NewInBoston
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1 minute ago, AffinityMakesMeSad said:
No, they haven't had ANY cash flow problem in Serif Ltd recently - this small company has made 45 million pounds (50m dollar) real profit last three years, so, that has not certainly been the problem...
Key word: never.
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1 minute ago, esto said:
From a 'looking into a business strategy crystal ball' perspective, pledge 3 is interesting. If it gets carried out, it would suggest that Canva have plans to penetrate Adobe's market by offering the Affinity suite as a mature professional-standard competitor in schools and other training environments (as opposed to just pushing Canva as the main product). This could be healthy for Affinity, in that Canva may see a long-term benefit in keeping it alive and actively developed.
But as many have said, pledged (and predictions!) aren't worth an awful lot, so we'll just have to wait and see. Hope for the best, plan for that worst, and all that...
Agree. Affinity has little traction in mainstream professional application. I have yet to see a job requirement stating Affinity Suite. It's always Adobe. This needs to change and breaking into education is one way to remedy this. Also, there are so many different workflow improvements I can think of if Affinity is able to connect to Canva API.
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3 hours ago, Ash said:
To followup on some of my comments yesterday, we are today enshrining our commitment to the Affinity community in 4 pledges made by the Affinity and Canva teams.
You can read about them here.
We do truly believe the coming together of Affinity and Canva is only going to be a good thing for our customers, staff and the development of our apps. We very much hope you will all continue to be with us on this journey.All the best,
Ash
Very uplifting news. Also, at least Affinity will never have cash flow issues, something that can be a very real obstacle for smaller software companies.
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6 minutes ago, jonwright said:
Don't worry guys, AI will decimate the industry within five years anyway. There won't even be any point to software by then.
This. It all may be a moot point, in the end. Still, 800mil + offer when facing down the barrel of an AI supernova facing the industry, they would be fools to not merge. This might be the best for all of us, in the end. We just don't know it.
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Better Canva than Adobe. Affinity being a small team put us all in a more vulnerable position. This does help reinforce the walls so to speak, and before reading the entire letter I did think cloud possibilities.
At the moment this could go both ways. There is now a 100% chance that small, agile companies will be bought out eventually, but Canvas has a lot to gain by NOT being Adobe, and I think they know this.
and besides, when is the last time you explored job openings and saw "must know Affinity Suite" as part of the requirements? This might change that making our favorite tool more mainstream.
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31 minutes ago, Artsketch said:
It is what it is. Let's focus on making V2 even better
Well met, let’s keep creating.
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16 hours ago, Artsketch said:
This does not convince me.
Which part? The Apple ToS (real), or something else?
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58 minutes ago, Artsketch said:
The simplest solution would have been to add an IN APP button for discounted purchase of the new features to V1. New customers would have been able to buy the apps at the new price. Just like others do, despite app stores. Instead of disappointing some loyal customers, or even making them enemies. Unwise marketing.
Ash posted a response to the in app purchase critique which I find more than reasonable. Did you happen to read it? Here is a link to the post.
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On 11/26/2022 at 5:41 AM, Ali said:
This is why I left and didn't post for a long time. I have only returned because of the V2 release, but am now about to remove my bookmark to the forum (again). It seems to be full of trolls these days, and some particularly nasty ones.
It’s the Great Peasants’ Revolt. I guess that comes with having such a low barrier to entry all these years.
Oh well, maybe by V3 the peasants will have left.
Hold the line 💪
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1 hour ago, loukash said:
It's a display bug. I vaguely remember it's been already reported and likely logged. In any case I remember to have posted to such a bug report a few weeks ago.
In other words, no conspiracy, no evil deeds. Just a simple bug.
Good to hear. I also noticed it felt a bit off, and seem to consistently miss nesting/mask/group target.
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5 hours ago, Gianni Becattini said:
No, Boston, you are wrong seeing a bad willing from my side. I decided to buy the new release in first moment I sow it. As I said, software development costs.... The biggest point is selling something that does not work correctly. I believe that if you buy a dishwasher that chops your dishes, you were not happy. My company manages electronic payments. If we loose your money, are you going to simply forgive us?
The other point is that many of us hoped that the new update could bring features that we were expecting since years. "Hundredths of improvements". A Publisher V2 not able to simply cross-reference pages as it should? Even free packages do that. You must admit that it is a bit disappointing, isn't it?
In my absolutely personal opinion that I hope does not offend you or others, it is a mistake, more than a trick, to use the trust of the customers to sell something that was not adequately tested. I should have been more prudent before buying, you are absolutely right. And obviously I will try to be not so dumb in the future.
This should be your main post thesis, I would not have commented.
I can empathize with you, fair points. I don’t agree with them, but that’s your right.
But this is not affecting everyone so I am not sure it is the right approach to call Serif untrustworthy due to isolated experiences. I also would love a bug free experience for all software I use, but that is not the case.
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44 minutes ago, debraspicher said:
That's a lot of words just to say "My needs are more important than others, therefore I can be disrespectful towards anyone whenever I please".
I peaked at their history before posting. There's no character assassinations in his posts. They clearly have a language barrier, but in your eyes it means a free pass to treat another human being like literal dogcrap. "Next".
No, not at all. And you did this last thread to another user - appeal to victim status. I don’t have the habit of seeing others as disadvantaged, to me the writing was clear.
Hailing for technical support (which everyone here supports) is not the same as what was posted.
My writing is blunt but civil. Rants posted on a public forum are not free of criticism. Thanks for reeeeeeeeading!
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3 hours ago, debraspicher said:
Perfectly valid opinion to hold. Just ignore the trolling. There's a few people who will brigade posts and there's not much that can be done about it. Serif doesn't moderate the forums (that I can tell), but they're likely reading your posts. There's many posts like this that have been made, so you're not in some kind of minority. I'm unaffected by the V2 issues (yay!), but I can see that it's happening for others and is causing legitimate issues for them.
Brigading, trolling? The front page is dominated by rant after rant. Positivity posts congratulating serif were shill bombed within minutes. There are constructive ways to express dissatisfaction without having to resort to character assassination or slander.
OP did not mention technical issues until later in thread, which obviously no one would argue with. Saying otherwise is somewhat disingenuous. Only slander and misleading remarks catch my attention and merit my attention.
"Really Embarrassed" is not a constructive thread title and does not convey a technical issue in anyway. It is the very definition of trolling. The sky is not falling, and hyperbolic writing is not at all productive.
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20 hours ago, Gianni Becattini said:
and was in some way proud of it, giving my microscopic help to a growing and "different" software house.
While expecting lifetime free updates?
20 hours ago, Gianni Becattini said:V2 changed deeply my attitude: trusting Serif, I jumped on it immediately, but I had to understand that there were very few improvements,
So use V1? Or request a refund? But that would undermine your position that Serif is “unreasonable.”
20 hours ago, Gianni Becattini said:Serif formula could not be sustained in long periods, without some tricks like the bigs.
I would hardly consider charging a small fee for V2 a trick. Btw Serif brought us years of free updates.
A trick would be creating a monopoly by buying up startups, push proprietary formats, then force a perpetual LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION FEE for access.
That, my friend, is a trick. Anything else is simply business.
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7 minutes ago, debraspicher said:
Not at all.
I suppose if the content and virtuous among these forums are considered the nails then I agree.
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I might be in the minority, but the stroke width slider seems imprecise for values less than 1 pt. Considering most of the page templates are in ratio with .1 to 1 pt width, trying to assign .3, for example, is very tricky as it requires pixel perfect precision.
This is why I though it might be more beneficial to make the slider logarithmic so initial values (lower) are easier to select. I do not use anything above 10 pts, so a smooth linear line to 100 pt seems less beneficial.
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2 hours ago, debraspicher said:
The Japanese also say "the nail that sticks out gets hammered"
Which I believe translates loosely to an English proverb “The squeaky wheel gets the grease” 😀
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7 hours ago, Gianni Becattini said:
I am not a graphical designer like most of you, but the founder and managing director of a rather big international industry, operating in IT and electronics.
I remained fascinated by the Affinity Forum atmosphere, from so many enthusiasts believing in a nice dream of an alternative to big brands, and from the help that many of you gave me promptly when I needed (we have a graphic team internally, but I create personally most of the many documents of my company).
So I decided to force a switch in my company from Ado to Affinity (few licenses, not a big deal for anybody), and was in some way proud of it, giving my microscopic help to a growing and "different" software house.
V2 changed deeply my attitude: trusting Serif, I jumped on it immediately, but I had to understand that there were very few improvements, albeit sold as extraordinary, a dramatic drop in stability, few euros to pay, and no way back.
It is a little sad: David didn't bring down Goliath, but has learnt something from him...
Perhaps the reality is that software development is really expensive, and the Serif formula could not be sustained in long periods, without some tricks like the bigs. I can understand that even too well, and don't blame; many companies are forced to do that growing.
Certainly Serif hat dissipated a great deal of trust and empathy.
Hi Adobe 👋, welcome to the forums. How is your infiltration campaign going? I love Serif.
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Companies don’t usually offer discounted rates for currency conversion because anyone can now switch on a VPN and change their region to Brazil, for example.
Have you considered using Gimp? It’s free and is more than enough for a hobbyist. Also, Blender has ink tool and other drawing components- different idea but it’s free as well.
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Nice mockups!
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On 11/22/2022 at 5:43 AM, Stepaan said:
Yes, how could I be so foolish to believe, I can simply express my support for Serif here on the forum. And even more. I thought, some people would follow...
Much of what we see here on the forums is manufactured outrage from new accounts and sleeper accounts. Some hilarious examples are new accounts threatening to switch to Adobe CC expensive monthly subscription rather than pay a small fee for V2. Since muting some of the more over-the-top manic/obsessive posters, my visits here are much more enjoyable.
Glad you are loving the update!
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30 minutes ago, MoonaticDestiny said:
I dont think serif should be using the reverse darker gray box. Its weird and its confusing users.
UI conventions use this technique because of how light works in the real world, it builds off how shadows work. Your example is opposite, and would be confusing if an icon doesn’t allow interactivity there would be no way to show it.
When showing depth an outer shadow is used while to show inner depth an inner shadow is used. The tricky part is making this work with a flat UI style.
In this case their hierarchy of colors is correct, but have been used to represent both toggle and active states which could use distinction, though I don’t think it is unintuitive for the majority of users.
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Blue might work for active tools, though, and reserve darker state for on/off scenarios.
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4 minutes ago, MoonaticDestiny said:
Im trying to understand you comment. So....snap is a button that can be turned off or on (toggled). So making it blue shows that its been turned on. Tapping it again would turn it off. Its currently "turned on" in the last example. When its off, it will return to the way it is in the example before the last one. Snap has been "selected" and turned on.
For the selection tool in the last example. I think i messed up. It shouldnt have been a blue box. It should have been a light gray box because now Im going back to how they currently have it with the reverse highlight dark gray indicator only this time I made it blue.
I just checked V2 designer on iPad and one thing I noticed missing from desktop is hot keys up top showing as not available when an object selection isn’t active.
The snap icon makes sense though because darker means recessed or pressed. It might benefit from a little inner shadow to show it as an inset button.
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Now that Canva bought it? Probably higher than pre-acquisition. There is nothing on the market right now that exudes longevity, and who also aren't at risk of being folded by Adobe.