Affinity Publisher is capable of opening, importing, placing and exporting a range of document, raster and vector graphic formats directly.
Opening a file will launch the document either natively or will import a file's content. Placing a file onto areas of the page will either link to the original file or embed a copy of its contents into Affinity Publisher. Export will make sharable or ready for publishing.
| Open | Place | Export |
|---|---|---|
| Affinity Photo (.afphoto) | Affinity Designer (.afdesign) and Affinity Photo (.afphoto) | |
| Affinity Designer (.afdesign) | PDF3 | Adobe Photoshop |
| Adobe InDesign (IDML only)1,2 | Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop | Common raster graphics |
| Adobe PDF2,3 | Text files (Microsoft Word DOCX, RTF) | |
| Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop2 | Spreadsheet files (XLSX) from MS Excel, Apple Numbers or LibreOffice (Calc) | |
| Common raster graphics | ||
| Adobe InDesign (IDML only)1 | ||
| JPEG-XR/JXR (WDP/HDP)4 |
1When exporting from InDesign, choose File>Save As and select the InDesign CS4 or later (IDML) option. INDD import is not supported.
2Imported file has to be saved as a Publisher file.
3JBIG2 PDF encoding is supported.
4Includes JPEG-XR 101010 (e.g. XBOX screen captures).