System, performance and compatibility:
- For iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air (2, 3, 4 & 5), iPad (2017 onwards), iPad Mini (5 & 6)
- iPadOS 15 or later
- Optimized for:
- Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)
- Core Graphics
- Metal
- 64-bit engine
- Apple Pencil
- Retina display
- Smart/Magic keyboard
Solid DTP features
- Easy Document Setup with preset thumbnails and template support
- Master pages
- Master on master
- Migrate frame contents when replacing master pages
- Sections
- Merge sections into document
- Spread control
- Page numbering
- Picture frames
- Tables
- Index
- Table of contents
- Assets for object storage
- Pinned (anchored) objects
- Hyperlinks and anchors
- PDF bookmarks for TOC entries and anchors
- Footnotes, sidenotes and endnotes
Powerful layer management
- Drag and drop layers
- Non-destructive adjustment layers
- Apply adjustments and blend modes at the stack, layer, group, selection or object level
- High quality layer effects
- Clipping within layers
- Blend modes
- Layer and object Blend ranges (linear and non-linear)
- Lock child layer positions
External resource management
- Linked resources
- Set embedded/linked resource policy on new document creation
- Resource Manager panel
- Font Manager panel
- Collect linked resources
- Packaging of resources for project portability
Text and typography
- Frame text
- Unified Text panel (for characters/paragraphs/text styles/glyphs)
- Artistic text
- Text on a path
- Shape text
- Flowing text
- Linked frames
- Autoflow text content
- Spellchecking
- Spell check as you type
- Customize dictionary
- Find and Replace
- Regular expressions
- Advanced typography including ligatures
- OpenType font features
- Decorations (rules) and initial words
- Column rules
User Interface
- Persona task-orientated workspaces
- Modifier-driven Command Controller for Affinity desktop power
- Quick Menu for more options (three-finger swipe down)
- Compact mode for narrower Layers and Brushes panels
- Context toolbars offering tool-specific options
Design aids
- Intuitive panning
- Bleed preview
- Rotate document view
- Incredible zoom range
- Saveable zoom viewpoints
- Pixel-accurate alignment
- Multi-object alignment and distribution
- Powerful snapping control
- Constraints for intelligent object scaling/anchoring
- Dynamic snapping guides
- Grids
- Baseline grids
- Ruler and column guides
- Multi-object alignment and distribution
- Movable spread origin which recalculates guide positions
- Fluid document History
- Save history with document (multi-session)
- Keyboard modifiers for on-the-fly tool changes
- Many modifiers available using Smart keyboard (selected iPad Pro models)
- Customize Smart keyboard shortcuts
- Mixed-mode assistant eases vector and pixel mode switching according to the user’s settings
- Defaults (document and global)
- Snapshots to 'freeze frame' stages in your design progress
Vector essentials
- Precise Pen tool
- Move tool moves, scales, transforms
- Rotate from movable origin
- Node tool for fine tuning vectors
- Customizable nudge distances
- Smooth gradients
- Add opacity/noise to fill and stroke as solid fill/gradient
- Customizable geometric shapes
Professional color support
- 16-bits per pixel color depth
- Color formats: RGB (8/16 bit), Grayscale (8/16), CMYK (8), and LAB (16)
- Color Picker Tool (color mode aware, pick from anywhere on screen)
- Global colors
- Color tints
- PANTONE® color support
- ICC color profiling
- Global and spot colors
- Overprinting
Interoperability/peripherals:
- Open Affinity Designer 2 files
- Open Affinity Photo 2 files
- Affinity Publisher files can be opened in other Affinity products and vice versa
- Open Affinity template files (.aftemplate)
- Retention of vector design elements when cutting and pasting between Affinity apps
- Access cloud storage (iCloud, Dropbox, Google drive) and local storage
- In-app account management
- Content linking of Affinity Store purchases
Open, import and place
- Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher file placement
- Adobe InDesign (IDML) import and place
- AutoCAD DWG/DXF import, place and edit (maintaining layer structure and scaling)
- Optional conversion of Artboard-based Designer files to spreads
- SVG import and export
- High-quality Adobe® Photoshop® PSD import and place
- Adobe Illustrator (.ai) import and place
- PDF import
- PDF passthrough
- Place Microsoft Word DOCX and RTF
- Place spreadsheet data as tables from Microsoft Excel (XLSX), Apple Numbers, LibreOffice
- Place images (PNG, JPG, GIF, TIFF, SVG, EPS, EXR, HDR)
Printing and publishing
- Desktop printing
- Soft Proof Adjustment
- Live Preflight checking
- Web-ready PDFs (Acrobat)
- Pro PDF/X printing (CMYK)
- Overprint
- Spot colors
- Bleed (with preview) and printers marks