Staff MEB Posted October 3, 2014 Staff Share Posted October 3, 2014 Have you checked the forum? There's tones of feedback here. I agree that Photoshop will be the hardest target. There's probably a reason why they are tackling Affinity Photo first. Carlos and Ben 2 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Have you checked the forum? There's tones of feedback here. Yes I know, that's why i said Serif is a refreshing company with a lot of support. I am not stating otherwise (it is early days to judge whether feedback is acted on, I have no reason to doubt, I am impressed so far). You can never have enough feedback from your customers, as developing in a bubble would be a plan for failure. I do think we are saying the same thing, from slightly different viewpoints Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KipV Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Carlos I am not sure if Affinity needs a product that takes on every single feature that is in Photoshop. Some people believe that Photoshop already takes on too many areas and should be split apart into smaller apps. One advantages that some of PS's competitors have over PS is that they don't bring along all the legacy bloat. It's important to keep in mind that the age of many of Adobe's apps can be as big of a negative as it can be a positive. Also I find that I don't spend as much time in PS anymore. A lot of people's workflows have shifted over to raw processing apps like LR, Capture One Pro, and Apple's up coming Photos app for Mac. I don't know what you are looking for in a page layout app but there are some options out there today. Printworks is a new one that has come out from a great company. I haven't used it but the reviews seem to be pretty good. I am not so sure what I think about multiple pages in an illustration app. I used to use FH for an illustration program not because it did a great job but only because I found it was less buggy then PageMaker (I didn't have time to learn the fledgling ID back then.) Illustrator didn't get multiple pages until version 13 and I don't think that decision was due to technical limitations by Adobe. I think the best approach is to do what Sketch does and not have fixed page sizes but instead a unlimited canvas to work with that can later be split into artboards. I think when you make an illustration it's a totally different discipline then doing a page layout. When you start a layout you usually know the dimensions of your book, website, email ad, business card, etc. But sometimes when I start to draw I don't want to think about what size something is going to be. I can worry about a designs dimensions later when I bring my illustrations (and photos and text) into the layout software. CartoonMike 1 Quote New Internet Book Project | Another New Website Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 1.0 versions are just that... but for being a 1.1 version, Affinity Designer it's incredible... with lot of potential!! :) and of course Photo and Publisher will receive the experience from desinger relative to development issues :) CartoonMike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Don't forget how long it took for illustrator to offer art boards. Hopefully it won't take 20 years... ;) Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quarian Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Illustrator hijacked Artboards from Freehand. If you'll notice, a lot of the "new" features--including InDesign outputting SWF--were a direct result of Adobe getting their hands on Freehand. IMHO, this is the real reason they buried it. Freehand was able to do things Illustrator couldn't...until after the buyout. Raskolnikov 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10on12 Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Here are the screen shots from Freehand Pasteboard. This shows 8 separate pages of varying sizes sitting on the Pasteboard. This is a zoomed in view (second option of 3). To give you an indication of the size of Freehands Pasteboard here's the zoomed out view. Yes, those small things in the bottom left corner are the pages. Freehands Pasteboard measured 5.63m x 5.63m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. K Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Is there a reason not to use Artboards for multi page documents? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 5, 2017 Staff Share Posted July 5, 2017 Hi Mr K, No, each artboard will be converted to a document page when you export to PDF (bottom layer/artboard in the Layers panel corresponds to first page, the artboard on top of the Layers panel corresponds to the last page). Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. K Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 I gave it a try. My opinion is artboards is not a good solution for a multi page document, maybe a few pages, but not more than 3. There's no way to navigate to a selected artboard and then make it "fit to screen." Navigator does not show the individual artboards. Layers does not hide an artboard when its visibility box is unchecked. I'll keep using Pages. It's now 3 years since in this thread it was said by a moderator that Publisher was coming next year. Now I read Publisher beta will be released at the end of 2016 (maybe it was, but not to the public), and Publisher will be released in 2017. I hope this happens soon, until then I will continue to use Pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Now I read Publisher beta will be released at the end of 2016 (maybe it was, but not to the public), and Publisher will be released in 2017. That must have been in yet another old thread! The Publisher public beta is currently due some time before the end of this year but it will be several months before the retail version is ready, so I don't think we should expect the finished product to be available before next year (2018). Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 6, 2017 Staff Share Posted July 6, 2017 Hi Mr K, Affinity Designer is not intended to be a desktop publishing app - it's an hybrid vector/raster app for web/graphic/ui design & illustration. You can use artboards as pages as i explained above but it's not really the best tool for laying out complex multipage documents. That's the purpose of Affinity Publisher. Affinity Publisher is in development and we will post/announce the Beta here and in the social media as soon as there's news. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluetux Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 On 10/3/2014 at 1:22 AM, Ben said: Designer is our illustration app, similar to DrawPlus - presently it only shows one page. We will be releasing Affinity Publisher next year that will have all the features you'd expect for publication, including multiple pages. Also, our file format will work seamlessly between all Affinity apps. 1 Is there plan to release Affinity Publisher? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluetux Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 5 minutes ago, bluetux said: Is there plan to release Affinity Publisher? Oh sry, I found info lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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