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    Pranab got a reaction from Patrick Connor in Hindi font problems   
    Fair point. You have your priorities for development. And every feature you add is without a doubt useful for majority of the users, including me. But like @Nilasus pointed out, there's a huge market here in India which uses graphics designing softwares like Adobe Photoshop. But without really liking its over priced status. There are so many hobby users, like myself who don't want to buy a subscription for editing and designing in their past time. And many a times need arises to make use of Indic languages. Seems very unfortunate that affinity lacks this basic support when its an otherwise extensive and wholesome package at a minimal cost. I still hope Serif comes out with some update some day for it when they see the opportunity here. Thanks for the frank comment from you @Patrick Connor.
     
    Exactly what i feel.
    I already clarified i didn't mean anything of that sort. And i just ignored the rest of the uncalled for comment. 
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    Pranab reacted to Nilasus in Hindi font problems   
    I don't get it, India has 560 million internet users and the second largest population on earth, how is that not a good market for hindi support? Also I think these things are already developed in open source programs and might be easier than people think, you don't have to invent the wheel. I really hope this gets some more attention and if anyone else is interested lets request it more. I have many friends that wouldn't switch to Affinity ONLY because of this feature (they work on publishing and many on hindi texts). 
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    Pranab reacted to Patrick Connor in Hindi font problems   
    We absolutely did not take the comment from Pranab this way, and even if the OP had suggested we could be racist that does not make the statement "Disgusting", merely inaccurate. But as I said he was not saying that. Please temper your language and accusations.
    To all readers.
    I think it is fair to say we currently do not have the expertise to deal with this issue completely. However even if Serif staff had more skills in this area and understanding of the specific problems, even though you might think we would have tried to address this faster, to be honest we still may not have. We are not sitting twiddling our joint programming fingers and thumbs, and the work that is being done is important to many, many customers too. In 1.9 alone Package functionality, PDF Passthrough, Data Merge etc all appealed to many existing and new users. Serif are not ignoring you and doing everything else in preference, but we are perhaps doing more of what we have the skills to execute quickly. Sorry to disappoint.
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    Pranab reacted to aitte in text on a path in photo?   
    @jmac: I was already pretty angry, but I would have been pissed as hell if I didn't work with vectors often enough to enjoy my $50 Designer purchase. But as it stands, I am pretty happy about it since it allows me to create even better logos and websites without being restricted by document resolution/pixels. It was a joy to see my designs in total non-pixelated clarity for the first time.
     
    It just seems like they're trying way too hard to differentiate the apps, when they're already very different and both worth owning. You are correct that photographers need attractive text, and that's why even Photoshop *ELEMENTS* has Text on a Shape (live-editable smart object), Text on a Curve (vectors), and Text on Selection Outline. Elements is more powerful than even Affinity Designer at creating text... let that sink in for a moment.
     
    Anyway...
     
    Affinity Photo: Extremely powerful photo editing features (loads of filters, live fx and adjustment layers, correction tools, etc), some powerful vector features but none of the Designer niceties that make vectors easy and attractive to work with.
    Affinity Designer: Extremely powerful vector features that make it vital if you want to *enjoy* working with vectors the way they're meant to be seen: Infinitely zoomable without pixelation, letting you make every little detail perfect. Also has some good pixel editing features but lacks the ultra-powerful ones from Photo.
     
    Bim bam bom. They're already unique apps. No reason to wall off creative and attractive text as a $50 extra. It looks kinda desperate and pathetic.
     
    My heart goes out to all photographers who don't care about vectors, and who are forced to flat, boring text that's even worse than what the newbie-app Photoshop Elements would have given them.
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    Pranab reacted to aitte in text on a path in photo?   
    Pleeeease reconsider this. Why not make Affinity Photo better than Photoshop in *every* way?
     
    Even Photoshop Elements, the cheap baby-version of Photoshop, has:
     
    https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/using/add-text.html
     
    * Text on Shape
    * Text on Selection
    * Text on Path
     
    They're extremely useful tools and the lack of them is a huge limitation for adding creative text to photos in Affinity Photo. :-( Every time I go to add text in Photos, I wish the feature existed... And ironically, Photos is a place where creative text matters a lot. Imagine you're making a wallpaper from a family vacation or wedding, and you want to add a headline title to it. Do you really want the letters to be on a flat, boring, straight line, or do you want the text to have some fun flair? Or just look at the dog-example in the above Photoshop link, which shows a really fun use for text in creative photo editing, where they've wrapped the text around the dog. Creative text is insanely useful in photo editing to set the right mood. This is why Photoshop includes the feature in its photo editor (even in Elements), instead of just having it in Illustrator... Please don't artificially hold back an essential core text feature of Photo editing just to differentiate Designer and Photo. You can differentiate Designer in non-text-related ways (more smart shapes, bitmap to vector auto-conversion, being able to draw vectors as a paintbrush instead of just a pen tool, infinite zoom, vector outline "xray" view mode, pixel preview of vectors, etc)... Creative text is a basic feature of any editor out there except Affinity Photo...
     
    I'm sad now, and it's the first time I've been sad about Affinity... :-( Heh...
     
     
    edit: Hi to everyone giving this post a "like"! But it's probably better if you also post your opinions in the thread for more visibility.
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    Pranab got a reaction from Chris B in Hindi font problems   
    Have bought the Windows 10 version more than a year back. This issue looks like a couple of years back. Still no resolution and acknowledgement from Affinity. Very shitty after sales. Lets all post on some other public forums for these guys to respond.
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