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NOTE: IMHO price is exponentially proportional with functionality and capability. For that you will need an app such as Adobe Acrobat DC (the cloud based version) $14.99 a month with a one year contract, PDFPen pro 11 $124.99, PDF Pen 11 $74.99 PDF OCR X Enterprise Edition $24.99, or any one of a number of other OCR capable apps available from the App Store. Affinity Publisher does NOT have OCR capability and can neither create an OCR layer or edit a PDF.If there is NO OCR layer in the PDF publisher can cut and paste a section of text as a graphic image but it is not editable.But that is inherent in PDFs and in either MacOS or iOS can be done in any app including Preview, Pages, Notes, Word, and virtually every app including Publisher. If there is a OCR layer in the PDF you can select a portion or all of the text and copy it to another document.As I said, I keep hoping they will come up with an alternative to Adobe's Dreamweaver.Ĭan I extract text from. I have started with Version 1 or earlier of Affinity Photo, Designer, and now Publisher and so far I feel I have been well rewarded for being an early adopter. Then Affinity came along and I climbed on their bandwagon early. I would have gladly used InDesign but it was too pricey for my budget and/or needs and then then Adobe went to the software rental business model and I simply could not justify the annual cost. I have also explored some open source/freeeware apps, but their learning curve was steep and their documentation either too scanty or targeted toward knowledgeable pros using Windows so like the App Store products they ended up in the trash folder. (It is amazing what you can force fit if you use a big enough hammer 😠) At least you aren't saddled with having to shovel your way through and use a bunch of glitzy templates that are the stock in trade of so many desktop publishing apps. Like MS Word it is ill suited to text layout/desktop publishing but if you know it well enough it can produce acceptable, but not great results. I found I could get closer to what I wanted with NeoOffice. Adequate for home or perhaps very small business maybe, but not worth my effort to produce the caliber of output I wanted. I have tried several App Store offerings including iStudio and Swift Publisher and found them in some ways superior to Pages. Both free, though I have no problem paying for good software. Is there anything else you have used for text layout, whether small time or big time program? I thought about taking a look at Scribus or some version of Latex. My hope is Affinity will turn its talents to developing a viable competitor to Adobe Dreamweaver next. I suspect for someone coming from Adobe the re-learning curve may not be as steep, bit it is likely filled with pitfalls due to assumptions/expectations based on prior experience. There is also a very active and lively Affinity user community. They also offer comprehensive training Workbooks for Designer and Photo and a Publisher workbook is also promised. Like all very powerful software products there is a significant learning curve but Affinity offers several well done video tutorials. I have zero experience with the Quark product(s) so I cannot comment there. I am more of a dabbler than power user (much less guru) and it has been a long time since I used InDesign, but from my limited experience I believe Affinity Publisher is a viable competitor with Adobe InDesign. In most case the current Affinity product release accomplishes the same end result but via a different command or menu or series of steps. The biggest complaint I have seen about any of them has been "why doesn't it support the pick your command like Adobe?" or "Why doesn't Publisher do XXX like InDesign. Although I am in no way a Publisher, or InDesign guru I can safely say none of the Affinity products are a knock off of anything from Adobe and does their magic their own way. I have been using the Affinity Publisher beta for several months now and I just installed the release version.
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