Affinity Designer adds a new stock panel to instantly search and drag and drop stock imagery into your work.

PSD import now includes smart object support, maintaining the full resolution and editability of layers within any object.

Some of the other features added today include: Many other improvements and fixes, including PDF export being up to five times faster than before.Īffinity Photo and Designer also get v1.8 updates today, maintaining the suite’s unique single file format between the apps, which also boast the revolutionary StudioLink technology allowing access to Designer and Photo tools directly in an Affinity Publisher layout.

Excel (xlsx) file import to instantly bring in tables of data from spreadsheets.Combine multiple Affinity Publisher documents together into a single file, with smart merge of master pages, text styles, table of contents and indexes.Ability to save documents as templates to re-use time and again on future projects.Full preflight checking will throw up live instances of possible errors in a document, such as poor image resolution, bleed hazards, overflowing text, spelling errors, missing images or font resources, and more.Other new features in Affinity Publisher include: “The need for an easy way to import existing InDesign documents remained a sticking point, particularly for those who have a large existing catalogue of files, so we are thrilled to offer IDML import to make the transition easier than ever.” It’s an update aimed squarely at businesses and other professional users who need to be able to access a stock of older documents and will now find it much simpler to make the move to the Affinity suite.Īshley Hewson, Managing Director of Serif, says: “More and more companies and organisations are choosing to switch from Creative Cloud to the Affinity suite since we launched Affinity Publisher. Serif today consolidates its position as a serious challenger in the global professional creative software sector with across-the-board updates to its Affinity apps.Ĭentral to the announcement is layout app Affinity Publisher – already Apple’s reigning Mac App of the Year – which gets IDML compatibility for importing InDesign files, in its first big update since launching last summer.

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