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hmmm... dont know where your .pdf do come from, but the ones i've tried from CDR, AI or ID opened each page separately - but there was none with 84 of them ... maybe you could make a try opening the pages one by one?

oh my god... theres something i forgot to mention: the scanner has to have back-lit functionality - otherwise it wont work for film! sorry not to mention that before -_-

there used to be dedicated film-scanners if that is what you are searching for... had one of them some times ago, but thats only worth it if you would have a real huge amount of negatives. and yes, this one could batch-scan complete strips automatically and as well correct them and turn them to positives. dont know whats out there at the moment for this task, but they used to be quite expensive. if you only have to scan some of the negatives i would recommend doing this manually with a common flatbed-scanner and then maybe at least do some batch-processing within AP? alternatively there are suppliers here and there who can do this for you at an affordable price. maybe you have the chance find one next to you?

theres something in windows thats called 'twain' i think to get access to scanner etc. (couldnt find something like that in affinity - but might due to that i havent installed it...) but honestly - as that didnt never worked quite well (at last for me) i never really used that option for years (if not ever). so for me it always was the far better and hassle-free way to scan with the software provided by the scanner. scan to your desired options within this, save the result in an appropriate folder and finally import it into your document. maybe a little bit more time-consuming and not the most comfortable way, but far more reliable, more predictable and no headaches ;) .

... not shure if i understood right, but sounds like this should be easily achieveable by simply switching layers visibility on or off? assumed your layers settings allowing to do that - at least thats what i am doing so far in PS for this :).

as described already in another thread here, i am encountering (strange?) problems with colors in both designer and photo, especially for cymk-colours. they kind of 'burn out' and are far too vibrant, so theres no way working with because they not nearly match whats expected. rgb seems quite right to me so far, but i have to use both affinitys mainly for cymk-workflows regarding print. so i have some questions that may be answered to get a grip on this and hopefully find a way towards a solution. 1. there are two options for rgb-profiles, one is called 'rgbu' - what do they exaclty refer to, and what is the difference between them regarding the use within affinity. more simple: why there are two? 2. is there any way, affinity works different regarding color-management than other applications like the adobe ones or corel does? the reason behind this is: the latter seems to do it right and (cymk-) colors are more or less close on screen - but not so in AF, although the profiles are set consistend and are the same thoughout all applications. 3. normally i would assume, all applications are using the screen-profiles that are defined in settings within OS - or win7 in this case. that means: every application uses this (in this case custom calibrated) profile as a basis to render according to the profiles set within the application itself... any other thing for affinity? so what is completely driving me nuts is the fact, that i cant get affinity to show only slightly correct colors for cymk... and i dont have any clue why. the awful thing is, that when emulating a srgb-space on my wide-gammut-monitors it seems to work far better, but i cant believe affinity wont be able to handle wide-gammut spaces... affinity (at least designer) is buildt to use for design & graphics of course. and while print is (still) some great part of that i believe that one should be able to work within cymk without that hassle and be able to get a correct color-preview on screen even for that. right? so the question to me is whats going wrong in that case??? is it affinity? is it me? is it another hard- or software? currently i am running out of ideas, but i have to solve this! any hints and thoughts highly appreciated and thanks in advance if more info is needed please be so kind and simply ask for it :-)

... forget to mention: in this case it might also be a very good idea to do some proofing before final print. that makes results far more predictable! think the print company might do that for you too. and... dont know what machines or technique they use, but sometimes its worth being on location when the first prints are done if this is possible (mostly should if its nearby).

... that seems to be more of a question in loosing colors not really quality. adobe rgb can 'reproduce' far more colors in some areas then CYMK does, mostly first recognizeable within blue imho. dont know your files, so its up to you to make a before/after version and see whats happening. theres no such thing as 'the best way' to do so - just try and compare visually. 16bit mode might help sometimes, but affinity isnt capable of that right now as is seems... so you have to try out and see what might get lost. :)

hmmm... theres some truth in it, and i think thats my fault - but my disappointment not beeing able to kick off those nasty adobes etc. right now, was (is) really big :) is there any way to change the title over again?

yeah - this seems to be. sad again :huh: @nezumi - hmmm. is 'fanboy' more childish rhetoric than 'drama-queen'? sorry if i hit you with that. i didnt meant to. sorry. i apologize and thank you sincerely for your kind advice you've given. i dont know who you are - you dont know who am i, but one thing seems to be quite sure - you still have to learn something: reading (carefully), understanding and of course reading between the lines. that might help you further on. anyway. im not here to discuss or fight in such an unobjective manner. you started it, now you want to finish it. thats o.k. lets put that silliness to a rest. agreed. and if we can do one another one more favour (or lets call it gentlemen agreement) - lets stay out of each others posts. alright? live long and prosper. thanks again for your invest and kind regards. :rolleyes: thanks for every other remark. i appreciate that, even if it might not be helpful in means of a direct way.

seems an interesting thing i've started here ... :-) come on guys - why so haffy? whats that kind of forums? pure fan-boy-base or real exchange place? some replies just sound like i was bashing something... calm down and read again, that might help. 'drama-queen'? really nice term, but no real hit - and 'drama-mode', dear nezumi, is something completely different! (attention: exclamation-mark again). tend to think your reply is quite more close to that... no? yeah, in fact i am sad about what i've experienced up till now. and only re-reply to one thing that really startled me (as well as your kind reply): yes its true - the startup time especially of designer is ... really immense. no clue for that, but real. sorry. and yes - AI, PS and CDR only take seconds. real and sorry again. if you have read my post well enough, there wouldnt have been any need for any offense. again: i appreciate whats going on opposits of adobe and corel, and i honour that theres a competitor coming up! yes, affinity is still young. and yes, its not that big player as the old bulls. but is that an excuse? and if - for what? affinity themselves claim to be professional software - 'made by professionals for professionals'. so what? no complaints about because its 'professional'? ... because its 'still young'? not mentioning any problems or issues, only not to get offended? or for the sake of the developers, not to get bothered with (this time) disappointed users? they wont learn from those who are only clapping hands and praise their greatness. they deserve commendation, sure. but they deserve even more the experience of sad users and their honest feelings when facing things they never expected - and that tiny ugly color thing is one of those. i am using graphics and photo-editing software for more than 25 years, and its the first time i'm running into this. o.k., always sometimes its time for the first time. but i did not expect that from an upcoming professional software like ... and if so, it might have been more appropriate for a hint what might going wrong? dont know. sorry. maybe i've read just too much of praises and thank-you's to the developers and being therefore thus disappointed? maybe its just my fault to believe this would be easy. at least not the last. btw... did i mention that i'll stick to the buy in regards of honouring the develpment? thought i did. and all the time i am asking myself, where or when i might have mentioned affinity is 'sooooo bad'? for sure its not! (...another one of those omnious exclamation-marks btw.) it might be great, but theres at least some serious issue going on with color management, beside some minor others that empedes or at least makes it difficult for professional use by me (!) explanations already given above. no. i did not want to be offense. i just was... disappointed. yes. and i am still. but theres hope (as AF is still young - someone mentioned that... somewhere?) and i like the thought some near days it might do a big step to the better. very much indeed. meanwhile i will keep on trying to get things worked out and stick to it (affinity). i dearly promise. what i dont like is the sound of some replys here. but hey: thats not the end of affinity (nor of the world) that myself is having some problems with it and especially with using for professional stuff. so make some tea, eat a cookie or two and the worlds o.k. again. alright? thanks for attention and have a nice day. ahhh - and thanks of course also for those kind replys too. ps: i still wont hate it if someone might have any clue or if any mod or developer might join in on occasion. :-)

??? sorry - i dont think you have read all of my post correctly! neighter am i biased nor having distorted look. but theres a problem (at least one big!) i highly appreciate the efforts of serif - but the only thing i claimed is the fact that its not useable for professional use and replace of adobe/corel so far... for me! and i think the color thing is something to be solved, the more as the developers claim it to be 'used by professionals' - so what you are trying to tell? maybe theres some misunderstanding going o on your side? sincerely - i am not a fan of adobe or corel (the longer the less!) but i am forced to use them for work until a solution comes up that can beat them. hoped this may be affinity, but its not... so far. thats all i claimed, and would be very happy if at least the color-problem could be solved to try further. which is what i want. no pun - just practical considerations!!

... same thing encountered here. hardly being able to reproduce exact color values on export for jpgs and pngs for web ... (having completely calibrated enviroment, works great for adobe and corel!) :huh:

//EDIT: formerly known as 'the big disappointment'// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- dont know if i am in the right place for my complaints, admins just might feel free to change the category. ust tried the designer/photo-combo. although theres actually no trial available, the current offer made me weak. so bought both and the book, installed and ... just got quite disappointed! having a approved win7pro 64bit-system with two calibrated nec spectraview reference monitors, calibrated epson 3880 printer and soft-rip for cmyk proofing. this setup is reliable, well maintained and flawlessly working with adobe illustrator, photoshop, indesign and lightroom as well as corel draw for dtp and photo editing same as web development. every application is giving consistent results under the given color management enviroment. thus said before describing the affinity-experiences to indicate this might be not a newbies issue ... so to af designer and photo: first serious issue i am encountering is a quite incorrect color presentation when using cymk-incorpotated files. colors here are far to vibrant and quite "over the top". looks like viewing a rgb-pic under wrong conditions as wide-gammut with no correction. profiles set throughout all applications are eciRGB or srgb/adobe rgb respective iso coated/uncoated v2. as long as in rgb, affinity follows the other applications - completely going nuts in cymk. every application does this great too, exept for the affinitys. theres 'flashing' colors that neighter represent the correct appearance nor theire useable in any way. as the color management setup showed absolutely no problems so far, i assume the problem is up to affinity. having hardware calibrated monitors with 16bit lut, and experiencing affinity isnt able to handle existing 16bit cymk tifs too, there might be something that affinity cant handle regarding the monitor-assigned profiles? btw: when i am applying a srgb-emulation to one of the monitors (as i am doing when developing for web) the colors in affinity are getting better for cymk... but that cant be the solution, as this is not useable for all other applications which can handle the monitor profiles the right way. switching my monitor profiles to native srgb as suggested in some other threads, changes nothing at all. apart from that it cant be managed that way through windows due to hardware-calibration. so what does affinity wrong? affinity is praysed for being used by professionals, but how would they, experiencing such issues?? maybe its me whos doing something wrong with affinity, but why does it work well with all other programs??? any hint for maybe overlooked things highly appreciated. theres some other things too, i've experienced already within the first few hours: - no support for 16bit cymk tif-files (big downpoint, as there are many) - no color control/preview when exporting bitmaps /.png/.jpg (which is quite sad too when theres no consistent color-conversion as it seems) - no recognition of postscript-printer (soft-rip) and available deactivation of printer profile (because colors are handled by rip - adobe does this as well as corel...) - no option for printing without profile overall - quite important for printing calibration targets for profiling (as well as targeting the rip) ... - no color inspection tool without clicking (like info-panel in adobe, or maybe havent just found yet) - using exported corel-files as .ai does not work in affinity, have to save them in ai again. great clincher as well. - the dark ui has far to harsh contrasts, especially within menus - startup-time is worse 30-40 sec plus on a real fast engine (plenty of ram plus ssd - adobe and corel only takes a fraction of it) - ...? having just made simple setup and some research, maybe ill find other issues, maybe experiencing some change to the better, but so far there isnt much hope i am able to replace my print workflow with affinity at all. if this problems (at least the color-thing) wont be solved soon, theres no way using affinity for (my) cymk-workflow. and if this persists until the upcoming publisher is revealed, it will be unuseable for this too! really would be glad being able to dismiss adobe and corel (the sooner the better), but obviously theres completely no way for that up till now ... so at the moment regarding the buy as kind of support for affinity and ongoing development to the better... and: hoping for production-useable versions within version 1. sad. and just as a remark: its quite a pity one cant order designer, photo and book within one single subscription - maybe i am too dumb for, but it required three individual oders to get all of them... and - it may be some good idea for the future to offer bundles (once they work correctly of course!).

o.k. thanks for feedback so far. after researching some days within forums etc. theres some more light - but only some ... trial: thats kind of 'dont know what to say' :) was obviously already announced weeks ago and still not there... hmmm. how should i know if cant try??? corel-file support: its getting quite hard to migrate when theres no real option!! going the way over AI and the import to affinity is likely to get things even more worse by jumping around between different file-formats. not to mention the amount of work and time ... so thats really bad news! same for .dxf-support (which is used often here for laser-cutting and -markers)! further i discovered, that there will be issues regarding support of summa cutters, as theres no real and easy implementation so far - wich is another downpoint by now. have to investigate more on that ... and: i am missing a real clear plan regarding future payments or plans for complete bundles with designer/photo and upcomming publisher. so far cant believe it will be free forever if paid once ... ? so at this point i am not quite sure if one could really dismiss CD, AI and PS? seems not possible as a complete changeover at the moment. mostly for photo, but there theres obviously no seamless integration so far with the last standalone of adobe - lightroom (which i definitely dont want to change by now). so at the end theres some open points concerning a complete 'goodbye' to corel and adobe. would be really great if that would change in the near future! at the moment affinity seems to be a real good alternative for those who are starting from scratch or havent much archives or a build up workflow with many things to consider. but i fear affinity wont get all the others who are having such and have to rely on a stable and existing working process. and i assume there are lots of 'one-man-shows' and small-business-offices out there that would be really glad to kick off the 'big ones' more sooner than later and could get rid of their user-unfriendly (and most likely arrogant) behaviour. as it seems theres no easy seamless 'jump-over' possible for now - or at least one thats possibly a less painful one. so i think serif has a bit of more work to do before they could take over all of those dissappointed adobe and corel-users that are willing to leave but cant without much pain, due to lack of integration possibilities ... still will have a permanent eye on this, and the sooner complaints will be wiped out, the better! B) EDIT: ahhh - forgot one thing... photo seems not to be able of handling smart-objects from PS. bad again, cause used a lot too. and thats quite a big point regarding the use of mockups etc ...

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hi there, stumbled upon this already some time ago, but it seems now is the time to try! adobe AI/ID and PS gets out of focus due to their inacceptable price- and subscriptions-politics, CD gets more and more annoying too due to price reasons plus lack of stability and real development ... so as AF looks really promising it might worth trying, what leads to the first question: where can one grab trials for designer and photo??? this is really mandatory, but none to find ... second thing: as a huge amount of designs and drafts were done in corel over the last years it would be more than just helpful to have a import option for that!! not really demanded for any complex things, but paths, colors and of course fonts should be imported flawlessly. in other words - portability depends quite a bit on this feature. as theres no such thing at the moment (or i may have overlooked that) it is quite important to know when it will be available. thanks in advance for short reply.