: Is Affinity Designer an Alternative to Indesign, or is there something better? I am looking for a package to replace Indesign and Illustrator. Here are some of my needs: high quality multi-page

@Vandalay110

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I am looking for a package to replace Indesign and Illustrator. Here are some of my needs:


high quality multi-page design
useful for web, print, animation, video, UV maps
uses ICC profiles
has full support for cmyk
integrates a font manager
exports perfect X-3 PDFs
GPU acceleration


I am not interested in using headless libreoffice, markdown, LaTeX, prerendering CSS in phantomjs and exporting to pdf, using gimp, or anything associated with the Microsoft or Adobe brands. Quark Express is out. I am also not interested in cloud services because I require my data to remain on-site, so lucidpress is out as is designbold.

Can someone confirm that Affinity Designer works as well or better than InDesign? If not, what are your experiences? (I am in no way affiliated with Affinity.)

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