AshTeriyaki

There's quite a lot to gain for Canva. They get a mature suite of professional level tools they can integrate with their other stuff. Likely meaning designers can work directly on Canva documents, have inline review etc etc. They could spend a fortune developing these tools from scratch or buy out a veteran graphics company and inherit all of that knowledge and work. Affinity is a bit of a bargain for them.

I can’t see much good coming from this. Personally, I’ve never really cared about the lack of subscription, and I’ve always thought Affinity products were priced too cheap. I moved some of my illustrator work to Affinity in the early days for performance reasons and before I knew it, I had moved over entirely. Not saying I like Adobe, I don’t like their business practices* but it was not my motivation for investing in Affinity and being an early advocate. Selling to a company with a similar lack of financial scruples isn’t much different, enshittification comes to all of their services eventually. Capitalism comes for all of us and something like this was kind of inevitable. Still a bit sad though. *Adobe are a dream compared to Autodesk.

Gonna add my idea to this rather than a new thread, but IMO a hex input should be shown everywhere a colour value exists, so in both swatches and in colour panels in every mode, in this scenario the RGB hex option would not need to exist. Bonus points for being able to copy colours in and out in other text formats like HSL/HSLA/RGB/RGBA

It's dawned on me I haven't checked this thread in several years. 9,000 downloads? Blimey.

Do you speak to people like this in daily life? If so, do they respond positively? I doubt it. The developers are people, speak to them that way.

Importing and exporting master layouts would be interesting.

Currently when you create a document and do not set it to have facing pages, when you create a master, you still have a checkbox that shows an option for facing pages, although greyed out, it probably shouldn't show at all if the document does not have facing pages set, it's just confusing.

Making it work in a panel can be solved though, I'd like to see them take a crack at it. I do agree that the selected image details should show in a studio as well.

It's something you review frequently enough that it shouldn't be buried in a menu bar, I'd also say the same for the section manager.

I'm actually behind this, Designer now has a load of UX specific features but the unfocused UI makes it less usable than sketch for this kind of work. I'd love to see a stripped down UI for Designer specifically for UX work,

I don’t think so. They’ve mentioned adding a JS API sometime in the future, but I don’t think they’ve committed to a date

I don’t think so. They’ve mentioned adding a JS API sometime in the future, but I don’t think they’ve committed to a date

Bloody hell.

I'm utterly astounded, this is wonderful. How many objects is it?

They are working on adding scripting. As far as I can remember they’re going with JS(boo)