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Why isn't Serif posting updates on the release of an msi installer, rather than leave everyone that cares hanging? Are they going to say "no longer going to do it"?
It should be a pinned topic, reasonably regularly updated. Rubbish customer service.

Hi Walt,
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, the install of all the Version 2 apps was to their default (WindowsApps) locations.
And yes, SQL Server is installed, apparently (according to a file search of my computer), in both Microsoft Office and various versions of the NET framework.
I just tested this again, but selecting APh v2 beta (via Open with..), same result!

@BofG Thats bad. Cuz you want 375x500 px image in web, so you want to export image in that dimensions.
If i good understand you want me to set 100% view, so i will see that i need to make bigger image for example 500x700 do make it sharp and export it in 500x700 px, so the sharpness will be good.
It works but if you making SEO and want to let ur site be speed , you need to know that its crap. When you upload that image in website you still gona show 375x500 px image (scaled with CSS, but still loading bigger one 500x700). So for Google thats crap and Page SPeed insights from Google and generaly page speed will hurt cuz of that. 
Thats so stupid XDD . That SOFT FOR WEB graphic do not let you export image XD in dimensions which you need... I think a only way is to go back to photoshop

v1 users? You speak for all of us? I dunno, but that car I bought is getting kind of tired after a couple of years. Mebbe I should go ask the dealership if I can get a replacement for nada. Come to think of it, so is my toaster. It too - oh, never mind. Oh, wait. I know. I'll go to the manufacturer. They'll fix me up with something for nothing for sure.

...and with this post I can change my Avatar! But no point now!

You have explained the situation very well, Mvpixel!
This goes against everything that was said and used to sell Affinity applications.
Having bothered to move my design team to Affinity, with all that that entailed, I have completely lost faith in the product.
Sadly it is back to Adobe.

So just to be clear, your plan is screw people who trusted and purchased your product first...with the belief that is something that will grow and evolve in a better software...because let's be honest as for now Affinity tools are extremely basic compared to the competition. I want to know who is the genius who though to release a new software without allowing previous customers to purchase the updates, I am not saying completely for free but at least at least veeeery generous discount.
So now I bough this half softwares and spent money to figure out this thing will never be better.....wow,.....terrible strategy...I was hoping this was finally slowing to beat and be better than illustrator but you screwed up. I guess I will go back to Adobe.

Same ... If this is a SPAM issue, you have bigger problems than avatars!  Spammers are already in and don't care about their personal avatars.  Duh!

That's a bunch of BS!  This has nothing to do with SPAM prevention, it's a dumb feature of the forum that limits the users - not spam bots!

The same happens for me using FF10 in APh 2, Win 10.

Thanks for the correction to what you were purchasing.
Note that I'm just a user, but I've seen a lot of reports like yours here. In every case I've seen, Serif was right that the sale was not completed, and the bank had only reserved the funds, not paid them to Serif. The bank released the funds back to the user's account when they figured out the sale was incomplete. 
So, I would believe what Serif is saying in that article that @SFurniss referred you to. 

Hmmm... you don't want my money? And you don't really care about clients with older computers? I guess you're forcing me/us to find another supplier. Frankly, it's disappointing... 😢 

@symakhan
Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums 😕
Forgive me but none of this rings true. From (originally) posting this in Share your Work (which many spammers do), to quoting our marketing verbatim, to asking questions that make no sense, to asking questions that anyone using Affinity Designer would know the answer to, to asking questions about the sale that even a basic look at our site would answer. I mean it's a lot better than most spammers first post, but using an email address that is Toxic on Stop Forum Spam is just a complete give away. Bye

Perfectly understandable but the version 2 apps do not replace the version 1 apps, they install alongside them.

From a development POV, porting an app from iOS to ChromeOS would probably be a case of rewriting from scratch. I'd be surprised if much could actually be ported.

The forum should be already full of such advice threads, just do a Forum and/or Google search after the topic for Win. - Further I will never understand, why people don't keep always a personal external backup (...be it on an USB-stick, external disk, NAS, or some cloud storage place) of their bought software! 🤔

You may perceive a need, but Serif have said there are no updates to the old Workbooks planned, and no new Workbooks coming.
Perhaps they will provide something different at some time in the future.

Hallo zusammen,
das arbeiten mit der Version 2 macht keinen Spaß, zu viele Programmabstürze. Beim Formkonstrukteur Werkzeug es besonders schlimm, das ist eine reine Absturzmaschine. Laufend kann man wieder von vorne Anfangen was man schon mehrmals gemacht hat. So ein schlechtes Update hatte ich noch nie. Den verantwortliche Projektleiter sollte Serif so schnell wie möglich loswerden und durch einen ersetzen welcher sein Handwerk versteht. Hier wurde ein halbfertiges Programm auf den Markt geworfen, nur um schnell noch beim Weihnachtgeschäfts dabei zu sein und abzukassieren. Das war das letzte mal dass ich mir von Serif was gekauft habe. Ich hatte schon keine guten Erfahrungen mit dem damaligen Draw gemacht aber so schlimm war es noch nie. Die Geschäftsführung sollte sich mal überlegen ob sie die Version 2 nicht besser wieder vom Markt nimmt. So ist das keine Werbung für das Programm.
Gruß Dieter

Or again drawing an analogy on music instruments:
As already noted, I can't play 5-string basses. But a few years ago when I (unsuccessfully) applied for a bass guitarist job, I was meant to replace a 5-string bass player. To literally work around that, I tuned my bass to D-G-C-F instead of the standard E-A-D-G tuning, so that I could play at least the low D when required, and I learned how to play a couple of the band's songs like that. Eventually I liked the new tuning so much that I still continue to play the bass in this tuning to this day! Especially in jazz, where you have lots of songs to play in keys like C, F, B flat, E flat, D minor, G minor etc., with the low D tuning it's in fact much easier than with the regular E tuning. Only in rock/blues cover bands I sometimes use a capo on the 2nd fret for a few songs so that I can play some typical bass licks that were designed to be played with open E-A-D-G strings.
Similarly with the aforementioned afroband (that unfortunately broke up last summer), we had a balafon player, and the balafon was tuned in E flat minor pentatonic scale. Not really great for guitarists who simply love to play in E "not flat" minor pentatonic. So for that band only, I would always tune the Les Paul a half tone down, in E flat. And I was "home" again.
In that very sense, back on the Affinity topic:
"Workarounds" are also valid parts of a personal workflow. Be brave to use them! Or at least try. They can give you totally new ideas and possibilities.  

Gianno Becatinni should think twice before putting such crap in the front section if his book. When I read such things at the beginning of a book, that book and the author will immediatelly loose my interest... forever! The only conclusion coming from that paragraph is the frustration with the software and temperament of the author.
Many other authors successfully, create and publish books made in Affinity Publisher. They struggle from time to time, have to find workaround but in the end they deliver their masterpiece to their audience.
Like Loukash already perfectly said, if you are not happy but the Affinity Suite, then use something else. There are other alternatives which will let you do the same thing, even for free. But Gianno Becatinni, don't put that kind of message in your book, it only shows you are a very short tempered person. Instead, just use another application which gives you better results. Maybe Affinity is not a good tool for you and another will deliver perfect results for you. Such things happen.
I hope you learned a wise lesson  today.
Chris
 

I shouldn't have sold my Paul Reed Smith 20 years ago. Recently I bought a used Les Paul and I actually hate it. Or rather, my back hates it. But hey, I also play a fretless Fender Jazz Bass and I love it!  
Anyway…
Honestly: I do.
If you were an architect, would you also tell your client: "Sorry that your house doesn't have a proper bathroom but I couldn't figure out how to draw it with the architecture software I was using so it's all their fault!"

I fully share your pain about lack of quality, stability, essential basic functionality available everywhere else, and countless UI inconsistencies. But writing such a paragraph into a book, eventually created with help of an Affinity App, is childish and would only demonstrate lack of moral maturity. It will poison your otherwise valuable work.

Martin D28 all the way, also have a budget DX1 that I got for a steal, all I need now are Eric Claptons fingers and some talent lol!

My view?
That kind of verbiage is unprofessional and immature sounding. If in fact the troubles are real then they're real. If you want to write, for example, a blog entry outlining the issues you've had that's certainly your prerogative. In fact, it might even be useful to other potential users. But do it factually, professionally and without spite. After all, your readers buy your books for their content, not because of the tools you used to create them. I mean, how many music lovers say, "I'm not listening to that guy -- He's playing a Fender!!"  🙂  Besides, saying "after two major versions I am not still able..." just raises the obvious question: "Then why are you still using it?"
As much as we might get invested in the process (been there myself) customers aren't. They just want the product. If you can't create the product you and your customers want with Tool X, then use something else. End of story.
It's tempting to vent (again, been there myself) but it's something you'll immediately regret.

Yeah, I'd even say this post makes you seem very inexperienced with any type of design or publishing software. I use all 3 Affinity programs for a wide variety of things and I have some issues here and there, but no more than other companies, video software, music software, the internet, Windows, Mac, etc.
Publishing software doesn't really like more than 400 pages in a single document in my experience, and I have some of the most powerful computers I could ever need to run way more than a simple publishing doc. In InDesign, I used to use the books compiling feature to keep files under 30 or so pages (based on chapter lengths), and so Affinity was a shock at first when I had V1 and docs over 350 pages. Massive slow down and scrolling loss.
V2 now has the chapters feature, and it seems a little buggy/crashy since it is brand new. Hoping it gets fixed as quickly as issues arise, but today is my first time trying to get it set up. I've already learned that how you save the main book file vs the chapters is very important, or yes, you will lose some things. It hasn't been difficult to get back though.
As far as the hyperlinks part goes...what do you need them for in a massive print file? (Side note, if you plan on publishing yourself or on behalf of a self-published author on Amazon, hard cover copies have a limit of 500 pages). If you are publishing a digital copy to Amazon, they need an ePub anyway, which Affinity doesn't do. Though you could probably get away with exporting a WebP file to Amazon still (how Microsoft Word users used to have to do it). Most authors use Google docs for Kindle copies, set up their basic formatting there, export the ePub, and then let Kindle take care of the rest since it has so many formatting restrictions. Hyperlinks work great. Using Publisher for something like that definitely wouldn't be my recommendation unless they worked together with Amazon to create some sort of awesome, seamless export style.