fcast Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 It would be nice to be able to acquire images from inside the program via a USB-connected camera, as there are now many 8-16 Mpixels very good and quite cheap ones. I also would be glad to be able to connect to scanners, thank you for considering. loukash and bananayoshimoto 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 How much are you willing to pay Serif to develop a driver and settings database? And that's not all, an interface for USB must also be programmed. And a few other things. That quickly adds up to development costs in the six- to seven-digit range. And as far as the question of the scanner connection is concerned, the scanning software should be able to open the image/document with a configured application after the scan. Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3085) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.3.1 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Need a system wide color picker? Try Microsoft's (New) Power Toys Need a robust PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF There's nothing you get used to faster than working slowly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bananayoshimoto Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 (edited) Hi @fcast & welcome to the forums I add a vote to your feature request as my partner would love such feature in their work. Probably in V3 or later, which is years and years away — but with Serif themselves saying (at some point) that they sold 3x more than their projections and that they have awesome new features prepared throughout V2 — who knows really Edited December 4, 2022 by iulian Quote StudioLink 256gb 11’ M1 iPad Pro iPadOS 17 Public Beta 1 iPad Magic Keyboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.TightyPants Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 16 hours ago, Komatös said: How much are you willing to pay Serif to develop a driver and settings database? And that's not all, an interface for USB must also be programmed. And a few other things. That quickly adds up to development costs in the six- to seven-digit range. And as far as the question of the scanner connection is concerned, the scanning software should be able to open the image/document with a configured application after the scan. I wonder if Affinity would be able to bypass this and use the OS's built in interfacing. Photo can uses Apple's CoreRAW engine to Develop RAW photos, I don't see why they wouldn't be able to call an API or call to use something like AirPrint or Windows' equivalent, unless it's an OS limitation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcast Posted January 16, 2023 Author Share Posted January 16, 2023 On 12/5/2022 at 2:56 AM, Mr.TightyPants said: I wonder if Affinity would be able to bypass this and use the OS's built in interfacing. Photo can uses Apple's CoreRAW engine to Develop RAW photos, I don't see why they wouldn't be able to call an API or call to use something like AirPrint or Windows' equivalent, unless it's an OS limitation. Exactly what I intended: call OS's built in interfaces (USB Video Class/DirectShow/TWAIN/WIA/ImageKit, the latter three used by Photoshop since some 20 yrs for scanners) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 On 12/4/2022 at 10:13 AM, Komatös said: That quickly adds up to development costs in the six- to seven-digit range. On MacOS, I am using a (long abandoned but still functional up to Mojave) freeware app from 2012 to scan barcodes via the built-in MacBook Pro camera. I seriously doubt that the developer had "costs in the six- to seven-digit range" to implement this. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 ^ That said, using the built-in Mac camera with Affinity is as easy as: open Photo Booth take a selfie copy (cmd-C) Affinity Photo/Designer > File > New From Clipboard, or in all three: Paste Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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