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  1. A DAM would be useful, very useful. 'Need' is different to 'would like'. If Affinity produced a DAM that could manage Affinity files and maybe other files associated with our projects, and pricing was reasonable then I would buy it. Almost everyone writing on this thread puts the emphasis on organising photographs. An Affinity DAM would manage all the assets associated with Affinity publisher, photo and design. That would be very powerful. Can Adobe Lightroom manage InDesign and Illustrator files?
  2. The three workbooks have become more than a little out of date due to the progress made on the applications. I would consider them still useful to new users albeit a bit confusing in places.
  3. Remember 'The Mythical Man Month' . It was a book published in the mid seventies about the development of an IBM operating system. The project ran late and IBM threw more and more people into the team. Progress slowed. Much later Pro-Engineer, a CAD CAM company was founded by a very small team of software engineers who were fed up with their large employer. They produced a very successful innovative product which became more popular than that of their previous employer. I expect that there are many examples where small teams successfully challenge big teams. A small expert and enthusiastic team in which everyone knows and understands what everyone else is doing can make rapid progress. Big teams get bogged down with lack of communication and lack of shared understanding. A small company like Serif does compete with the Adobe leviathan. I have bought the full Affinity licence although I only use Photo (and Publisher occasionally). I wish the company well.
  4. Walt's method works with Nikon Studio. Like LR it is necessary to change the default .exe file type to *.*
  5. It is very important that version 2 of any application is not full of bugs and crashes. The present live versions are stable and have few bugs. Version 2 must not introduce significant new bugs. Version 2 must be stable from the day it is released. I am as impatient and curious to know what is brewing as anybody. I also am prepared to wait for a product that is only released, even in beta, when it clearly is more than what we already have. Releasing product too early would be frustrating to us users and reputationally damaging to the company. Patientes estote.
  6. Its nothing to do with DAM. It does give a very good raw conversion with raw edits in a sidecar file. It is probably the best Nikon raw converter. It does not have any of the advantages of Affinity for ambitious editing. A problem with it is that it can not open a file in another application such as Affinity or even the unmentionable using a hidden 16 bit tiff file. Even NX-D can do that. If Nikon fix the obvious bugs and omissions then Studio could become a good front end to Affinity. We still require an alternative to LR for DAM. DAM does not seem to be within Affinity's realm of expertise. That is not a criticism. Affinity is a company of creatives. DAM depends on database experts. The difference between artists and technical nerds. perhaps?
  7. So was I. I am no longer trying it on the 1.9.0.932 release. You can use the program perfectly well without registering it. Have you tried it on the current beta? I see that you are new here so I hope that you do not mind me reiterating that one should not use beta versions on live projects. Its best to work on a copies of your files.
  8. This seems to be partially fixed in the new Photo Beta 1.9.1.952 . It works at the second attempt in all Photo, Designer , and Publisher betas.
  9. I have started a new thread .Registration with Affinity Store versions of all Apps. This was requested by Patrick Connor
  10. The applications install without errors. When I try to register a product it hangs for a few seconds with a message asking me to wait then it crashes. I have already reported this in beta but it still happens in the new release.
  11. Yes I bought from Affinity Store. So far I have only tested Photo in case you wanted me to do a first attempt with publisher or designer after changing anything. I have tried Photo several times. This is the same problem that I reported in beta.
  12. When I try to register Photo 1.9 I get the "Please wait a moment" message and then after a few seconds I get a crash. I enabled the function to automatically send a crash dump and then tried again with the same result. My system and photo language are both UK English
  13. I still get the same behaviour with the current betas. Since no-one else is reporting this I assume that there is something amiss on my computer. I have used DISM.exe and sfc with the parameters suggested in Microsoft's support pages and the file system seems fine. I have also checked my McAfee logs and no events are shown to indicate that it has blocked communications. Might I have a problem with a port being closed?
  14. I also assessed Eagle. It left a lot of itself around when I uninstalled it. Fortunately I had created a small test environment. I am now assessing abeMeda .
  15. I have sent 2 photo files, 1 designer file, and 2 publisher files. The files which are under 2000 KB are from first attempts. Those over 2000 KB are second attempts
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