Leave a Review Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad
Great app but …….
It does not support the Arabic language even though there are a lot of Arab users and they use the Arabic language in 90% of their work by the way this problem was noted from v1 and still, the company doesn't have time to support the language! even though they released v2.h4457
speechless 😵💫
I was in a hurry today. My current iPad Pro apps won't let me do quite what I need to do, at least not quickly. It sounded like Affinity Publisher could. All I needed to do was slant a font that I'm using in a graphic that I made in Procreate, and then rasterize it. Procreate doesn't have a faux italics option. Affinity Publisher theoretically allows you to slant the font though which I really truly needed to do. On-line folks said to go to "View - Studio - Character". Since I couldn't find anything saying it was the "View" Menu, I asked about that and was told to go to "Preferences - Keyboard Shortcuts - View" good grief, this was ridiculously opaque and again unfindable. With time ticking down for me, I asked where "Preferences" was located and was told to go to "Tools - Preferences". KMN because "Tools" proved unfindable also. Eventually I stumbled across a character menu, and found the slant option. I selected my text and tapped the slant box up to 5 degrees, and..... nothing changed. Is it because it's a trial? Well, if so, the developers failed. If they ever decide to offer straightforward menu routes to get to specific places without being psychic, and if the features then work, I'll be first in line to pay. FWIW, I'm a decades-long Painter expert, Photoshop & Lightroom expert, and InDesign expert. But not planning on becoming an Affinity expert until they stop with the "cool" mysterious act - because wow does that get old fast. And yeah, missed my deadline 🤐Show lessBlue Pine
Developer Response
We are sorry to hear about your experience. We'd love to know more about any issues you may encounter and we have a support team that can be contacted affinitysupport@serif.com who can advice on issues you may have in the future.1 star to get your attention
Reply: Hasn’t it been over 6 months? Please fix this, it’s very annoying.
I love this app… so i bought it. Now i see that i can’t rename files. Why? Please tell me why app developers do these things? Why do you take away little things that make no sense to take away, things that simply make your app more annoying to use? On what planet did taking this ability away make sense at any point? And WHY are you taking your sweet time putting it back? Every other platform, every creative app, let’s you rename files easily, WHY would you take this function away? STOP MAKING THINGS ANNOYING TO USE FOR NO APPARENT REASON.Show lessSeussi Lightchaser Bright
Developer Response
This feature was removed due to problems with the functionality. We do plan on adding the feature back in once the issue has been fixed. In the meantime, the closest workaround we can suggest would be to rename the file using the Save As option.1 star to get your attention
I love this app… so i bought it. Now i see that i can’t rename files. Why? Please tell me why app developers do these things? Why do you take away little things that make no sense to take away, things that simply make your app more annoying to use? On what planet did taking this ability away make sense at any point? And WHY are you taking your sweet time putting it back? Every other platform, every creative app, let’s you rename files easily, WHY would you take this function away? STOP MAKING THINGS ANNOYING TO USE FOR NO APPARENT REASON.Show lessAVOID
This is pretty poor. It won’t even allow me to import documents from Drive or Dropbox or even from my files on iPad. It just doesn’t react to anything selected. Such a waste of time
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I’m not sure why the developer has posted the generic “We’re sorry to hear about your bad experience. Please contact us” message. I contacted them multiple times before leaving this review and they basically told me to push off. Once they’ve got your money, they don’t care at all. Definitely avoid this App!!Show lessMarianne8789
Developer Response
Hi Marianne8789, We are sorry to hear about your continued experience, and what you have reported is highly irregular and not the service we expect from our support team. We'd love to look in to the quality of service and responses you have written about, and if you could please provide us with the ticket numbers for each of the times you have contacted us so we can investigate this we'd greatly appreciate it.Simply no equal in the Tablet world!
Affinity Publisher completes my essential software to make my IPAD the only one device to use on a daily basis.Jeproxdee
External display support on iPad not fullscreen
External display support working with tools now but the app does not take advantage of the full screenpzeos
Developer Response
If you still need help with this, please email affinitysupport@serif.comUniversal license discount?…
I forgot to buy the first introductory universal license. Do you guys think you will ever have that for $100 again? Or anything for the nearly broke?AlanLaBudde
Developer Response
We will certain have discounts again in the future. We would not announce them ahead of time though, sorry.Not easy to start, poor manuals and tutorials, No templates.
One problem after another, I cannot get a booklet started. Inserting page numbers problematic. Facing page display hit and miss No templates included Keeps freezing Help system is useless Manuals are worst I have ever come across Do I need to go on?
EDIT I do need to go on, 4 months for the response to be posted.
The PC app works well, I simply do not use the iPad app now.Show lessUK.biggles
Developer Response
I’m sorry to hear you’ve had a bad experience with the software. If you still need help with this, please email affinitysupport@serif.comBruhhhhhh
I was absolutely loving EVERYTHING about this app…the functionality, the mobility to create a book on the go, and the simplicity of the UI until this afternoon when all of a sudden, about 60 of my linked images all changed to ONE duplicated image that couldn’t be undone even by cycling through the history. On top of that, when manually replacing one linked image to its original pic, the app clearly bugged out and a lot of the backgrounds changed to that newly replaced image as well. But before you ask, no, it wasn’t an image placed on a master page by accident. Please, please, please get this fixed because I abandoned Adobe for Serif products because I fell in love with this company but the levels of stress I’ve endured by trying to find a way to get my book back have been unfathomable. And the endless crashing is insane.Show lessHecHec90s
Developer Response
I’m sorry to hear you’ve had a bad experience with the software. If you still need help with this, please email affinitysupport@serif.com
