Filo63

You're right, often not find some work routines is frustrating, I'm "experimenting" with designers for several months and I'm slowly discovering many features that are useful and better replace those I used on Illustrator. Color overlay, in level effects, is very useful for graphics in the fashion design sector. I suggest a tutorial that I found on Youtube that, even if it refers to the construction of a logo, I think it will be very useful to understand the use of the levels and non-destructive operations essential for fashion design. The one of the selection for the same colors, however, is just something that I miss !!!

the process of non-destructive construction is one of the ways that allows you to do even more beautiful and also allows you to change your mind, try to watch various tutorials and the Keynote to understand that Affinity opens new worlds and new roads ... it is not mandatory follow those already followed by other software House https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5cC6t_WoHI

Everything is a surprise in life. I started to get interested in Affinity just to see if the iPad Pro could be a good alternative to updating my Cintiq and renewing a laptop. Compared to the past I work less out of the office, in fact for the future I prefer to invest in a MacPRO that is performance for rendering and product and graphic design. The need for mobility, however, remains, an iPad Pro seems to me as powerful as a great MPB but at the cost of an entry level ... my Cintiq is 10 years old, continues to go well but it would be time to change it.An iPad Pro could also be a cheaper alternative to a new Cintiq. Affinity Designer and Photo seemed to me complete software to use them on the move, I bought them for the desktop to test them and they practically replaced AI and PS ... now I'm waiting for the announcement for the new iPad because I'm sure AP and AD will give me more than what I expected! So, thanks for running AD for iPad ... that's why I looked at Affinity.

I do not understand all this frustration and the tone of many posts. We had already paid for the application APu I would be on your side, I would scream too. Here it seems very clear to me that the Affinity developers want to write and offer different and useful software. They need their time. It all seems very exaggerated, do we have any expectations? Well ... it is not an obligation of Affinity to satisfy them in the time that we want. We are not children, it is not their duty. How many times as boys have we been stressed for results? Too many. How many times do we want our life to change ... today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow. Like many in here and out I would like to interrupt the now tired relationship with Adobe ... more for what it offers than for the money. When APu will come out I will still keep the Adobe contract for one year because for all it takes the right time! How I would say no to Affinity if you told me to give up Adobe, Affinity asks for time to release its products.

I would have thought 72.38% ...

Affinity Designer is a product different from Adobe Illustrator, has many advantages and some flaws. Among the advantages there is certainly to have a good system for drawing by hand ... it is my habit to draw logotypes by hand, create complex packaging and then rebuild them all in vector. Likewise, joining elements or textures in pixels with vector elements is much more intuitive and close to illustration than Illustrator (pun intended). Now I do all this easily with a single software. There are many subtleties in the use of vectors and others in the user interface that satisfy me a lot. Obviously there are tools that must mature and others that have yet to be born. For publishers I want to be surprised, I do not expect a cheap clone, I expect some surprises, something I have not thought about yet. There are so many software out there, Serif must surprise us !!

I am waiting for two great facts;) 1) the release of the new iPad, because it does not lack much. 2) the output of AD for iPad. I was able to try AP on large files and I was impressed. I can say that the interface of AP for iPad is fantastic and leaves you all the free monitor ... certainly the 3D and the studio work will continue to do it on a desktop with one or more large monitors and "maybe" a new cintiq. However, more than once we did sketches or changes during business meetings using a large monitor managed with AirPlay and Apple TV!!!

SrPx, when I was using Silicon Graphics, I never imagined that "normal" computers would take the place of Unix workstations ... today we know how the story went. You do not know when, but having tried Procreate and Affinity Photo I dare not say that before long the story could be repeated! https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?q=iphone10

In the office I have a 27 "iMac and a Cintiq and I feel very comfortable, often when I come from customers I find myself using a colleague's iPad Pro to describe or edit files directly during the meeting. I stopped doing it on the MBP mip because it is less immediate and functional. It seems obvious that paginating for more than eight hours on a 12.9 "is worse than doing it on a 27" ... maybe the speech is taken a little 'too much on the wrong side! I imagine that having a version of Publisher on iPad is not a primary prerogative, a convenience yes!

More prosaically ... you have a desktop but you also need a mobile device because you are often out of the office. Affinity has similar performance on the iPad or higher (since it is like a Wacom Cintiq) to a normal laptop that on average costs more than an iPadPro (equal performance). In addition I would say that Affinity Photo is spectacular on the iPad and if Serif is able to match this feature also for Designer and Publisher becomes the most powerful graphics suite ever on the iPad;)

All this talk about the price found it a bit 'out of place, not so much for the economic value but for the ethical. The hardware would not be anything without the software. I would continue to use Adobe if I was not fed up with so many idiosyncrasies of their offer. Of Affinity I bought books before the software and in proportion cost much more the books of the software. I am convinced that the choice of a democratic price contains a precise analysis and marketing choice. They could give discounts to old customers, they could give their products to hobbyists, they could charge all this to their customers by selling the software to a few hundred euro ... they chose to make everyone pay the right one! I find their choice very ethical and positive for everyone.

all this makes the fever go up more and more! They are all operational solutions Thank's

In the decades of activity I have seen too many software aspire to do everything. Many 3d modeling software has become gigantic and confusing because over time they have attacked too many things. See also Photoshop ... for graphics, for photographers, for illustrators, for 3d. in the end they become complex, confused with interfaces for some modern things and for other archaic ones. Perhaps it is better to satisfy a certain sector of the creative world, to do it well and to update it with criteria and without overdoing it.

ok ... let's see if there is any useful suggestion!

Can Affinity Designer manage the optical alignment of margins and external punctuation? Thank you Fabio

Adobe starts to raise the price of single applications and complete suites ... of course they offer more, but is it really useful to have all these new applications? For Serif it is the right time to show that many people need solid and practical tools that are able to do basic things well. We cheer for your projects that will be our tools of work!

Wow that's great I have the distinct feeling that the 1.7 version will be a milestone for vectorial software! Honestly, a great job for all of us users. Ciao Fabio

It seems to me that being able to read or convert InDesign files is functional to an AP claim. Adobe had initially created a software tool to convert files created with Quark Xpress ... this allowed him to convince users to use his DTP software. Obviously, on very complex jobs, not everything worked but helped to rebuild them. In fact, starting from the pdf, with AD, you can recover a lot of work. Probably, compared to the past, it will be enough to start from the pdf, but I do not find it wrong to hypothesise a tool for converting pagers coming from other software.

The need to create a DTP software by Affinity I believe is aware that AD has some limitations in the management of many pages. See the AP and AD icons in the interface foreshadowing advanced interoperability. What would give me great satisfaction is to have the possibility to isolate and modify every single element of the paginated form in the "persona" AD or AP. It would be a great thing to be able to concentrate simply on a single element isolated from the graphic context. Obviously all the tools of the text will be necessary for a good job. In fact all this happens in Adobe products but often it is very rough and with an interface too complex. A new way of seeing and doing things is the great news of Affinity ... keep it up !!!

when it's time I'll see, I'll be able to subscribe to a single product. thanks

Working on vintage graphics for t-shirts are the tools that I miss most ... of course in other areas AD offers me more through Pixel person !!! In September, Adobe's contract expires and I would like not to renew it. Although I think it's too early. What I like is that Serif has a more technical approach in its tools and in its novelties. Fabio

Forgive me if I go off the subject, but no longer want to use Illustrator, which way you suggest to import .dwg or .dxf files on AD for Mac. Ciao Fabio

It's a self-portrait done with SketchBook ... I had not yet discovered Affinity!

"Illustrator existed for about 31" does not emphasize this ... I use illustrator from the very first version and your statement makes me feel extremely old !!! Surely it is better to say that you use AD from the first version.

Thanks Alfred, what you told me I know, unfortunately some complex effects that I apply on some graphics when they are exported to pdf are rasterized and can not be changed anymore. For example (I do not know if it will be understandable because my English is simple) until I age the writings in Photoshop and save them to gray levels. When I load on Illustrator I apply a color spot to color them. The customer has the possibility to modify only the spot color to obtain different series of colors. In AD this is done internally and in different ways. If the customer does not have AD he can no longer change the color. Maybe there is a better way but I have not figured out what it is. Ciao Fabio