Martin Ferenec

Hey guys,
I love the Affinity Suite, and I made the jump from Adobe CS4 to Affinity several months back (and am very happy I did). One thing I am still lacking though is a good PDF editor. I need one that has basic page layout functions (add/remove/rearrange pages), but also has things like OCR capability. I know this isn't technically an Affinity question, but since the forums have been super helpful in everything else, I figured I would ask fellow designers here. Any recommendations?
Thank you!

hey there 🤣
let me show you guys what we've done so far to help the creative affinity users community to create vectors from drawings
in case you are interested about to see my real time process the link is available here below
enjoy!
https://youtu.be/ojrX5wsXmH0
 

So Affinity Photo has a "Add Preset" button on their "Adjustments". For example this is the "Black & White adjustment":

 
I think it would be awesome and helpful if there was a drop down menu next to the "Add preset" with already saved presets.
So it would look something like this:

 

Two thumbs up for including relevant presets in their associated panels. I suggested this quite a while back, but it never gained any significant traction. The way to answer Walt’s concern, obviously (to me, at least), is to include the previews in the list of presets - not just as a drop-down menu. I included a mock-up, which I have also shown below.

Yes I am aware of the adjustments panel because that is how I select my presets currently 😅 but it would be quicker if they had a drop down menu next to the add button.

I completely agree with you... stealing is not fine... just as unfair pricing for non-professional end users that do not make any money using the software is not. If the price is reasonable I have no problems buying and supporting it. That's why I switched to Affinity.
Paying 438,96 € a year for PDF editing/viewing tool is just out of the picture for me and probably for most people that do not make money with it. That's where Affinity could come in and probably take a huge part of Adobe Acrobat market share.
But I do agree with you... as I said stealing is not fine and knowing that I'm a future to-be software developer it would definitely hurt the business, that's why I like to buy all the software that I regularly use/plan to use.
Here is my recent Affinity order for example:
 
 
I did not mean to break any rules so I truly am sorry for that 😅

I completely agree with you... stealing is not fine... just as unfair pricing for non-professional end users that do not make any money using the software is not. If the price is reasonable I have no problems buying and supporting it. That's why I switched to Affinity.
Paying 438,96 € a year for PDF editing/viewing tool is just out of the picture for me and probably for most people that do not make money with it. That's where Affinity could come in and probably take a huge part of Adobe Acrobat market share.
But I do agree with you... as I said stealing is not fine and knowing that I'm a future to-be software developer it would definitely hurt the business, that's why I like to buy all the software that I regularly use/plan to use.
Here is my recent Affinity order for example:
 
 
I did not mean to break any rules so I truly am sorry for that 😅

Some of you guys need to get off your 'I'm such a professional' high horse, effectively insulting everyone else here you don't even know. A professional can do professional work with a crayon. I'm inclined to doubt the claimed 'professionalism' of anyone who truly thinks a program is 'useless' until it's a veritable clone of the one program with which they're familiar, and has all the time in the world to waste repetitively whining about it.
I've been making my living in digital graphics for 35 years. Can I right now, today, do commercial-quality saleable work for clients in Affinity? Absolutely. Just like I can with Illustrator, Draw, Technical Designer, Canvas, and others, despite their respective weaknesses.
Do I consider Adobe Illustrator 'professional quality'? Compared to what? Regarding which features? I can build a list of sub-par features for any vector drawing program on my computer, including Illustrator. I can also build a list of features which Affinity could—with just a little innovation instead of just ever-more 'me, too' copying of conventional wisdom—easily implement in such a way to surpass Illustrator's functionality.
Since the beginning of the 'desktop revolution' in the mid-80s, one thing I've considered a matter of simple professionalism is to maintain at least working familiarity with as many mainstream vector graphics applications as I can. That's why I didn't become a victim when Adobe foisted its Captive Customer licensing scheme.
Affinity can do things Illustrator can't. For just two examples:
It provides a full-blown feature set for mechanically-correct axonometric drawing. To those who know how to use it (and broaden one's money-making skill set with it), that alone is worth the price of all three Affinity applications put together. Affinity's value fields understand a math expression containing more than one operator. (What a concept for one-fifth of the way into the 21st century, 'professional' Illustrator!) Waiting until any given program does everything one wants it to, in precisely the way the single program with which one is proficient does it, is a good way to find oneself behind one's competitors and mission-critically dependent upon a single vendor.
Use the programs you buy for what the can do. If you truly "can't do anything with a program until you get your wish", then why are you wasting your time and breath if you consider the program so 'hopelessly 'unprofessional.' Don't buy them. Don't use them. Get on with your erudite, single-track, blinders-wearing, awe-inspiring career.
JET

Hi,
in line with other editing software I'd like to have a way to import and export curves. I have some computed curves for digital negatives reversal and would like to import them into Affinity photo. Trying to match the shape of the curve does not provide proper results.

So Affinity Photo has a "Add Preset" button on their "Adjustments". For example this is the "Black & White adjustment":

 
I think it would be awesome and helpful if there was a drop down menu next to the "Add preset" with already saved presets.
So it would look something like this: