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Congrats on finally getting that payday for all your hard work. However, it's painfully obvious from your overall letter, your vague praise for Canva's "cloud" expertise & understated, terse comment on how current users were safe through V2 & will receive updates to it (for a while, anyway), that all future true affinity will be lost as Affinity programs shift to a subscription model asap. We will assume that if there were to be a stand-alone V3, you'd have clearly mentioned it. You didn't, so there won't be. Sadly & clearly, V2 is the end of the line. From here on, any V3+ will clearly consist of locked-chain accts, which if they were only more expensive would be hard enough, but dealable. But that insidious model also impacts our control over our creative work going forward. When we later lose our subscription, as with any subscription model, we lose our access to all our files on that platform henceforth. All of our work is then held hostage. This also starts the process of Affinity being tossed from corporate hand to corporate hand as yet another asset, down along the M&A rabbit hole, which is intolerable for a high-quality, formerly user-focused product. I've worked for a number of such firms w/ world-class products, and seen the name (unattached now from its former quality product) tossed from entity to entity, slapped on any half-hearted product, and it is heartbreaking. Large firms may feel comfortable with all that, as they're not focusing on changing anything they do with their files anytime soon. However, this fully dismisses independent users & dumps us all off by the side of the road, as you move on, financially set. Again, I believe none of us would begrudge you your well-earned payday. But a simple "Hey, everyone, guess what?" msg, as we're told our purchases of your product will now/soon be obsolete & we all need to begin looking elsewhere, hurts. Alas, you cannot hide that or assuage or undo that with clever marketing & decent intentions. The one request we'd make is this: please outline exactly how long you plan to support V1 & V2, w/ updates & customer support, before it's discontinued in the full shift over to the subscription-only model. We'll assume this shift will not be entirely in your hands, so those who've believed in you over the years will need your best-faith assistance here so we can plan our workflows. We'll need some type of heads up to be able to begin the process of looking for an Affinity alternative once we lose our beloved Adobe alternative.

Odd that AP is having this much trouble with .heic files, as it's been in play fully in the Applesphere since 2017. I was just looking & saw that Photoshop now fully supports it from what Adobe is saying...

Thanks, Walt. That's much of the information I was seeking. Much appreciated. Some apps in beta have a designated location just for the testing process comments, which I do not see with the Affinity site here. From what you've said, and what I've seen on other threads here, Affinity's are just woven into general group discussion of the beta. Nothing wrong w/ that; it just wasn't clear. Also, I then saw some commenters marked as Moderators (or official spokespeople of some sort) answering some posts on some topics but not others. So it was confusing as to whether these boards were being looked at. As per the chance of their fixing the placing of the zoom capability in the main toolbar, the Text Tool toolbar or the footer of the open document so that it's readily available while you're working IN the document w/o wasting time jumping to some other placement in the app -- it's the beta period still, so all things are up for grabs. And this item is as important to me as other items on the boards, like InDesign import/export, etc., are to other users. Plus, I've long since stopped assuming which code changes are simple, quick fixes and which are complex & tedious, as I've ended up on the wrong side of both assumptions too many times. If it's not yet released, it's still open for improvement. One safe assumption is that the Affinity folks will be tinkering with something or other, right up to the very moment they hit Submit on the release announcement. So I put this need out there for their consideration, asking that it be added either in the remaining release time here, or for one of the initial updates. Thanks!

Walt, please do not take offense, but I am not looking to debate this topic or discuss it, I am attempting to make a direct request of the Affinity Publisher Beta Team. If THIS IS NOT THE PROPER PLACE, WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE POINT ME TO IT? Thanks! I tried searching all over the Affinity site & couldn't find a direct Beta app response link / space. This is the closest I've found. If I AM in the wrong place, would sincerely appreciate the assist to the proper spot. Thanks, all!

Thanks, Aammppaa. Yep, I finally figured out all that. I'm not so much asking the group for a workaround, as I am asking the Affinity programmers to make a change here BEFORE this goes live in a few wks. While that kind of zoom selection works well on photos & images, for text it's much too clunky to deal with. I'm often going between 50 - 75 - 100 - 125 - 150 - 300 for various documents at various points, to solve various problems / challenges. Especially for comparing multiple documents, to make sure they're at the same magnification, to facilitate comparison or for moving easily between them. Adobe allows this, Word allows it. Pages allows this. I'm even trying to remember back to my old Quark days, I believe they had this option as well. Even if it were there were in the Toolbar for the Text Tool, life would be considerably easier. Trust me. At the very least, I see no reason for not offering a Zoom Icon in the Customize Toolbar option in the View Menu. Then, you & I could each customize it to our needs... Thanks!

The window bar serves as gravy, not potatoes. Sure, it's nice in those odd times I'm just curious about the zoom %. However, we're talking tool here, not info. If I could change the zoom on the fly in the window, it would be usable. But since I can't, it's not. When working on a piece, I need to zoom tightly for a character or few words, then right back out again. Is the ability buried in the works there somewhere? Sure. But it sure ain't quick. We still need a constant, context-free icon in the toolbar for speedy zoom changes as we're working, not having to remember which of the many tools, panels & boxes we need to stop, figure out or remember & find just for a quick zoom change, in & out.

It would be so very much easier if the zoom level were simply in the toolbar at the top, so just a glance will tell you what % you're at & adjustments are within the working page. Just the extra time to change tools & change them back again when you're working, or finding the proper panel is very time consuming. Especially if you use your center button to scroll up & down rather than zoom in or out. Please consider this for the final version. Thanks!

27-in. iMac. Default screen resolution. Please enlarge the text on the desktop UI. You've allowed for a fine range of zooms for the created document, but that doesn't help when we cannot read the UI, struggle to find & make out the wording of section tabs or basically find anything from the program on the screen. If I've got to shove my face up against the screen to read the Publisher tools & toolbars, it appears not yet ready for market. Many folks in the publishing trades have spent many years staring at screens, and ill-lit paper, with concomitant eye fatigue or damage to show for it. I enjoy the other Affinity projects, but would rarely use this one if the screen text for the app is too small. As it stands, I have to change my screen resolution just for Publisher. I'm willing to do that for testing, but it's not something I would pay cash money to have to endure if that is not corrected. Just saying... Thanks!