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I'm not sure I understand if one can cross-reference to a different document. This would be essential, if the project is broken into one document per chapter. Paolo

Leaving V1 on sale "as is" would have been a nice move for people who can't upgrade. I wonder why this couldn't happen. In any case, Mac minis cost a reasonable price, and have been heavily discounted during this time of very low sales for Apple. At the same time, it may also be the right time to reconsider if staying with a Mac, or switching to something else. Apple has forced the user's computers into a rapid obsolescence, and it seems it will continue doing the same. The UI and hardware design have slipped into ugliness. Maybe it's time for a switch. After 35 years with Apple, I’m personally considering it. Paolo

90 is nearly indistinguishable from 100. It might be a viable compromise. Paolo

Can it? I read that it can import and export IDML files, but not INDD ones. But maybe I'm lost in that messy web site. Paolo

Luminar Neo, that is the subject of this discussion. But I guess it is too late. EDIT: I see there is now a bundle with Luminar Neo + some bundled effect packages. Paolo

V3 will be adaptive. In addition to helping you choose the paint for your new EV car, it will also take an appointment for your personal color matcher. Paolo

You might be kidding (but I'm sure not!), but Apple is already introducing something like this… Paolo

But no charge from users of the previous versions! (A campaign to boycott Serif for the 10.02 EUR is already going on). Paolo

Adobe has technologies that can easily implement in Photoshop, even if professional Photoshop users will not use them. Kids enjoying a free Photoshop license from their school will. Professional photographers won't. But this is just the tip of the iceberg: Adobe can reuse their technologies in other fields, for example support for advertising, or governmental reinvention of reality. They will earn in an indirect way. Serif (as far as we can know) is not yet in this business. The core of their user base might not even be aware of these technologies missing. Paolo

As of now, mass layoff is happening among those who participated to the AI development and sale. I still have troubles finding a good, old electrician. Paolo

I suspect most customers absolutely wanting AI are also customers who don't want to pay for software. So, in this case a software house not going into the AI mud will in any case be more profitable. A more or less related anecdote: near here, there is a beautiful plateau that used to be filled by multicolor flowers. After the latest earthquake, many farmers have been forced to leave, or have stopped maintaining it, and this so called "natural" show is no longer happening as in the past. The net is filling up with fake photos of the flowering plateau. People are inventing a reality that doesn't exist. Many people want to live a fake reality. I doubt this type of customer will be relevant from a financial point of view for an artisan software house. Paolo

My work is mostly made of tables. I think that most technical and scientific books are made of tables. It's a sad reality that we technical and scientifc writers are cut out of Publisher (not only because of the lack of tables, but this is one of the most important omissions). So, yes, I add my vote for better tables. Paolo

This is exactly what you could do with a markdown document, converted via Pandoc into a format that Publisher can understand. At the moment, the most immediate way of doing it for structured text is converting markdown to DOCX, and then import it into Publisher. If you need more sophisticate layout, I guess the only way is to follow the ICML-to-IDML path described above. Paolo

Since some of the features in Luminar Neo are often requested, I will advise that MAW Deals (MacAppware) has a sale on it ending today. I have purchased from that site in the past, and it seemed legitimate. Paolo

Maybe I'm making things too simple, but since they have a good IDML --> AFPUB converter, the reverse should be easy to make. But I don't know the intricacies of coding (I've tried with modifying the Pandoc --> ICML filter, and I'm still shocked). Paolo

Most, or maybe the only, issues I have had when generating PDF files from InDesign have been caused by fonts. Very old fonts, corrupt ones. Maybe the same can happen with Publisher. Paolo

Since Serif is already busy with the core software, and since a DAM is intended as a general cataloguing system, wouldn't it make more sense to ask to one's preferred DAM's developer to add compatibility with Affinity files? Paolo

I couldn't find AI in Affinity, and now I’m no longer able to draw!

Before being so sure, please check what other users say about the localization for their language… 😁 Paolo

A 2K monitor doesn't give you HighDPI resolution, so it can't render the images with the same quality. My older HP 2K monitor is also a good one, but there is no comparison with what I can see with the 4K one. Then, it's not that the 2K one is not working. Just, it is not doing as well. One more advantage of the 4K monitor is that one can switch to the higher resolution, if needed. Just thinking to my case: to see more channels in an audio mixer. I can also think to its use when doing video editing. 4K monitors are not all that expensive, at the moment. If one can afford one, I would suggest to go for one, considering how important a monitor is. As far as I can see, 5K monitors are still much more expensive than comparable-quality 4K ones, so I think that 4K displays are currently a reasonable compromise. Paolo

Or use the cheap SwitchResX to get comfortable and crisp resolution even on a 4K monitor. Paolo

I can't really understand what my answer has to do with with "switching resolution all the time". Have you tried to see what the utility I cited does? Paolo

Apple wants that you buy their 5K monitors. In any case, I'm working on an HP (LG) 4K display, using SwitchResX to set it at a comfortable resolution of 2304 x 1296 pixels. Paolo

We must stand up and be unite against Latin!

And, are Figma and Designer comparable? Yes, they both allow to draw, but I would guess that an experienced professional could have noticed that they are not the same type of tool. Paolo