While InDesign may be a bit more powerful, I went for Affinity Publisher, since it ticked all the boxes for me, at a fraction of the costs (at the time of writing, InDesign costs $ 20.99 per month, while Affinity Publisher comes at $49,99 for a permanent license).īefore starting to layout, it is necessary to configure the document and spread parameters in Affinity Publisher, which was fairly straight forward. Scribus was lacking in the color management area, but Adobe InDesign and Affinity Publisher both fulfilled all my requirements. So next I looked at desktop publishing software, concretely Adobe InDesign, Scribus and Affinity Publisher. Also saving pages would have been quite troublesome. My first try was with Adobe Lightroom, however their book printing does not support custom formats, and their normal printing function only has mediocre support of text elements. Support of color management and the ProPhoto color space.Be able to save the whole book and come back to make changes later.Support of photo and text elements with easy and intuitive layouting.My requirements for the layouting/printing software were the following: I chose Affinity Publisher to design and print my portfolio. In this article I will describe my workflow for printing the portfolio, and show you some photos of the finished product. The custom-made leather album from Heiner Hauck was still waiting for me, as was a stack of Hahnemühle’s prepunched and prescored Photo Rag Duo paper.
Unfortunately a lot of other projects stalled my progress and only now, under the third Corona-lockdown here in Austria, I have been able to pick up where I left back then. Book Printing with Affinity Publisher and the PRO-1000Īlmost two years ago, I started preparations for printing my first self-printed portfolio.