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I doubt anyone will decide at this exact moment. I am sure I am good with Affinity for couple of years. What future will bring nobody really knows. I do not trust promises cause I heard many in past, and things went opposite way. Did not witness that promises were kept, yet. Might be different with Affinity. Hope is there.

This is false. I installed it and it has been used in our studio on 4 Linux variants without problems, See, some companies are doing their work to meet costumer need, other just find excuses.

Pledge does not mean much to me to be honest. Google XSI for example. After bunch of pledges Autodesk killed it overnight. I heard similar pledges for other 3D app I use and 5+ years after acquisition they are struggling to survive. Everything was ok first year, than all of the sudden ceo, and some devs were exited. From pledge to be perpetual now there is sub only. If 10% of devs, that started developing that app, work now I would be surprised. Now this does not mean same will happen to Affinity, of course. But thing is that now everything is driven by profit investors expecting. Things can change overnight and none of the pledges are followed at that moment ...

Will keep Affinity until it hits subscription only mode. Than it will be, probably, 'Back to Adobe'. I did try open source alternatives, like Inkscape and Gimp, but those are good for simple to medium level tasks. It is nightmare to work on a bit larger projects ...

Honestly Ash this is not first time I am seeing this, and none of what you say now, really kept. All of the software that I use, and that were purchased like this, end up as only subscription model, and their development pace was cut half. Same talk. Same promises and wishes, and outcome is always the same. It would be huge surprise for me that different happens to Affinity.

It really depends on the industry. Devs are mostly using Linux and OSX. VfX industry is dominantly Linux. Graphic/design industry is mostly Windows and OSX. Servers are Linux 99.999%, but that is really not important for us, desktop users. I think Linux is fine with Inkscape that delivers most of what is required by graphic artist. It suffers from two things though. 1. Collaboration with Adobe is not great and 2. working with larger files is not close as performant as in Adobe and Affinity products. But if they manage to organize like Blender Foundation did, and focus on these two things, they could replicate Blender success.

Thanks. Downloaded trial and it does what I need. Can link afdesing files with Picture frame. Will deal with separating PDFs with Designer or Photo. Will do the job! Buying it.

I am researching if Publisher is right tool for task I have. I nee to create bunch of PDFs, with data from CVS. So basically have one layout, some text and drawing needs to be different for every PDF. I was thinking to create using Data merge option. Now have some questions. Is it possible to link PDFs? I want to use CSV data to fill design, and want to insert/link PDF (like I would image), but would also use path form CSV so every page would have different PDF linked. It would be even better if I could do that with Designer files directly, as drawings I need to link are made with Designer and exported as PDF. Also is it possible to export every page as separate PDF? Like in batch, or need to do it one by one?

I would do just Flatpak. There is no need to complicate things.

Here is also this. https://www.omglinux.com/devs-prefer-linux-to-mac-stackoverflow-survey/

In VfX Linux is mostly used platform. Apps like Nuke, MARI, Houdini are built on Linux than ported to other platforms. I worked in facilities with few hundred seats where 95% of them were Linux (which is same in most VfX facilities). We had several Win or OSX seats just for Adobe products (mostly PS for concept artists). For example, Weta, most of their workstations are Linux. If you want to work there as 3d artist, Linux knowledge is preferable skill.

This is reason why I will not upgrade Affinity. I have one Windows workstation and two with Ubuntu installed. At this moment, for my type of work (3D artist) Fusion and DaVinci are doing most of the work I need (yes they support Linux), even for static images. Krita covers the rest. I had to find alternative, as often I am working on laptop with Ubuntu. And than I moved that workflow to Windows workstation too.

Unfortunately nothing works on many objects ... I have a lot of package designs that I need to align and this issue always comes up. If you have group of objects or just select few of them, Designer will only snap to bounding boxes. Ridiculous..

To add salt to the wound ... Why Designer does not want to snap to objects/curves that are inside group?

Thanks for this. I have rather complex scenes, but I think this will help.