Affinity V2.0

[Bad_Wolf]

@Pšenda

I apologize for the wrong choice of wording. English is not my native language and I am not a perfect person. I did edit my reply so now it reads "...free updates...".

Chris

[Johannes]

18 hours ago, Dangerous said:

I zoom with my mouse wheel, a quick & simple setting!

 

Magic Trackpad near the left hand.

Left hand on keyboard shortcuts and escape on the left side of the keyboard. Right hand on the Magic Mouse.

Near the left sits the Magic Trackpad for zooming. Near the right thumb sits the enter key for OKing

[Johannes]

3 hours ago, Patrick Connor said:

Your next purchase (which will be an update to our software) is in no way restricted by any previous purchases, so yes. It's a whole new purchase if you choose, or not if you don't want to 

Will 1.9 suite still work after purchasing 2.0?

[Patrick Connor]

4 minutes ago, Johannes said:

Will 1.9 suite still work after purchasing 2.0?

Yes. Because V2 will be optional upgrades (purchases), they are independent installs parallel to your V1 suite and so will not affect your existing applications. You can have both installed or just one 

[chrisb123]

22 hours ago, Bad_Wolf said:

By the way, I got 5 or 6 years of free updates in the V1.0 versions, I do not mind if I have to pay full price again. I like the Affinity suit so much and I am relying on it. For me it is far more important that Affinity's future is secured.

 

I got zero free updates

[PaulEC]

2 hours ago, chrisb123 said:

I got zero free updates

But you benefitted from those updates because they are already included in the version you bought. You are no worse (or better) off, as far as the version(s) of the software you have now is concerned, than those people who purchased it years ago and had to wait for the updates. (Or, to put it another way, you do have the updates, but they were included when you purchased the software, compared to when it was first sold.)

[Guest]

51 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

Yes. Because V2 will be optional upgrades (purchases), they are independent installs parallel to your V1 suite and so will not affect your existing applications. You can have both installed or just one 

Will v2 use the same ~/Library/Application Support/Affinity {Designer/Photo/Publisher} preferences, assets, brushes, etc as v1, or will it have a separate storage location? Just wondering about potential collisions (or opportunities to share prefs, assets, etc) between versions?

Also, (and I know this is a long shot) any word on whether v2 will fully support macOS Ventura when launched? Pretty much every other app I use is now compatible with Ventura, and it would be nice to be able to confidently upgrade my OS when I upgrade to v2.

[Jens Krebs]

43 minutes ago, chrisb123 said:

I got zero free updates

Poor Chris!

[Patrick Connor]

Just now, Bryan Rieger said:

or will it have a separate storage location?

Yes, a separate storage location (with an auto-import option on first run)

1 minute ago, Bryan Rieger said:

whether v2 will fully support macOS Ventura when launched

I'm starting to tread on marketing toes here but {whispers} yes

[chrisb123]

Now I know what adobe subscribers feel like

[Jens Krebs]

2 minutes ago, chrisb123 said:

Now I know what adobe subscribers feel like

You paid 50 bucks for a software that you can use it as long as you like without any additional cost … yeah, sounds a lot like Adobe …

[awakenedbyowls]

Was looking for a thread about the latest promo in the News Forum - but here it is..

What I'm keen to know is:

- am I going to have to relearn certain functions?

- will I be able to continue using the latest 1.X version on my iPad?

Happy to pay again for a newer version with more features, but maybe not so soon after just buying it? Hopefully the price will remain the same - in any case I doubt I'll be forking out for new design software any time soon anyway because money (or lack of)

[Patrick Connor]

30 minutes ago, awakenedbyowls said:

What I'm keen to know is:

- am I going to have to relearn certain functions?

No, mostly not

30 minutes ago, awakenedbyowls said:

- will I be able to continue using the latest 1.X version on my iPad?

Yes, as I said above 

1 hour ago, Patrick Connor said:

Yes. Because V2 will be optional upgrades (purchases), they are independent installs parallel to your V1 suite and so will not affect your existing applications. You can have both installed or just one 

But your V2 files will not load back into V1 as it doesn't understand the new functionality so cannot load the files

[awakenedbyowls]

Thanks Patrick - asking a repeat question just seemed easier than reading through 5 pages of comments to see if the question had already been addressed (so laziness on my part)

Just asking because iPadOS is weird and I was concerned that it might auto-update me and then ask me to pay again

Looking forward to a newer, slicker experience anyway (hopefully) and perhaps a good piece of software that really competes with Adobe for a fairer price 👍 (which it does already)

The ability to switch between pixel and vector mode as well as between Photo and Designer easily is the most appealing thing about Affinity for me, and I hope you retain that functionality

[paristo]

34 minutes ago, Jens Krebs said:

You paid 50 bucks for a software that you can use it as long as you like without any additional cost … yeah, sounds a lot like Adobe …

When I heard Affinity Photo, it was years ago and it just for my luck was in -50% sale. It was no brainer to pict it up for 25 € price tag.

Then when Affinity Designer was released, I waited some time and it came as well in sale for -50% and I picked it up. It is my least used Affinity app, as I prefer for many things in Inkscape.

Then when Affinity Publisher was released, again picked up in -50% sale. It is great when you need to do in horry some PDF's, but many ways I still prefer Scribus for layout.

But what I dislike overall in almost all PDF layout apps, is that they are not fully compatible with all features that Adobe push to PDF format. Like example interactive PDF creation is severely lacking various levels across alternatives to Adobe Acrobat.

 

Anyways, I am going to upgrade all Affinity apps to v2.0 ASAP, just to show more support for Affinity, as I have benefitted so much using their software.

And almost what ever they are going to release (or just announce) on 9th for new.... I likely get it.

 

The Teaser video was very well made. Exactly what such should be about.

[maxegb]

2 hours ago, Patrick Connor said:

But your V2 files will not load back into V1 as it doesn't understand the new functionality so cannot load the files

let me see if i got it right. Assuming i purchase v2 of a program (well, photo, in this particular instance), i can load the old .afphoto files into it, but i cannot do the opposite. so, in theory is possible to uninstall the 1.10 and use  the 2.0 onward, even if i may have to rework on a project, say , from last year. Correct?

[Old Bruce]

2 minutes ago, maxegb said:

Correct?

Correct.

However if you can spare the hard drive space you might be best served by keeping version 1.x.x around in case you need to work with, oh let us say, me who only has version 1.x.x and has no plans for upgrading to version 2.

[Pšenda]

3 hours ago, PaulEC said:

But you benefitted from those updates because they are already included in the version you bought. You are no worse (or better) off, as far as the version(s) of the software you have now is concerned, than those people who purchased it years ago and had to wait for the updates. (Or, to put it another way, you do have the updates, but they were included when you purchased the software, compared to when it was first sold.)

If the application was purchased in the Affinity Store, then it is possible to start with the installation of the first released version, and then go through the process of all free updates within one hour - such an accelerated journey through the time of version 1.x 🙂

[carl123]

9 minutes ago, maxegb said:

let me see if i got it right. Assuming i purchase v2 of a program (well, photo, in this particular instance), i can load the old .afphoto files into it, but i cannot do the opposite. so, in theory is possible to uninstall the 1.10 and use  the 2.0 onward, even if i may have to rework on a project, say , from last year. Correct?

In theory yes but since this will be the first version of V2 you'll probably want to keep V1 installed until it (V2) has proven itself to be able to handle all the old V1 files customers have created - probably wait until V2.1 or V2.2 if you can, and when opening an old V1 file do a save as to a new file just to be sure it saves correctly.

[maxegb]

1 minute ago, Old Bruce said:

Correct.

However if you can spare the hard drive space you might be best served by keeping version 1.x.x around in case you need to work with, oh let us say, me who only has version 1.x.x and has no plans for upgrading to version 2.

good point. If i wasn't a selfish,misanthropic ba***rd i would most definitely do that  

[SKT7]

@Mods @Patrick Connor

Won't ask you to spill the beans, but please just tell us One thing
When is the release date?

[maxegb]

12 minutes ago, carl123 said:

In theory yes but since this will be the first version of V2 you'll probably want to keep V1 installed until it (V2) has proven itself to be able to handle all the old V1 files customers have created - probably wait until V2.1 or V2.2 if you can, and when opening an old V1 file do a save as to a new file just to be sure it saves correctly.

what i really want to do is slightly different. Unless Serif had the most incredibly successful 2.0 beta program without a single leak (with all due respect, i don't think it is possible. people simply talk ), i am reasonably sure that a bugfix version will be shortly available after launch. i am not going to bother with 2.0 for at least 30 days, if not more. Let early adopters do the beta testing and report back.

[Pšenda]

4 hours ago, Patrick Connor said:

Yes. Because V2 will be optional upgrades (purchases), they are independent installs parallel to your V1 suite and so will not affect your existing applications. You can have both installed or just one 

Just out of curiosity (although we'll find out soon), will the files open with both versions/branches? Rather, I assume that a file from the 1.x branch could be opened in the 2.x branch, but probably not the other way around. Running two branches at the same time could thus be tricky, as the user could inadvertently make data files inaccessible.

[Patrick Connor]

12 minutes ago, saikat said:

When is the release date?

You will find out more on the 9th of November 

[Patrick Connor]

4 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

I assume that a file from the 1.x branch could be opened in the 2.x branch, but probably not the other way around.

That's correct, and important to recognise if anything in your workflow continues to need V1 files to remain as such