[Canva]

1 hour ago, dominik said:

I do support wholeheartedly your words. Thanks.

d.

Comparing Canva/Affinity to Apple and Steve Jobs is an absolute JOKE. Not even in the same league let alone universe. PLEASE!

[Canva]

2 hours ago, thedzko said:

I can, in all honesty, see something good coming out of this, as anybody could, even though I despise what this company stands for in terms of cheap-looking/unoptimized software products and their opportunistic and crappy AI tools. As demonstrated by the possibility of integrating Canva's cloud services now:

1. So maybe you guys could use those to create an Affinity-focussed Fonts subscription service, as an alternative to Adobe Fonts without the need of worrying about the costs of contracts, infrastructure and more, which would end-up reflecting in the prices of your software if it is not well managed.
2. And similarly, some Collaboration Tools which could extrapolate the use of the .aff[design, pub, photo] file format.

In the case of the "rushing to V3", we can see something reasonable in not wanting to rush to V3 in order to stay afloat, but I'm not sure if the outcome of not wanting to "bother" your users for a product that could deserve that pricing model every 4–5 years is worth selling yourselves to this uninspiring company whose work have been the same as the one Adobe is moving forward to: we want to be THE ultimate designer that small businesses should depend on.

But, at the same time, not much good can be expected from such a company when we take our blinders off...

Canva's work and philosophy so far has been the antithesis of your achieved goals so far, even if you guys consider that they align, because what you all been showing to all of us is far from just the "creativity for all" mentality.

More like crappy templates for all! Canva's just a huge online and shitty clipart service for non-designers. Canva is delusional if they think they are going to seriously compete with Adobe.

[Canva]

1 hour ago, Duskstalker said:

my struggle with affinity aswell. working with affinity for print is infuriating sometimes. paths and strokes glitch out on export quite often and need to be handled in a very specific way that doesnt offend the affinity pdf export and CMYK is still rendered to display via srgb, displaying wrong colors for CMYK. ive reported on this several times and nothing ever changed.

on the other hand i think affinity is more comfortable to work with, even tho that means my work is very hard to share with other graphic artists. i tolerated the shortcomings because affinity was not a subscription. im sticking to affinity as long as its viable, but i already feel the noose of the adobe subscription at my neck. when i have to pay a subscription, i might as well go back to adobe.

I agree COMPLETELY!

[Canva]

Inkscape (all platforms including Mac Intel and Apple Silicon)

Scribus (most platforms including newer Mac Intel and Apple Silicon)

GIMP (All platforms including Mac Intel and Apple Silicon)

Krita (All platforms including Mac Intel and Apple Silicon)

We all have choices. You can choose to spend your money in shareholder/VC driven company or you can invest your money in Open Source.

Sure the features may not match your current expectations but I doubt 90% of Affinity users ever used 60% of the features (that is if they worked as advertised)

Start migrating now. Pick a small project you've already completed and redo it with Open Source offerings. You may be surprised.

Best of luck to all!

My software journey: Ventura Publisher (Xerox GEM), Photo Publisher, Corel DRAW, Corel Ventura, Inkscape, Scribus, Adobe CS, Affinity Suite...

[Canva]

9 minutes ago, debraspicher said:

Let me guess... it'll be something about "future updates"...

Why do you have to wait a few days?

If they are such wonderful plans for current Affinity users why not share them in the original announcement?

Please. We're adults and by the sounds of things most Affinity users are ready to move on.

Enjoy the money, cause you ain't getting any more of mine.

[Slow startup (all Affinity apps)]

What utter nonsense.

Fix you apps Affinity.

[resolving the long standing "startup delay" bug]

The fact that this issue can't be fixed is absolutely unbelievable.

I have NEVER had a MAC app respond like this. So it's either a licensing issue with Affinity and Apple or it's shitty coding. Either way it has to be addressed.

Most Mac users didn't spend thousands of dollars on ultra fast computers to use an application suite that requires you to step away while it's loading to make tea.

 

[Custom Page Numbering - Restarting]

Is it possible to restart page numbering at a custom point in a Publisher document without creating Sections, etc.?

I have a document that I want page 1 to fall on physical page 7 of the document.

Is this possible? I recall it's fairly straight-forward with InDesign (sorry for the comparison).

Any assistance would be appreciated.

[Publisher - Turning off flowing text frame at end of novel]

Is there a way for me to unlink all text frames at once?

I have a project that is complete and I'd like to unlink all the text frame because I've moved various pages and frames around the document during the proofing stage and I'd like to have a final copy of the document as independent text frames if possible.

Thanks

[Text Frames Disappear in Publisher When Moved To Different Page]

SOLUTION: The issue was caused by a Page Break in the Flow setting of the Paragraph Style.

[Text Frames Disappear in Publisher When Moved To Different Page]

When I move a selected number of text frames from the original page they were created on to another page they disappear.

I can see the frame outlines but can not edit their contents.

I'm I missing something?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[Old Bugs Return! Still Waiting for...]

A number of old bugs have managed to make their way into V2 (2.1.1)

• SLOW app launch, all apps, north of 20 secs. AGAIN!
  Apple recently pushed a number of security updates that I'm sure have caused problems with Affinity's app signing
• NO output preview in All apps except for the following formats: PDF, EPS, EXR, HDR
  I don't understand how this is a problem, AGAIN!
• Still waiting for single click document opening from the dock when you have multiple documents open.

These may seems a bit trivial to some but these issues should not persist at this version of the suite.

 

 

[Unable to restore active window / document?]

Come on Affinity!

App window restoration on a mac is a core component of MacOS so why don't Affinity apps restore windows by clicking the app icon in the dock like ALL OTHER Mac apps do?

This has been a long standing issue that should have been fixed long ago but Affinity doesn't seem to think it's important enough to fix.

[Affinity Designer V2.0.3 Can not set stoke.]

I'm running 2.04 and the problem still exists.

I can create and modify an outline with an existing document but can not with a new document.

[Affinity Designer 2 for macOS - (2.0.4)]

Still no restore minimized application window from dock. Seems like a pretty basic Apple app requirement. No?

Might seem trivial but it really screws up productivity when you have to click and hold then select a minimized window. Seriously Affinity. Why?

[Affinity Publisher 2 for macOS - (2.0.4)]

Still NO PDF Export Preview.

Still NO Restore Minimized app from dock.

[Startup Bounce of Death Returns with V2 Apps]

My bounce of death has not occurred with Affinity Apps V2 as long as I don't open V1 of the apps.

The bounce usually returns only once the first time the Affinity Apps open after an OS update.

[Export preview is blank]

No Preview here on any format selected.

MacOS 13.1 (22C65)

[Any way to avoid importing SVG as embedded files when dropping in a document?]

Thanks for clarifying!

 

[Any way to avoid importing SVG as embedded files when dropping in a document?]

I have not found a way to automatically EMBED a SVG in a Designer document. No matter what I do SVG files are always EMBEDDED in my Designer documents.

Here's what a I mean by WEB document. CREATE a new  WEB document  from the New Document dialog.

[Any way to avoid importing SVG as embedded files when dropping in a document?]

Until recently I have always been able to PLACE a SVG file into a Designer document then double click the SVG to open the embedded asset then select ALL and copy and paste the SVG back into the original document.

However today when I tried placing a SVG into a new document and double clicking nothing happens.

SOLUTION:  If you create a WEB document you will be able to PLACE a SVG file then double click it to open it in a separate window as an <EMBEDDED>  item. While in the EMBEDDED document you can SELECT ALL and COPY then PASTE it back into the original document and be able to edit the SVG freely.

[Minimizing macOS app window implemented incorrectly]

This is really bad design. No other apps on my Mac use this behaviour.

Having to long press in order to open a minimized document makes ZERO sense.

How did this make it past QA?

[Import Custom Assets]

What assets are imported by the V2 installer when it asks me to import custom assets?

I wasn't sure so I said no but it would be interesting to know.

Thanks

[Startup Bounce of Death Returns with V2 Apps]

I've been using all three V2 apps on my M1 Max since yesterday and the apps had been opening almost instantly.

But this evening I started Photo V1 and it started slowly. Since then Photo, Designer and Publisher V2 ALL take almost a minute to startup.

This issue NEEDS to be addressed. PLEASE!

[Slow app launch]

Hey folks,

Today I did my monthly Super Duper! backup and after the backup finished I shutdown my MBP.

I just started my MBP and opened Affinity Designer (Photo and Publisher) and they are all back to 30+ sec. start up time again.

Strange.