Tia Lapis

From design I like V2 version more, but the contrast is terrible. Darkgrey on black is not good for people with not perfect eye sight.

40% off. What more do you want? A personal belly rub? x_X

From my long experience as it admin: almost every program can only open older version of it's file format. How should it know the extensions from newer versions?

So you say you couldn't use InDesign CS1 to create professional layouts? Just trying to understand. It's not like layouting has changed much since then.

Missing compared with what? Af Publisher is already way more powerful than my old InDesign CS1. What functionally (and no I don't mean special feature bla from InDesign) is really missing to create layouts?

Well, you don't need feature parity to be able to replace one tool with another. That's at least what I believe. Af Photo ie is at least as powerful as PS cs1 and that is more than enough to work on pictures and paint.

Imo there are no major show stoppers to replace the Adobe tools with Affinity. Yes there are some rough edges but in the end you can do near everything Adobe can with it.

Were people really thinking Serif would provide updates indefinitely?

Yeah, that probably is what he meant.

Was not my intend to troll, sorry if it appeared so.

But RTL support is *NO* major feature.

Sadly, many icons are VERY hard to see. Like the 2 chevrons on popup gadgets. Many times, a higher contrast on the icons would help a lot already.

Do you really expect to be thanked for buying a software product? You got multiple years of usage out of it so where is the problem?

And here it goes again. One would think people had accepted finally that support for Arabic script is not important to Serif. It really starts to grind my nerves 8(

I see. I don't know how hard it would be switching to Macs for you but macOS has Bangla input support and Affinity seems to work fine with it. The word is probably at a whole senseless gibberish as I don't speak the language, but it looks fine to me.

But I do know about it. Serif NEVER promised the feature, they said they consider it for the long term. As long as there is no clear feature anouncement it is very strange to expect delivery of a feature. And that I disagree with all the hate towards Serif for not implementing this is no reason for personal attacks. I would love full japanese support. But it's not on the roadmap currently so I have to live with the situation. Constant whining won't change that.

What made you wait for it? As far as I remeber Serif never said anything about support for rtl complex script support in their Affinity line.

Why do you need ANSI? Affinity is supporting Unicode fonts just fine. just not the needed special features for complex script and rtl writing systems.

I'm quite sure there aren't any clear plans for 2.x or even 3.x, yet.

Perhaps it's from english being only second language. In german there is a really big difference between the 2 words. Possible that I never spoke it correct. The german Kalkutta is spoken kalˈkʊta

Hmm Kolkata and Calcutta are pronounced very differently, too...

Ah I see, so Calcutta was renamed, too.

Btw is Kolkata a small city? Never heard it before.

Affinity simply currently does not care for complex script support. Probably economic reasons. Asking again and again won't change that.

All other have it? InDesign and Xpress have it - as addons and far from perfect. It’s sadly a fact that cursive Arabian and Hebrew is very hard to typeset. Serif is to small a company to sink their resources in that feature. Not because they don’t care but because the needed work probably stands in no good relation to the additional income it would produce.