(It is amazing what you can force fit if you use a big enough hammer 😠) At least you aren't saddled with having to shovel your way through and use a bunch of glitzy templates that are the stock in trade of so many desktop publishing apps. Like MS Word it is ill suited to text layout/desktop publishing but if you know it well enough it can produce acceptable, but not great results. I found I could get closer to what I wanted with NeoOffice. Adequate for home or perhaps very small business maybe, but not worth my effort to produce the caliber of output I wanted. I have tried several App Store offerings including iStudio and Swift Publisher and found them in some ways superior to Pages. Both free, though I have no problem paying for good software. Is there anything else you have used for text layout, whether small time or big time program? I thought about taking a look at Scribus or some version of Latex. My hope is Affinity will turn its talents to developing a viable competitor to Adobe Dreamweaver next. I suspect for someone coming from Adobe the re-learning curve may not be as steep, bit it is likely filled with pitfalls due to assumptions/expectations based on prior experience. There is also a very active and lively Affinity user community. They also offer comprehensive training Workbooks for Designer and Photo and a Publisher workbook is also promised. Like all very powerful software products there is a significant learning curve but Affinity offers several well done video tutorials. I have zero experience with the Quark product(s) so I cannot comment there. I am more of a dabbler than power user (much less guru) and it has been a long time since I used InDesign, but from my limited experience I believe Affinity Publisher is a viable competitor with Adobe InDesign. In most case the current Affinity product release accomplishes the same end result but via a different command or menu or series of steps. The biggest complaint I have seen about any of them has been "why doesn't it support the pick your command like Adobe?" or "Why doesn't Publisher do XXX like InDesign. Although I am in no way a Publisher, or InDesign guru I can safely say none of the Affinity products are a knock off of anything from Adobe and does their magic their own way. I have been using the Affinity Publisher beta for several months now and I just installed the release version.
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