Andy05
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21 minutes ago, loukash said:
Have they turned off the license servers already?
Uhm. Good question. I thought I've read something like that quite some time ago, because Adobe wants to enforce old users paying for the subscription when they change their system or OS.
Yeah, it seems so:QuoteOur aging activation servers for earlier versions of Acrobat and Creative Suite (CS) applications had to be retired. You won't be able to activate these apps, as these activation servers are no longer available.
Affected applications include Creative Suite 2, 3, and 4, Acrobat 7, 8, and Acrobat 3D Version 8.
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13 minutes ago, loukash said:
From all ADe (and AI, for that matter) alternatives I've tried so far, for me VS is the one to keep. Personally I see VS sort of as an equivalent to GraphicConverter: it never was my go-to bitmap editor, but it always had a spot in my Applications folder, ever since the Mac System 7 days.
I have still Adobe's old ("pre subscription") creative suite installed—this serves mainly as my format conversion tool. Affinity Photo is doing everything I need for pixel based works, same with Publisher for layouts. Just Designer still lacks some very important essentials for me (like, vector brushes!), but for that I have CorelDraw (I think it's a 2019 SE version - also without subscription) installed.
The main problem for me is that I will never be able to reinstall my Adobe suite once I change the system or OS. 😕
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On 11/23/2023 at 12:07 AM, albertkinng said:
VectorStyler is 50% off now! Time to get it!
I love how they make digs against other vector apps.
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Use real vector brushes, stretching vector graphics along shapes to create brush paint effects.
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This kind of illustrations are originally copperplate engravings. You can mimic this effect in Affinity Photo (google for instructions, most of them are for Photoshop, but the workflow is pretty easy to transfer to Affinity's app).
I hope you don't mind me advertising myself; unfortunately, the free offer expired, but I created some set of assets and macros for this kind of illustrations.
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14 minutes ago, albertkinng said:
I disagree.
That's your right. But if you bring "hammers" into the play, you'd have to add those, which lacks basic "hammer-ish" features, or your comparison is just nonsense.
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16 hours ago, Boldlinedesign said:
It's true that Corel can offer all the missing tools and features of Affinity Designer - but it's also very expensive to purchase outright and does not play nice with other vector editing programs. I considered picking up Corel but ended up with Vectorstyler because it was more user friendly and is not subscription based and the cost is just a little more than buying Affinity Designer.
Well, you don't need the most recent version of CorelDraw as a "workaround replacement" for Designer's features. You can find licenses for older versions (OEM) for as low as 75-80 EUR—or even lower, if you use some versions from 4-6 years ago. Also with a perpetual license. That's even cheaper than VectorStyler...
I'm not arguing about the user friendliness of VectorStyler. Though, I've been using CorelDraw since Version 1.2/the early 90s - so I'm used to their workflow and UI and that's one of the main reasons, for me personally, why I'd chose CorelDraw over VectorStyler.
13 hours ago, albertkinng said:I want to express my opinion without causing offense, but it seems that this forum is not intended for reselling other apps. Every tool is designed to assist people in meeting their specific needs. To illustrate, when you need to build something, you have numerous options for hammers. You purchase the one that feels comfortable and performs well according to your requirements. There are countless hammers available, and surprisingly, I haven’t come across anyone complaining about the lack of a round tip on a Milwaukee hammer compared to the perfect round tip of a Stiletto hammer. Nor have I encountered anyone trying to advocate that the only hammer worth buying is the Husky one. Ultimately, a skilled builder chooses the hammer they are most proficient with and includes it in their toolbox. As I mentioned before, and I reiterate now, the best tool is the one you have mastered.
If a tool is missing basic features and essentials, which every other competitive app provides for ages, it's probably worth checking out if they should get added after a decade of development. In your analogy, one of the hammers has a huge hole in the front side. Yeah, might work, but it might not be the best option to use, because you might miss the nail with some of your hammering attempts.
I still can't think of any good reason why a vector app was developed without true vector brushes in first place.
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On 5/21/2023 at 12:35 PM, Red Sands said:
CorelDRAW - expensive (and in other words, out of reach for many)
As much as I love the Affinity Suite apps, a 5+ years old CorelDRAW still way ahead in terms of vector design. I still have my licensed version of CorelDRAW SE on my system, got it really cheap at eBay back then. I can only recommend, that everyone who's truly into vector works, might try to get a license of that app without subscription. It will cover all your needs, which Designer lacks.
Do the main work in Designer, switch to CorelDRAW for specific tasks and either copypaste or export/import latter app's work into designer...
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I can confirm, this is also an issue with a German keyboard layout (QWERTZ). The workaround with temporarily switching to a QWERTY layout for setting up the shortcut doesn't work for me. I now assigned some combination, which work similarly on QWERTY/Z layouts (e. g. CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+K), so I can use that as a hotkey on my graphic tablet.
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Both, Designer and Photo would be good for this task. I'd prefer Designer in order to make it simple and keep it all vector. Logos best need to be simple and recognisable.
But about the how-to, these are so fundamentally basics, that I'd suggest you start without a logo (or hire someone doing this for you) and watch some tutorials about Affinity's apps. Your questions are like "I'd like to drive a car. I know, there's something with steering wheel, accelerator pedal and break. Can someone just tell me which ones to use so I can drive on the Highway?"
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13 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
We don't know.
I agree. I never even noticed this problem before OP posted this thread. Probably because I usually don't need this feature anymore unlike I did in the past when collaborating with teams within Adobe's environment.
Nevertheless, I always understood this feature is meant to share a work with others, so they can continue working with it. Hence, leaving some things behind—even if it's nested assets—doesn't make much sense to me. But maybe I understand the use case for this feature wrong.
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49 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
You should have Embedded the PNGs in the Designer files.
Actually, creating a package of the assets of a project is the reason why you usually do not have to embed them.
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54 minutes ago, RafaelLago said:
I feel scammed. So I have to buy another software to use basic vector functions like this. I believe the first version of Corel Draw I have used, back in 1994, had an "envelope" tool to do exactly this.
Even though this features is lacking in V1. But how can it be a "scam", if a feature is "missing", which was never advertised as being included?
That's like saying "I feel scammed by you, because you didn't send me 10 Dollars. I know, you never promised sending me the money. Yet, I expected it, and you never did!"
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I didn't even know that there are problems with Photo and FilterForge (10). I just pointed the new Affinity V2 apps to the folder and everything worked out of the box. I have all my Photoshop compatible plugins (free and commercial ones) in a folder structure on a different drive (not system drive). Simply because I have several programs, which use these plugins. Works like a charm and I never had any issues with any of the apps which need to start those plugins.
Maybe that's the culprit? Because Windows still restricts the access for some apps to some of the system folders here and there, inclusive user, programs and programs (x86)
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2 hours ago, Old Bruce said:
[...] suggest that this is a Windows only bug. Or it could be a font specific bug [...]
That might be the problem. I'm on Windows (10) and I can reproduce the bug with the Windows standard fonts (e. g. Arial, Times, Comic Sans etc.). Thus far, it seems to be limited to those, if I use other fonts, the bug does not happen.
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16 hours ago, Old Bruce said:
In English we would perhaps use the term Necro from the greek for corpse. A la Dr. Frankenstein.
Agreed, I've seen "necromancing" as term for replying to long dead threads in several fora.
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15 hours ago, pbasdf said:
In your workflow, would it work to use Expand Stroke on the separate curves, and then Geometry Add to combine them?
Not with most of the "vector" brushes (which are not vectors at all).
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9 minutes ago, carlcengiz said:
Leider ja. Und Innenränder auch.
oben 100
unten 50
rechts 50
links 80
Uff. So wenig Pixel(fläche), um so viele Informationen per Text unterzubringen...
Es gibt spezielle Schriftarten/Fonts, die für die Darstellung mit minimaler Größe bzw. Pixelanzahl erstellt wurden. Leider sind die in der Regel alles andere als "attraktiv" – aber immerhin lesbar. Zu finden via Google, z. B. hier.
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Wow, that's not a lot of pixels for that many text...
There are special fonts for tiny pixel display. Not pretty, but at least they are working. Google for "pixel fonts" or "small pixel font", some can be found here.
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2 hours ago, PaulEC said:
(This, of course, also applies to all sorts of purchased resources, not just the free ones in these forums!)
True! I'm always worried about how many "professional designers" offer to create logos for designers with bought stock illustrations—unedited, just some text slapped onto it in order to call it a "design". This might turn out as a pretty stupid idea for both, designer and client, at some point (aside from the fact, that probably a competitor just ordered the same design for their business...)
Most of the stock pages don't allow using their stuff for logos and/or trademarks in their EULA.
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On top of all this, check, if pixel alignment is active. Otherwise your QR code might be placed on a fraction of a pixel, which causes anti aliasing on export.
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I'm running the apps on a HUION KAMVAS Pro 20 (GT1901) and I can confirm that all Affinity apps support the display tablet, inclusive pen pressure and tilt. You might want to edit the pressure profile, tho. Affinity apps seem to interpret them smoother, so editing the curve in the HUION driver helps a lot.
Edit: And I don't know what you mean by "again". V1 apps run as smoothly with my HUION display tablet as V2 do.
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40 minutes ago, thefox149 said:
Thank you for the reply. I suspected as much. I love the updates and the brush engine is fantastic. I really like it coming from Clip Studio and Krita. I hope Serif spend more time developing tools for illustrators or comic artists. For me I perspective grid is really important. I hope in time there will cover it.
Did you check the isometric grid feature which Affinity Designer already has (linked in my previous post)?
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Designer has some built-in isometric grit features, which might cover your needs. As for the PS-plugin, I don't know for sure, but I'm fairly certain, that it won't work in Affinity Photo as a plugin, because it comes with own UI elements. A proprietary feature of Photoshop's API for plugins.
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2 hours ago, homeyJay said:
Errr.. that’s the problem. The machine’s been sold and the disk’s been wiped before sale!
In order to activate the apps, one has to login (depending on where you bought the apps, e. g. app store/Affinity account). So no worries, whoever bought your laptop should not be able to do that. Even if he'd install them, they'd run as trial versions only.
Can't Delete Color Swatch from Document Palette
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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It seems so. I have some similar issues on my Win10 system. The bad thing is that I can't reproduce it, it seems to happen randomly. No matter if it's a new or an old document. But when it happens here, it's affecting global colours on a freshly created document palette.