Tia Lapis

I think the simple reason is that CoreImage does not support bmp saving.

Hmm considering speed I don't see an advantage in bmp. If you need speed you use native texture formats that can be used directly in DirectX and OpenGL/Vulkan. But perhaps bmp is a windows thing.

I guess you are taking Affinity for something it isn’t and doesn’t want to be. I‘m pretty sure that they don’t intend to replace Adobe but only provide a cheaper, less powerful alternative.

Well let’s hope that they are not connected to the net.

I see that use cases. Even with the military case making me fear for the safety. Such a abysmal formal as bmp in security relevant software x_X But what I see is that all the use cases are rather niche and outside of the scope of Affinity. But thanks for the info. Just a friendly reminder: 30 year old system may work but are a security nightmare. I would not recommend using such old software.

Please a single clear use case that can be looked at. I really don’t believe that game dev uses bmp as neither OpenGL or directlx are able to read it…

For what? Why not name that ultra important use case? i am working with computers since the commodore vc20 and never have I needed bmp files. Not once.

But there is absolutely no reason to use bmp instead of better formats like tga, tiff or png.

Oh but it is obscure. Neither Unix or macOS has ever used this strange format. It is a strange Windows only format with many technical problems.

Being a big faceless corporation?

How important we are to Canva can be seen in the fact that Canva didn't even see it needed to introduce themself and their Company to the community. How should that build trust in them?

The problem is that Serif hasn't any deciding power anymore - They sold out. All deciding happens at Canva now. And all the gloom thems from people not trusting Canva.

I see not everybody has gone blind 😜

This Team has nothing to decide anymore. Canva is deciding and I don't trust them further than I can throw a truck...

Yeah I see V3 announcement sometime in summer - big news: subscription only...

This will be broken as every similar pledge has been broken on other aquisitions. Maxon promised the same for Zbrush. 2 years later: subscription only and no real update in all this time. It is just marketing trying to soften the blow to the users - IT WILL BE BROKEN.

And off I am. I have enough of getting f***ed over by such aquisions. My last "no we will continue perpentual licenses, don't fear there will be no changes" has been Zbrush. Serif, or Canva - you just lost a customer.

And round and round it goes. Never knew that laser cutters where so widely in use under graphics designers...

Just a little extra info for all Apple users that are wary of Google and data security - You don't need the Google software for 2FA, you can use the inbuild 2FA feature of Passwords

So how many designers even use laser cutters? Just a little reality check - It starts to sound here like in video editor circles where anybody not doing work for Hollywood is no pro...

I DO think Serif read it ages ago. I'm not really sure what people are trying to reach here.

It's not very probable in the near future.

The available hw is useless if the driver does not support OpenCL. Edit: It appears the Windows version uses DirectX 12. Does your card support it?

Do a right click open on it...

He meant the OS version...