The workspace is designed to make drawing easy, with all of the tools and panels you need at your finger tips.
The document view, shown by default, shows the page that you are working on.
The Menu bar organizes commands in menus and shows the commands appropriate to the Persona that you are currently working in. It is customizable.
Hosts the Publisher, Designer and Photo Personas available in Affinity Publisher. The active Persona's icon appears with saturated colors.
The Publisher Persona is native to Affinity Publisher, while the Designer and Photo Personas are the primary Personas from Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo, respectively. As such, you'll need to have the respective app installed on your computer.
The Toolbar hosts some of the most commonly used commands and functions for the active Persona. Like menus, it's also fully customizable.
The Context toolbar contains the commands and options that are specific to the active tool.
The Tools panel contains the tools that you will need when working on your projects. The tools contained inside the panel change according to the Persona that you are currently working in.
These panels contain settings that support your document design and active tool. Some panels may change to reflect the Persona that you are currently working in. Panels can either be docked or free-floating depending on your preference. Their layout can be customized too.
The status bar at the bottom of the active document view provides useful information such as hints and shortcuts for the current tool or operation.