Not an outliner, but still significant for writers

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Posted by Amontillado
Nov 9, 2022 at 12:56 PM

Affinity has released version 2 of their Publisher/Photo/Designer suite. Introductory price, $99 one-time. No subscription. As best I can tell, it’s an Adobe killer.

Lots of improvements, including footnotes, endnotes, and sidenotes. That was a gap in version one.

Still no export to ePub, but I still don’t mind too much. Almost everything you can do in desktop publishing is lost in ePub output. My take, export from a word processor to Affinity for paper publishing and export from the same word processor to ePub if you want that.

Or, if you just have to export to ePub from your publisher, get Adobe. It’s almost the full one-time cost of Affinity’s suite every stinkin’ month, but inDesign will export to ePub.

At the moment I’m fighting a tax office. Yeah, I know. That’s like storming windmills from horseback, but I’ve got effective siege weapons in the form of Affinity Publisher and my near-zero printing cost Epson inkjet.

A letter says one thing. A booklet printed on 11x17, folded and center stapled, is over the top.

That, actually, is a tie to outlining.

If I write a two page letter, the reader’s eyes probably roll up after the first paragraph. If I write a brochure with headlines to catch the eye and sidebars to focus interest, it’s more effective.

In this I agree with he-of-many-words. A story isn’t a hierarchy. A knowledge base without categorization must surely be a mess, though.

Affinity 2, very happy so far.

Posted by Ken
Nov 9, 2022 at 03:42 PM

Thanks for the heads up on the sale. I have used their Publisher program since it was Serif PagePlus for laying out images with text for things like cards and found it to be a good program. I use Adobe’s Lightroom Classic, but prefer Affinity’s Publisher as it was easier and cheaper to learn when I initially bought it (pre-Creative Cloud). This sale is nice because they are giving you their programs on all platforms.

—Ken

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