TonyB

Affinity Designer is a Mac OSX only application at the moment. iPad applications will come but only after the Mac range has been established.

Affinity Designer is a Mac OSX only application at the moment. iPad applications will come but only after the Mac range has been established.

Yes the forums will stay when we release. I'm not sure how to structure the forums as we will have Affinity Photo in beta soon but I'm sure we can work it out.

Symbols are on our roadmap. They will be in a post release free update and will be more powerful than any symbol feature I have seen before.

Symbols are on our roadmap. They will be in a post release free update and will be more powerful than any symbol feature I have seen before.

Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher will be separate applications but all applications share the same file format. The applications will also be able to switch to each other to edit content without losing undo history. 

Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher will be separate applications but all applications share the same file format. The applications will also be able to switch to each other to edit content without losing undo history. 

We have no plans to release a Windows version of Affinity at this time. Serif already has a range of applications for for Windows. 

Global swatches are something we already have a our roadmap. 
 
Thanks for all the suggestions.

PANTONE support will come to Affinity but not for the initial release. We have many features already planned and all users of Affinity will receive the updates for free.

We plan to add text on a path in a post release update. 
 
Just a tip, if you use the term 'Wizard' in relation to anything Affinity then most of the SerifLabs team will likely swear at you, cry or just ignore you. ;)

The Affinity range of applications start with Affinity Designer, then we follow with Photo and next year, Publisher. We might develop a Website publishing app but I'm still not sure what form it should take.

Affinity Publisher will come but Photo will be something very special. We hope that when you use all three Affinity products together then you will see that all other alternatives are toys in comparison.

Affinity Publisher will come but Photo will be something very special. We hope that when you use all three Affinity products together then you will see that all other alternatives are toys in comparison.

I agree that we will probably have to give in and add 'Selected object(s)' but please don't default it to on if you have a selection as it's usually not what I wanted.

>I was trying to help Serif understand the inertia they're up against.
 
When we decided to develop the Affinity range of applications we knew aiming at the professional market would be hard work with Adobe being so entrenched but I believe we have a good chance. It's difficult to show the advantages of our platform until we release Photo and Publisher but we are aiming to achieve a range of applications that truly work together in a way Adobe Creative Suite can't.
 
All we want to do is offer creatives a choice. Adobe wanted to offer Quark users an alternative, it took a decade of designers saying that nobody could touch Quark but Adobe kept at it and InDesign was the result.
 
Affinity is a 10-15 year project. We are in year 4 and still have a long way to go but i believe Designer is already better than Illustrator for some use cases and this time next year I hope it will better for most.
 
One advantage we have for adoption is price. Your example of passing an Affinity file to someone without Affinity is true but the problem can be solved by a £35 purchase and a bit of learning. We also are planning to release a free version of Affinity that will enable people to open, edit and output files.
 
All we ask is give us a chance.
 
TonyB (Head of SerifLabs)

Hi Rui 
 
Multiple pages/layouts is something we will be working on soon. Affinity Publisher obviously needs this feature and we will expose this in Designer and Photo as well. 
 
We are still deciding if artboards are just custom pages but placed where you want them or something different. What would work best for you?

Text on a path is planned but it will be in one of the post release updates.

Ok, sorry for the poor quality, but here's a video (note that when I clicked the bool op button on the toolbar, I was holding the option key - not holding it would do what it did before).. 
 
Realtime Compound Geometry With FX, Gradient Fill And LineStyle In Affinity Designer.
csg480.mov
 
AndyS

Contour/offset tool will come but not in the initial release,

Mesh fills will come but not for the initial release of Designer

Affinity Designer is a Mac OSX only application at the moment. iPad applications will come but only after the Mac range has been established.

Yes, Affinity is a new range of applications for the Mac. Affinity Designer will be our first release and we will then following with Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher. 

Copy and then paste style is our current solution. I think past style on text in still not working yet but is on the list.