ECKART RAHN

of course, we know by now that scanning with all three affinities doesn't work. but there is a catch to it that might surprise… years ago, i had downloaded a free version of serif photo plus. lo and behold, lest and albeit, it worked well with my A3 11x17 color scanner printer fax from konica minolta. i liked it well enough to buy the "full" version of photo plus from serif. but the network scanning function had been removed from the paid version. a good reason for asking your money back… i still use photo plus, by now with X7, with the wonderful konica minolta which has a scanning bed big enough to allow me to scan Lp record covers. so serif has the bits needed to add the network scanning function if they can just dig up what they had done brillianty and for free years ago.

years ago i downloaded the free version of affinity's photo plus x7. i have an A3 color laser konica minolta printer/scanner; it works great for me. i don't need anything better because it's just that good. as i liked the free version, i thought i couldn't fail with these smart brits so i bought the paid version. lo and behold, the paid version didn't include the TWAIN bit or something like that. i went back to the free version. now that shows that the affinity folks had an affinity for people not throwing around money. but now that everything is supposedly so much better, how come i can't scan into photo, designer or publisher? why didn't the smart folks at affinity respect their past achievements and accomplishments? could they just build that good stuff from way back into the new stuff? click file/import/acquire and you are done. if that's a problem why not go back to 32bit? can't be that bad since it works.