KwHaire Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 (edited) Is there anyway we can get these plugins to work with Affinity Designer? I don't even see a folder for plugins in Designer. Edited August 24, 2021 by KwHaire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 24, 2021 Staff Share Posted August 24, 2021 Hi @KwHaire, Welcome to Affinity Forums No, Affinity Designer do not support plugins and these in particular were specifically developed for Adobe Illustrator using their SDK (software development kit) - they would never work in Affinity. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference | Call for Camera Images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KwHaire Posted August 24, 2021 Author Share Posted August 24, 2021 Would be nice if Affinity team could incorporate them into Designer. At least the vector pen tools. nodeus and 2989 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 1 hour ago, KwHaire said: Would be nice if Affinity team could incorporate them into Designer. At least the vector pen tools. +1 for that, I have them in illustrator and they are very useful additions. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Ventura 13.6, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 Add a signature like this so system and app info always seen. Tagging is the gift that keeps on giving. Please consider adding tags to your post, not only does it help searching later on but it helps us, to give focused replies and is greatly appreciated by those that do reply, remember Affinity is for life not just Christmas. (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al5 Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 On 8/24/2021 at 8:56 AM, KwHaire said: Would be nice if Affinity team could incorporate them into Designer. At least the vector pen tools. Another +1 for Astute Graphics (or similar) pen tools for Affinity Designer. They are a huge timesaver – and fun to use! 2989 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al5 Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 On 8/24/2021 at 8:56 AM, KwHaire said: Would be nice if Affinity team could incorporate them into Designer. At least the vector pen tools. +1 here too. I am considering moving to Affinity Designer from Illustrator, purely for cost reasons at this point. Vector Tools like Astute Graphics would be a bit plus from my POV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esaeo Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 There are some of Astute Graphics plugin capabilities that I really need. Vector First Aid, Reform, and Find-Replace capabilities, as well as HotDoor CAD (or any scaling/dimensioning) are of great significance for my functionality. Due to current finances, I just cut myself off of Adobe CC and risking my professional workflow entirely with Affinity Designer. I really like what you guys are doing and would LOVE LOVE LOVE to move everything over to Affinity, but I need some of the tedious workhorse-like tools. Designer is excellent for art and design, but super technical pieces need more tools to accomplish efficiently in Designer. Would you be able to open up an SDK for third-parties (or yourselves) to fill in the gaps? I'd be willing to pay more if you could do this. jussi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manandmouse Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 I also want this. Astute Graphics "simplify" paths is outstanding. We've been using this for vector images drawn with an iPad with a pen. It creates a lot of nodes and have to ve cleaned up. Their's tools is fantastic and I really want this in Affinity Designer. Or Affinity could create better clean up/optimise tools themselves. Jim_A 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Rieger Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 I've always found the Astute Graphics tools indispensable when working with Illustrator, especially Vector First Aid (node clean up and optimization) and Phantasm (non-destructive vector colour control and halftones). Serif is sorely lacking any automated means of cleaning up the large number of nodes it's tools create (this is a very manual task in the Affinity suite), as well as vector colour adjustments (the existing adjustment layers render vectors to bitmap). Ideally tools like these would simply be a part of the Affinity toolset, but if that's not possible hopefully Astute Graphics will see the Affinity apps as a worthwhile investment once the SDK becomes available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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