“The Affinity community is really incredible and growing particularly in Europe where the cost for Adobe CC suite is much higher than in the US,” Henry said. ![]() Spike Radway added that (free with a library card) offers courses on the Affinity products. “There’s plenty of help on the Internet with how to work with it,” including videos on the Affinity website, he said. Henry closed his prepared remarks at 34:20 with Affinity Publisher’s list of “tips and tricks” to help make the transition from InDesign to Publisher easier. His demo of how to merge documents can be found at 27.30 and at 30:00 he showed how to achieve default palettes which Affinity doesn’t provide out-of-the-box (“a head scratcher for me.”) He noted that this is not a problem if you have your files in one place rather than scattered throughout your computer. Henry said that in some ways, such as collecting fonts, Publisher is not as robust as Adobe, which has more contracts with the font companies. The meat of Henry’s presentation, in which he uses a file for a restaurant menu as an example, starts at about 11:30 into the YouTube video. He noted that Publisher optimizes the experience if you have a distinct GPU in your computer rather than an integrated one. ![]() He showed how to move from Publisher to Photo or Designer, without having to open those apps. They do have a meld under layers very similar to what you’ll find in Illustrator and that’s the only unusual aspect of this.” “You’ll see a lot of the same tools such as layers and an interface with a text box. “A lot of the shortcuts are the same ones you’re used to,” he said. (Affinity Publisher is a little different in this regard.)
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