What this does is actually pretty clever. Serif has found a solution to this merry-go-round: get rid of it altogether. So you have to hop to your image editing app, save your changes, perhaps even reimport it back into your DTP program… How many times have you had to cycle through apps to get your work done? Say you add a photo to your page layout but need to tweak it in some way, do some color correction or image manipulation. Mousing over fonts in the menu is a quick and convenient way to preview fonts directly on your layout (Image credit: Serif) (Image credit: Serif) Seamless integration The change is instant and this is a great way to choose the perfect font for your needs.Īll of this is nice and all, and could entice some folks on a budget to try the app out as a means of avoiding an ongoing Adobe subscription, but responsiveness and elegance isn’t really a killer feature. Highlight some text for instance, and as you scroll over different fonts, you can see the highlighted text update before you even click on your selected font. This kind of responsiveness and on-the-fly changes are felt throughout. Moving an image warps the text instantly, so you can see the changes and be as precise as you need to be, even on an old computer (we tested it on a 2014 MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM and an ever-dwindling amount of storage space). So, how does Designer actually handle?Ĭonsidering it’s a brand new app, released in late June 2019 (despite the fact it’s already at version 1.7.1), it runs remarkably well.Įverything feels quick and responsive. The latter includes text styles, text on a path, OpenType support, flow options to avoid orphaned or widowed lines, advanced guides and grids, support for double page spreads, master pages, and so forth.īut an app is more than the sum of its features. Looking at Serif’s website, it seems like it’s covering all the bases, with support for multiple types of image formats (such as AI, JPEG, PDF, PMG, PSD or TIFF), and tools we’ve all come to expect from any DTP suite. So how good is Publisher at desktop publishing? This review is about Publisher, but we have to mention Photo and Designer as well, for reasons that will become clear later on. Serif Affinity Publisher at Serif Europe US for $54.99 (opens in new tab).In any case, thank you, for taking time to reply.Drag an image or a text box around, and the content alters instantly (Image credit: Serif) (Image credit: Serif) (My page dimensions are exactly those required for their Trade Book format, only rotated.) But the whole reason I started down this path today is I tried uploading my current draft using their PDF to Book tool, and it rejected my files on grounds of "unsupported dimensions." Or something like that. Regarding Blurb, I just sent a support request to see if they can do it on their end, as you suggest. PDF rotation would certainly be the ideal solution-allowing me to work on my layouts in the intended orientation. Adobe also has an online tool to rotate PDFs, though I haven't tried it yet (upload sizes are often an issue for me-I live on a bicycle, traveling the world). I don't have access to Acrobat Pro, but am downloading Reader to see if I can rotate it there. PDF pages / spreads can easily get rotated individually or all together in Acrobat Pro (don't know about Reader) and in macOS in the Preview.app. Many thanks in advance for any and all advice and suggestions! Even if there's an easy way to rotate the output print-PDFs, it would be preferable to this post-layout tedium and/or to working at all times with a rotated view. Creating/editing 40-50 page documents & layouts in rotated VIEW is counterintuitive and inefficient. This is the first in a multi-zine series, each of which will have this spine-on-top presentation. Every master page would have to be manually adjusted, which I can do, no matter how tedious, but. I know how to change the global document dimensions, which works fine for the pages, but the content is unaffected. I DO know how to rotate the view I'm talking about a permanent rotation that can be exported for printing (in this case, for first printing, it will be uploaded to ). Code-wise this should be a very simple procedure, but I can't figure out how to do it. So now that I'm nearly finished, I discovered the need to rotate my entire layout to the left, along with all the content (and bleeds, and margins). You can see the first page and first few spreads below to see what I mean. The layout is 5 x 8 (plus bleed), but the book is designed to be viewed 8 * 5. I am nearing completion of a photo zine to be printed in trade book format.
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