Engineered for advanced technology
Engineered with the same no-compromise vision as our acclaimed photo editing and graphic design apps, thousands of global professionals have contributed to the development of Affinity Publisher to meet the demands of the 21st century designer.

Pioneering performance
Superpower your layouts with the latest and greatest publishing technology. The refreshing lack of unnecessary or obsolete features in Affinity Publisher means it runs like the sweetest dream, even on the most content-heavy documents.

Spectacular layouts
With essentials like master pages, facing page spreads, grids, tables, advanced typography, text flow, full professional print output and other amazing features, Affinity Publisher has everything you need to create the perfect layout – whatever your project.

Text to match the power of your words
Free yourself from the constraints of tired, traditional text layouts. Let Affinity Publisher help you visualise your text in creative new ways and flow it seamlessly through your document.

Text styles
Link the style of your text across all pages in your document

OpenType support
Open up all stylistic features of the latest OpenType fonts

Text decorations
Add lines and borders to elements of your typography

Drop caps
Add drop capitals to any paragraph

Text on a path
Draw any curve and type along it

Artistic text
Gain creative control over titling and other stand out text

Flow options
Avoid orphaned or widowed lines, among many other features

Baseline grid
Ensure the baseline of your text is aligned across all columns and spreads

Perfect graphics
Whatever the brief calls for, you can rely on Affinity Publisher to handle all the standard file types you’d expect, leaving you free to create the most ambitious, content-rich combination designs, pulling in raster or vector assets from multiple sources.

Fine tune your images
Ensure your images match the brilliance of your layout. Affinity Publisher comes with a full collection of powerful, non-destructive adjustment layers to make crucial image corrections right there in your document.

Advanced design tools
Create and edit vector graphics in your layout using the powerful pen, node and comprehensive shape tools – all with fine control over gradients and transparency.

Unrivalled compatibility
Import and export to all major raster and vector files, including layered PSD, PDF and EPS formats.

Full colour control
Affinity Publisher can handle RGB, LAB, greyscale and CMYK colour spaces, with advanced control over professional colour requirements for print.

Professional Output
Pantone support, end-to-end CMYK and ICC colour management are just part of it. You can also open, edit and output PDF/X files, set overprint controls and add bleed, trim and crop marks for press-ready output.

And so much more…
Here are just some of the other capabilities built into this incredible app…

Instant undo history
Instantly scrub through hundreds of undo steps with the history slider. Plus, save your history with your document.

Rotate canvas
Rotate your whole document by 90, 180 and 270 degrees.

Smart colour picker
Dedicated colour picker tool to accurately pick a colour, including single point or averaged sampling over an area.

Asset management
Create sets of regularly used assets which can be instantly accessed and dragged onto your project.

Transform panel
Precisely adjust an object’s position, size, rotation and shear.

Transparency tool
Drag a transparency gradient over any object, with support for linear, radial, elliptical and conical types.

Glyph browser
Browse the full set of available glyphs for any font.

Stroke panel
Offering full control over dashed line styles, arrowheads and pressure properties.

Customisable keyboard shortcuts
Affinity Publisher comes loaded with default keyboard shortcuts, but you can tailor to your own muscle memory.

Add noise
Apply noise to colour fills for a textured look to your work.

Preview mode
Instantly switch from viewing grids, guides, bleed and margins to a completely clean preview of your document.

Blistering performance
Pan, zoom and scroll through documents at 60fps.

Organisational tools
Organise your documents with the section manager and automatically generate indexes and a table of contents.