Supported file formats

Affinity Publisher 2 is capable of opening/importing, placing and exporting a range of document, raster graphic and vector graphic formats directly.

Opening, placing and exporting files

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
Affinity template (.aftemplate) check check
Affinity Designer 2 (.afdesign) check check
Affinity Photo 2 (.afphoto) check check
PDF check1,2 check2 check
Adobe InDesign (IDML only) check1,3 check3
Adobe Illustrator check1 check
Adobe Photoshop check1 check check
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 check1,5 check5
Text files Microsoft Word DOCX, RTF
Spreadsheet files Microsoft Excel XLSX, Apple Numbers, LibreOffice (Calc)
JPEG-XR/JXR (WDP/HDP) check6 check6
J2K, JP2 check
OpenEXR check
Radiance HDR check
Adobe Freehand (10 and MX) check7

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.

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