Serif's new Affinity Studio supports ePub

WillAdams · 10-30-2025, 01:51 PM

Here:

https://www.affinity.studio/

>...highly requested features such as Image Trace, ePub support, mesh gradients, hatch fills, live glitch filter

Requires a Canva account, subscription for certain features.

More details at 1PM Eastern

Quoth · 10-31-2025, 06:52 AM

Apparently, and I may have it wrong, new versions use online licence verification, might be subscription only and main pay upgrade is for worthless AI features.

Some suggestion that fresh install of older versions may be blocked in the future?

It's hard to beat Sigil and Calibre for free & decent epub support.

rantanplan · 10-31-2025, 07:08 AM

Only the Canvas LLM features require a subscription, everything else is free now. I’ll have to re-familiarise myself when I have a few days off.

oston · 11-01-2025, 08:56 PM

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.

10-30-2025, 01:51 PM	#1
WillAdams Wizard Posts: 1,260 Karma: 3439432 Join Date: Feb 2008 Device: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (300ppi), Samsung Galaxy Book 12	Serif's new Affinity Studio supports ePub Here: https://www.affinity.studio/ >...highly requested features such as Image Trace, ePub support, mesh gradients, hatch fills, live glitch filter Requires a Canva account, subscription for certain features. More details at 1PM Eastern

11-01-2025, 08:56 PM	#4
oston Connoisseur Posts: 84 Karma: 2155740 Join Date: Nov 2016 Device: ipad, Kindle Scribe, Kobo Libra 2	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. Last edited by oston; 11-01-2025 at 08:58 PM.

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10-31-2025, 06:52 AM	#2
Quoth Still reading Posts: 15,008 Karma: 111111255 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Apparently, and I may have it wrong, new versions use online licence verification, might be subscription only and main pay upgrade is for worthless AI features. Some suggestion that fresh install of older versions may be blocked in the future? It's hard to beat Sigil and Calibre for free & decent epub support.

10-31-2025, 07:08 AM	#3
rantanplan Weirdo Posts: 935 Karma: 11941602 Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: Wuppertal, Germany Device: Kobo Sage, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Paperwhite 2021, Kindle Scribe 2022	Only the Canvas LLM features require a subscription, everything else is free now. I’ll have to re-familiarise myself when I have a few days off.