PaolaB

Sure, but if you are a professional designer, you probably won't use Canva.

Well, the fact that it's Canva who acquired Serif is why professional designers are going to jump ship. Time will tell.

Decent as in what you are able to do, performance. Yes, open source tools have an ugly interface but that doesn't mean they have a bad performance. In any case that depends on what do you need them for, I guess.

I understand this is a good financial move for you guys at Serif, but for us designers, it's awful news. I've been a strong supporter and promoter of Affinity due to the quality of its products and the non-subscription model. I've bought both V1 and V2 and left Adobe behind for good. With this new Canva scenario, I have the feeling that all of that will be gone, since Canva is not a professional design tool; it's meant for people with no design skills or knowledge. I've seen this happen before when Adobe bought Macromedia; it killed a suite of great tools. And that was Adobe, for heaven's sake! I don't want to imagine what Canva would do to Affinity. So sad... For those of you who might be interested, there are couple of decent design software for mac users: Amadine (an Illustrator-lite like) Pixelmator Pro (very decent Photoshop alternative) And some decent open source tools: Inkscape (alternative to A. Designer and Illustrator) Krita Gimp

Same here. I´ve purchased v 1.7 and that awful bug still there Come on you Affinity Team! This is not a minor issue. We, the buyers, are designers. It´s very important that the expand stroke function works properly. I really love Affinity Designer, but I still have to stick to AI due to that bug.