App: Affinity Publisher 2
Developer: Serif Labs
Genres: Graphics & Design, Productivity

A next-gen version of the Mac App of the Year software, Affinity Publisher 2 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

Release notes:
Affinity Publisher 2.3 introduces some great new capabilities and improvements, including: 

• Spiral Tool – embellish your designs with different types of spirals, including Linear, Decaying, Semi-circular, Fibonacci, and Plotted
• Pixel grid – expose a pixel grid when zoomed in beyond a certain threshold
• Create and place password-protected PDFs 
• Move Data Entry improvements
• New Tags Panel for adding alt text to images and objects
• Ability to change Asset Panel background color
• Fields available in Find and Replace
• Many more improvements and bug fixes