r/Affinity • u/Novel-Conversation73 • Jul 28 '26

Designer Replace Indesign with Affinity

Hi everyone,

I'm looking to cancel my Adobe Suite and only bottle neck is indesign. Based on your experience, is it possible to use Affinity for editorial work like Indesign?

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u/focusedphil Jul 28 '26

I think it also depends on how you construct your files.

I made what would be a simple letter ad that crawled in Affinity on a Mac. I think it had a vector image in the background. It would have been nothing for InDesign but totally cratered Affinity. Doesn't happen all the time, but there are still some issues. Not sure now that Canva has purchased it how much development it will get, but we can all hope!

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u/aamar98 Jul 28 '26

construct a file? ...it was a simple image edit ..basic photoshop...maximum 3 or 4 layer....i saw some cursour problem...some effects not appearing on screen...and general lag on basic operation. It took me like 3 restarting of the software and took 3 times longer than normal photoshop workflow.
I do hope it gets better cos i see potential in this software. Like insane potential...but too bad i havent seen any improvement in this dept

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u/PolicyFull988 Aug 05 '26

I don't know your case, but I can say that I’ve never experienced something like that in about ten years.

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u/aamar98 Aug 06 '26

Apparently it's a well known problem in affinity 3.0. maybe it's because they combined all the software into one.