Boldlinedesign Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 You make a great point @Andy05 any kind of laser/cnc machine needs as smooth a line as possible with the least number of nodes cluttering it up. I'm not a developer at all, but from what I've learned in speaking to some, things like the boolean operations and offside path and others require a LOT of testing because there are so many variables that could cause it to fail or respond poorly. With similar vector apps, you as the user are encouraged to send in problem files and problem results. I wish Affinity was more proactive with that Dazmondo77 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boldlinedesign Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 @DGee It looks like there is still a sale for VS still going on over at Stacksocial. Totally worth that cost savings. If you do decide to purchase it, add your thoughts to the forum over at https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/ I know the developer is very interested in improving VS and the more users and feedback given, the better and faster improvements come. Repeating what many have said, VS is not neccesarily a replacement for Affinity, but another tool that bridges the gap. For some, that is all they need VS to be. In my situation, VS has become my main vector program but I still use affinity for some features and because I can work on my iPad with it, etc. Here's the link to the sale:https://stacksocial.com/sales/vectorstyler-professional-illustration-software Dazmondo77 and DGee 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGee Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 3 minutes ago, Boldlinedesign said: @DGee It looks like there is still a sale for VS still going on over at Stacksocial. Totally worth that cost savings. If you do decide to purchase it, add your thoughts to the forum over at https://www.vectorstyler.com/forum/ I know the developer is very interested in improving VS and the more users and feedback given, the better and faster improvements come. Repeating what many have said, VS is not neccesarily a replacement for Affinity, but another tool that bridges the gap. For some, that is all they need VS to be. In my situation, VS has become my main vector program but I still use affinity for some features and because I can work on my iPad with it, etc. Here's the link to the sale:https://stacksocial.com/sales/vectorstyler-professional-illustration-software Sounds great, thanks man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boldlinedesign Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 @DGee I forgot to tell you - your question about whether the color bar at the bottom can be moved or closed - it prompted me to ask on the forum and the answer is yes, it can be toggled off completely. That topic led to a whole other thread about where that color bar should be placed by default lol DGee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ℓurié Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 + 1 Quote AMD Ryzen 3 3100 / RX 6600 / 16GB DDR4 3200 / Windows 10 Home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 VectorStyler also available on offer here: https://deals.marinersoftware.com/sales/vectorstyler-professional-illustration-software?utm_source=marinersoftware&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=2021-12-08_marinersoftware_the-essential-2022-movavi-multimedia-software-bundle&utm_content=vectorstyler-professional-illustration-software Quote Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.4.3 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.3, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.4.0 Betas 2.5.0(2430) www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 9 hours ago, Dazmondo77 said: VectorStyler also available on offer here: https://deals.marinersoftware.com/sales/vectorstyler-professional-illustration-software?utm_source=marinersoftware&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=2021-12-08_marinersoftware_the-essential-2022-movavi-multimedia-software-bundle&utm_content=vectorstyler-professional-illustration-software Actually there 're more. those sites are just a mirror site of StackSocial with a different name. Dazmondo77 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ONEBYSTUDIO Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euronesia Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 +1 Warping vector objects is one of the most missing features in Affinity Designer that disturbs me. I totally moved on using AD for my vector use. I find it really light on older machines. But when needs to warp I need the object to stay in vector not bitmaps (using photo). This pushes me back to Illustrator. Please add this feature soon guys. @Affinity Designer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenia Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 +1 We need this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenia Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 On 12/12/2021 at 9:08 AM, 2ddpainter said: One big reason why i bought VS was that i realized that many wishes for Affinity Designer that have been popping up in this Forum for years are all solved with my purchase of VectorStyler. Can VectorStyler import afdesign files or do you use a different file format? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 10 hours ago, Gardenia said: Can VectorStyler import afdesign files or do you use a different file format? Nothing but Affinity applications understand the native .afdesign/.afphoto/.afpub file format. You could transfer SVG versions between VectorStyler and Affinity Designer. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 10 hours ago, Gardenia said: Can VectorStyler import afdesign files or do you use a different file format? Only Affinity software can import Affinity files. People who are using Designer and VectorStyler in combination are generally transferring the data via the clipboard (copy/paste). Boldlinedesign 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 17 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Nothing but Affinity applications understand the native .afdesign/.afphoto/.afpub file format. This one does a fairly good job of opening them https://www.photopea.com/ pruus and walt.farrell 1 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGee Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 You can copy and paste your vectors from VectorStyler into AD it works great. I have been trying VS and I’m very impressed by its functionality. It’s got everything AD lacks and much more. As far the UI goes there is room for improvement but the app complements AD very well. Boldlinedesign, Dazmondo77 and LassiP 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xzenor Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Nice.. on the Affinity forum an entire discussion about using other non-serif programs to make up for missing (basic) features.. And still nothing from Serif. They really don't care about losing users to other parties because of lacking features in their own software.. their silence is just unbelievable. Ray C, Dazmondo77, Boldlinedesign and 4 others 4 1 2 Quote Windows 10 Pro Intel Core i7-4770 3.40Ghz 16 GB RAM Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 Samsung EVO 850 SSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Xzenor said: Nice.. on the Affinity forum an entire discussion about using other non-serif programs Which makes them fairly open with this kind of discussion and accept public criticism. 1 hour ago, Xzenor said: to make up for missing (basic) features.. "Expected" feature, instead of "Basic". 1 hour ago, Xzenor said: And still nothing from Serif. The only thing for sure is that it's on they to-do list. How far from becoming a reality? We don't know, but I'm confident they are aware of all this regarding the functionality their users expect. 1 hour ago, Xzenor said: They really don't care about losing users to other parties because of lacking features in their own software.. To a certain degree, losing users is something that happens to all major Software Vendors. I've seen migrations from SAP systems to Oracle's, for example... I'm sure they try to ponder what's the best for the majority of their customers because that's good for their business. Why this is still not a reality what it's something Expected (not Basic), stays veiled forever. 1 hour ago, Xzenor said: their silence is just unbelievable. Imagine they say "we always wanted this to be out in 10 years after the initial launch", how would you react? Silence or not, it doesn't make a difference if the feature has not been released. As one of the users that want this feature, I don't expect any sort of apology nor someone saying "you were right all this time, we were wrong, here you have it". Best regards! PaulEC, dominik and LassiP 3 Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Xzenor said: And still nothing from Serif. People had been asking for Data Merge for years then one day on October 13, 2020 it suddenly appeared from nowhere It appears those lazy little elves had been working on it all the time 2 hours ago, Xzenor said: their silence is just unbelievable. Elves aren't that big on conversations; they just toil away as fast and as hard as they can in the hope that (some) people will appreciate their efforts walt.farrell, LassiP, dominik and 4 others 7 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 10 hours ago, carl123 said: This one does a fairly good job of opening them https://www.photopea.com/ But it's not as matured as psd yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ddpainter Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 On 12/19/2021 at 2:49 AM, Gardenia said: Can VectorStyler import afdesign files or do you use a different file format? As others already said, this works realtive seemless via Clipboard copy and past Btw. the Demo of VectorStyler will work 42 Day so it easy to try it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ddpainter Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 On 12/19/2021 at 2:21 PM, Xzenor said: ....They really don't care about losing users to other parties because of lacking features in their own software.. their silence is just unbelievable. Well, Affinity won't lose me as a user just because I've now bought VectorStyler. There are still some things I like about Affinity Designer. And I've never been tied to a single program. I've always used the program that does the job best when I could. Dazmondo77, Catshill, Mithferion and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Designer1234 Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Wow, that VS looks like AD should 😮How it's possible that less known company from Finland can write something like that, and Sarif, who had many of these tools in their previous software, still can't do it? 😮 Fixx and Boldlinedesign 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ddpainter Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 8 hours ago, Designer1234 said: Wow, that VS looks like AD should 😮How it's possible that less known company from Finland can write something like that, and Sarif, who had many of these tools in their previous software, still can't do it? 😮 Well i don't know that either, but I am glad for this alternative and I think many others too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xzenor Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 10 hours ago, Designer1234 said: Wow, that VS looks like AD should 😮How it's possible that less known company from Finland can write something like that, and Sarif, who had many of these tools in their previous software, still can't do it? 😮 it's a choice. Serif knows how to do it. they did it before in their previous software DrawPlus. They must have their reasons but since they don't respond we will never know them. Quote Windows 10 Pro Intel Core i7-4770 3.40Ghz 16 GB RAM Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 Samsung EVO 850 SSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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