spinko
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On 4/29/2023 at 5:15 PM, Petar Petrenko said:
I have also super easy and even faster workflow -- I do it in InDesign directly.
😁 is this implemented now in 2.1 ?
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The extremely promotional video Serif posted, announcing the new V2 suite as a game changer was a complete disappointment. The most basic features*, which I won't enumerate here, but which can be found in the forum, spanning years (!) are still not implemented. Why isn't Affinity a little more humble with its marketing and a little more focused on (professional) users needs ? I don't know and I don't care anymore.
Yes, the price is great. But you get what you pay for.
(*Publisher, which is key for switching to Affinity for me)
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... then please include this feature in a future version. This is also something I use a lot in Illustrator.
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This is a feature I use a lot (!) in Adobe Photoshop. Please include it in V2 Affinity Photo ASAP. Thank you.
- Claudio60, EricGraphix and well88
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I COULDN'T AGREE MORE !
Are we the only two people who need this feature ?
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ok, thanks for the feedback.
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27 minutes ago, Will Wallace said:
Exactly. Ten days for a trial period is nothing. I don't consider a 30-day trial period to be long enough. I have a number of life activities and commitments competing for my time. Ten days isn't enough time to thoroughly wring out a new program even if you can devote all your waking hours in those ten days to testing the program. Most people can't do anything close to that.
It didn't take me a day to find out that Publisher wasn't goint to replace InDesign any time soon... but I bought it anyways to show support for the development of a more mature release. But I must admit, it is / has been a long wait.
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9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Cheated?
When Publisher was introduced there was a long public beta period, where users could discover missing functions such as Footnotes. After the beta, users could have a 10-day Trial period. And even an additional 14-day money-back guarantee period if they purchased directly from Serif, for a total of a 24-day trial period.
Additionally, the marketing material in the Affinity Store listed all the functions the program provided.
No, I don't think so. But maybe expectations where a bit high and it has been literally years these apps have been stuck in version 1.x.
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2 hours ago, Pedrober said:
The new version is coming. It will be a big disappointment if it doesn't include footnotes support.
... and multi-page-spreads and a bunch of other niggling details ... but judging from the video, the new version should be all we are hoping for ... and ... much more 🤪 ... We'll have to see if the hype is justified. I would be prepared to pay for software that can break my dependance on Adobe (but no subscription, please !)
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2 hours ago, PaoloT said:
You are very far from truth.
Paolo
truth ?
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discussing footnotes for APublisher is like discussing Trump's crimes and expecting an indictment. It may or may not happen. 🙂
Affinity, what is the roadmap for the desktop version (I can't see myself working on a tablet for DTP) ?
Thank you.
PS maybe there should be a Pro Version of AP with all the bell's and whistles (c.f. Adobe InDesign). The current version reminds me of an app called Swift Publisher my kids used years ago to format their school publications. (Just checked and It actually still exists). Not a bad app by any means.
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15 hours ago, kfriis said:
Publisher is a dead end for me and my use cases, unless dramatically extended in capabilities
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Yeah, for me Publisher has been pretty useless for the last 3 years. ... and this thread is still active. I am pretty disappointed by Affinity. I really was hoping they'd be a little more responsive to the most obvious things that are still missing ... footnotes, just being one of them. Who is this software directed to ? It's ok for single page or simple spreads but I would rather pay Adobe for InDesign than try to bypass all the lacking stuff with workarounds.
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so true ! it's 2022 now and this very useful feature is still not implemented... back to Adobe with regret.
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On 11/28/2021 at 11:13 AM, Ralph said:
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Or perhaps the features that were first launched in PagePlus, since apparently it is the same development team that created PagePlus Footnotes which is working on Affinity Footnotes.
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Exactly what I was thinking.
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1+ for a simple page editor à la ID.
PS.: I just googled PagePlus to find that it is in fact a Serif App ! I don't understand is why so many features that are in PagePlus are still not present in Publisher ?
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maybe multi pages are in the pipeline !
See the attached screenshot.
Currently, nothing happens when dropping the page into the spread. What should happen is for this action to add a page and make a 3-page spread.
- Khepr, Dazmondo77, nicolasfolliot and 1 other
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On 4/23/2021 at 6:01 PM, Clayton King said:
I've posted about this elsewhere, but will reiterate here. When I'm designing a 7-panel accordion fold piece, using one large page with individual marks and guides is at best cumbersome. If the piece needs to be adjusted, or the client wants a change that requires a panel to change size, or the printer needs a panel size tweaked, this causes a huge amount of work that will likely break something else.
On the other hand, if you can have a 7-page spread, and panel 3 needs to be adjusted by 1/16", it doesn't require anything more than changing the page, ensuring they're butted up together and you're done.
I can totally agree. It just makes sense. Another advantage of having this feature is that you can export individual pages as PDF's for the client to review or for the printer to print (some printers want individual pages, not spreads). If all 7 pages are on a single "page" as it has to be done currently in AP that is not possible.
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On 1/15/2021 at 4:13 PM, Mithferion said:
If I'm not mistaken, the total number of developers is 12 (around that number is a good guess), and that'd be about an eight of the total number of employees at Serif.
Best regards!
Maybe they should adapt their policy regarding the one time payments for their software. As much as I like it, I would be more than willing to pay for important updates if that would help to increase the cash flow at Affinity so they can hire more developers to make the Suite a viable alternative to Adobe.
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On 4/8/2021 at 3:02 AM, AndyQ said:
I'd love to switch but every time I try and do something in Affinity I end up tearing my hair out. I could write a few pages with reasons why. I'm sticking with it and hoping one day I can use the apps for my professional work. The suite of apps is fantastic value and I want to support software that is perpetual-licence and a company that doesn't treat customers like s**t, but the reliability, UI and feature set is still a way off being usable for me. Regardless of what I think about the apps, I have a commercial need to provide files in various Adobe formats, and at the very least I need better export functionality to do so. For the few commercial jobs I've done in Designer (mostly logos) I have to stuff around fixing and reconstructing things in Illustrator afterwards. That's not too problematic with simple logos but I wouldn't want to do anything more complex.
totally agree. It's getting so terribly frustrating to have to wait so long for features that most professionals use every day.
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On 2/5/2021 at 3:08 PM, ParkingThought said:
Inkscape is an open source project with a built in image trace tool. The code could be repurposed for this application. It's licensed under the GPL v.2 https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape
I'm sure someone else might have suggested this, but I hope my post helps to vote for this feature to move from the backlog and into development. It's surprising to find this post has been here for over 6 years.
I can't believe that a one man show has built an app that has features like "auto-trace" that Designer is still lacking after all these years. I've been tearing out my hair this morning trying to transition from Illustrator to Designer and had to download Inkscape to trace a bitmap. Thanks Inkscape. I'm slowly but surly loosing my patience with the Affinity apps.
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I havn't read through the whole thread but this is my short story:
I bought the Affinity Trio when they came out a couple of years ago. The idea was to encourage them (financially) and to show them my support for the development of an alternative to the comparable Adobe Trio, fully knowing that the software couldn't replace the Adobe offering immediately.
At present, I still have to use Adobe Indesign software because some basic features, most notably for me, multipage spreads with different page dimensions and foot-notes are not implemented. I could use Designer and Photo with some pain to replace Photoshop and Illustrator but I definitely couldn't use Publisher to replace Indesign at the moment because publishing work is currently my main income source and every project almost needs one or the other feature not currently implemented in AffPub.
As much as I would like to DITCH ADOBE once and for all, at the time of my writing this rant, it is regrettably not possible.
I am a little disappointed. I was hoping that Affinity's goal was to build a suite that professional designers could actually use as an alternative to the Adobe offering and that within a couple of years or so that goal would be attained. But I guess I was wrong. Maybe it will take longer. As every one seems to suggest, it took Indesign to mature over 10 years or so... Maybe, but I cant wait that long. I would be more than willing to pay for big updates so that features that professional publishers really use could be implemented in a timely manner.
Greetings
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in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
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oh, well. Just paid for yet another year of Adobe subscription.
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