I have not tried Affinity [yet], but I recommend Design Pro X (the perpetual version is at www.magix.com) for page layout as an alternative to InDesign.
I am not an InDesign user, so please take this recommendation with the appropriate grain of salt - try it for yourself please! Design Pro X is a perpetual license (Windows only) and there is also a cloud-based subscription version now (Argh - hope this is not an indication of the future!) at www.xara.com. One thing that seems interesting: Affinity has a native MacOS version. And, Designer Pro X has a beta capability to read InDesign IDML files ... Affinity has this support already supposedly. Not sure how important this is for people! FWIW, I am goint to import an InDesign IDML into Design Pro X this coming week, since I need to add some text to a document, and will see how that goes. If it does not work, I will try Affinity! Z -----Original Message----- From: Framers <framers-bounces+syed.hosain=aeris....@lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson Sent: Monday, August 16, 2021 12:46 AM To: Robert Lauriston <rob...@lauriston.com>; Framers List <framers@lists.frameusers.com> Subject: Re: [Framers] FM 10 on a new computer. You said: If you need only a page layout program, don't buy FrameMaker, either. What would you suggest if you only need a page layout program, Affinity? On 12-Aug-21 10:47 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: If you don't need a help authoring tool, don't buy Flare. Flare's expensive because it takes a lot of development to keep up with customers' evolving requirements. If you need only a page layout program, don't buy FrameMaker, either. Its relatively high cost reflects its additional features such as multichannel publishing, DITA, and the FDK. The document I round-tripped from FrameMaker to Flare and back wasn't particularly simple, it was just consistently formatted. _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
