / artboard in an Embedded Document now updates Text Wrap
Fixed default wrapping around Embedded Documents with transparency
Prevent table cell separators from being copied to non-tables (fix for non-deletable breaks)
Fixed auto-correct bug entering double spaces
Fixed line endings for Paragraph decorations
Now possible to remove arrowheads if inadvertently applied to Text Frame
Leading override could not be set to Auto in Text Style
Text with ‘No break’ did not always break before the no break
Fixed hyphenation issues in last line of column
(Mac) Missing font dropdown doesn’t list missing fonts
(Win) Spell check identifies numbers mixed with other characters as incorrectly spelt

Tables
Adjusting Table properties for multiple cells fails if selected cell already has the desired property
Fixed possible crash when auto fitting table to text

Find and Replace
Fixes for skipping occurrences when replacing
Tidied up finding around end of text

Hyperlinks
Fixes for hyperlinks in Tables
Hyperlinks are no longer generated in PDF output if hidden
Fixes for Hyperlink panel not always displaying correct page of link target
Fixed hyperlink bugs when switching to / from facing pages

Glyph Browser
Glyph Browser now always renders glyphs at screen scale

DocX
Importing tables from docx files could fail to import formatting resulting in crash

Fields
Added yyyy-MM-dd date format

Resources
Linked images – Context toolbar not updated after converting to embedding
Filenames with underscores not displayed correctly in Resource Manager

Font Manager
Font Manager ‘Locate’ did not locate full runs

Export / Print
Prevent spurious warnings about overflow text in text frames that won’t be output anyhow
Overprint Black now only sets to overprint if tint set to 100%
Fix for "Rasterise nothing" was causing PDF export failure in certain circumstances
(Win) Print dialog wasn’t always removing the red overlay after page had been scaled to fit

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