Pariah73

After trying LOTS of PDF programs, I can say I haven't found a single one that does color seps. Tried PDF Exchange, PDFSam, PDF Architect, Bullzip, Sumatra, PDF Creator, PDFill (which had the best value -$20- for pro if you can deal with the hideous interface) Foxit Reader (trial of Phantom PDF) Nitro..there's some more that I can't remember. Only program I've discovered is Callas PDF uh..something..anyhow it's just as expensive as AA. Horribly neglected field of software IMO. I ended up creating a PDF in AD, then handing that off to Scribus for color separations. Not perfect but it works.

This is a forum that I enjoy due to the discussion of art, which doesn't need arguments, flame wars and the general negativity of the internet at large.  Let's keep things about design and art and the support of each other in said endeavors

This is a forum that I enjoy due to the discussion of art, which doesn't need arguments, flame wars and the general negativity of the internet at large.  Let's keep things about design and art and the support of each other in said endeavors

This is a forum that I enjoy due to the discussion of art, which doesn't need arguments, flame wars and the general negativity of the internet at large.  Let's keep things about design and art and the support of each other in said endeavors

This is a forum that I enjoy due to the discussion of art, which doesn't need arguments, flame wars and the general negativity of the internet at large.  Let's keep things about design and art and the support of each other in said endeavors

This is a forum that I enjoy due to the discussion of art, which doesn't need arguments, flame wars and the general negativity of the internet at large.  Let's keep things about design and art and the support of each other in said endeavors

This is a forum that I enjoy due to the discussion of art, which doesn't need arguments, flame wars and the general negativity of the internet at large.  Let's keep things about design and art and the support of each other in said endeavors

Hello you two 😀, please read the guidelines for posting on this forum.
In the Briefly section at the top most, rule 3;
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/guidelines/

This Thread might already be seen as "controversial enough" since there is discussions on how the competition is moving and how it might affect the Serif Team, the Affinity Suite customers and  the development of other software developers along their respective customers.

*Edit ; Just writing as a concerned forum user and customer who wants to keep the current good level of freedom in regards on what we can discuss.

You can have a tad as a smidgen of an oodle.

For us Lancastrians too.

So, you came here to denigrate Linux for not being what you want it to be, from however many years ago you tried it. It wasn't for you, so you make sure to stop here to let us all know how TERRIBLE. AN. IDEA.  it is to use Linux and asking our wonderful Serif friends to count our voices, for something you don't even like. Then why are you even here? If it's to be an anti-Linux troll, there are far more appropriate forums for your angst.  We are a community here of artists and designers who are here to help each other to appreciate and learn ways to get the art out there with the use of Affinity products, not to condescend to others who disagree with our choices of personal software. This is a post to let Serif know we are here and eager for a solution for OUR problem, which clearly isn't yours.  You dislike Debian, don't use it, don't plan on using it but come to tell us all how we shouldn't either? Watch out, you're starting to sound a bit American   Go make some beautiful art, then stare at it until you feel less salty

So, you came here to denigrate Linux for not being what you want it to be, from however many years ago you tried it. It wasn't for you, so you make sure to stop here to let us all know how TERRIBLE. AN. IDEA.  it is to use Linux and asking our wonderful Serif friends to count our voices, for something you don't even like. Then why are you even here? If it's to be an anti-Linux troll, there are far more appropriate forums for your angst.  We are a community here of artists and designers who are here to help each other to appreciate and learn ways to get the art out there with the use of Affinity products, not to condescend to others who disagree with our choices of personal software. This is a post to let Serif know we are here and eager for a solution for OUR problem, which clearly isn't yours.  You dislike Debian, don't use it, don't plan on using it but come to tell us all how we shouldn't either? Watch out, you're starting to sound a bit American   Go make some beautiful art, then stare at it until you feel less salty

Less than a small pinch. 'Tis the antithesis of a muckle.

Just.. wow. That's some bending down backwards logic just to be angry. Mozilla does actually legally owe Debian redistribution rights of their browser because it is a right explicitly granted in their Mozilla Public License. Mozilla owns the trademark "Firefox" and demanded Debian stopped using the trademark. So moving on is exactly what Debian did. Just change the name to stop the nagging from Mozilla's legal team. "Can they just do that?" Yes they can, because Mozilla released Firefox as open source. Apparently it rubbed you the wrong way 15 years ago and still does. Affinity is not open source, so it will not have that problem.
Eventually Mozilla realized that this situation hurt their brand awareness so they granted Debian the right to use the name "Firefox".
I understand now why "the Linux community" has not been as accommodating to your interpretation of events as you had hoped.

Great but i've bought Affinity Photo and Designer and i'm lovit, i'm wanna any Adobe product.... Meanwhile i'm going to use https://www.photopea.com/

If that last things was true, there were not commercial software on linux at all, and there multiple big companies who do, like Autodesk and Jetbeans. 

It had been explained here multiple times that the actual total of users of an OS doesn't matter as much as how many of those users are possible customers, if you take Windows as a example it has a the largest market but there are less users who need creative products in comparation to Mac. 
If Affinity wants to enter the linux market they could find potential customers in the VFX and web development industry since those users are often on Linux and there is not good comercial equivalent to Affinity or Adobe that can be use to a professional level. If those potential users justify the cost of doing a port is Affinity research team to determine that. 

You sound a bit salty. Please be careful with your interpretation of the facts when preaching to an audience. Like it or not, Debian has ideals of freedom for users in the broadest sense of the word. It was the Mozilla Corporation - not Debian - that demanded Debian stopped making changes to the (open source) source code of Firefox that would integrate Firefox better with Debian. So Debian had to re-brand for legal reasons in order to retain their freedom to make changes to the code.
Also note that this issue is almost 15 years old, as is perhaps your experience with Debian. The Mozilla Corporation saw that they weren't being helpful in the open source community while claiming to be a part of it, so Mozilla repealed the demand almost 5 years ago. Firefox ESR has been available in the current stable branch ever since, and the non-ESR version will be available after the ESR life cycle.
Personally I think vanilla Debian isn't a good desktop choice apart from a specific audience. People usually take a Debian-based derivative such as LMDE. Debian even recommends using a Debian derivative in stead of pure Debian on their website. The power of Debian's conservative approach to changes is that it's one of the most stable distros out there. You do know that Ubuntu is a Debian derivative directly based on Debian-testing, right?
So I guess the suggestion for Debian is based more on the idea that targeting Debian-testing targets the same foundation that is used for Crunchbang, Deepin, Devuan, Kali Linux, Knoppix, LMDE, PureOS, SolusOS, SteamOS, Ubuntu and more.

As Ash has said here
and subsequently from the feedback we received he has said
 

The only member of the Linux community who is being hostile here is..well, you, at the moment. You accuse others of holding their noses like some latter day Puritans yet talk about the 'maintainers' being brain dead.  That is not very nice.  My first Linux distro was Debian, suggested by a site that asked all kinds of questions to match you up to a distro they thought would be great for first timers. I had a great time with Debian, learned a ton about Linux in the process and still prefer Debian based distros overall.  I absolutely hope one of the amazing members of this community who use Linux can figure this out. The only reason I have Windows is because I can't afford a Mac and the support isn't there for Linux yet.  Like everything else about Linux, it's a great learning process and it's important to make sure Serif at least knows of our interest, and there are LOTS of us. It never hurts to keep trying because at some point, they just might do it.  Fingers crossed!  (and someone on here was close to figuring it out, so maybe someone else can finish what they started)
**Create something great today!**

Ohhhh really?
Look, you all know I'm terribly biased, but I just have to ask for “Select same font/style/size/character style/paragraph style” (I'm not sure how you'd deal with strings or frames containing more than one of those, though, but I'm sure there could be a way around that, or at least have those options work with typographically homogeneous objects even if it had to fail or otherwise appear greyed out for the rest)… Break it down inside a “Typography” submenu if you must.
This would be great for a lot of scenarios, really (even stuff like the technical drawing for a shop window decoration I'm working on right now, not just complex typography-heavy projects).

Ha! I was talking about mesh warps with Ash yesterday! We'll see....

People are free to communicate in their language. 
You should either not comment concerning this or do what I do...copy their text to deepL or Google Translate. 

Absolutely, thanks Mike. Forum participant can post in their native language if they wish and no comment (or discouragement) should be posted about it by anyone.
It is often polite to reply to those posts in the same language whether it is your native language or not (again without comment)

Thank you! I've just about had enough of Windows 10 and I miss Linux terribly