Feature Comparison - QuarkXPress / Adobe InDesign / Affinity Publisher QuarkXPress Adobe Affinity Page Layout 2020 InDesign Publisher Layout size (224"x 224") Yes No No Multiple layouts in same project Yes No No Cloner Yes No No Convert to Native Objects Yes No No Paste as Native Objects Yes Yes Yes Image Grid Yes No No Character level Border and Shading Yes No No Paragraph level Border and Shading Yes Yes No Native Font Management Yes Yes Yes Document Font Loading Yes Yes Yes Resolving Missing Fonts Yes Yes Yes Auto- Activation of Fonts at the application level Yes Yes No Custom Keyboard Shortcuts on Windows Yes Yes Yes Variable Page Size Yes Yes Yes Edit existing Master Page Yes Yes Yes Span and Split Column Paragraphs Yes Yes No Duplicate Pages Yes Yes Yes IDML Import Yes Yes Yes Footnotes and Endnotes Yes Yes No Auto Grow/ Shrink Text Boxes Yes Yes No Powerful Item Styles Yes No No New Table Model Yes Yes Yes Directional Spine Alignment Yes Yes Yes Last line indent for Paragraph Yes Yes No Directional Spine Alignment Yes Yes No Space Between paragraphs using the same style Yes Yes No 9-Point Reference Grid Yes Yes No Easy Access to Table Styles Yes Yes Yes Direct acccess to OpenType functionality (UI) Yes Yes Yes Font style (weight) listing Yes Yes Yes Full Support for East Asian Languages Yes Yes No Full Support for Indic Languages Yes Yes No Adobe Affinity Graphics and Illustrations QXP 2020 InDesign Publisher Export tagged PDF Yes Yes Yes PDF/A export Yes Yes No PDF Import with ArtBox Yes Yes No PDF Import with Bounding Box Yes Yes No Easy Access to Merge Shapes Yes Yes No Spring Loaded Cursor Yes Yes Yes Color Font support (bitmap) Yes No Yes Color Font support (vector) Yes Yes Yes Import PDF Yes Yes Yes ICC Based Color Management Yes Yes Yes Adobe Affinity Photo Editing QXP 2020 InDesign Publisher Export as Image Enhancements Yes Yes Yes Asynchronous image preview rendering Yes No No Import/export TIFF, PSD, PNG, JPEG Yes Yes Yes Preserve TTF Used in Layout and in PDF Files as TTF in PDG Output Yes Yes No Export as Image Enhancement Yes Yes Yes Enhancements of Color Editing Yes Yes No Auto Naming of Colors Yes Yes No Image Editing (non-destructive) Yes No No Adobe Affinity Web Publication QXP 2020 InDesign Publisher Flex Page Builder Yes No No Flex Page Builder Palette Yes No No Embed Custom HTML Yes No No Customize Flex Page Builder Components Yes No No Modern Responsive Web Design Using Flex Layout Yes No No Faster scrolling and panning of Flex layout Yes No No Optimization for exported images, without losing the quality of the image Yes No No Hyperlinks Support for Flex Layouts Yes No No Changing the flex item order Yes No No Adding Layout Blocks by double-clicking them Yes No No Default Color Profile for Digital Layouts Yes No No Object Browser Palette for Flex Layout Yes No No Collect for Output for Digital layouts Yes No No Convert digital layouts to Print Yes No No Create offline HTML5 Publications (progressive web Yes No No Locally preview single pages of HTML5 Publications Yes No No Adobe Affinity Mobile App Publication QXP 2020 InDesign Publisher Create single Android apps (on Desktop, at no extra charge) Yes No No Export drop shadows as native HTML drop shadows Yes No No Embed video, slideshow, animation Yes No No