Adobe InDesign to Affinity Publisher

Environment and Navigation

• Interface – A look at the overall environment
• Tools 
  • new tools where InDesign doesn’t have them, e.g. for shapes, opacity, cropping, tables
  • missing tools that are now elsewhere
• Menus – Understanding the new setup – no Object menu, but a layer menu that is similar, a Document menu a bit like the InDesign Layout menu
• Panels – a slightly different arrangement:
  • a look at the things that are the same (eg Character and Paragraph, Transform, Styles, Pages, Hyperlinks etc)
  • a look at some of the things that are new (eg History, Pinning, Constraints, Anchors)
  • a look at some things that aren’t panels any more (eg Text wrap, Links)
• Keyboard shortcuts

Object controls

• Shapes, boxes, fill and stroke, alignment and pathfinder
• Snapping
• Effects

Text Controls

• Character, Paragraph and Styling in Publisher
• Text wrap
• Glyphs
• Tables and Cells
• Find & Change, Spellcheck, Baseline Grid, Cross References

Colour

• Making sense of Publisher’s different approach to Swatches and Swatch Libraries, adding and removing Palettes, Recent Colours, Global • Palettes