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I can't believe we've paid for 2 versions of Affinity Designer over the last number of years, and here I see 2.1 out hoping they finally listened to the community and included a bitmap to vector tracing tool. Nope. A technology 30 years old and existing in CorelDRAW on Windows 3.1 is still missing from a modern graphics and design suite? Even the open source community has had many solutions for almost as long as Corel and Adobe. AI tools are now being released to vectorize bitmaps. How can you call this a line art, structured graphics design tool when we can't even access vectorizing tools? Bizarre. You realize half of logo design in the industry has been done like this in Illustrator for decades, and you want to compete? Speaking of AI, Adobe is embracing it, I don't see anything new or revolutionary from Serif. One of the reasons I switched off of Adobe and to Affinity Suite years ago was because I believes in this scrappy company and they would at least listen to us. Look at the 5+ years old threads where we were begging for vector tracing tools, and we simply ignored. We still paid to upgrade to 2.0, and now I see 2.1 with really nothing big.

I can't believe we've paid for 2 versions of Affinity Designer over the last number of years, and here I see 2.1 out hoping they finally listened to the community and included a bitmap to vector tracing tool. Nope. A technology 30 years old and existing in CorelDRAW on Windows 3.1 is still missing from a modern graphics and design suite? Even the open source community has had many solutions for almost as long as Corel and Adobe. AI tools are now being released to vectorize bitmaps. How can you call this a line art, structured graphics design tool when we can't even access vectorizing tools? Bizarre. You realize half of logo design in the industry has been done like this in Illustrator for decades, and you want to compete? Speaking of AI, Adobe is embracing it, I don't see anything new or revolutionary from Serif. One of the reasons I switched off of Adobe and to Affinity Suite years ago was because I believes in this scrappy company and they would at least listen to us. Look at the 5+ years old threads where we were begging for vector tracing tools, and we simply ignored. We still paid to upgrade to 2.0, and now I see 2.1 with really nothing big.

Vector tracing has been done since the 16 bit days. It's not rocket science. Serif pretending like it would take an army to implement a feature that other packages have had for over 30 years is just bizarre. No line art tool is complete without a bitmap vector tracing tool. It should have been in version 1. The community was very vocal about it, they chose to ignore us, charge for a version 2 upgrade and give us vector flood fill? Are you kidding me?

Vector tracing has been done since the 16 bit days. It's not rocket science. Serif pretending like it would take an army to implement a feature that other packages have had for over 30 years is just bizarre. No line art tool is complete without a bitmap vector tracing tool. It should have been in version 1. The community was very vocal about it, they chose to ignore us, charge for a version 2 upgrade and give us vector flood fill? Are you kidding me?

I can't believe we've paid for 2 versions of Affinity Designer over the last number of years, and here I see 2.1 out hoping they finally listened to the community and included a bitmap to vector tracing tool. Nope. A technology 30 years old and existing in CorelDRAW on Windows 3.1 is still missing from a modern graphics and design suite? Even the open source community has had many solutions for almost as long as Corel and Adobe. AI tools are now being released to vectorize bitmaps. How can you call this a line art, structured graphics design tool when we can't even access vectorizing tools? Bizarre. You realize half of logo design in the industry has been done like this in Illustrator for decades, and you want to compete? Speaking of AI, Adobe is embracing it, I don't see anything new or revolutionary from Serif. One of the reasons I switched off of Adobe and to Affinity Suite years ago was because I believes in this scrappy company and they would at least listen to us. Look at the 5+ years old threads where we were begging for vector tracing tools, and we simply ignored. We still paid to upgrade to 2.0, and now I see 2.1 with really nothing big.

I can't believe we've paid for 2 versions of Affinity Designer over the last number of years, and here I see 2.1 out hoping they finally listened to the community and included a bitmap to vector tracing tool. Nope. A technology 30 years old and existing in CorelDRAW on Windows 3.1 is still missing from a modern graphics and design suite? Even the open source community has had many solutions for almost as long as Corel and Adobe. AI tools are now being released to vectorize bitmaps. How can you call this a line art, structured graphics design tool when we can't even access vectorizing tools? Bizarre. You realize half of logo design in the industry has been done like this in Illustrator for decades, and you want to compete? Speaking of AI, Adobe is embracing it, I don't see anything new or revolutionary from Serif. One of the reasons I switched off of Adobe and to Affinity Suite years ago was because I believes in this scrappy company and they would at least listen to us. Look at the 5+ years old threads where we were begging for vector tracing tools, and we simply ignored. We still paid to upgrade to 2.0, and now I see 2.1 with really nothing big.

What I find interesting is that Affinity Designer is trying to go head-to-head with Adobe Illustrator, and in so many ways its simply fantastic! However, and this is a big one, they obviously have in-house code to do vector tracing because Serif DrawPlus has it and they haven't figured out a way to incorporate it into Affinity Designer??? That's a shame, because you guys are getting so much good press, it's hard to convert people that are already entrenched in Illustrator, and you're just giving them more reasons not to take a second look. I would put this on your roadmap immediately and incorporate auto-trace ASAP. Just some friendly advice. Love your products!

P.S. Another bit of unsolicited advice. Vector Magic is ancient, but good, really good. Maybe you guys can merge with them or license their technology. If you had the Vector Magic tracing engine inside Affinity Designer you would absolutely slaughter Adobe and Corel. Thats it, my two cents. ;-)

What I find interesting is that Affinity Designer is trying to go head-to-head with Adobe Illustrator, and in so many ways its simply fantastic! However, and this is a big one, they obviously have in-house code to do vector tracing because Serif DrawPlus has it and they haven't figured out a way to incorporate it into Affinity Designer??? That's a shame, because you guys are getting so much good press, it's hard to convert people that are already entrenched in Illustrator, and you're just giving them more reasons not to take a second look. I would put this on your roadmap immediately and incorporate auto-trace ASAP. Just some friendly advice. Love your products!

P.S. Another bit of unsolicited advice. Vector Magic is ancient, but good, really good. Maybe you guys can merge with them or license their technology. If you had the Vector Magic tracing engine inside Affinity Designer you would absolutely slaughter Adobe and Corel. Thats it, my two cents. ;-)

What I find interesting is that Affinity Designer is trying to go head-to-head with Adobe Illustrator, and in so many ways its simply fantastic! However, and this is a big one, they obviously have in-house code to do vector tracing because Serif DrawPlus has it and they haven't figured out a way to incorporate it into Affinity Designer??? That's a shame, because you guys are getting so much good press, it's hard to convert people that are already entrenched in Illustrator, and you're just giving them more reasons not to take a second look. I would put this on your roadmap immediately and incorporate auto-trace ASAP. Just some friendly advice. Love your products!

P.S. Another bit of unsolicited advice. Vector Magic is ancient, but good, really good. Maybe you guys can merge with them or license their technology. If you had the Vector Magic tracing engine inside Affinity Designer you would absolutely slaughter Adobe and Corel. Thats it, my two cents. ;-)