{"id":39979,"date":"2023-07-06T14:37:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T18:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39979"},"modified":"2023-07-06T14:37:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T18:37:30","slug":"affinity-publisher-for-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/06\/affinity-publisher-for-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Affinity Publisher for iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardyguycreative.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/26\/affinity-publisher-mini-review-follow-up\/\">Beardy Guy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/beardyguycreative.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/26\/affinity-publisher-mini-review-follow-up\/\"><p>In general the app has been very stable and usable in my four months of use. And to be clear, it&rsquo;s not just usable, it&rsquo;s smooth and responsive on the M1 iPad, 8GB of memory. Being able to work with touch, Pencil and trackpad is a real pleasure.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>For many iPad users Apple&rsquo;s Pages app is all that&rsquo;s needed. That app has also had many features added over the years and is quite capable for laying out documents. I used it for years designing a wide variety of reports, newsletters and brochures. Affinity Publisher is a competitor to Adobe&rsquo;s InDesign. It will open InDesign IDML files as well as pdfs for conversion to Publisher files.<\/p><p>Unlike Adobe&rsquo;s various iPad apps, Publisher on iPad is the full app with the full feature set. Should you want to edit a Publisher file shared by someone or share to someone using Publisher on a Mac or Windows, it&rsquo;s no problem as long as the file will be opened with version 2 of the app on those platforms[&#8230;]<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>StudioLink, allows me to open up an a vector graphic in Designer or an image in Photo without actually leaving the Publisher app. It&rsquo;s an amazing feature though it does require that you have all three apps installed to work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/05\/adobe-at-40\/\">Adobe at 40<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/09\/final-cut-pro-and-logic-pro-for-ipad\/\">Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/03\/touchability-productivity-and-portability-pick-two\/\">Touchability, Productivity, and Portability &mdash; Pick Two<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/09\/affinity-2\/\">Affinity 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beardy Guy: In general the app has been very stable and usable in my four months of use. And to be clear, it&rsquo;s not just usable, it&rsquo;s smooth and responsive on the M1 iPad, 8GB of memory. Being able to work with touch, Pencil and trackpad is a real pleasure.[&#8230;]For many iPad users Apple&rsquo;s Pages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-07-06T18:37:33Z","apple_news_api_id":"2441cae5-d10e-4d5a-ad25-7cb7c848e7de","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-07-06T18:37:33Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AJEHK5dEOTVqtJXy3yEjn3g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2302,26,1814,2228],"class_list":["post-39979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-affinity-publisher","tag-iosapp","tag-ipados","tag-ipados-16"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39980,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39979\/revisions\/39980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}