jamesholden
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41 minutes ago, Kuttyjoe said:
Why? Is it because people have absolutely no reason whatsoever to be frustrated?
Not sure this entirely makes sense.
I +1 to @MikeW comment because of the points he made, they were not written for the one you decided to add just now.
I hope the reason why is clear from his quote, in that I simply agree with him.
Go pick a fight somewhere else, these are challenging times for many, we all have better things to do.
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30 minutes ago, MikeW said:
So Matt writes that select same us the next feature he's going to work on, writing that today, and that initially it will work like Illy with it to be extended in the future and you feel the need to be a glass half full type of person?
Any wonder why Serif stopped responding much to requests? 'Cause if this is the type of response, I would too.
I couldn't +1 this enough.
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13 minutes ago, fde101 said:
It does have at least some of this functionality:
OK thanks.
Guessing some here might just be salivating at the thought of that feature set appearing in AD's menu system.
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48 minutes ago, debussy said:
OK, but I work in the architecture business.
Many people are using Illustrator and sticking to it, because it can import dxf/dwg data.
This is a basic workflow in architecture & design. Both in practices and in universities.
This is not a small freak feautre!
Indeed. And I never said it was small— what I inferring was that the pressing needs of many will differ, almost finitely.
To repeat, I and possibly others would trade dxf/dwg inport in a heartbeat for fully featured 3rd preset/addons and scipting in AD.
I suspect for others this is heresy.
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22 minutes ago, debussy said:
Totally absurd that Affinity does not provide thtat functionality.
And does not have any answer of how to work with dwg/dxf data.
Here is a thought, dwg/dxf import is of little importance to me, but the inclusion of 3rd party presets, scripts and add-ons meant everything.
As I have supposed before, the only development priorities the AD team may be following are their own.
This may well be the most intelligent option considering so many of us need entirely different things all from the same product.
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8 hours ago, dla_001 said:
I, personally, have moved on to VectorStyler - still in beta, but with >very< responsive devs - and more than adequately functional. AD just might end up as a footnote.
Does this mean you moved on and found this feature in VectorStyler?
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4 hours ago, robinp said:
I’m not saying don’t post. I’m just asking to please be considerate of others who, most likely, agree with the sentiment.
We all want this feature and have done for years. Yes, I’m pretty fed up about it too. But receiving 10 email notifications in quick succession, visiting the thread and actually struggling to get to the most recent post because some of yours are so long the page crashes my phone browser and the page is reloaded repeatedly is just counter productive.
I have to echo this sentiment.
This is not even a key feature for me, extensions and plugins are, but I am subscribed and considering the interest here along with the time elapsed this might be seen as a litmus test for AD's growth and development generally.
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3 hours ago, gafvert said:
I agree that plugin support for Designer would be interesting, but in my case from a developer perspective. I develop some specialized macOS design software for making halftones and patterns that I think could be interesting to make into plugins to fit in better with designer workflows. And since I'm going away from adobe personally I don't want to build Illustrator plugins, so being able to make plugins for Affinity Designer would be great.
I think we're essentially saying the same things, so agreed.
I might add that additional support for Illustrator plugins would open up AD's creative potential considerably.
As a side note I will never forgive you Serif + Affinity for introducing that dreadful reCAPTCHA here
. It's a running joke that no matter the logic you use to select images, you're better off choosing them randomly.
Anyhoo back on topic..
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This is fantastic Leigh,
thanks to you both for the heads up!
ps may I ask then is it something about the versions used that makes it recoverable only in 1.8 beta?
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37 minutes ago, Leigh said:
Thanks for waiting. Unfortunately, our developers have been unable to recover the file, sorry. You mention above that it was stored an a USB drive, do you know if the drive was unplugged unexpectedly? Did you create any backups of the USB drive at all?
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Must say though thanks Leigh for you and the team trying, it may have been and no backup of it.
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Thanks Dan, 1.7.3 downloaded and installed, 1.8 next!
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21 minutes ago, Dan C said:
Thanks for confirming that James, please let me know once the file has been uploaded.
Done, many thanks. )
21 minutes ago, Dan C said:We're currently in 1.8 beta, with 1.7.3 having been released since September of last year, making beta 1.7.0.14 considerably out of date!
Is there a reason you're still using this specific beta version?
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For some reason I never received any notifications about the updates, so hadn't known about this. A bummer TBH.
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Hi Dan,
I am not sure what caused it, it is stored on a USB drive, and had been created in the beta version 1.7.0.14.
Thanks!
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Can somneone kindly help a guy out and show me how to recover a file that Affinity Designer is saying is 'corrupted' when trying to open.
The autosaves seem to have been wiped over (happens each time you open, wish it didn't though).
Thanks in advance.
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34 minutes ago, robinp said:
It was mainly rhetorical, picking up the point from @Mark Ingram about how we've had years of free updates. This is a common argument made but is more whattaboutery than an actual answer. If they feel hard done by for providing free updates, or for that matter, feel like it exempts them from criticism then I think it is really rather misguided.
I was trying to make the point that a) we don't get to choose or not whether updates are free or not and, b) that I and many others would happily to get an update that includes this feature.
I will continue to wait with my wallet at the ready if needed.
I too wonder if they'd just charge more (frequently), wouldn't they then, by increasing resources, be able deliver more (frequently).
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On 12/3/2019 at 12:29 PM, robinp said:
Where and how do I pay to get this feature added?
I am not sure if this is rhetorical, or not.
But if not, my stab at it is that firstly your money won't move the AD team so much. Years of requests may have proven that. Secondly as stated by @fde101 some companies already have this in place, I suspect with varying degrees of features and complexity, but there nonetheless.
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On 11/22/2019 at 1:46 AM, Ulysses said:
...While I agree that being able to at least read Smart Objects would ease the transition away from Adobe, what I would prefer from Serif is something even better. I have no idea what "better" would mean in precise terms, but perhaps it would make the tasks of editing and switching between Affinity apps even more enjoyable. I think this entire concept that is like a cake that’s still baking in the labs at Serif.
Agreed. Though the reality is, will we ever see 'better' and if so when. I was a bit of an AD fanboy, but the feature timescales are unbearable, for some.
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On 11/22/2019 at 8:11 PM, dla_001 said:
With regard to the remarks that Corel Draw does not have this feature, at least it has the capability to be enhanced with macros. The same cannot be said for AD.
Echoing this.
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I guess as long as the scripting opens up everything to 3rd parties, just as APIs have under-the-hood access, maybe that might work also. I may be wrong but my understanding was they are different types of access.
Eitherway it's clear at this current pace, many users may only ever see their key features implemented after extended periods, if at all. -
thanks to you both for the heads up!
Exporting to Illustrator
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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@Diogo Junior may I be the first to say a big thanks for this, found it quite both clear and helpful.