The same applies with Affinity Photo and Designer. This is a work in progress, as is all software. If they tried to do that it would never ship anything, and Serif wouldn't sell anything and they would be out of business. Even if the development team want to eventually build something to rival InDesign or Quark Xpress, that isn't going to happen with V1, or V2, or probably not V3. So yes, it is going to have bugs and shortcomings compared to a product that has been shipping for 18 years. What we are talking about with Affinity Publisher is a beta of a V1 product. Hats off to Serif for even starting this project.
#Copy publisher to indesign software#
I have worked in software development (also for decades) and I understand how long these things take. So are the Adobe products more refined and more capable? Of course they are, and it has taken Adobe 20 or 30 years to get there. InDesign shipped in 2000, so we have 18 years of development on this product.Īll these products have a huge user community, and they have been providing feedback for decades. Photoshop first shipped in 1990, so again almost three decades of development, and probably an even bigger budget. Therefore at the time of writing it has had three decades of development effort with a big engineering team and a big budget.
I think when we look at the Affinity suite overall, and Publisher in particular, we should remember that:Īdobe Illustrator first shipped in 1988. But even if that is the goal, Rome wasn't built in a day. I don't know where Serif is pitching the Affinity suite, and whether they intend to rival Adobe products eventually. I also think that calling Publisher a "massive fail" at this point is being both unfair and unrealistic.
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