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PFraterdeus

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  1. On 5/2/2020 at 7:44 AM, ErrkaPetti said:

    As usual, mr @Jowday is criticize Affinity Designer, a matter of facts, almost every reply mr Jowday is writing is a negative judgement about Serif Labs...

    Yeah, we have heard it before, you paid 50 bucks for Designer for five years ago, and still waiting for more upgrades, because you’re so professional and need this features...

    Mr Jowday, if it is possible, give me a chance to pay you back your 50 bucks and then we can get rid of your endless vining about Affinity Suite...

    Can’t still believe that you have time to be here after all this years, stay with Adobe CC and the crap Inkscape and leave us alone...

    How can I pay you 50$ - DM me your choice of transferring...

    I guess I can't find anything in @Jowday comments which indicates an inherent desire to criticize. Indeed "whining" it is not. 
    No reason to take this stuff personally, even in a pandemic great eclipse !

    I'd very much like to hear what, if any, timeline exists for this app.

    There's enormous potential, but software needs developer hours and weeks. It doesn't continue to grow and mature by itself 🙂

    As a type designer, in 1985, I was a beta tester for one of the very first vector design apps, Altsys Fontographer. I later worked with Adobe on Illustrator, Freehand, and InDesign, over the years. The desire for a good tool that behaves as expected is not whining, it's just wanting to be constructive and productive.

    Attached, a little bit of digital/analog evaluation. I studied letter carving in stone many years ago (before fontographer, even!), But I've done very little of it since then.

    To help keep from losing the form, one must constantly take a rubbing of  the stone, and evaluate. This is a sort of digital rubbing 🙂

     

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  2. Unfortunately, the concern you’re noting (and thanks for the effort to write it up!) requires pretty substantial redesign in the program logic. If only it had been properly storyboarded in the first place....

    There are a lot of UI UX issues in the app, even in the “Show ’Help’ Labels” button which doesn’t tell me what the tiny icons (align to path, etc) mean, and as they’re so small i can barely see them, I can never remember what they do.

  3. 7 hours ago, 2ddpainter said:

    Hi

    For the meantime. There is an affordable option
    that is maybe not so well known.

    Have a look at magix (xara) graphic designer , it has
    the tools you want and is a good vector companion
    for Affinity Designer.

    Here is a Post from me, where I show some of its features.
    magix (xara) graphics designer features

     

    Greetings
    2dpainter

    Hmm. Looks good! Too bad it’s not an App! And windows only!? 

    Well, thanks for the tip anyway! @2ddpainter

    We have apps for this already, although I’m always looking for a truly good alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Now that I don’t have income to justify the subscription, it’s just too expensive!

    I bought Affinity Designer (iOS) because overall the design philosophy really seems to cover the bases I need. Being a letterform designer it works all the way up to the last 10m. (three yards, whatever ;-)

    I wonder if Affinity folks are just too overwhelmed to deal with the number of comments and requests. Probably.

    I have a few requests, and comments.

    Is there a beta program?

     

  4. I agree 100%. In fact I have bought the package, and it’s quite useful.

    However, the point about the skimpy basic transform operations goes back to at least 2017. There have been inquiries from paying customers all the way through, because these are BASIC tools for a vector design application, going all the way back to Fontographer, the grandmother of Aldus/Macromedia/Adobe Freehand (RIP). I was a beta tester in the late 1980s for Freehand, and Fontographer before that!

    But yes. Please support innovative small developers.

    But developers, communication is the key... What UP!?!

    Thanks!

    PF

    @ideaswords (IG)

    alphabets.com (fonts)

    fraterdeus.com

     

  5. Skew tool is pretty monodimensional.

    No vertical skew? No Distort, Warp, Mesh distort? These are all fundamental. This discussion goes back to 2017, for crying out loud. 
    What is going on with this???

    This is a painter’s app, apparently, not a designer’s.

    But even a painter would use a ‘perspective’ warp/distort to adjust elements in the initial sketch.

    I sure hope there’s some action happening on these very foundational, very fundamental, essential transforms.

  6. Skew tool is pretty monodimensional.

    No vertical skew? No Distort, Warp, Mesh distort?

    This is a painter’s app, apparently, not a designer’s.

    But even a painter would use a ‘perspective’ warp/distort to adjust elements in the initial sketch.

    I sure hope there’s some action happening on these very foundational, very fundamental, essential transforms.
    To say, oh, just convert it to outlines and adjust your bezier controls  is absurd and incomprehensible. That’s not the point, in any conceivable way.

     

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