Affinity Publisher 2

Page layout design, publishing

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