Jay K Elemenopy

Adding my voice to this request! I've been promoting Affinity to my design team, BUT the one single holdup for companywide adoption is scaling and dimensioning. We do work that must often go before public review commissions, requiring a standard printed sheet size with a scale so a rule can be placed directly on the drawings to verify questions the commissioners might have. We are strapped with using a VERY buggy Corel install on multiple workstations, creating as many corrupt files as good ones. The entire design pool is miserable using Corel, but there is simply no better option. Affinity is SO CLOSE I could scream. Our drawings also go straight to production, the vector files are use directly by the CNC machines and the drawings are used for verifications and hand-manufacturing. The production team uses scale rules as well to verify undimensioned specs. Let me be quite clear about this: Affinity, you are losing out on MASS ADOPTION of Designer as a production tool for this ONE SINGLE FATAL DRAWBACK. I'm your biggest fan and rather desperately want to use Affinity exclusively, but until then, any industry that makes proposals involving permitting commissions/dimensioned manufacturing drawings is going to say no thanks. I know enough about your program to understand there are difficulties in implementation. (Clearly scrapping the whole kernel is not desirable) But, please understand what is on the other side of this development. BTW, I would expect you could charge over 100$ just for an optional plugin that works. Advertise in trade mags and you quadruple your market share in a month or less. My field, Signage, is a $12 Billion industry in America alone with over 92,000 employees. A significant portion of those people are designers creating scale drawings. Sign companies are notoriously cheap, and Corel is already testing our ability to buy licenses for every production station that uses live drawings. If a company as crappy as Corel can figure it out decades ago... lookin' at you Affinity. Scaling. Dimensioning. Please.

This would be HUGE for my business. I would love to automate all references to client info. I could incorporate all the details from an order or inquiry from my website straight into a Presentation and Contract Package completely automatically. Yes, please!