At the risk of dating myself, I was a user of CorelDraw 2, and Pagemaker which was based on the GEM graphics interface from DRI (Digital  Research). I'm quickly heading to 48 years in the Personal Computer (aka Home Computer) industry.

Sorry to be late to this thread party. But as I read the last few comments, I wanted to chime out on using Qimage and Affinity products.

I encountered a problem when the publisher of several of my books was sold in 2009. I always get and retain the master "PDF" files which are used for the printing plates. Unfortunately, when I went to use several of the masters on several books, I found the PDF files were locked. Without having the original Corel Ventura files, I was left with using CorelDraw since Corel Ventura Publisher was discontinued and rolled into CorelDraw. The problem was there is no documentation on how to use these hidden features in CorelDraw and CorelDraw has become a catch-all for things Corel can't put in other products. Somehow I got a mail on Affinity Publisher. I found it hard to believe that such an inexpensive product could be so professionally done, from the interface to the training videos and documentation. I was elated when after a couple days I loaded the master PDF and sixty seconds later, all 478 pages showed up properly formatted, and I had properly mapped out the replacement fonts not available from Ventura to Affinity.

I do all my own photography for my books, including front and back cover materials. After a couple week of using Affinity Publisher, I purchased the remaining Affinity products. Those three publishing products combined with Qimage Ultimate make for the "Ultimate Desktop Publishing" solution today. I have always used four color photos in my covers, but for the first time I can get top notch clarity and contrast using greyscale when edited with Qimage Ultimate.

And the work flow is seamless.

I do a lot of panoramic photography these days, and QImage Ultimate has made scaling and printing of large panoramas a pleasure. I just recently retired and have never had time to sing the praise of this product but it has been a real pleasure to work with.

Hats off to Mike and the folks at Affinity for developing several products that compliment each other so well for a targeted desktop publishing audience.