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Petar Petrenko

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  1. Affinity, be cautious with your statements and actions from this point forward. Any deviation, even the smallest from the promises you have made to us in the past, could result in the loss of customers.
    We all have had bad experiences with such alliances in the past, and this came to us like a bolt from the blue. We are all tense, nervous and this will be reflected in our work as well as in our everyday life. My personal opinion is that it will never be the same again for any of us.
    I ask you once again to be careful what you do or your business may come crashing down like a house of cards and Adobe will win without investing a cent.

  2. 19 minutes ago, heldrida said:

    Affinity has some of the best software, with Apple-like quality. It's unfortunate to see it go for Canva, one of the worst pointless companies on this planet. So sad!

    I completelly agree with you. The very first moment I hear they started with subscription model -- I am out of the game.

    I've just started some books in Publisher, but now... I have to rethink it should I continue or keep InDesign and Quark.

  3. 4 hours ago, Peter Kahrel said:

    What complete nonsense. Processing text documents can be as time-consuming (or even more so than) whatever you you do in Photo. If you can't automate various typesetting aspects you'll lose a lot of time.

    I'd be very happy, when scripting and GREP styles comes out in Affinity, to be as active in building it as well as helping us out with advices, just like you are in InDesign.

  4. At this moment my MacBook is not connected to the second display and in this state I updated the apps to 2.4.0. After instalation, Designer loaded correctly but, for Photo and Publisher I had to change the resolution and now they work correctly.

    I will connect the Mac to the second monitor ASAP and test the apps again and I will let you know.

    Meanwhile, thank you very much for the great support.

  5. 6 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

    Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and you’re not the only person to suggest having one piece of software to do everything. But, what about the people who don’t want or need all three apps? If they just want to edit photos, or produce illustrations, why would they want one big app that is full of functions that they might just find confusing and why would they want to pay for it?

    I really don’t see much advantage in one app, rather than the three integrated ones that we have now. It obviously depends on how you work, but I tend to do a job in one app at a time, I rarely need to keep changing from one app to another. If I do need to do so StudioLink and “open in” work perfectly well.

    I layout books, magazines and such, so I need all three apps. But, whether you work with photos or producing vector art, you will find the other 2 apps as valuable tools for polishing your design, photos, artwork...

  6. On 1/28/2024 at 3:16 PM, PaulEC said:

    It has been suggested that Publisher should actually include all the features of Designer and Photo, but not only would this make it a very large and unwieldy app, it would also inevitably mean it would cost much more, which would not be helpful for those people who only use Designer and /or Photo.

    Actually, it was me who suggested the integration of the Affinity suite. :)

    Now, my opinion is, that starting with the universal licence, Affinity will wait until everybody accept it and then, under the hood, the integration will happen. Then we will have only one file to download to install, update or upgrade for the Affinity Suite Pro. Hopefully, they will remove overlaping features and maintaning the Suite will be easier and faster.

    I think (at least, hope) that the price will remain the same.

    And don't forget, it is just my opinion. :)

  7. Neither the author nor Affinity Publisher is to blame. It's our own fault because in 99% of cases authors don't know the entire process of creating books, magazines, etc. They think they know absolutely everything, even which program is best for creating them. They even insist that it should be InDesign because they heard somewhere that it is the "best" for the job.

    That's why, when we conclude a deal with a client, we need to let him know what we expect from him:

    • complete text that has undergone proofreading;
    • images (if any) should be in JPG or TIF format with 300 dpi and the same size in which they will be placed on the page;
    • color images should be in the RGB color space;
    • the images must not be inside the Word document, but only captions that will tell us where to place them.

    And what he have to expect from us:

    • get the final material in PDF only;
    • no source code, no fonts, no images, etc.;
    • any further proofreading after the start of work is charged additionally and is done in PDF, not in Word or any other text processor.

    After this, it should be clearer to the author that he is in charge only of the text and that he should leave it to us to finish our part of the work properly.
    If nothing else, this should keep potential problems to a minimum.

  8. 6 hours ago, PaoloT said:

    I've the impression that the DOCX format had replaced the RTF one(s). I'm not totally sure, but it should be an open format. It's more modern. Recovering plain test from it should be easier.

    Paolo

     

    You can't trust Microsoft too much. Tommorow they can change something in DOCX code and... a new headache for the third party developers of DOCX export/import filters. RTF is IMO much more reliable. ODT/ODF is another good format that is worth to be a member of a Publisher import filters.

  9. 1 hour ago, tzvi20 said:

    Exporting DOCX files would help this situation as there would be no need to copy them.

    Let's say Publisher has DOCX export filter and you exported the file to send it back to the customer to make additional changes. After that you will have to restart from zero with it because the export is not 1:1 with features.

    What you really need is Publisher's new feature same as WordsFlow.

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