nitro912gr
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8 hours ago, AiDon said:
What companies of their 6 prior acquisitions have they shut down?
QuoteWe're sad to announce the closure of our stand-alone operations as of September 27, 2024.
The Smartmockups team will continue delivering the first-class mockup experience you love until the shutdown date. Learn what this means for you.
is one I know for sure, they integrated smartmockups in canva and left anyone else who was using them in the dust "use it with our canva or bye".
This is the reason I'm afraid of what the future holds, if they really keep everything separated and the way it is (more or less) I have not a problem and I'm fully committed to support the whole thing, but I'm skeptical for now and only time will tell.
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sure but this is what probably adobe told people who had CS3 too and now they can only use cracked versions of software they got because it required online activation.
At least they provided for CS2 users.
I wish affinity and it's servers are around more than my lifetime but better safe than sorry, right? Sorry, not want to be mean to the staff or anyone but I really don't trust big corporations, and canva is a big corporation.
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After the news of affinty being sold to canva, I went to secure my purchase but v2 apps doesn't have an activation key and only can be activated online?
I hope you you will provide a way to being able to activate offline as a last good will gesture to the community.
Companies like canva usually take what they want and shutdown everything else. I want to keep using my affinity designer as I was promised, that is for as long as it still works...
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There is nothing to say that is not already said from others.
I just want to add my voice that I'm not confident either of what will happen and probably should go get a universal license to keep forever now that is still available...
Funny tho, the reason that I could keep my apps forever was what got me onboard in the first place, I'm not optimistic right now that this will be the case for much longer
- Cellobita and Robby Poole
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thank you both, I overwritten my presets and now I'm ready to start each new project with linked!
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Hello, I always forget to set in new files the images to be linked and not embedded, is there a way to have the linked selected by default?
Thanks!
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I will fire up my laptop later to try to export from it, I'm sure it wasn't present when I was working through it when I had the desktop off for the upgrade.
I checked a jpeg that I exported with the laptop and there is some noise but not those "dots" but it was black on color and not black on white, I will test it
brb
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Hello did something changed in JPEG export in designer 2 or I have messed up some configuration on my side?
Just recently I did realized noise around everything I export at 85% quality that it was not there before.
Below is a jpeg in 85% and a 100% to show the difference.
I did noticed recently on my prints where some weird pixel spots started to appear around objects and started investigating.
I have to notice that this started happening in a freshly formatted PC and this is why I wonder if I pick something wrong here?
I have resampler "bilinear"
Thanks!
(press on picture to zoom to see the difference)
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Just happened to me with Designer V2. I had the Greek keyboard selected when I tried to add the shortcut and got this bug. Restarting the app with a new doc let me bypass this and add the right shortcuts with the EN keyboard.
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yeah driver fallbacks are a life saver. They need to get their shit together as their GPUs are good but they seem to focus more in gaming and even there we see things like the antilag+ ...
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Well me on my part I'm fine now on all my machines.
At home with a 5500XT, at Workstation 1 with AMD HD 7790 and now on my laptop with vega
36.Weird how persistent this issue is, you guys have for a long time or maybe some recent driver broke something again?
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8 hours ago, Bobby Henderson said:
I don't think it's a software developer's fault for people not knowing the ins and outs of exchanging files. I'm using the latest versions of Affinity Designer, Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW. But if someone requests art files from me I'm not going to simply click the "save" button and blindly email him what I have. I always ask what software they're using as well as the versions of that software. Then I provide files down-saved to the versions of software they're using. I also try to be careful about using certain kinds of application-dependent effects and features in artwork if I want that artwork to be able to export to non-native environments.
There are certain features I want incorporated into future releases of Affinity Designer. Support for variable fonts is very high on that list of "wants." I know good and well art files made in a future version of Affinity Designer that allow variable font use are not going to be backward compatible with older versions. That has been the reality of all vector graphics applications going back 30+ years.and where is the ability to down-save to older versions in affinity then?
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I wanted to sake this tread back up, because apparently it is becoming a huge issue for me because I started sharing files with a client and he bought the newer version of publisher while I have only upgraded Designer to v2 as this is where I mostly work anyway. So if he send anything back to me I just can't open it and I don't wish to get the newer version of publisher just for one job (actually even the v1 wasn't something I needed, I only got it for supporting serif, haven't used it more than 2-3 times).
Please, we need some form of compatibility between versions, it doesn't have to be perfect, it only need to work somewhat.
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ok did some heavy lifting this week, so far so good, everything seems to be working fine again!
Thanks Serif!
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From the other thread for v2.1
2 minutes ago, nitro912gr said:Me on the other hand so far so good, I worked some projects here and there but not my main jobs, I'm too busy to lose time on back an forth with V1 if it is not working as advertised.
The thing is that it seems like it is fixed for me at least. I will try to move more work on it to see if this is for real.
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Me on the other hand so far so good, I worked some projects here and there but not my main jobs, I'm too busy to lose time on back an forth with V1 if it is not working as advertised.
The thing is that it seems like it is fixed for me at least. I will try to move more work on it to see if this is for real.
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it could be windows behavior too, I remember with the first versions of windows vista having the same problem with everything, it was like the apps where reserving the RAM but the OS never taking it back once the apps didn't need it anymore.
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On 5/16/2023 at 10:27 PM, kaek said:
I had this problem on different systems: 6 core intel (can't remember which), 32GB RAM, Dual GTX 1080 (SLI/No SLI). And my new'ish system: AMD 3900X (12 core), 64GB RAM and RTX4090. It takes longer for Photoshop to get laggy (just as Designer v.1) and I also believe it's only with heavy files? I have seen many forum-threads with the same problems for PS CS6-CCx. In Photoshop it is "fluid zoom", selecting and moving things around that takes a hit. I'm not an expert, but I think it's a video/GPU memory thing?
it is quite possible that the newer gpus doesn't properly support whatever underling tech is used with cs6, try disabling GPU acceleration (was it a thing back then? I don't recall). Same with designer 1, disable GPU rendering and see what you get (although we only had problems with AMD GPUs with Designer v1).
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3 hours ago, kaek said:
I also have experienced this "lag" (delay in selecting, moving etc.) in V1. but not as profound. Also with photoshop CS6 (started +4 years ago with windows update - i think?). Same problem on intel and AMD CPU. I have always been working on Nvidia GPU.
What i'm trying to say, it could be a Nvidia/windows problem?
nop, AMD graphics too have this problem. But lag in CS6? Are you sure there isn't any bottleneck in your system?
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3 minutes ago, JPBERUTTI910 said:
Where did they say that?
there are more answer below that that clarify that affinity team is on it.
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Just now, Bobby Henderson said:
I think one of the reasons why Mac sales numbers are dropping is a bunch of the product line is severely limited and has features that turn off a lot of people. For example, look at the current iMac lineup. There's just one 24" model. It kind of looks like a child's toy rather than something that would look proper on an adult's desk. The units have no expandability or user service-ability inside; all the parts are soldered-in. They max out at only 16GB of "unified" memory (translation: a graphic chip is sharing system RAM). Older iMac models could be ordered with more than 16GB of RAM and I think some past models had removable memory modules. All of Apple's notebooks have baked-in RAM. The Mac Mini also has a max of 16GB of RAM (baked-in). Only the expensive Mac Book Pro can be ordered with more than 16GB of RAM. The Mac Studio (a Mac Mini on steroids) can be ordered with more than 16GB of RAM, but its starting price is $3999. And all its parts are baked in.
The only computer Apple sells that is truly expandable after purchase is the Mac Pro tower. That thing is hella expensive.thats some valid points too, I was considering to jump back to mac recently only to realize that just to add 256GB extra storage and 8GB of extra RAM on a mac mini, they actually asked me to pay another 2/3 of the price of the basic machine... and if I didn't I would be locked on that ram and storage till I replace the machine, which in the end made me reconsider.
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20 minutes ago, MC909 said:
I think this is really, really, annoying, but not unusable. The temporary workaround gets lost in this big thread, but as someone said, on Windows if you restart the app after 20-25 mins, it almost always never gets to the extreme laggy stage.
It has became habit for me to save my work and restart the app often and as a result I hardly experience any lag anymore. It seems to work for a lot of people.
I wish Affinity would have been open and advised people of this temporary workaround, it would have saved months of frustration and I am sure people would have appreciated and understood it.
isn't this default behavior for anyone how have used windows in the past 15-20 years?
The only think I did differently it was that I though at first it was a windows 11 thing and restarted the whole system.
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if minutes can turn to hours, I will be happy
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yeah so far seems like something in windows versions, how I wish I have gone for the universal license now
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offline activation for V2?
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I never said it was not subscription, I specifically said that they pulled the site as it was and now you can only use the mockups though canva, that is you can't download them to work in photoshop for example.
The "canva website" means use only with canva withing canva. And the smartmockups are no more.