R C-R
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1 hour ago, JGD said:
... I didn’t even suspect it was owned by Canva....
FWIW, at the bottom left of the Flourish "Find out more" link there is this:
QuoteFlourish is a registered trademark of
Canva UK Operations Ltd, UK company 08825531
33 Hoxton Square
London N1 6NN
So it would seem Canva already had a UK presence prior to the Serif buyout.
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2 hours ago, JGD said:
They could, however, have reasons to kill products that compete with Canva.
In what way do you see any Canva product competing with any of the Affinity apps?
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9 hours ago, SallijaneG said:
I did not realize that Canva had bought both Pixabay and Pexels (I do remember Pixabay no longer being searchable through Affinity, that might have been the reason for the change)....
Pixabay (& Pexels) are both still searchable in Affinity on my Mac (& in AD the Vector filter option of Pixabay in the Stock panel still works as it always has).
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3 hours ago, Bit Disappointed said:
It always was a cult. It is known for that outside this forum.
If it is known as such in some places it certainly must be seen in them as a very odd cult, considering the tone of so many posts & whole topics are allowed to express very negative or derogatory thoughts about the apps.
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Just now, debraspicher said:
What does that have to do with the acquisition?
It has to do with what @loukash wrote & you just quoted a few minutes ago, specifically your contention that no Affinity user is that pessimistic. I am not sure if that is or is not true but the point is there is no harm I can see in expressing concern about the possible negative effects on one's overall mental health of excessive pessimism, particularly in a topic like this one that includes so many extremely pessimistic idea about how the purchase will play out.
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4 hours ago, Granddaddy said:
Some Affinity competitors charge a substantial subscription fee to participate in community forums, to access user resources, and to view tutorials.
Which competitors charge anything for accessing their customer support forums or for viewing web-based tutorials?
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3 minutes ago, debraspicher said:
This place is starting to sound like a cult. If a user questions at all the outcome of the acquisition, they are a dirty pessimist.
Nonsense. Nobody labeled anybody a "dirty" anything! One can be optimistic or pessimistic about the eventual outcome of the purchase for both customers & the (former?) Serif staff, & a lot of forum members have done that, but there is no cultism involved. However, it is pretty well accepted among mental health experts that constant, excessive pessimism (or for that matter optimism) is unhealthy, so there is nothing wrong I can see with expressing concern about that.
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If by "default start up screen" you mean the File > New Document dialog, while you cannot set it up always to use inches you can either choose from among any of the existing preset document options that use inches (like Letter, Legal, Photo "R" sizes, & so on) or create your own Document templates of various sizes that default to using inches.
As for the Info panel, I do not think there is any way to set a LAB default.
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44 minutes ago, loukash said:
Why worry now about highly hypothetical things that may or may not happen in a distant future?
Particularly ones that seem improbable, like Canva just buying Serif so they can eventually kill or cripple Affinity more or less like Adobe did with Freehand.
Then there is this pervasive (in this topic anyway) worry about Canva completely eliminating the Affinity perpetual licensing model & transitioning to a subscription only model. Seriously, how stupid does anyone think Canva would have to be to do that & compete head to head with Adobe for subscriptions? If they want to get any real, lasting value from the purchase, they would either have to be planning to drastically undercut Adobe's subscription prices & hope to sell boatloads of subscriptions to eventually see a reasonable return on their investment, or spend a ton of money on making Affinity much more powerful & feature-rich than what Adobe offers (including more apps in the suite like a full-featured DAM, a dedicated animation app, & so on), which seems so improbable as to be absurd even to consider.
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12 hours ago, lphilpot said:
Exactly. I'll take realism -- even if it superficially looks pessimistic at times -- rather than rose-colored glasses.
Realism, in the sense of being realistic, means to consider that which is real (tangible, existent) in the here & now. Pessimism & optimism are about considering what might happen in the future.
- AffinityJules, loukash and SrPx
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2 hours ago, debraspicher said:
I understood what they were saying the first time and it's not "defeatist" to be realistic.
OK, but how realistic is to compare what Adobe did to Freehand to what people fear Canva will do to Affinity? Canva has no reason to kill Affinity because unlike Adobe they do not have any products that compete with Affinity.
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1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:
Sorry, no, for the category.
If you mean the 'shopping bag' icon like in the OP's screenshot, I do not see it, so I guess that means I was was mistaken about how I installed the pack & did it via a manual download.
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1 hour ago, Medical Officer Bones said:
Of course we plan ahead. Yet expect our plans to be thwarted at every turn and hope for lady luck to deign us her favour.
What you are describing is called defeatism. As in, no matter what one does they fully expect to fail or are excessively willing to accept that they will.
IOW, it is an extremely negative way of looking at the world, one that thankfully is not representative of how most people think.
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13 minutes ago, Medical Officer Bones said:
Man plans, the gods laugh!
If that is the case, what do you think we should do instead of making plans? Make sacrifices to these gods; pray for divine guidance, something else?
Seriously, what does a defeatist attitude get us besides all but guaranteeing we will lose no matter what we do?
- MarvinR and Paul Mudditt
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1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:
What icon do you see for it in the Assets panel?
A small thumbnail view of all the objects in the group.
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FWIW, on my Mac I have the Shizzle Assets (I think!) I installed using the Account window -- IOW, not by downloading & then installing the pack.
So I just tried adding a group item to the same "Square vectors with rough edges" subcategory of my Shizzle Assets panel. I then tried right-clicking on that group, the option to delete it highlighted in the popup menu. When I clicked it, it asked me if I was sure I wanted to delete it & when I said I did, it was deleted.
So maybe this is a Windows only thing ... or I just was was mistaken about how I installed the pack?
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1 minute ago, SrPx said:12 hours ago, Medical Officer Bones said:
As always: hope for the best, expect the worst.
Cheers!
I very much understand what you mean, and it's true for many situations... but... (and this is personal for each individual) if I focus on the latter, it becomes very difficult to keep doing the former.
Change "expect" to "plan for" & I think it makes more sense....
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22 minutes ago, bbrother said:
I would say the least evil of all potential owners.
What tangible reason(s) do you have to think Canva is evil? It can't just be because they are a for-profit company because that would mean almost all companies including Serif & a bunch of Affinity users who make a living using that & other software also are evil. Surely it can't be because you don't like the output users of their software produce. If that was true it would mean a zillion people, myself included, were evil because they produce output with Affinity or many other apps that may not be to many people's liking.
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8 hours ago, MikeV said:
The driver for Canva is adding ‘professional’ capabilities. In buying Serif, Canva has paid a lot for that capability. Canva senior management are very astute – they have built a $26 billion business from scratch. Dismantling or compromising Affinity software is not an ‘astute’ path, while strengthening it is. And knowing that a very large part of the attraction to Affinity users is perpetual licences, why would you change this major selling point over Adobe?
If you think rationally about it, the whole 'buy & kill' analogy with what Adobe did with Freehand makes no sense anyway. Freehand was a product that competed directly with an Adobe one. That is not the case for the Affinity apps vs. the Canva stuff.
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20 minutes ago, bici said:
To Affinity and Beyond!
I posted this to one of the forum topics long ago:
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5 minutes ago, AffinityMakesMeSad said:
How many of you out there that is negative around this buyout of Serif Ltd?
It seems that PC have been waking up and starting treathen us if we continue our replying around our negativism…
I don't think anybody is threatening anybody about it. It is just that it won't accomplish anything so it is a bit hard to understand why people keep wasting their time posting about it.
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3 minutes ago, debraspicher said:
The impression currently being left is this is not a priority at all.
I do not have that impression at all. It would be almost pointless to keep releasing updates with few or no fixes for the many well documented bugs.
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8 minutes ago, debraspicher said:
@Ash Please please please tell us something regarding addressing the bugs and please let it be an aggressive move... ask Canva if they know anyone in pest control.
What could Ash say at this point other than that they are working on eliminating as many bugs as possible as quickly as they can?
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1 minute ago, Bryan Rieger said:
... I'm hoping we'll soon start to see both many of the long standing features requests being delivered upon, but also an increased focus on bug fixes, UI/UX issues, and stabilization.
For me, bug fixes are the most critical part of the apps that should get the highest priority, particularly those that adversely affect the stability of the apps that can result in lost work.
Canva
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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FWIW, I did not mean for my comment to be directed at any particular person either.