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The idea there is you then hand that off to a prepress operator to do separations and plate work. Specifically, they are content to give you all the controls for process color, spot colors, spreading and choking, and overprinting but then to depend on PDF as the final output from their software. They’ve gotten quite a bit closer in the v.2 suite, but ultimately Serif does not provide the level of control or even previewing that you get with the Adobe tools.
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I’ve done way more than my share of producing type and graphics for imagesetters, and I find the Affinity suite frustrating for that purpose. Similarly, when I converted my TidBITS banner ad files from Illustrator to Affinity Designer, I had to do a little work to get the various layers I use for different portions of the ad to work right after the initial conversion, but it was much easier than setting things up from scratch. Exporting it to IDML in InDesign, then opening in Affinity Publisher gave me a document where the previous years weren’t perfect, but it was much easier to create a new year’s page from the old data.
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I had a full-page race calendar, for instance, that needs to be updated every year. However, nearly all of my old documents are more the sort of thing that I use as starting points for new versions. I’d agree with this if you’re expecting to be able to open an old file, make a small change, and export/print it again with no other work. The Affinity apps are probably fine if you’re starting a new project from scratch, but I wouldn’t rely on them to be able to edit older files made with the Adobe suite.