Affinity Publisher 2 is capable of opening/importing, placing and exporting a range of document, raster graphic and vector graphic formats directly.
Opening a file will launch the document either natively or will import a file's content as a new, unsaved Affinity Publisher document.
Placing a file onto an area of the page will either link to the original file or embed a copy of its contents in your Affinity Publisher document.
Exporting will make your document shareable or ready for publishing in another, non-Affinity file format.
File format | Open | Place | Export |
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Affinity template (.aftemplate) | |||
Affinity Designer 2 (.afdesign) | |||
Affinity Photo 2 (.afphoto) | |||
1,2 | 2 | ||
Adobe InDesign (IDML only) | 1,3 | 3 | |
Adobe Illustrator | 1 | ||
Adobe Photoshop | 1 | ||
Common raster graphics | Including HEIF, JPEG, JPEG-XL, PNG8, RAW, TIFF, WEBP | Including HEIF, JPEG, JPEG-XL, PNG8, RAW4, TIFF, WEBP | GIF, JPEG, PNG8, TIFF |
Common vector graphics | EPS, SVG | EPS, SVG | EPS, SVG |
CAD DWG/DXF | 1,5 | 5 | |
Text files | Microsoft Word DOCX, RTF | ||
Spreadsheet files | Microsoft Excel XLSX, Apple Numbers, LibreOffice (Calc) | ||
JPEG-XR/JXR (WDP/HDP) | 6 | 6 | |
J2K, JP2 | |||
OpenEXR | |||
Radiance HDR | |||
Adobe Freehand (10 and MX) | 7 | ||
1 Imported file has to be saved as an Affinity Publisher file.
2 JBIG2 PDF encoding is supported.
3 When exporting from InDesign, choose File>Save As and select the InDesign CS4 or later (IDML) option. INDD import is not supported.
4 Raw images are processed automatically on placement.
5 DWG (R12-R14, 2000-2018) and DXF (R9-R14, 2000-2018).
6 Includes JPEG-XR 101010 (e.g. XBOX screen captures).
7 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.
8 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.