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Hi all, I found out something rather interesting today Adobe Bridge is free. There is a catch unless you have opened a raw file in photoshop it will not let you edit in its own built in copy of adobe camera raw. But it does give you access to keywording collections and the asset management that tends to be missing in alternatives to adobe products. That and "open in" and right near the top of that list i find Affinity Photo and also Adobes DNG converter. It's not lightroom with its catalog but its not bad pretty much all the library functions are implemented. I've been using an old version of lightroom for asset management. i'm pretty sure that Bridge makes a good free alternative to manage photos with affinity photo doing the image processing. download it and have a play.

I will stick with improvements, rather than legacy support. Has page plus development finished?

Serif never made page plus for the Mac and never said they would. If you don't care to install windows on a mac, (it does work quite well in a VM to be fair) run Windows on a PC. Lets say for example Affinity Publisher was to support page+, when does it get to stop supporting it? As has been mentioned earlier there are objects in page+ which do not map to Affinity Publisher, the only way to map them in is to add to affinity publishers code base and only because of windows users who want to press a button and import an alien file format. The end result will be a buggy slow application.

I'm wondering how designed some of these old files are, Publisher has master pages and seems really easy to create layouts. PPP users seem to be wanting to import documents instead of layouts. That doesn't seem a great way forward. It's kind of like how word can be used to create a well formatted document but can also be filled with lots of local formatting spaces and tabs to create a really horrible document. If what you are doing works for you in page plus carry on with it. For indesign users its costing them every month to be stuck with indesign.

Hi all, with everything so new this is going to be way down the list, but might be loved. Photos have a lot of metadata and some of it can be useful. Title , Caption Photographer Copyright for example are things you may want to use with photos others like location exposure settings camera and lens maybe also of interest. They could be properties of image frames and styled. Replace the image and these all get updated on the page. Captions and credits are one of the most tedious tasks to do manually. It might even help photographers get paid. Way down the list maybe, but who wouldn't love some automation of this tedious task.

The system requirements seem to be a little over cautious, I saw only EL Capitan supported but installed it on Yosemite anyway. It was worth waiting for and very intuitive. Thank You.

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I went out yesterday and shot some photos with my ipad air 2 , I used the free Lightroom CC app. The camera control is excellent it lets me control iso shutter speed , white balance point of focus lets me rack the focus and highlights in green what is in focus it even applies some styles before i press the shutter in realtime and I can use a timed delay as well. Affinity Photo has a shutter button some pretty incomprehensible displays (i couldn't find any controls). The iPad has a pretty good camera but it needs the iso kept low in order to produce good quality photos The rest of the App is doing quite well , although I couldn't see how to save as DNG just 16bit Tiff. It really does need some work on the camera module, try the lightroom cc free version to see how much control can be had, It handles my Pentax DNG files pretty well but the iPad isn't just the platform to use when you haven't got your laptop handy it needs to work well with the onboard camera and so far this is disappointing.

Ok having looked at the other thread which suggested sizing at 1440 x 900 points and the pdf exported at 1440 x 900 (no units) according to info and thats a bit bigger than my macbook screen at 1280 x 800 1280 by 800 still seems big but thats with 300 dpi ... test.afdesign.zip I've added some text to the pdf is it readable on your screen size? Its 14pt Dosis test4.pdf

To be fair its quicker to create a new afdesign file create a 6400 by 4000 artboard add a rectangle 4800,3200px with a 4pt border aligned to the inside and scaleable. color ffcc00 (Nat geo yellow) aligned centre horizontal and aligned to the right border insert a photo from the media browser and drag into the rectangle using the layer panel size to taste. select the artboard and set the color black. Try resize the artboard from transform panel with the link on e.g change 4000 to 800 and the width should go to 1280. unfortunately the contents dont scale so cmd z and transform artboard to object shift select the contents and this time it should scale. when i did it previously there was no option to resize the document maybe because i started with a pdf anyway the first time i exported i still had a large blank document in the corner so i went back to 6400 x 4000 and scaled the document in document setup to 1280 by 800 . exported the pdf again and this time everything was document sized but not 1280 by 800 much smaller. found this thread What size for say 800px by 800px in points? (Matt) It'll be 800x800 points... you just need to decide what dpi you needed. The idea is to think of points not pixels, then decide on a dpi that you require. For 1x assets, that's usually 72dpi (800x800 pixels), for 2x it's 144dpi (1600x1600 pixels) and for 3x it's 216dpi (2400x2400 pixels), but you can obviously decide on any value that's appropriate. If we're talking about Designer, then 800 points at any dpi will occupy 800 points on your screen at 100% in the standard vector view mode. The number of pixels that are in this document will vary based on the dpi, but this is the bit that you shouldn't need to think about - just aim for the right number of points at the right dpi and then everything will make sense. Incidentally, for anyone that is interested, this is actually how you have to program for OS X and iOS - you use points as the unit type (not pixels) and you pass in bitmap data that has sufficient pixel resolution for the number of points multiplied by the 'backing scale' (2x for 'retina')

Sorry the upload was F.. corrupted was 20MB short i'm re uploading it but its slow

version 1.6.0 on the Mac I'm attaching a screen shot of the file in preview at 1:1 view as you can see clearly its nothing close to 1280 by 800

A simple project the resolution of the pdf is according to info 307 × 192 it was in AD 1280 x 800 test.afdesign test.pdf

I have set my Artboards to 1280 x 800 pixels the same as my screen resolution and 300 dpi for images. I want the images to be able to scale up without loss of resolution. unfortunately the pdf document in preview is smaller than that at 1:1 Ideally i want the document to still look good on a retina display with the fonts scaled in proportion to the display size. I guess i'm doing something wrong but I haven't a clue what it is. my original artboards were 6400 x 4000 and i used the convert to object to rescale them and then used the object to artboard command to get them back. my objects didn't appear to scale with the artboard if i resized them any other way. hope someone can help cheers john

I've recently discovered the asset section of affinity designer and i'm using it for creating pages and frames. Into these frames I want to add photo's and i've used a published folder from lightroom as the source of my image files. Sometimes these images require further work and republishing e.g lets say a colour photo would work better as a black & white. Would it be possible for affinity designer to recognise the change to the media file and update the artboards in the project automatically? kind of hoped place would work but that seems to just create a project copy at a large scale. being able to update project assets by including them as linked external files could be quite handy