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trichens reacted to Patrick Connor in Is AFFINITY dead?
Halt?....HALT??
We are a tech company. The management facilitated secure working from home by the end of March 2020. We never stopped
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trichens reacted to fdelaneau in Is AFFINITY dead?
About the controversy concerning the price of the update. So far as I understand there has been no communication at all about changes to their business model. A survey doesn't change that, especially since we don't know what the results are.
One of the key point in Affinity's communication has been “no subscription”, so I expect that they honor that and offer a paid upgrade for a 2.x perpetual licence.
Depending on their marketing strategy, they could offer an upgrade licence price or consider that the full licence price is low enough that they don't really need an upgrade price and simply launch with a temporary discount.
I would go with a temporary discount as it offer several advantages. It is easier to implement (especially for the Apple App Store where paid upgrades are still not really a thing) and the discount being temporary it pushes all existing customers to upgrade immediately.
Anyway, I’ll gladly pay for the upgrade simply because I enjoy using the applications and want to support the team’s work 😎
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trichens reacted to Patrick Connor in Is AFFINITY dead?
It would sure surprise the h*ll out of us though
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trichens reacted to PetervL in Is AFFINITY dead?
Not for me. Not by a long shot.
I have mentioned this before, we need to realize that Serif is working with limited resources. If we make the comparison with Adobe and their vast company (read resources) then we can draw the conclusion that Serif is doing a marvelous job! They are also not charging us an arm and a leg for a beautiful program.
Perhaps we need to be a little more patient.
Best Regards Peter.
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trichens reacted to hedrickbk in Is AFFINITY dead?
I am one who came to Affinity because of the Adobe subscription model. I don't mind paying for worthwhile upgrades every now and then.
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trichens reacted to debraspicher in Is AFFINITY dead?
The worst part is they're being accused of being totally being silent on update activity and yet there was a response in the beginning of the thread...
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trichens got a reaction from Jessyca in Affinity Publisher keeps crashing when I turn off Facing Pages in Document Settings
What I can't yet figure out is why the margins on page 6 are wrong.
The inner margin is set to 0.5in and should be on the right, but in your file it's on the left.
On pairs of pages we should have the inner margin in the centre - or on the right for even numbered pages and on the left for odd numbered pages.
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trichens got a reaction from Jessyca in Affinity Publisher keeps crashing when I turn off Facing Pages in Document Settings
I think you are confusing margins and bleeds, Jessyca.
The bleed is only used to allow for the cropping of the paper not being exact. If the crop was out by 0.050in then without a bleed you'd get a white edge on the page between where the image ends and the paper is cropped. The bleed area allows for this.
For the allowance required for the coil binding you need to set the margins so that you don't use that area for anything.
And as LondonSquirrel says the issue is with page 6.
If you look at this you have a layer named Master Page; just delete this layer and you should be OK
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trichens got a reaction from Jessyca in Affinity Publisher keeps crashing when I turn off Facing Pages in Document Settings
OK, turn on crop marks when you create the PDF file.
You'll see that these are positioned so that the pages will be cropped correctly. Most printers only require 3mm or 0.125in bleed so the 0.5in inner bledd doesn't have to be that large.
This should allow you to get the file exported for printing OK.
Not sure what's causing the crashing yet though.
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trichens got a reaction from Jessyca in Affinity Publisher keeps crashing when I turn off Facing Pages in Document Settings
Hi Jessyca, Can you create a simple four page export PDF file - just front and rear page pairs which I'm hoping won't disclose anything sensitive?
Upload that so we can see what the output is with the bleed? This will show what happens when you have facing pages turned on.
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trichens got a reaction from Robert V in Publisher is crashing since the 1.10.0 update
I've had some crashes in 1.10 as well.
It seems to be a return of the issues we had a few versions ago when modifying tables.
I was just editing some text when all of a sudden I'm looking at the Windows Desktop and Publisher has vanished 😒
Reopen Publisher and was offered a file to restore which worked OK with only a few edits missing.
Made same changes again with no issues
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trichens got a reaction from DanM in Can't save affinity files after downloading 1.10.0
I've got exactly the same issue.
Have been working on a file with no problems since upgrading to 1.10 and suddenly can't save.
If I attempt to save as a new file I get a zero sized file created.
Reopened the previous version of the file OK.
Have redone the changes and the newly updated file is OK.
Fortunately I do make regular backups but it is a bit of a concern as if it's some sort of file corruption occuring when working with files created in 1.9 then that would mean that I would have to recrete the templates from scratch in 1.10.... and if it's not a problem "caused" by working on 1.9 version files then it's likely to reoccur
The files have NOT been working on using any of the beta versions; only "proper" releases.
The afpub files come out at around 165Mb to 180Mb. I would attach one but the current versions are OK.
Is there some error log that Publisher produces that would be of help?
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trichens got a reaction from GryphonArt in Preflight
Very true Walt.
But having corrected everything, or accepted that the errors can be ignored, you can't continue directly on to the Export dialog.
When the export process runs and it finds problems, it will offer the option to either view issues, ignore them or cancel, but having selected review you then lose the option to ignore if it's actually OK.
I'd just like to review the issues, say "that's OK" and hit an Accept and Continue button on the Preflight dialog.
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trichens reacted to firstdefence in Jim Galliher
I love topics, hate marathons (they are not snickers, they are marathons 🤨)
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trichens got a reaction from walt.farrell in Why is my affinity designer opening pdf's I scanned a month ago but not new scanned pdf's?
A search in Affinity forums gave me this from 2017
Also found this issue reported on HP forums where scanners were creating files that gave this error.
Opened the "broken" PDF in Foxit Reader and it reported it as being PDF 1.3 format.
Saved as new file which was saved as PDF 1.5 format and this opened OK in APub
The export PDF options in Apub start with version 1.4 so perhaps it won't open an earlier version?
I've found a reference to the PDF library used in Affinity not supporting export of PDF 1.3 so it's reasonable to assume that the same library won't import PDF 1.3 files.