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 | ||
| 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.