At a push, I'd say that Pageplus X9 gave the most pleasing effect and there were lots of additional options available if I wanted to tweak the settings further. The only example I didn't include was the one from CorelDRAW, which was very poor compared to the others. I also had to zoom in and enlarge the text to complete the task. The same preset could be used in any future document without having to save it. With the Affinity Publisher outer shadow effect, I had to play around with the settings, and these settings could not be saved as a preset for future use. Here are 3 examples of a drop shadow effect, two are presets in Adobe Indesign cc 2019 and Serif PagePlus X9, and the third example is the outer shadow effect after I manipulated the settings.īoth the Indesign and PagePlus presets are excellent and all I had to do was select the preset and it was applied to the text instantly. They should have concentrated on an import filter for their own products first. Not ideal considering all the listed file formats that Serif are advertising that Publisher can support, even including their competitors Adobe. I have thousands of files that I either continue to use in Pageplus or import as PDFs into Publisher. The other annoying omission is the lack of being able to import Pageplus files into Publisher. Unfortunately I don't see myself dumping my Adobe Indesign subscription anytime soon and I have to use both programs. In doing so they have forgot their primary users, who used Pageplus for years, users that wanted powerful software that was above all else very easy to use. No subscription only £49.99 being the marketing blurb against the Adobe monthly subscription plan. Publisher is trying to be indesign and with its advertising, indesign users are its prime target. As well as the effects in Publisher being a pile of tat, shapes in Pageplus were far better with the multi sliding handles they had that allowed the user to quickly and very easily alter a shape.
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