I am one of those that paid the full price for each of the Adobe apps and I dutifully kept them up to date for years. While I like the Affinity $50-per-app price tag, I certainly would have been happy to pay more. One thing I’d like to bring into this conversation just so all the viewpoints are out there: I’m not switching for matters of cost as much a deep hatred for the subscription model.
Even before getting the beta I knew I’d be waiting until 2.0 or beyond before even considering a permanent switch… too much of my livelihood depends on InDesign right now. I think they are on the right track, but there is a long way to go. Look for more on Affinity products on our sister site, In the meantime, we have published a “First Look” here: What matters to me is the ability to create awesome designs - great type, great color, great output options, etc. That may be compelling from a hobbyist or student perspective, but it’s not compelling from a “pro” perspective. Publisher is clearly a 1.0 product, and my sense is that it’s greatest strength so far is that it will be inexpensive. If there were a design tool better than InDesign, I would love to tell the world about it. I had a simple answer: Just make QuarkXPress better than InDesign. They asked me what they could do to convince me to start recommending QX again.
Here’s a short story: About 15 years ago, after I had mostly stopped using QuarkXPress and started using (and recommending) InDesign, I had a meeting with some executives form Quark. Thank you, Kathleen! Please do come back and tell us what your experience with Affinity Publisher is over time. Right now InDesign is King of the Hill and I can’t see anyone toppling them. ONE! Talk about a waste of money to upgrade :(Īnyway–I’m rambling on. And Quark 10 and Quark 15–one single job came in. In that time, each and every Quark file had to be converted to InDesign. We had a few Quark 7 jobs during that time, but not many.Īnyway–I kept my Quarks upgraded to Quark 8, Quark 9, and recently Quark. We haven’t done a full Quark job since InDesign 2 or InDesign 3.
I’ve had the same experience with upgrading my Quarks.
But only on the off-chance that we get such a request. Now–once it comes out, I’m sure the company I work for will be asked if we have it, and I will probably buy a copy for myself to learn it, and the company will buy a couple. publisher buys the rights to that book, they have us convert to InDesign.Īnd that’s what will happen with Affinity Publisher. There are still some Quark hold-outs (mainly in the UK), and when the U.S. The book industry is too heavily invested in Adobe (at least the publishers that I work with). I can’t see them being a giant killer, like InDesign was against Quark.
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