jonheal

Though, I'm nervous about the future (I'm a worrier, in general), I reckon we should give Serif/Affinity/Canva a chance to make good on the Four Pledges they emailed out this morning. Maybe we should worry more about WWIII spurting out of Ukraine and incoming nukes more than whether or not we get saddled with a subscription. 🤪

I guess time will tell how this all plays out. Maybe 10 years from now (should I live so long — which I probably won't), I'll be back to pencil and paper ... assuming pencils don't require a subscription. In which case, maybe I'll be working with hunks of charcoal on cave walls.

If it even takes five years ...

@BofG Paying per release is not a dead business model. The subscription model exists only when consumers won't balk against it. It's not a consumer-oriented model. It's profit oriented. Honestly, I'm amazed Adobe got away with it. Photoshop and Illustrator were bloated and riddled with UI bugs when they went subscription-only. Late-stage capitalism ... gotta love it.

The more I use it, the more I think it was my imagination. Perhaps my computer was under unusual load at the time, slowing things down, in general, or maybe the time it takes for certain actions to take place is somewhat changed from version 2.2 to 2.3. But whatever, it seems fine.

There seems to be a lot of rendering and tool behavior weirdness with 2.3. I don't even know how to describe it. Stuff is just not right. Sorry; I realize that's not very helpful.

Lots of crashes in Windows 10 and 11 here, too, although I have been working on big files, so probably hammering it pretty good. It's interesting that crashes don't write anything to the Windows Application Event Log. 1fb37bf3-20c7-4f21-9b16-ab89f4123edf.dmp

Bullets 1, 3 and 4 in my original post may have been my imagination. Maybe the behavior of these items is the same as previous versions. Drag-selecting multiple objects at zoomed out views is still a problem. And I also feel this version is considerably slower than the previous version. Typing can be slow and dragging objects around the screen is choppy. Maybe for this initial 1.9 release, Affinity left in lots of debug code to help them track down issues as reported.

Publisher 1.9.0.932 is a bit buggier than the last several releases. Stuff I've noticed so far: More difficult to select objects Dragging a rectangle around objects to select sometimes non-functional at <100% views Double-clicking a selection in the Paste Special dialog does not automatically dismiss the dialog Selection bounds sometimes rendered the wrong shape and size Looking forward to another update. Probably shouldn't have been so eager to grab this version until more kinks are ironed out. 😉 (on Windows 10 v. 20H2 19042.746)