Supported file formats

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 template (.aftemplate) Affinity template (.aftemplate)
Affinity Designer 2 (.afdesign) and Affinity Photo 2 (.afphoto) Affinity Designer 2 (.afdesign) and Affinity Photo 2 (.afphoto)
PDF2,3 PDF3 PDF
Adobe InDesign (IDML only)1,2 Adobe InDesign (IDML only)1
Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop2 Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Freehand6
Common raster graphics (including HEIF, JPEG, JPEG-XL, PNG7, RAW, TIFF, WEBP) Common raster graphics (including HEIF, JPEG, JPEG-XL, PNG7, RAW, TIFF, WEBP) Common raster graphics (GIF, JPEG, PNG7, TIFF, JPEG-XL)
Common vector graphics (EPS, SVG) Common vector graphics (EPS, SVG) Common vector graphics (EPS, SVG)
CAD DWG/DXF5 CAD DWG/DXF5 CAD DWG/DXF5
Text files (Microsoft Word DOCX, RTF)
Spreadsheet files (XLSX) from Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers or LibreOffice (Calc)
JPEG-XR/JXR (WDP/HDP)4
J2K, JP2
OpenEXR
Radiance EXR

1 When exporting from InDesign, choose File>Save As and select the InDesign CS4 or later (IDML) option. INDD import is not supported.

2 Imported file has to be saved as a Publisher file.

3 JBIG2 PDF encoding is supported.

4 Includes JPEG-XR 101010 (e.g. XBOX screen captures).

5 DWG (R12-R14, 2000-2018) and DXF (R9-R14, 2000-2018).

6 Multi-page Freehand files open with each page concatenated onto a single page. Add file extension .fh10 or .fh11 to import. Text import is not supported.

7 Includes 32-bit HDR support (PNG specification - Third edition) for interchanging HDR broadcast imagery in a lossless format. Legacy PNG files exported from Photoshop with cICP data embedded in an ICC profile can be imported.

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