Fun With Desktop Publishing
Nov. 15th, 2022 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperOk, that was interesting.
After determining that the Adobe Creative Suite is still annoyingly expensive even when you get it for a not-for-profit via TechSoup, Ken (who had gone to check out the details for me, being more familiar with TechSoup than I am) pointed out that there is something called Affinity Publisher which is supposedly pretty good at this sort of thing.
I went to poke at it and immediately realized that this software was from the same company that made my old friend, PagePlus, which I used *many* years ago to lay out the Chicago in 2000 trading cards. Their entire software suite, including replacements for InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator was on sale for $99. Well, what the heck. I've got $99 for a perpetual license.
So now I have an alternative set of software which is *much* cheaper than the Adobe suite. Further, I was able to export the entire Windycon program book from this year in a format that is readable by Affinity Publisher which meant that I have now imported the entire set of styles into the new software.
Well, heck.
That'll improve life for *somebody*.
(But since I'm most likely doing Windycon publications next year, it's pretty much a push for me. :) )
After determining that the Adobe Creative Suite is still annoyingly expensive even when you get it for a not-for-profit via TechSoup, Ken (who had gone to check out the details for me, being more familiar with TechSoup than I am) pointed out that there is something called Affinity Publisher which is supposedly pretty good at this sort of thing.
I went to poke at it and immediately realized that this software was from the same company that made my old friend, PagePlus, which I used *many* years ago to lay out the Chicago in 2000 trading cards. Their entire software suite, including replacements for InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator was on sale for $99. Well, what the heck. I've got $99 for a perpetual license.
So now I have an alternative set of software which is *much* cheaper than the Adobe suite. Further, I was able to export the entire Windycon program book from this year in a format that is readable by Affinity Publisher which meant that I have now imported the entire set of styles into the new software.
Well, heck.
That'll improve life for *somebody*.
(But since I'm most likely doing Windycon publications next year, it's pretty much a push for me. :) )