I don’t take back my recommendation for Vectornator Pro for free for iPad, it’s really quite good. If you have any doubts about how capable it is, I put a screenshot of one of the sample drawings into the shownotes with one of the layers opened up so you’d believe me! This is an amazing steal for such a phenomenally capable program. The list price for Affinity Designer for iPad is $20 but it’s 30% off for the launch. (Link to Affinity Designer for iPad in the App Store.) My excuses are starting to dry up, because this week the fine folks at Serif, who make the Affinity products, came out with Affinity Designer for iPad. The other thing that was holding me back was that it wasn’t available for the iPad, which is the most natural place to draw, especially with Apple Pencil. I haven’t talked about it too much because I’m not good enough at doing vector design to teach anyone else about it. Think Adobe Illustrator except much less expensive and no subscription. In December 2016, Allister Jenks came on Chit Chat Across the Pond to tell us about Affinity Designer for the Mac, which is their vector-design program for the Mac and Windows. Adobe has a monopoly on the publishing industry and uses a file format that isn't open, so the lack of support for these formats is a factor.You know I’m a huge fan of Affinity Photo, the Photoshop replacement for the Mac (and Windows) and iOS. IDML file support will help, if it arrives, because these files are often used by companies to work across different versions of Adobe software, but not supporting INDD files will hurt Affinity Publisher.

You can import a PDF into Affinity Publisher, and Affinity Publisher supports quite a few file formats, but things like text-frame linking aren't going to transfer when copied over that way.

Not being able to use these files will make Affinity Publisher a non-starter for some businesses and users. Professionals in the publishing industry often have to use INDD files because the client they're working with requires them or a company has built their entire set of templates using InDesign. It also doesn't support InDesign Markup Language (IDML) files, though Serif states support for IDML will come at some point. That's because Affinity Publisher doesn't support (InDesign Document) INDD files. Despite all of the features and the excellent StudioLink integration, many professionals will never use Affinity Publisher and never could.

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