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    Bryce got a reaction from nezumi in Canva   
    What a stupid post. No logic whatsoever.
    "I went to Serif and their software does 99% of what I need. I switched because It wasn't Adobe and now I'm going to Adobe because I received an email about a company change, yet I live in a bubble and only came here to complain when the email came."
    You don't care but you do care, we're not sure what about though. You've never heard of Canva but you know it's so bad that you reactivated Adobe, going back to the giant corporation you hated, even though Affinity was paid and it works for you????
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    Bryce reacted to Bryan Rieger in Canva   
    As I seem to have no more reactions available to me today, I'm just going to echo both @R C-R and @debraspicher's comments. Getting a handle on the ever increasing bug count and prioritizing stability must be a priority going forward.
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    Bryce reacted to pixelstuff in Canva   
    Didn't the acquisition announcement say they were keeping the Affinity branding? Canva might be aiming for a StanleyBlack&Decker kind of company that also makes Dewalt, Irwin, Craftsman, tools. Maybe Canva wants the Affinity team to develop their professional line of tools under the Affinity branding and plans to carve out a segment of their cloud infrastructure to be branded as the Affinity cloud services. They might still have a "Canva templates" persona or module that can be opened in the Affinity apps though.
    To me that seems like a better branding move than renaming everything as Canva Photo, Canva Designer, and Canva Publisher.
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    Bryce got a reaction from RichardMH in Canva   
    Someone forge to take their meds?
    Seriously?
    I woke up this morning and found that my Affinity software worked the same as it did Monday morning. What the heck? With the bridge collapsing, the dollar dropping and Serif's announcement yesterday I thought that the world came to an end. Yet, the garden is still growing and Affinity will still make me money as it did every other day (If I can stay off the stupid thread).
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    Bryce got a reaction from NewInBoston in Canva   
    Someone forge to take their meds?
    Seriously?
    I woke up this morning and found that my Affinity software worked the same as it did Monday morning. What the heck? With the bridge collapsing, the dollar dropping and Serif's announcement yesterday I thought that the world came to an end. Yet, the garden is still growing and Affinity will still make me money as it did every other day (If I can stay off the stupid thread).
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    Bryce got a reaction from Tickedon in Canva   
    Someone forge to take their meds?
    Seriously?
    I woke up this morning and found that my Affinity software worked the same as it did Monday morning. What the heck? With the bridge collapsing, the dollar dropping and Serif's announcement yesterday I thought that the world came to an end. Yet, the garden is still growing and Affinity will still make me money as it did every other day (If I can stay off the stupid thread).
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    Bryce got a reaction from Dee3D in Canva   
    yes. I've been using Serif since PagePlus 2. It was my alternative to Aldus Pagemaker 4.
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    Bryce got a reaction from henryanthony in Canva   
    Someone forge to take their meds?
    Seriously?
    I woke up this morning and found that my Affinity software worked the same as it did Monday morning. What the heck? With the bridge collapsing, the dollar dropping and Serif's announcement yesterday I thought that the world came to an end. Yet, the garden is still growing and Affinity will still make me money as it did every other day (If I can stay off the stupid thread).
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    Bryce got a reaction from mjh in Canva   
    yes. I've been using Serif since PagePlus 2. It was my alternative to Aldus Pagemaker 4.
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    Bryce reacted to GenewalDesign in Canva   
    But you'll keep posting here, uh? 😁
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    Bryce reacted to Ash in Canva   
    Yes I do! Realise there seems to be a distinct lack of faith flying around here, but we'll be revealing more about our plans in the coming days and yes I'm sure you will all be pleased with what we have to say.
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    Bryce reacted to Strangechilde in Canva   
    Well, I won't be dropping Affinity now. I do wish you folks at Serif all the best and I hope you will be able to continue to develop your software in the same direction you have been all these years. Your product is good-- very good. I know of nothing else that has the capability of the Affinity suite at the same level of accessibility. I am, like almost everyone else here, not hopeful for the future as far as this accessibility goes. When Affinity goes subscription, I will not go with it. I could not even if I wanted to. This is a hard barrier, and not just for me.
    My greater, more global concern is the steady erosion of good tools into the grand miasma of same-same Insta-friendly bland brandification of everything. What if we just don't want any of this stuff?
    I use image editing tools in a creative capacity. I have absolutely zero interest in anything Canva, or anything like it, has to offer. I exercise this preference by not using Canva. It's pretty easy, and I have everything I need with Affinity Photo and Designer. If I'm forced into the eternal christmas bliss of AI generated personal branding monetisations solutions, I'm not sure where I'm supposed to go to get out. I do hope there will be a way for those of us who are not on that train to stay where we are.
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    Bryce got a reaction from kirloi in Canva   
    As a small business owner I understand the need to made money. I hope that Serif had always been making money.
    I've been with Serif since 1992 - when I was still in high school - It was my alternative to Pagemaker. It was not Aldus or Adobe. It was a deliberate choice - and I loved having that big thick paper manual of PagePlus 2.0 I've supported it ever since. Along the way PagePlus lost it's way and became just small updates each time but then Affinity came along and WOW! Serif was back with a new vision - one that included Macs, which was desperately needed if Serif would ever became a real alternative to Adobe in the graphic arts world.
    During this time, and still, I have a subscription to Adobe, but really only use it impositions of files made in Affinity.
    I've always been the supporter of the "little guy". The alternative to Adobe that basically took over all of graphic design. Then when Adobe decided they weren't making enough money and took out Pantone, it confirmed Serif was doing the right thing. It was about principled software by designers for designers. It's the basic fact that smaller companies have to listen to their customers. Larger companies listen to their blackrock and vanguard shareholders.
    With the acquisition by Canva we users are all concerned that our investment in Serif may no longer support the development of good software.
    Please always keep in mind what got Serif where it is today.
     
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    Bryce reacted to TonyO in Canva   
    I'm mixed on this. Canva was a surprising partner announcement, it's not the professional partner i would expect Affinity to connect with. I wouldn't associate Canva with professional software. BUT if it's simply Canva wanting to put it's name on professional software and dumping tons of money at the Affinity team with the hopes that Ash and the crew will still stay true to their values, that might be a good thing. I would love to see a few more advanced, hard to code tools come to the suite such as vector tracing and AI upscaling. 

    As for the subtle hints that future versions wouldn't follow the old buy once forever philosophy, honestly i wouldn't mind paying for an Affinity subscription if it was fairly priced, this software has helped me make a whole side business of selling stock illustrations, and I've always thought it was a little under priced for the power it offers. 

    I got my fingers crossed, but I'm keeping realistic expectations. 
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    Bryce reacted to kimtorch in Scripting   
    Here's a typical workflow for us (we're a newspaper/magazine publishing company). Editorial is written in a (proprietary) app running MySQL (most editorial systems do similar). The writers never open InDesign.
    A section will be applied to stories (Front Page, EGN, Real Estate, Features, Entertainment, Sport etc) In our particular case, we apply styles based on section. EG. Front page heading might be Helvetica Black at 120/110 where basic news might be Helv. Bold 72/70. Captions will be different as will Bylines and Intros. This general style is set as soon as they select the Section but editorial staff can also add styles to any word or text run and custom tags will be added to the text. If we want a word in Bold for instance, it might be simply enclosed in <b></b> tags which are interpreted by the app into correct InDesign tags before insertion into the database. This is all handled by the app - editorial staff never have to enter any tags. It also calculates depth and shows previews so they can be sure sizing is correct (they can manually over-ride a heading for instance)
    Once the story is saved to the database, a companion app is used to call stories onto the page. It creates (by script) the required frames and labels them with the Story_ID, partID (Heading, Sub Head, Caption, Intro, Body, pull-quote, Cross Head etc). Then the story is placed (by script) and the tags are interpreted by InDesign so the text is formatted exactly to style - regardless of which section they've chosen. Editorial staff know nothing about styles, they simply allocate stories to the correct section.
    The real beauty of this is it requires NO styles to be set-up in InDesign - so no, it doesn't map existing styles - it is totally independent of character or paragraph styles and can be done on a brand new machine with a clean install and still work.
    It also handles updates and corrections. If a journalist changes a story, removes words, changes sections or italicises different words in a story that will all be reflected when the story is re-imported and the text will always be formatted correctly. Updated stories are flagged in the Place app so prepress people know they need to be updated.
    I should point out it places images and brings them in with styled captions. It has functions to send directly to Wordpress (and Apple News) and the styles are automatically translated - although these are mapped to the existing styles on those platforms.
    Everything I've said, importing text, setting styles, linking captions with their images, styling heading, sub headings, intros, bylines and body text is ALL done with scripting and tags. Scripting in professional publishing isn't about creating fractals and pretty lines. It NEEDS to be able to manage large quantities of text and format it seamlessly.
    Here's another example. Someone builds a 400 page catalog. All the data is in a database with tags. It can be flowed onto pages, frames created and labeled based on sku numbers, text formatted, images placed and styles and colours applied based on the section of the catalog. You could potentially build the entire thing in a few minutes.
    I appreciate you're trying to get this working but I'm not sure exactly which users you're trying to engage with. This has been one of my concerns since starting this thread - many of the people commenting sound like they have never scripted Quark or InDesign - they seem more intent on pushing their favourite programming language.  
    I'm sorry if I'm sounding harsh but I'm staggered the functionality of scripted document production and tagged text needs to be explained. It's really automated publishing 101.
    The line in your post I find most interesting is "We're software developers not publishers". This is why you need to be talking to publishers. Do you think Adobe created InDesign without speaking to Quark users?
    The reason our system works so well is because it was written by someone who had more than 20 years experience in publishing before starting it. You're never going to satisfy users if you don't know what they need.
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    Bryce reacted to NathanC in Did something break in 2.11 or am I losing my mind?   
    HI @Bryce,
    Definitely not forgotten, i've updated the exiting issue to reflect the fact that it still affects 2.2.0 and the thread has been tagged, if there are any further updates on the issue the Serif info bot will automatically update the thread.
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    Bryce got a reaction from walt.farrell in Save As starts in folder the file is saved in   
    @walt.farrell
    This one:
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    Bryce got a reaction from Dan C in Save As starts in folder the file is saved in   
    @walt.farrell
    This one:
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    Bryce reacted to Ash in 2.2 Beta Build 3 (1931)   
    Hi All,
    We have just begun rolling out a new beta build - version number 2.2.0.1931 - which should become available to you on auto-update over the next hour
    Three new features are included in this build:
    Object creation data entry Move tool data entry OCIO v2 support added And some other feature improvements which are worth drawing your attention to:
    Find and Replace now includes the additional scope options of 'Section" and 'Page' 'Hide Effects" and "Greyscale' view mode options are now available as optional toolbar buttons. Additionally these view modes (as well as all other Designer view mode options previously only available in Designer) have now been added to Publisher. You can now both insert anchors and link to them from data merge fields. There are also a lot of fixes which have gone in since the last build which will be listed on the bug fix list post .
    Important: PDF Password feature
    While this build does include many fixes for PDF password, we have decided to drop this feature from 2.2. The feature is still available in this build, but will be removed in the next one. For that reason we're going to hide the feature thread and ask that no more reports are made on this feature. 
    Apologies if this causes some disappointment, but we feel we need a little more time to solve some of the problems being reported. We certainly anticipate this will be available again at the start of the 2.3 beta and that it can make the 2.3 release.
    Thanks,
    Ash
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    Bryce reacted to MiWe in Expand Stroke Crash   
    Tried to replicate this on an Windows 10 machine using Designer 2.11 …
    Works – i get the strokes as separate curves – until i try to undo with CTRL-Z: Crash.
    Greetings
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    Bryce reacted to Oufti in Out of Gamut query + 100% black text   
    We could distinguish:
    Colour model is the general "language" in which colours are defined in an image. — https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/Clr/ClrModels.html
    Pixels can be defined either:
    by only a bit each (solid black/white only) — FWIK, this is not available in Affinity. by a byte or two (gray scale/8 or grayscale/16) — which means that the range from 0% to 100% is represented by values between 0 and 255, or 16535.  by a byte, or two, for each of the three colour channels RGB by a byte for each of the four CMYK channels by two bytes for Lab colour space  
    Colour spaces are representations of all the different colours reproducible (gamut) in a certain colour model, for certain circumstances or devices. — https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/Clr/aboutClrSpaces.html 
    You could compare it to a dictionnary…
    They are specified in the Colour profiles (hence a common confusion. But sometimes, the term Colour space is also used in place of Colour model…)
     
    Colour profiles specify which "flavour" (which accent, like Scottish or Australian, if we think about colour model as a language) of the colour model will be used and then ensure comprehension. — https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/Clr/ClrProfiles.html
    They can be generic, standard or device specific.
    They will match colours indicated in the document to an absolute reference colour space, according to their own colour space.
    They are used to determine which exact value(s) (between 0–255) will be used to represent a specific colour in a certain colour space, corresponding to a specific technique (e.g. sheet offset printing with US inks on uncoated paper) or machine.
    ++++++++++++
    Actually, not exactly. 
    Last century, usual workflow was to require prepress operators to separate images in CMYK values, leaving them this responsibility. 
    Since colour management systems were better understood, RGB workflow — up to the last export — has been increasingly common, but there are still old printers, old machines, and old habits! 
    ++++++++++
    My practical advice
    You coud certainly ask your printer to make himself the RGB-CMYK conversion (I agree with you it's a task to leave to professionals mastering it), but then you should offer him a special fee for this extra task. He will generally do it benevolently but will nonetheless appreciate your proposition… 
    +++++++++
    BTW, about the "mathematically impossible 300%"… I give you a full bag of cherries, a full bag of plums and a full bag of apples. You then have three full bags…   
    If you have 75% of ink coverage for each of the CMY colours and 100% of black, you'll have 325% total ink coverage on the paper.
    Adding blue and red inks under black is used to reinforce the darkest parts of an image: you'll get a richer black, with profound nuances. 
    But this is not recommended for tiny elements, like text, for registration problems (misalignments between colours).
    More than 300-330% (or about, depending on the paper, inks, etc.) of total ink coverage will not dry correctly and maculate.
    Colour profile used when converting from the RGB colour space to CMYK can check and manage this. 
     
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    Bryce reacted to Return in Expand Stroke Crash   
    Crashed instantly on win 11
    2.1 and 2.2 beta this by selecting all objects>expand stroke.
    If one at a time it works without a hitch.
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    Bryce reacted to Bit Disappointed in Expand Stroke Crash   
    Ah - it was extremely easy to figure out what was causing this crash:
    Inspect visually whats special about these ellipses... Two seconds later... Aha! Make new document and create an ellipse and from the appearance panel add an additional stroke (Result: 2 strokes, one fill) Duplicate Select both Expand stroke  💣  💣  💣  💣  So expand stroke crashes when it tries to handle several objects with at least two strokes.
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    Bryce got a reaction from Chris26 in Out of Gamut query + 100% black text   
    If you have Acrobat you can view the separations and your ink percentages in your PDF before you send it. I recommend letting the printer do the color separations unless you know how the subtractive spectrum and printing work. Keep your "darks" in your picture to no more than 300% if printing offset.
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    Bryce reacted to Hangman in Did something break in 2.11 or am I losing my mind?   
    This is a definite regression, like you say, it works correctly in v2.0.4.
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