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    Pixelkobold reacted to Granddaddy in Link to exe file? From third part apps.   
    In addition to what Walt posted, you should know that it gets complicated which is why there has been heated discussion in these forums over the past few days. Solutions and explanations and various error responses evoked when trying to configure an application to open an image in Affinity 2 are scattered through several threads, some of which have hundreds of posts.
    You might find a couple of my summary posts helpful.
    https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/171600-no-exe-no-interest/page/2/#comment-989182
    https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/170338-not-able-to-start-affinity-photo-2-from-dxo-xnviewmp-art-and-raw-therapee/page/5/#comment-989258
    https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/170338-not-able-to-start-affinity-photo-2-from-dxo-xnviewmp-art-and-raw-therapee/&do=findComment&comment=989240
    We eagerly wait for a new installation file that will use MSI to install Affinity 2 as traditional Windows program rather than using MSIX to install as a Windows App in the hidden folder with other Windows Apps. 
     
     
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    Pixelkobold got a reaction from jmwellborn in Affinity V2, updates, pricing and no subscription (moved)   
    Hey Mr. Ash
    thank you for your clarifying words above, thought I don't see any need for them. You did an awesome, marvelous job on v2 and as a customer whos been around for years now, I think the 40% off starting price for v2 is more than each customer around can wish for. I gladly would have paid even the full price, since I think that even this is (200 for the whole stuff) is more than fair.
    So what I want to say is, unfortunately you can't make it right for anyone, there are always some out there who has sth to complain.

    Keep on that awesome work
    Gordon
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    Pixelkobold got a reaction from Imprex in Affinity V2, updates, pricing and no subscription (moved)   
    Hey Mr. Ash
    thank you for your clarifying words above, thought I don't see any need for them. You did an awesome, marvelous job on v2 and as a customer whos been around for years now, I think the 40% off starting price for v2 is more than each customer around can wish for. I gladly would have paid even the full price, since I think that even this is (200 for the whole stuff) is more than fair.
    So what I want to say is, unfortunately you can't make it right for anyone, there are always some out there who has sth to complain.

    Keep on that awesome work
    Gordon
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    Pixelkobold got a reaction from Westerwälder in Affinity V2, updates, pricing and no subscription (moved)   
    Hey Mr. Ash
    thank you for your clarifying words above, thought I don't see any need for them. You did an awesome, marvelous job on v2 and as a customer whos been around for years now, I think the 40% off starting price for v2 is more than each customer around can wish for. I gladly would have paid even the full price, since I think that even this is (200 for the whole stuff) is more than fair.
    So what I want to say is, unfortunately you can't make it right for anyone, there are always some out there who has sth to complain.

    Keep on that awesome work
    Gordon
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    Pixelkobold got a reaction from RichardMH in Affinity V2, updates, pricing and no subscription (moved)   
    Hey Mr. Ash
    thank you for your clarifying words above, thought I don't see any need for them. You did an awesome, marvelous job on v2 and as a customer whos been around for years now, I think the 40% off starting price for v2 is more than each customer around can wish for. I gladly would have paid even the full price, since I think that even this is (200 for the whole stuff) is more than fair.
    So what I want to say is, unfortunately you can't make it right for anyone, there are always some out there who has sth to complain.

    Keep on that awesome work
    Gordon
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    Pixelkobold reacted to Aongus Collins in Affinity V2, updates, pricing and no subscription (moved)   
    I was expecting to pay up to €300 to upgrade my Windows, Mac and iPad licences. So a price of €120  came as a great relief! (It's even less if you can claim the VAT back.) I've completed my first project in V2, and it was a very smooth experience. Aside from the headline features, the many small improvements add up.
    Thank you Serif.
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    Pixelkobold reacted to Patrick Connor in Affinity V2, updates, pricing and no subscription (moved)   
    Hi,
    Sorry that you feel hard done by. I can only see a copy of one Affinity application bought in November 2021 bought during our 30% off sale. As a matter of interest how much discount would you have expected ?
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    Pixelkobold got a reaction from Patrick Connor in Affinity V2, updates, pricing and no subscription (moved)   
    Hey Mr. Ash
    thank you for your clarifying words above, thought I don't see any need for them. You did an awesome, marvelous job on v2 and as a customer whos been around for years now, I think the 40% off starting price for v2 is more than each customer around can wish for. I gladly would have paid even the full price, since I think that even this is (200 for the whole stuff) is more than fair.
    So what I want to say is, unfortunately you can't make it right for anyone, there are always some out there who has sth to complain.

    Keep on that awesome work
    Gordon
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    Pixelkobold got a reaction from Seneca in Affinity V2, updates, pricing and no subscription (moved)   
    Hey Mr. Ash
    thank you for your clarifying words above, thought I don't see any need for them. You did an awesome, marvelous job on v2 and as a customer whos been around for years now, I think the 40% off starting price for v2 is more than each customer around can wish for. I gladly would have paid even the full price, since I think that even this is (200 for the whole stuff) is more than fair.
    So what I want to say is, unfortunately you can't make it right for anyone, there are always some out there who has sth to complain.

    Keep on that awesome work
    Gordon
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    Pixelkobold reacted to Ali in Affinity V2, updates, pricing and no subscription (moved)   
    Thank you for this - it is very clear and I hope that those who are complaining all read it in order to understand the rationale. I think the vast majority understand the difficulties and that Serif is still a remarkably small outfit. I look forward to the V1 to V2 upgrade 'thank you' bundle. 😀
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    Pixelkobold reacted to Ash in Affinity V2, updates, pricing and no subscription (moved)   
    Hi All,
    Well, it’s been a pretty crazy week since the launch of V2!
    This has been a real labour of love for us over the last year or so, and I can’t even begin to describe how hard the development team have worked on it. Not only getting the V2 apps launched, but also of course finally bringing Publisher to iPad. 
    With this being our first paid-for upgrade there has understandably been a lot of feedback / questions around future updates and our pricing policies. I thought it was worth addressing / clarifying our position on some of these personally...
    Updates to V2 moving forward
    Buying V2 not only gets you all the new features you have seen, but we have various updates planned – including many more new features and improvements – which you will get for free. This will continue until such a time that V3 is released. We’re not sure exactly when V3 will be, but I can confirm we are not going to move to anything as regular as an annual upgrade cycle as has been speculated.
    It’s worth saying too that V2 does include many under-the-hood changes to our underlying technology, and we have also been investing in several new areas of research recently. Some of these haven’t manifested themselves into new features yet, but overall V2 does give us a better platform to develop on moving forward and I’m sure you will be pleased with the updates V2 will receive.
    Updates to V1 moving forward
    While we did say on the FAQ that V1 would no longer receive any updates, I want to clarify that was about new feature updates. We will be updating V1 to fix any critical problems caused by operating system updates in the future. So if the next version of macOS breaks V1 we will endeavour to fix it. There will be a point in time when continuing to maintain V1 in this way will not be tenable, but certainly for the foreseeable future we will continue to patch. In fact, we have an update to V1 queued up for release very shortly with some fixes for Ventura and issues caused by a recent Windows security / quality update. 
    We will update our FAQ shortly to make that clearer for everyone.
    Offer period
    In case you didn’t see, I’m pleased to confirm we have decided to run this initial launch offer until 14th December to give everyone the best chance possible to get it if they wish / have a decent amount of time to trial it. 
    Upgrade pricing
    It’s been really hard to see some of the comments about us not looking after our existing customers – we’re pretty devasted that anyone feels like that to be honest. But the fact is we felt our hands were tied somewhat with being able to offer upgrade pricing in a fair way. The main reason for this was App Store customers (which make up around 35% of our userbase). The problems with that are two-fold: firstly, we didn’t have a way from within V1 to validate an App Store purchase receipt to reliably ensure customers who were entitled to an upgrade could get one; and secondly, we could not find a good way for people to get that discount via the App Store. Us pushing upgrade customers to go exclusively via our own site (including customers who were previously acquired via the app stores) may also have put us in violation of App Store Ts & Cs which we were obviously concerned about.
    I’m not saying that these issues were completely insurmountable, but any solutions we came up with would be messy, and most importantly could have resulted in some bona fide V1 customers struggling to get validated and claim their discount. We certainly don’t have the support resource here if we ended up needing to manually validate tens of thousands of receipts for example.
    The only option we felt was safe to move forward with was a general launch offer, which would guarantee that every V1 customer could get the discount, whether they purchased directly through us or the App Stores. We knew a side effect of that would mean some new customers would end up receiving that same discount – but we felt that was a better option than V1 customers missing out. It’s also worth saying that while there has been some good press about V2, all our main marketing has been via email and through social media to our followers. In other words, we felt ok about it because we knew the vast majority of people who would find out about it or take advantage of the offer would be existing customers. I would be surprised if over the offer period customers upgrading from V1 didn’t make up more than 90% of our sales.
    Overall I do believe us giving a 40% discount, along with the addition of the new Universal Licence of course, is offering fantastic value for money for those who want to upgrade. 
    However, taking on board some of the feedback there is something extra we can do – we will offer a new free bundle of content exclusively for V1 customers upgrading to V2 as an extra thank you for your support. I’ve seen this suggested by a number of customers and it’s a great idea as it does remove the App Store conflict entirely. 
    We’ll need a little time to put something together, but all customers who previously registered or purchased V1 and have since upgraded to V2 will receive a voucher code for this via email as soon as we can.
    A comment on no subscription
    I do want to say that some of the points above are exactly the reason why software companies move to subscription. Whatever you do with upgrade pricing, you still have the issue of customers who bought the previous version 3 months ago vs. those who have had it 2+ years. Offering perpetual licences also gives the additional overhead of needing to maintain the previous version longer than you would if everyone was on subscription / generally always on the latest version.
    We are a small team so some of these complications are not ideal — all we really want to do is focus on developing our latest codebase, push out regular updates and continue with our mission to make great creative software accessible to everyone. 
    But it does need to be funded somehow. We know you love our no-subscription model, but there also needs to be a level of appreciation that the alternative is having paid-for upgrades from time to time. That unfortunately comes with its own problems.
    All of that said, I have to say we have been blown away with the response to V2 - around 3 times as many people have upgraded in the last week than we expected - and we really can't thank you enough for the support you have shown. More than anything the success of this upgrade puts us in a great place to continue investing heavily in development which is ultimately what it's all about, and we’re super excited to crack on with some great updates coming next year!
    All the best,
    Ash
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    Pixelkobold got a reaction from Sticks in Why download the addons seperately for photo and publisher seperately?   
    Same problem here. 
    I find the new feature awesome, but I don't see why it is necessary to download and install all the addons from serif shop into all three different apps seperatly and so triple,
    especially since some of them are really huge and need diskspace on the systemdrive which I dont have to spare.

    I agree with sfriedberg. The possibility to give at least a specific folder for the addons (on antoher harddrive) would be great. 
    I see that it could be difficult for brushes, but I think for assets and such it wouldnt be a great problem to have that function
     
    anyway serif,
    you do a great job, I live your apps. Keep on like this
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    Pixelkobold reacted to walt.farrell in Why download the addons seperately for photo and publisher seperately?   
    These days they may also face issues with various malware-protection products (especially ones protecting against ransomware) which do a similar kind of sandboxing and prevent one application from writing into files that are part of another application.
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    Pixelkobold reacted to R C-R in Why download the addons seperately for photo and publisher seperately?   
    From what the staff have said in the past, the biggest & hardest to resolve issue is the sandboxing restrictions recent versions of both the Mac & Windows OS put on low level cross-application data sharing. They could probably kludge up something to work around that but I suspect it would be difficult to maintain the stability & performance of that going forward.
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    Pixelkobold reacted to GoaTrance in Why download the addons seperately for photo and publisher seperately?   
    Just wondering why there is a lack of co-ordination with the products. I just downloaded 2Gb of addons for product(s) when it could have been half that if the products knew that it was already done in a common place. Same machine, same drive. I don't think that's really very good and could have taken a bit more thought about the distribution.
    I'm about saving data, preventing malware and all sorts of internet issues, I'm sorry to say duplicate downloads for no reason are a cause for concern. That's a big download for no discernable reason bearing in mind the link between the products.
    Every little bit in saving resources counts. This is not helpful.
    Kindest Regards.
     
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    Pixelkobold reacted to sfriedberg in Why download the addons seperately for photo and publisher seperately?   
    And the problem is amplified when Serif doesn't give us the ability to control which drive/directory/folder is used.  I want to control where stuff is stored on my machine.  Downloading three copies of stuff and having it all stashed on the (deliberately!) limited C drive is an unnecessary, and unpleasant, experience.
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    Pixelkobold reacted to Pedro Soares in Snow Brushes   
    Who likes to play with snow? :)
    This are the two brushes I made and normally use (light snow and heavy snow) when I want to get that winter look.
     
    You can also check how I made the brushes and how to use them is this tutorial:
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlxXqCCx9AM
     
    Hope you enjoy them,
    Pedro
    Snow Brushes.afbrushes.zip
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    Pixelkobold got a reaction from Joachim_L in Publisher - different settings on copied FX   
    For me its the same and its a very nerving issue.
    I mean, why do I have the option to set a style from an object with effects,
    when it doesn'T apply the same on another object.

    f.e. I set a dropshadow with a certain value, which I want to use all through the document. 
    So I save it as a style to use it on the next object, but nada... if I apply this to another object, the shoadow looks wholly different and I have to set the pixel values for it again.

    I believe that must be a bug (since I know that InDesign didn't do it that way), so please, Serif, correct that soon.

    Otherwise, your apps are really awesome, I love publisher so much

    Thanks for all
    ;-)
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    Pixelkobold got a reaction from thomaso in Publisher - different settings on copied FX   
    For me its the same and its a very nerving issue.
    I mean, why do I have the option to set a style from an object with effects,
    when it doesn'T apply the same on another object.

    f.e. I set a dropshadow with a certain value, which I want to use all through the document. 
    So I save it as a style to use it on the next object, but nada... if I apply this to another object, the shoadow looks wholly different and I have to set the pixel values for it again.

    I believe that must be a bug (since I know that InDesign didn't do it that way), so please, Serif, correct that soon.

    Otherwise, your apps are really awesome, I love publisher so much

    Thanks for all
    ;-)
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    Pixelkobold got a reaction from irokiee in Publisher - different settings on copied FX   
    For me its the same and its a very nerving issue.
    I mean, why do I have the option to set a style from an object with effects,
    when it doesn'T apply the same on another object.

    f.e. I set a dropshadow with a certain value, which I want to use all through the document. 
    So I save it as a style to use it on the next object, but nada... if I apply this to another object, the shoadow looks wholly different and I have to set the pixel values for it again.

    I believe that must be a bug (since I know that InDesign didn't do it that way), so please, Serif, correct that soon.

    Otherwise, your apps are really awesome, I love publisher so much

    Thanks for all
    ;-)
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    Pixelkobold reacted to SrPx in Better link or embedd a lot of picture files?   
    Linking (and changing the files externally by other editors  when needed, so they update automatically in many documents where they are linked) is an amazing neck saver for things like card/board games, and many types of large and complex projects. Specially useful when you need an update to replicate to all documents. IMO, embedding has its advantages, linking has its own ones. I would need them both.
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    Pixelkobold reacted to curtsheller in Export and import master pages - Feature Request   
    Been doing that.
    Maybe a future feature.
    Been converting a lot of my books from InDesign and several have the same master pages. Would be nice to be able to simply load from a common file.
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    Pixelkobold reacted to World View in Better link or embedd a lot of picture files?   
    I don't see a point in linking. I'd like all images of a design in the file. You move the file, you won't get all your images unlinked.
    Maybe if you created a huge number of documents, 100's and they all stay on your computer, linking would be a good idea.
    Even with software that has much larger file sizes, like Final Cut Pro X, where you can get libraries going over 100GB, embedding is better. 
    In Affinity, I always embed. Just working on a 60+ page document. 
    Not the slightest bit sluggish, as long as you are using JPEGs. 
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    Pixelkobold got a reaction from Rick G in Better link or embedd a lot of picture files?   
    Hey there
    what is the better alternative handling a lot of photos in Publisher at the moment?

    I do a photo yearbook for my daughter with probably a few hundred photos (I dont know exactly yet how much it will be).
    I am not through with it yet (doing November at the moment) and I see that when you open the document, Publisher needs a lot of time to open all the pages (e.g. load the linked photos)
    In the meantime the PC reacts sluggish for minutes.

    When all is loaded there is no performance problem anymore, but during loading the document there is no working possible

    I wonder though, if it would be better if I embedd the photos instead of linking them... any suggestions to that?
    Thanks
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