Affinity Publisher 2.2.1 – Publishing software for page layout and design.
Affinity Publisher delivers an incredible design experience. Whether you’re creating a book, magazine, marketing materials, social media template or something else, it has everything you need to make beautiful layouts ready for publication. And with the ground-breaking ability to fully integrate with other Affinity apps, it’s completely revolutionizing the way creatives work.
Refined & redesigned with powerful new features
Fully redeveloped UI, tool, and button icons
Completely revamped Layers Panel
Book creation and management – combine multiple Affinity Publisher files as chapters, with linked text styles, table of contents and indexes
Footnotes, sidenotes, and endnotes via new Notes panel
Style Picker Tool
Quick grid
Autoflow of multiple images and multi-page PDFs
Layer visibility override for placed linked files (PDF/DWG/DXF and Affinity files)
AutoCAD DWG/DXF import, place, and edit
Place linked web images using their URLs
Resave packages with auto-update of resources
Force scale of stroke, effect and fills on object resize
Professional layout tools
Facing page spreads
Live master pages, including nested master pages
Image frames with intelligent scaling options
Advanced guides, grids and snapping
Tables and custom table formats
Wrap text around any object or image with fine padding control
Create text frames of any shape
Link multiple text frames together across your document
Text column dividing lines
Advanced typography
Full control over character and paragraph styles
Comprehensive OpenType support
Text decorations, drop caps and initial words
Flow text along any path
Advanced flow options and hyphenation
Baseline grid and text frame rulers
Perfect images & graphics
Link or embed images in your document
Place PSD, AI, PDF, JPG, TIFF, PNG, DWG, or Affinity files
Correct and enhance images with non-destructive adjustment layers
Precision engineered pen and node tools for creating vector curves and shapes
Boolean operations to add, subtract, combine, and divide shapes
Incredibly smooth gradient and transparency controls
Live preview of all effects, blend modes and image adjustments
Built for your workflow
Fully optimized for the latest Mac hardware and operating systems, including M1 chips
IDML & XLSX import
Section manager to organize your documents
Pan, zoom and scroll through documents at 60fps
Regular Expressions search and replace
Savable undo history with alternate futures
Customizable keyboard shortcuts and savable presets, including studio layout presets for the UI layout
Smart master pages
Automatically generate indexes and table of contents
Manage and create anchors
Consolidate images linked from various locations into a single folder
Merge multiple documents together into a single file
Save documents as template files to re-use time and time again
Collate your document alongside all used image and font resources into a folder using the Package feature
Convert pixel layer to image node
Integrate text and image links into documents by merging from external data sources
PDF passthrough
Professional output
End-to-end CMYK, PANTONE© and spot color
Crop, bleed, and registration
Live preflight checking
PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 output for professional print
Full integration with other affinity apps
Instantly switch to the advanced photo editing features of Affinity Photo and precise vector tools of Affinity Designer without leaving Affinity Publisher with StudioLink
The most fluid workflow ever conceived in a creative suite of applications
Bug fixes and stability improvements.