Hi cartographers,

anyone here using Affinity? I am thinking about buying Affinity Designer as I sometimes do some publishing work for my friends and clients and it seems good value and quite praised. However despite its quite cheap, I would first like to know the opinion of the actual users.

I need it to:
- be able to work with vectors and bitmaps both (but I am guessing it lacks some advanced functions on the latter)
- be able to put crop/bleed, centering marks onto the files
- ideally to be better version of Inkscape and Gimp combined. :-D
- draw beautiful maps
- work on windows

Can someone compare it to Photoshop or Illustrator for me?

Thanks in advance.