Martyn T Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 As I am starting to use Publisher for more projects and finding a pain point – Collaboration. Currently it’s not possible to share a Publisher document with a client who doesn’t have the Affinity Suite. I currently have to export as PDF, upload to a third party service that allows sharing and commenting, and then work through the PDF comments to update the document. It would be amazing if I was able to upload a document to an Affinity Cloud service, where clients can comment on the read-only document which is synced with my Publisher Desktop for me to action. Failing that, the ability to download an Affinity Viewer so clients can view the document for comment without needed an Affinity license. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 https://www.google.com/search?q=Collaboration+Tools+site:https://forum.affinity.serif.com Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.5.2636 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Have you thought about how different machines may have different fonts installed so the text may not be viewable properly on all machines? Have you thought about linked documents/images and how they could be handled when the linked items are stored locally? Have you thought about changes in colour management and how different machines are calibrated differently? See also:https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/163970-integration-of-the-new-collaboration-api-of-wwdc-2022/https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/163849-suggestion-─-re-corporation-market-penatration/https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/161741-real-time-multi-user-collaborative-editing-commenting-suggesting-system-like-google-drive/https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/79121-suggestion-live-collaboration/https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/152008-viewer-for-affinity-files/https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/76737-photo-viewer-that-will-open-affinity-photo-files-neither-irfanview-or-faststone-can/https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/60731-library-software-to-work-with-affinity/ etc. etc. Old Bruce 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 You could share your document window via Skype or Teams, and discuss in front of the same document. Paolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Customer Feedback Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 🙄 @GarryP @Pšenda and many others in here. You guys are as usual just on routine autopilot with your thousands of responses. "Have you thought about that?" Nah. You haven't. I hope Serif thinks a bit more about such input from customers, and looks out at the market and the future. If you made the effort and gathered some knowledge, instead of ranting on here about things you don't understand, you would see a tremendous growth in collaboration features in many software genres, and of course it accelerated during covid lockdowns. If you had ever been on a large commercial project as a salaried employee - I can easily guess that you haven't - it's not about everyone being an editor or content provider - it's about being able to share, get input, directly at online meetings or electronically when the colleague, stakeholder or customer has time and much more. And that doesn't happen by sharing PDFs or other outdated nonsense. It happens online. Simultaneously or asynchronously. But that kind of thing is built around cloud services, and Serif has built their products around old Stone Age principles, and builds their business on tens of thousands of small savers, so they'll never ever get to that level, nor is that their plan. Haha, what the hell am I doing here anyway. I (we) are done evaluating Affinity, which is products for amateurs, private associations and tiny traders, but marketed as much more (it's not), while this forum is totally dominated by users whose hobby is to be on this forum. Get out a bit. You should have learned that much from covid lockdowns. And by the way, it's summer. Adieu. I and my colleagues are not going back, we have been so confirmed by the evaluation that we should not lower the bar. But it was a lot of fun to think that some cutting-edge, low-cost programs had been found. But it was just a bluff. Nicely wrapped up. Signing off, checking out, leaving the plimsoll: Eddie PaoloT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catshill Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 The thought of multiple editors working on APu does not appeal to me me one bit. I use the adding of comments using a pdf reader on a pdf that is on a shared Google drive actually works well for me. PaoloT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tudor Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 10 hours ago, Customer Feedback said: If you had ever been on a large commercial project as a salaried employee - I can easily guess that you haven't - it's not about everyone being an editor or content provider - it's about being able to share, get input, directly at online meetings or electronically when the colleague, stakeholder or customer has time and much more. And that doesn't happen by sharing PDFs or other outdated nonsense. It happens online. Simultaneously or asynchronously. You really have no idea what you're talking about. Nowadays companies use dedicated online project management tools. All collaborative work happens there. Those tools already have good features for editing/reviewing PDFs, images and Office files. For example we use Wrike in our company. I share all my Affinity work there as PDFs, PNGs or JPGs. There is no point in Affinity reinventing the wheel. Adobe has its own "share for review" online system. I tried it several times but went back to Wrike because everybody else in our company is there. PaulEC and PaoloT 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn T Posted August 4, 2022 Author Share Posted August 4, 2022 I'm very surprised and disappointed at the tone and mood that this thread has gotten - I have provided some feedback/feature suggestion (which is the intent of this Forum) on the off chance that it'll find it's way onto the roadmap (or support something that is already on it.) - and the only person to provide a response that isn't childish or forgets that I'm just an end user providing feedback is @PaoloT (cheers buddy - sadly Screensharing isn't ideal) The Affinity products are really good - but missing some features (same goes to the over priced, over bloated, frequently crashing 'market leader'). But this Forum seems to be a waste of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tudor Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 51 minutes ago, Martyn T said: The Affinity products are really good - but missing some features (same goes to the over priced, over bloated, frequently crashing 'market leader'). But this Forum seems to be a waste of time. You posted your feedback. Wait for somebody from Affinity to react. Feel free to ignore our comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 2 hours ago, tudor said: Wait for somebody from Affinity to react. That may be a long wait, as the Serif staff generally don't interact in the Feature Request part of the forum. 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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