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If I have to run Affinity in a VM it will be a MacOS one just to avoid Windows 🤣
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Linux user base keep growing !
OzNate replied to Wanesty's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
OK, so both statements cannot be generalized to everyone, that's fair. But there is quite a movement toward looking at Linux, even among creatives. And there are common reasons behind people's desire for an alternative - much of it to do with corporate anti-consumer practices that a lot of people are sick of and desperate to get away from. -
I came looking for a good answer to the OP question. I am going away with the same answer I had already. Open the Affinity Photo document in Affinity Publisher. Crop the layer as desired using the crop tool Save and close Reopen in Photo If you don't like all those other workarounds, this works pretty well.
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Oh, cool, I wasn't aware of that tool. It looks promising! I'll try it out. Thanks!
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After trying this on several systems, I am finding that different versions of dependencies seem to create a lot of headaches. If someone could containerise this whole thing, maybe it would be better.
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Same. I think I started in '95. At first I thought CC was cool, but that didn't last long. My only regret was not upgrading to CS6 perpetual and staying there. I went from 5.5 to CC.
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Ooh, you're right!
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Affinity V2 Suite, 2.4.1 Updates on All Platforms
OzNate replied to Patrick Connor's topic in News and Information
I'm sorry to be like this but the first thing I did was to run a comparison of the EULA from before and after. Given recent developments. They are the same. -
I support that
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I feel like I've been here before. Adobe bought Macromedia, who made my favourite software. It didn't end well. That was before subscriptions, which is worse and why I'm here. I'll still be a user for now because you're still the best option but I will be keeping an eye solidly on open source and other alternatives. I think it's fair to say many of us feel no enthusiasm at all whatsoever about this.
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Newly downloaded Affinity suite is not responsive
OzNate replied to SMW's topic in Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
FYI, yesterday I allowed Windows 10 to run an update and today I had this problem again. 🤔 After resetting in Publisher (via holding Ctrl and choosing to reset including "Deactivate" option), it would no longer start or show a splash screen, but Photo and Designer gave a splash screen, then an error: "Sorry, there was a problem launching the application. Cannot communicate with other Affinity apps. Please ensure the app is up-to-date and that your firewall isn't blocking local network traffic." Restarting the system fixed the error message and apps now work again (obviously had to reactivate). So it seems to be a problem with activation, and brings back nightmares we used to have with a certain other creative software company's products, so I do hope this can be fixed. 🙏🏻 -
Newly downloaded Affinity suite is not responsive
OzNate replied to SMW's topic in Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Solved my issue by choosing the last option when you hold Ctrl while starting up - "Deactivate Affinity 2 apps" After this I was able to step through reactivation and the apps started normally. -
Newly downloaded Affinity suite is not responsive
OzNate replied to SMW's topic in Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
I'm having this issue but it's not newly downloaded for me, I have been running V2 for some time. I don't know if it's related to the other threads about files opened from server but I sometimes do work with Photo files on a server. But all three apps are not responding upon attempting to open them. I have tried uninstall/reinstall and clearing settings via holding down Ctrl. I have also updated from 2.03 to 2.04. No success so far. I have installed from MSIX and I'm on Windows 10. -
Windows Update from October 1st Crashing Publisher
OzNate replied to natecombsmedia's topic in V1 Bugs found on Windows
Thank you, this was the issue that brought me here to the forums. Typing in font selection box causes immediate crash. -
Quickly Place Multi-page PDF
OzNate replied to okhick's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
I agree that placing multipage PDF would be great as we used to do in InDesign. -
Hi, I came here looking for solutions and I do see that Layer > Convert to Picture Frame works for me to restore a lost outside stroke as long as I don't then crop it again. Let me just say that this should all be a bit more intuitive. Pixel vs Image object is a distinction that I'm going to have to get my head around. I am laying out a newsletter where I am dragging images in from a file browser and applying a style to them, and sometimes cropping where necessary. I just want it to work. :-) Cheers, hope the developers can help us out a bit. :-)
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Footnotes/Endnotes
OzNate replied to garrettm30's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
The way I understand it, the only thing that makes a Designer file different to a Photo file or a Publisher file is the filename extension. Inside they're all the same. You can try it if you like. All apps will open all files. The difference you'll experience is how each program works with that file and the options and tools it exposes. So that's why it's tricky to add something to Publisher, because you're also simultaneously adding it to Designer and Photo, and on all platforms. -
Footnotes/Endnotes
OzNate replied to garrettm30's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
That quote from Affinity in Peter's post above is what has me worried. A killer feature for Affinity apps is that they are so interoperable across all apps and platforms, with the same file format for everything. I am just hoping that as we move into more Publisher-specific features like footnotes, data merge, etc, that this killer feature doesn't become the achilles' heel. -
[Implemented] Data merge
OzNate replied to CusumanoCasper's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
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Footnotes/Endnotes
OzNate replied to garrettm30's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
I came here because I am laying out a book and needed the feature but couldn't find it. Couldn't read all 19 pages of comments but now I know what I have to do for now. I was an early adopter of InDesign and from memory it didn't have footnotes when it came out. So I'm not too worried to be honest. Serif have been smashing it with their development speed, really. Meanwhile I'm really happy I'm not paying Adobe club fees so all good. 🙂 🙂 -
Blackmagic ATEM Export Plugin
OzNate replied to chriscj's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Me too, I need this capability. :-) -
Affinity Publisher for Windows - 1.8.0
OzNate replied to Patrick Connor's topic in News and Information
Wow! I was wondering what was happening over at Serif. I can see you've been busy. :-)