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I have been working with the new Affinity for several hours now, exploring the new export for epub feature that we have been waiting for in Affinity Publisher.

I make epub versions of books for a small non-profit publisher. They send me Indesign files and I work from that. So I have had to work with InDesign.

But I am now switching to the "forever free" Affinity, which can open the IDML files I get. I do not do much work to the book in InDesign, since I only need to to map all the paragraph styles to CSS classes. So I can quite easily do that in Affinity.

Once the export is done , the rest of the work is done in Sigil along with the Access-Aide plugin.

One of the key players in the development of the epub export in Affinity is Ken Jones from Circular Software. He has been very active, for many years, in developing tools for big publishers who create high quality, accessible, ebooks. The fact that he is behind this addition to Affinity was a major reason why I am switching from Adobe CC to Affinity.