Chills

You should go play somewhere else, I asked a question and if anyone knows the answer thanks
apparently it's not you
You should have a nice glass of wine and calm down. ?
bye

Coming back to this.
I know the Blurb Plugin for Indesign is extremly helpfull and I also miss it, but Blurb gives a lot of help to create books with Affinity Publisher. Check this article from their knowledgebase:
https://support.blurb.com/hc/en-us/articles/360044955872-Affinity-Publisher-PDF-Dateien
And if you would like to use White Wall, they are offering something similar:
https://www.whitewall.com/uk/editor/pdf-coffee-table-book/create

This is depressing,. Keep coming back and googling for the same answer years later. 
 

I was wondering if it is now possible (with the new version 1.9) to install indesign plugins on affinity publisher?
Blurb.co.uk has a blurb indesign plugin as book creating tool to facilitate creating books and magazine up to their specs : 
blurb bookmaking tool
Would be wonderful if it was possible. Otherwise, I will try to lobby to them for adding templates and specs specifically for Affinity Publisher users.

Governments and their contractors are working on a lot of stuff that does not get into the public domain.  Some of it is in the public domain, but usually only in very small circles who are cognisant with that niche.

You know that someone is now going to do a doctorate to disprove that 🙂

I think the definition of ‘artificial intelligence’ has changed over time. Fifty years ago it was all about modelling human thought processes (e.g. creating systems that could pass the Turing Test).
<pedantry>
*The maths is still the same
</pedantry>
The noun ‘mathematics’ is what’s known as uncountable. There is no such thing as a mathematic.

These increases hit small businesses, small teams and individual users the hardest.

Same problems.  I have three late 2012 [intel] MACs  The problem is Apple fix it so you can't run later OS on older hardware.  Also, the apple Shop only sells the "latest" version and those tend to only work on the latest OS version.  Therefore, I am on the last version of OSX that will run on my hardware and is stable for CS6.
I then changed to PC's for publishing, video and photo work. So I think I will be OK for the next decade,   Certainly with BMD Resolve and Affinity  (assuming V3 is OK) 
I wouldn't like to predict any further than a decade. YouTube and face book aren't even 20 years old yet.

And there we have it. Refusal to accept reality with "so-called "facts""  Sorry, but they are facts. However, as you admit, there are no professional tools on Linux.  Not strictly true, there are a very few.
You then have the fairy tale/propaganda that if the tools were available, lots of people would jump ship.  With absolutely no evidence other than the religious zeal you find in most cults.  If there was *ANY* truth in what you were saying, Adobe would have a Linux version of their tools.    Resolve would support more than just one current distribution (and version) of Linux.  
No matter what the Linux cult would like to believe, there is no commercial argument for doing Linux versions for Affinity, or Adobe or many others. 
BMD did Resolve on Linux because they ported it from another POSIX OS to ONE version of Linux when the cost of a single seat was around $250,000, and you had to buy the hardware desks to go with it. None of the users wanted Linux per se, they wanted Resolve, and it came with the computer it ran on that just happened to run Linux.   When BMD  went to a stand-alone Resolve that was $1000 and did not need BMD hardware, they did MAC then Windows (but NOT Linux).  It was some years later they release the stand-alone Linux version because they already had it.  Otherwise, there would not be a Linux version of Resolve.  BMD created their own Linux market on ONE SINGLE DISTRO of Linux.
There are also many solid technical reasons why Linux is a very poor choice for an OS for anything. This involves the architecture.  I mentioned it before but the Linux Devotees don't seem to understand OS and RTOS architectures.  Tanenbaum explained it very well and undergraduate level. It is a complex subject, and it is difficult to explain it at a lower level than that.

Unfortunately, it is usually the case with Linux supporters.

Yeah, part of my disdain for subscriptions is that they think they have to come up with something of perceived value each and every year, so they push out all kinds of dumb features that don't work, or worse make changes to the interface to make it "more sleek and modern", which means moving elements around arbitrarily to break years of muscle memory. And to make simple tasks just plain more difficult, burying controls down in menus and the like. Grrrrrrr.
The perpetual and update model is a lot better in this respect because if they don't cough up improvements of real value people just don't buy the update.
Of course that's easier when the product is relatively new and immature. ON1 is an example. I cheerfully fork over for an update every year because there's always good new stuff. (and stupid interface futzing, but what can you do?) Mind, they're underpricing, not as much as Affinity, but still. It's not like I volunteer to send them extra money,  but that can't go on forever.
 

I don't know about the hostile part, but as far as I see the perpetual license is the equivalent of 14 months of subscription. Not all that bad.
Paolo
 

Perpetual licenses and upgrades work just fine for a growing product in a good-sized market. Or a growing product period.
Subscription models work great for monopolists who want perpetual unearned income from their old code.
They could work for small developers with mature products and small user bases, but Adobe (and others) have poisoned the well for that.
Then there's the matter of whether a given segment of software is actually appropriate for a SAAS model.  Enterprises were so intoxicated with the predictability and simplicity of the subscription model that they stampeded to it. Now some are beginning to think, "What happens to business continuity if our Adobe account disappears?" 
We're seeing sad,  almost comical, meltdowns in non-software spaces like farm tractors, where you buy hardware and then subscribe to use it or repair it. 
I think the subscription model is a fad that is running its course. Whether the old licensing model or something new becomes the next big thing, who knows?
Meanwhile, business fads always do an awful lot of damage. Which is why we are having this gloomy conversation.

I don't think we can really expect Affinity products to move exclusively to subscription since they said they wouldn't do that. I'm fine with having both as an option though.

However, it also has IMatch Anywhere, which would allow a Mac user to access an IMatch database hosted on Windows from a Mac using a web browser. I don't know the exact functionality that allows, though, and don't have time to investigate right now.

That's OK. Affinity allow inward migration but no return path.

Something important that Canva can do but the Affinity trio cannot do is create websites. Canva's own efforts at Affinity's expertise are limited to put it mildly. This buyout by Canva need not be a disaster. Sure Canva are putting up prices to companies but still recruit one man bands cheaply and students and charities for free. Serif offered  free use of Affinity during the lockdown to new users including many students. The attitudes are not too dissimilar. Let's see how this all pans out.
Back on track. How about a DAM that handles all Affinity products initially in phase one, all Affinity and Canva products in phase two, and everything else in phase three. This could be achieved without diverting Serif experts from that which they are undoubtabley expert.
 

This is why it is worth Affinity doing a DAM that links the three together.  As Aphoto  does image editing, there doesn't need to be any image editing in it.  Though it does need metadata editing,  both EXIF and ITPC. 
 

This is why it is worth Affinity doing a DAM that links the three together.  As Aphoto  does image editing, there doesn't need to be any image editing in it.  Though it does need metadata editing,  both EXIF and ITPC. 
 

Are you abbreviating guys doing all of those comments on your phones or something? How hard it is to type out the full words for Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher, or even just Photo and Publisher if there's no brand ambiguity.

So it looks like they pushed out the future intention of IOP by a couple of years.
I would think all companies the size of Canva have a possible IOP on the roadmap somewhere.
Why is this an issue?  Other than for Pat as he would, I assume, be directly impacted personally.
 

The article is behind a paywall, but that is one heck of a price increase!

I think Thomahawk made up the quote, ie; his interpretation of the article he linked to. I wasn't able to read that article, which seems to be about AI, and Canva boosting the prices of their products by 300%. However reading Bryan Reiger's post, he may have read the linked article.
IMHO, I don't understand why so many people getting their BVDs all bunched up, over corporations, companies doing what they do to make money. It's just a natural progression. They want to grow, make more, so they can invest more. IPO just allows them to use other people to invest in their product.
I guess we could do like we did Budlight and others, and boycott. Cost them $$$ Billions. I don't see Canva / Affinity doing an IPO as a valid reason to try and trash them..
 

This is why it is worth Affinity doing a DAM that links the three together.  As Aphoto  does image editing, there doesn't need to be any image editing in it.  Though it does need metadata editing,  both EXIF and ITPC.