[At some points UI would better have stayed unchanged]

5 minutes ago, Ana-Irina said:

If we are still on the topic of UI changes, another bad change the the "Lock" icon/button. The new icon is small, grey and hard to see. I can barely tell if it's locked or not.

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.

[Extremely Disappointed, Existing Customers must Purchase Affinity V2]

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

[Publisher V2 files not openable in V1]

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?

[Very very disappointed with Publisher 2]

1 minute ago, PaoloT said:

InDesign is currently at version 17. Adobe CS is from 2003. I wouldn't want to make Publisher a disservice, by comparing it with a program that is twenty years old.

Paolo

 

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.

[Very very disappointed with Publisher 2]

1 minute ago, PaoloT said:

With Publisher – no. V2 is a huge step forward, but there is still a ton of things missing.

Paolo

 

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?

[Very very disappointed with Publisher 2]

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.

[Very very disappointed with Publisher 2]

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.

[Very very disappointed with Publisher 2]

Were people really thinking Serif would provide updates indefinitely?

[Between Black and white (I am a bit disappointed)]

30 minutes ago, loukash said:

What do you mean by "KI"? "Künstliche Intelligenz"? That would be AI in English.

Yeah, that probably is what he meant.

[It's very frustrating.. years and years and we can't write in Arabic in the program (DESKTOP AND iPad)]

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

[It's very frustrating.. years and years and we can't write in Arabic in the program (DESKTOP AND iPad)]

13 hours ago, Armelline said:

Can't agree with this assessment. Even if they had to make compromises at the start, completely eliminating the possiblity of later adding a pretty major feature option speaks to lack of foresight in my opinion. I'd not be surprised if the text engine issue isn't really the issue, but rather the further implications such as LondonSquirrel pointed out.

But RTL support is *NO* major feature.

[I don't like the new UI design]

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.

[No rewards for being an existing user...]

4 minutes ago, Artsketch said:

Now we see how existing customers are thanked for patience and loyalty. Why not triple the price and offer 70%? What will the future bring? Will the shortcomings be fixed, or will there be a 3.0 version in a year to take more money?

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?

[One time payment they said, free updates they said]

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(

[Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages]

18 minutes ago, Arun Sarkar said:

Why I need ANSI?

A unicode bengali font contain 565 to 1200 glyph. Where a ANSI support 256. so it is much less time consuming to create a keybaodr driver with ANSI font layout.

I am just an DTP operator who need an application which serves my need in publishing related jobs in indic language. I am not an programmer.

Just see the attached screenshot, how many line I have to add to create a KBD. Do you believe that an operator need to do that to produce some books? It not it painful for you if you have to do this?

 

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.

[Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages]

Just now, Mohannad said:

as far as i see this  was not a problem to you, and you haven't following this topic, they have said we are thinking about it, we gonna conisder in the long term.

so yes they said they will find solution.

better thing to do not to stick your nose in places you don't know about it .

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.

[Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages]

1 minute ago, Mohannad said:

I want  talk to the manager ( as any customer will say in this situation ), you should discuss this in Monday meetings and comeback to us with an answer or someone can answer.

i know am rude, but i have waited and wited and waited and waited, and 3 years later.  still you guys didn't give us a straight answer,proper solution or offer a free tool as temporary solution to your customer who had high expectations for you.

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.

[Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages]

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.

[Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages]

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

[Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages]

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

[Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages]

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

[Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages]

Ah I see, so Calcutta was renamed, too.

[Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages]

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

[Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages]

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

[Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages]

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.