Archangel Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 It would be great if the Affinity Suite had access to a thesaurus and a grammar checker included in all the apps. Just for final checks and proofreading. And maybe access to a story / article editor as well. Thanks for the very good software set at a reasonable price. myclay and Distanzia 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amvjb Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 +1 For Thesaurus and a grammar checker. myclay 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian_J Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 I'm all for a grammar checker. I often copy/paste text from Affinity apps into Word to check for grammar errors — it would be great not to have to do that. myclay 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Do you guys not see Grammarly ads on youtube? I kid... ...and will see myself out. debraspicher and _Th 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archangel Posted December 7, 2022 Author Share Posted December 7, 2022 On 11/27/2022 at 5:53 AM, deeds said: Do you guys not see Grammarly ads on youtube? I kid... ...and will see myself out. Yes but Grammarly doesn't integrate well with other apps and does not work without the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 You might make a case for these features in Publisher, but other than the Story Editor, they are mostly superfluous even there, and the Story Editor has been requested already numerous times. These features don't really make sense for Photo or Designer. Archangel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 16 hours ago, Michael S Harvey said: Yes but Grammarly doesn't integrate well with other apps and does not work without the internet. I'm not disagreeing. And would never install something that was so horrendously advertised. Gave me Swiftkey shudders. Agree with you... should be an offline, optimised spell check and grammar facility, especially given that one of the apps is called "Publisher" and the ultimate goal of all design works is... publishing, in one form or another... so we need an "Editor" of some sort to look over our shoulder, that's better than the one in Microsoft Word and significantly faster than direct entry within Indesign. Archangel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archangel Posted December 7, 2022 Author Share Posted December 7, 2022 4 hours ago, fde101 said: You might make a case for these features in Publisher, but other than the Story Editor, they are mostly superfluous even there, and the Story Editor has been requested already numerous times. These features don't really make sense for Photo or Designer. I was thinking of Publisher in particular. Although the thesaurus facility would be useful in Photo and Designer. Not so much the grammar checker perhaps. Although Artistic Text might benefit from a Grammar Checker as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archangel Posted December 7, 2022 Author Share Posted December 7, 2022 4 hours ago, deeds said: I'm not disagreeing. And would never install something that was so horrendously advertised. Gave me Swiftkey shudders. Agree with you... should be an offline, optimised spell check and grammar facility, especially given that one of the apps is called "Publisher" and the ultimate goal of all design works is... publishing, in one form or another... so we need an "Editor" of some sort to look over our shoulder, that's better than the one in Microsoft Word and significantly faster than direct entry within Indesign. I must admit I miss Proper Grammar II by Softwood on the Amiga. It was the only decent grammar checker on that platform. It was incorporated into Final Writer though. Really with the advent of deep learning algorithms, I would assume that an AI Editor will not be too far away. Whether that will be offline, however, will remain to be seen. deeds 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 4 hours ago, Michael S Harvey said: Proper Grammar II by Softwood on the Amiga. am from the STrain of 68000 divergence Archangel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archangel Posted December 10, 2022 Author Share Posted December 10, 2022 On 12/8/2022 at 12:53 AM, deeds said: am from the STrain of 68000 divergence At least you had decent DTP software on your platform with its hi-res mono graphics. A very underrated platform the ST. It did well in the music industry and low-end DTP. Amiga had gotten got the video market sewn up but played second fiddle to the ST in the music field. Although the Amiga did well with multitasking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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