I have just received the beta copy of Affinity for windows 10.
:Like many others - I was looking forward to upgrading from PPX9 and getting something great. BUT my initial experiences are only annoying which has dampened my whole feeling.
1. My login was not remembered on this forum yet I have used it for a long time (12 years) with PagePlus, from X3 to X9. I had to create a new login as mine was obviously there and so I could use it again.
2. I opened a page and started to play around. Let's open a square and give it rounded corners, and fill it. Very basic but I am just starting and learning. (I thought the commands used in PP would work but they seem to have been thrown away). I could make a square and round the corners but only one at a time, not all together. But I could not fill it with color. Stupid me, I thought. Oh well, look in the help. Fill color = nothing.
I click on the 'fill' next to the 'rectangle' nothing changes.
So I thought I'd try a tutorial, nothing either.
There seems to be nothing much to help people who are not full-time illustrators or similar. Is Affinity for them and not for people like me who would use it to make printed brochures and online graphics????
Why does it take sooo long to open a new document??
I draw a line and want to widen it, nothing works.
My joy and anticipation at getting Affinity has evaporated.
I read in one tutorial that I may need to buy and download another program to make Affinity work, is this true?
You may as well say good bye to me and most of those others I talk to, we don't have funds nor the will to buy to make work.
I even now doubt you will reply to me.
Good thoughts intended only here.
Edward Firs
