{"id":57330,"date":"2022-11-12T03:29:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T03:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=57330"},"modified":"2022-11-17T23:55:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T23:55:37","slug":"affinity-publisher-v2-now-with-footnotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/11\/12\/affinity-publisher-v2-now-with-footnotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Affinity Publisher v2, now with footnotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serif’s Affinity has launched its version 2.0 suite of Adobe-killers. Of interest to scholars and writers is that there are now footnotes, as a new feature in its Publisher DTP software for desktop. Seemingly this feature is also in the iPad app version of Publisher. I assume the footnotes work as they do in Word.<\/p>\n

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Affinity Publisher v2 on its own can currently be had on an introductory discount for \u00a335.99 UK ($40.99 US), if you don’t need the other Affinity software (equivalents of Photoshop and Illustrator). That’s an excellent one-off price for such a polished DTP software, though note that…<\/p>\n

* the InDesign-like UI is going to be a bit scary for the first week for some users<\/p>\n

* it’s very eye-straining, since on Windows you can’t scale the UI with its tiny fonts and labels. Mac users can at least scale up the UI font size.<\/p>\n

* Windows 7 users should note that Publisher 1.9.2 was apparently the last that could run on Windows 7.<\/p>\n

What you don’t get is, compared to the competitors…<\/p>\n

* The user-friendliness and Word-like UI of Microsoft Publisher.<\/p>\n

* Adobe InDesign’s plugin ecosystem.<\/p>\n

* QuarkXpress’s integrated HTML5 output. <\/p>\n

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Also, I see that at long last Scrivener 3.x is out for Windows, after years and years of waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Serif’s Affinity has launched its version 2.0 suite of Adobe-killers. Of interest to scholars and writers is that there are …<\/p>\n

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