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    Canva

    in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)

    Posted

    7 hours ago, SrPx said:

    https://www.afr.com/technology/no-one-can-buy-canva-now-other-start-ups-beware-20231220-p5esr8

    Edit: Ouch, sorry. It seems that article is partially behind a paywall...

    Here is an archived version of the article before it got paywalled https://archive.is/tpn6p so everyone can read it.

      

    7 hours ago, SrPx said:

    Even more the case when our skills are less and less needed (and I can't understand why people don't realize that this is the biggest danger for artists, designers, photographers, etc, but not just from Canva, but any apps with full AI art and design generation, like MidJourney , Dall-E, etc), so, the low end users can finally do a lot of work without our services (in Canva, and similar solutions), and then, the "pie" that canva can grab is significantly bigger than what it was the potential Canva's user base before. WAY more the case if they start implementing Affinity's tech inside Canva solutions (to an extent... I don't see a lot of their user base getting super technical! It's not that profile), and also keeping the branch of Affinity's standalone suite. As in, I think it aspires to way more  than the social media graphics and fast stuff for marketing people and small business owners saving bucks on designers and artists that it was its market till now. This challenges a large chunk of Adobe's user base. And from what I am digging out there, it seems I was not the only one suspecting that Canva's thing is not to be bought, but to compete with the giant, as at this point, well, it's a giant itself and it has a lot to win.

    Exactly what's on my mind. Also it's exactly the reason why artists are mad and starting to ai-poison their artworks. EU just started talking about control of ai and its usage, let's hope they will take us in account.

    Hollywood lobby got their way around video piracy, we should want to do the same to protect us. Especially for those who use LAION-5B dataset for their commercial ai models.

    Well, I personally am not fan of the takeover and worry that Affinity as we know it will cease to exist and will be turned into something different. I switched back to Adobe CC for my business needs when I saw no real progress in V2, yet I still use sometimes for some small personal projects, just because I'm sorry to let the money I've spent on it and the many add-ons burn.

    We'll see if the pledge is true and Canva will help Serif to grow Affinity to a better suite.

    Update the WebP library to the latest version to prevent possible vulnerability attacks

    in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products

    Posted

    On 9/15/2023 at 10:09 AM, myclay said:

    I wonder if MSIX sandboxing helps here or not?

    Sadly, not at all.

    Thank you for mentioning this, @v_kyr, what a shame you posted this into Feedback section instead of bug section though.

    Also, severity of this bug is so serious that Serif should issue an update to the whole V1 line as well...

    Honorable mention: @Patrick Connor

    Moving from PS.. Is there a way to cycle through blend modes via keyboard?

    in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)

    Posted

    14 hours ago, R C-R said:

    Although using the scroll-wheel to change numeric values in most fields works fine for me, that does not work on my Mac. I am also not sure what you mean about double-clicking -- for me single-clicking & double-clicking both open the fly-out.

    Well, double-click to open and instantly close the flyout (so it's focused, then the scroll-wheel works).
    This is how it behaves on Windows, I haven't used Affinity on my Mac for a while (on my Mac, I'm still on ACC).

    Spoiler

    ACC = Adobe Creative Cloud

    Missing features in print design and production workflow

    in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop

    Posted

    15 minutes ago, Mithferion said:

    Yes, you can rename the Swatch and set the Overprint option on and off. What you don't have is the same window that in the Adobe Programs.

    Best regards!

    I think you're missing the point here, @Mithferion 😉

    The way AI handles overprint is object (property) based while in Affinity it's colour-based.
    The object oriented system is imo way more logical, you could easily want to overprint the same colour at one place of the document, while having it knocked-out in other part.
    Overprint preview is a must also, without any doubts...

    Also, it's not that easy to handle colour swatches in Affinity compared to AI - you can't work with multiple colour swatches at once, and you also can't switch Spot color checkbox anymore, once you've created a Spot color swatch, you can't turn it back to CMYK (or other colour model). The only, and very counter-intuitive way is to create a new swatch, then Select > Same Colour, then change the swatch, later deleting the spot-colour swatch. What a UX I'd say...

    Huge size of PDF file from Affinity Publisher

    in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, Lagarto said:

    ...But in Affinity apps, it is not that simple: e.g. cropped images (using Vector Crop tool) would be upsampled to document DPI and -- according to my recent test -- ignore any downsample settings specified in Export options. I'll have a test run to confirm this, but if you have lots of images cropped this way, this could explain the problem at least partially.

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    [AP/Win+Mac] Tool handles resize (just Mesh Warp Tool)

    in V1 Bugs found on Windows

    Posted

    @Chris B

    Hi, the issue still present in 1.10.x.

    It happens when Preferences > Tools > Smallest is set.

    The worst thing is that if you want to use the handles while zoomed in, you have to hit the precise pixel in the middle of the handle (and that's nearly impossible).

    Also, may I ask you to move this thread back to https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/78-photo-bugs-found-on-windows/? so it's not easily missed, as it still affects the current version, and not just pre-1.9 versions?

    Thanks in advance for looking at it.

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    Affinity Publisher Customer Beta - 1.9.2.998

    in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on macOS threads

    Posted

    On 3/8/2021 at 9:27 PM, Michael_ said:

    This is still not working properly as you can see here: I just changed the color mode from RGB to CMYK. When I actualize the image, it remains it’s size, but not it’s position within the picture frame. In Versions 1.8.6 this works fine.

    @AdamW @Jon P  Same goes for Replacing placed PDF files via Resource Manager.
    They don't keep the size, nor position. Also when replacing a resource that is placed multiple times, only one is replaced, the rest of placed images vanish and Publisher displays only empty frames.

    When replacing with Replace Image button in the context toolbar, all the images are replaced, however they change the size (keeping the position though).

    Been like that  since 1.9 release. It's a pretty nasty bug for a DTP software 😐.

    Bug Report (reported for Windows but the same issue occurs on macOS).

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