![]() I’ve written a guide to alternatives to all the main Creative Suite apps here: Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud - NOTATIO This has major implications for putting music onto a page, unless you “outline” the fonts into vector lines first. ![]() indd files.Īffinity Publisher is very good for things like creating prelims, but it has a major flaw when importing PDFs onto its pages: you can’t rely on it displaying text objects in the correct font or glyph variant. Obvs, the Free licence is a cut-down product, and I don’t know whether that will import. There are cross-grades for Indesign users. VivaDesigner comes in a range of reasonably priced licensing styles: Free, Personal, Educational and Commercial. idml files – the ID equivalent of MusicXML – but you need to have exported your documents into that format first.) (Other apps, like Affinity Publisher and Scribus can open. It’s a nice way to continue using my legacy files, if nothing else. I’m working on multiple hymnals simultaneously, some of which are using many of the same hymn files, and I want edits and corrections to apply to one file that is then updated in all locations where that PDF is linked.Īs a Mac user whose old version of Creative Suite 6 is approaching end-of-life, I’m using VivaDesigner, which is a professional DTP app that can open InDesign.PS: I’ve considered using Dorico for the entire hymnal, but 2 reasons I haven’t: ![]() Is there a simpler/cheaper software that would do all these things? Or should I stick with InDesign? Of course I can google “alternatives to InDesign,” but I’d like to hear what others here have used. I know how to manage what I need to do, clumsily, but I’ve never taken the time to learn the software properly. It feels like overkill, with tons of complex features I never plan to use. I’m looking for an alternative to InDesign. Use master pages for topic headers (Adoration, Confession, etc).Pair up longer hymns on a left page (one page plus a system, maybe) with shorter hymns on a right page. ![]() This is tangentially related to Dorico, but on-topic enough that I feel justified in asking here.Īt present, I engrave hymns in Dorico, one hymn per project file, and combine them into a finished hymnal in InDesign.
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