Aurea Ratio

Many thanks to @Bit Disappointed for the important points and feedback despite the blurred shouts from the crowd. It's never easy to deliver unpopular but necessary news! @serif Yes, I'm also a bit unsure about what possibilities this tool offers (when released), but for me, it will be important to be able to place an image in the middle of the QR code, like a logo or symbol, that gives the QR code a greater or more visible affiliation with a product or company, or where the symbol provides a better idea of the purpose of the QR code and makes the QR code appear more personal. It gives the code a bit more design quality, but especially it ensures that users gain more trust in the code, and that it is the correct one, if it is surrounded by other information and graphics, for example on a poster or brochures, where there are multiple senders and advertisements, etc.

I think Serif's marketing dream is that rule number one in the Affinity Beta Club is that EVERYONE talks about Affinity Beta Club.

What? We shouldn't have to worry about or look up syntax – that's something the software's user interface should handle for us (including validation and error checking), isn't that what the gear button is for (when it works).

A nap didn't help my impression and tolerance of the model. On the contrary. I would rather call it a disruption tool. Well, Serif. It's going to be an uphill battle to sell this tool to me. You are in the process of throwing good money after bad money. Anyway, during the short time I struggled to use the 'innovation', I discovered that there were some sharp nodes I was fighting with or against, but I had to go into the node tool to change them to smooth nodes. Then back to the node width tool. You should consider a user-friendly and visible way to switch node types.

Reduced? These types of artifacts are not supposed to be there at all! Also, they don't occur at extremes, but almost immediately when you make more than minor adjustments. I won't be using Affinity for work involving line width adjustments, as it's such a flawless feature in other programs that also create beautiful, beautiful bezier curves. This model is something Serif should consider whether they really want to continue with, or if the current stroke width architecture might need to be discarded soon.

No, that's a very fair point. There goes the workaround for those who have missed a roughen tool (using sculpt mode).

Serif is working on a modern version of Fonthill Abbey, but if they don't seriously slow down and correct mistakes, architecture, and refactor a lot, I now truly understand how big the problem is after trying the line width tool in the beta of 2.5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonthill_Abbey

Finally this feature arrived. 🙂 Unfortunately not impressed. You should look at usability from bigger players, or even Amadine. Much easier and much more precise. I also see some pretty weird or unorganic shapes with even pretty basic editing. Never had such trouble in other programs. I instantly saw the jagged artifacts after pulling a few nodes - you could too, Serif. This is not ready for beta testing. 😞 This end of a curve looks weird? A simple experiment. Expand it and it gets even worse: You are rushing half features into releases. There is a serious risk that these feature releases will be launched with serious flaws and defects. Here you see the outlines of all the problems that the good @debraspicher has mentioned. I would seriously recommend that you put this feature in parentheses in release 2.5. It is a feature that works excellently in all the programs I have and have tried, so you are hardly interested in being last in the race, let alone bothering customers with errors, deficiencies, and half-finished algorithms. I will not test further until there is a serious build.

Take note, Canva, this is what happens when you completely miss the target. Cringe-worthy, simply cringe-worthy.

I agree with you completely, more or less. My question was also more to illustrate my despair. Agreed. From cringe-worthy to embarrassing and back again. And completely bypassing professionalism and visible market shares in the truly interesting segments of the market. I mean visible, measurable, real, where people outside this forum and the marketing know Affinity, and the programs play a role. I don't believe so, but the hype created by many without a professional background—especially the numerous online 'reviews' claiming these are Adobe killer programs—has turned the hype into a bunch of bullshit that got out of control, which Serif has ridden without trying to regain control. It seems like it eventually ended with empty words and programs that can't live up to it. If Canva continues with Affinity on this track, then it's definitely not a safe ship. If Canva doesn't start a professional revolution in Nottingham, then I don't believe the products have a future other than being acquired functionality for Canva, which again are completely irrelevant products for the segment of creatives I'm talking about. So, I really hope Canva protects Affinity as a suite and elevates it after a thorough self-education on what it takes to break the bubble and improve the programs and reach the customers they've mistakenly believed they were communicating with for years. They missed the mark completely. And I can see that customers I have had something in common with for a decade have tried to awaken Serif and talk sense into them here. A lot of wasted time for a lot of good people, I hope Canva can make it worthwhile anyway. But I doubt it. Miracles are few and far between, but loud market sellers are just a short distance apart.

I need serious customers who together form and create a serious forum. Can't you see the absurdity in a serious thread surrounded by the usual? No, I miss real professionals or deeply serious and experienced creatives who are completely focused on creating and not on filling letters on the internet. I have realized - and it seems others here have too - that this is just not the case here. I don't know how the forum ended up mostly as a club for a few and as a zone cleansed of deeply serious and professional people. Perhaps that reflects reality. But look, if I keep responding here, it will just become another serpentine spiral of wasting time and nonsense. I'm just saying again, there's a lack of a forum for those of us who use these programs to create at a high level, and who only need to use this forum occasionally, hoping to get responses from like-minded people - and from those with specialties or serious experiences out there where delivery happens, not the same few who know the programs inside out. There are a few here - and full respect to them - but they are far, far too few, and they are drowned out by club members who drown serious people and experiences in assumptions and opinions and top-drawer advice. I hope I can navigate the Canva takeover and development in a serious place well away from this forum. Take good care of Affinity, Serif. It is a valuable tool for me in its current form, despite its shortcomings.

Is there a separate forum for serious customers who use the software for serious purposes? I ask because every time I visit the forum, I get the impression that there are incredibly many people in this forum who use it more as a warming room and for social purposes. Even this thread about something really pervasive, which can have drastic or significant consequences for several million customers, ends up wildly unserious. There is more focus and serious users in even smaller open source forums, so I am speechless at the absence of a forum with a network of serious users of the software when the forum is hosted by the company behind the programs. It is just not helpful or trustworthy for allegedly professional software, and the content becomes significantly more serious and focused when you visit Reddit or other places. Anyway, I'm going back to passive spectator mode, I'm probably not the only one holding back on asking about professional or advanced challenges when it's the same few who always answer here, not the right few in the specific context being asked about, and moreover, not the professional few in that context. Having stated one's opinion thousands of times does not confer professional expertise. That's what the internet has proven.

It is actually the reason for the gap in many graphic programs, and there are even more arguments. It could be a setting like you also see in other programs that should be opt-in for Affinity to use the entire area for fit. But as mentioned, there are factual reasons behind the gap.

I don't see this ending well either, and I find no comfort in the pledges that does seem to be an attempt to control a failed communication strategy. Well, it was fun while it lasted. I have no high hopes but I have other options if Affinity disappears or take another more Canva like form.