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You are right but I am pretty sure that an affordable subscription system (who said 10€/months???) would also win the game. suggested: we also need a professional PDF EDITOR that could swap the heavy-weight Adobe Acrobat PRO.

Making a plan is a complex decision (I am aware). For sure they have a TERRIBLE agenda. There is a HUGE market of people (like me) super SICK of Adobe's sharking policy but it's also a HUGE amount of work to do. Now it's crucial for them to CHOOSE they right battle (I know what I am talking about since I am also a product owner). Best Luck. I stay tuned.

Again. Amazing. I wonder WHY Affinity guys didn't realize that a TOP-REQUESTED feature was needed *BEFORE* the whistles&candies they offer.... Bad strategy up to now. Cross fingers.

WOW!!! 🥳 all the missing (PRO) features that we need. CROSS FINGERS!! But let's hope they will continue to maintain the one-time-payment and not move to subscription based model

I also look forward to that. I will continue monitoring the Affinity Suite if/when I will be able to swap. Unfortunately I have found other severe limitations in Affinity Publisher with Spreads of only 2 pages which (again) doesn't allow me to work smoothly with several paper/adv use cases. My migration is postponed

It happened again: this feature missing is really annoying. I am trying to move to the Affinity suite but as far as I can see it's very far from Adobe Suite. I mean: you can miss extra fancy feature but not very BASIC essential feature for pro users. Sorry to say, but this really doesn't seem to be a professional suite.

this is not the first migration I have done in my life. Again I "wished" since my existing file are quite simple to have a "possibility" to move to. It's not . No problem. Anyway I will not ask for refund since I really believe it worths to support such application (which I will probably use in future). I would debate about Adobe's "unfair" policy in another thread maybe

you are right, and believe me, I am not really happy since I have seen Adobe's product going down to the hill in the last 10 years...but it is what it is. That's why I gave affinity's guys a chance: i loved the 1-time payment and really aggressive price for a great product. But professionals can't be fanboy. I must take care about my productivity and affinity is not my product at the moment. Maybe a backup solution.

Oh yes of course it's not "consistent" comparing to what it does in Adobe Illustrator. Anyway I bought the Affinity suite and gave them a chance. The 130€ I paied today doesn't worth the HUGE effort which I'd invest to fix and corrent my existing files. I will swap when I can move flawlessly from A->B. Aside, If we want to do a "marketing" consideration , it's a great product but they can't really think to attack the Adobe customers if they don't grant an easy file migration. I did expect to export to a legacy file format, that's fair (my previous works are not complex in the structure) but the conversion is broken on a stupid TEXT frame that contains variable font... Doesn't matter. Try again.

Hi guys, unfortunately I have some previous AI files with variable fonts with I CAN'T TOUCH (doesn't worth to change) and I was surprise that is still missing. I can't move forward to the Affinity adoption and I must stick to Ilustrator for now although I spend money for affinity suite. I prefer PARK the Affinity designer adoption for now. I am disappointed. Despite the variable fonts, other parts of the same AI file (exported in CC-legacy) is not read consistently by affinity designer.