Make graphs in Designer possible, or in a standalone app, so that I and many others can say farewell to Illustrator

[No more Illustrator graphs]

The only way I know of, in order to make graphs for print, is by using Illustrator. That function hasn't changed much since the last millennium, and perhaps it doesn't need to change that much. There are some small independent app makers that try to provide a standalone solution, but that's mostly low quality ripoffs.

I, and I guess many more Affinity fans, would like to have that possibility within Designer. If it's inconvenient, then perhaps a standalone Affinity app would be possible? "Affinity Graph" would be a new way to find customers for the other apps, I'm sure. Make it possible to link the graph to specific content in Excel or Numbers, and you have a winner.

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @No more Illustrator graphs.

39 minutes ago, No more Illustrator graphs said:

I, and I guess many more Affinity fans, would like to have [a graph-making] possibility within Designer.

This sounds more like a Publisher thing, but we can always hope!

40 minutes ago, No more Illustrator graphs said:

Make it possible to link the graph to specific content in Excel or Numbers, and you have a winner.

Have you tried copying a graph from Excel or Numbers and pasting it into an Affinity document?

[2ddpainter]

1 hour ago, No more Illustrator graphs said:

The only way I know of, in order to make graphs for print, is by using Illustrator.

Well, I don't know what your needs are.

But as I read "Graphs", "Nodebox 3" came to mind
and I wanted to at least share the thought.

You might want to take a look at it.
Here is the link.
https://www.nodebox.net/node/

Here some Data visualisation.
https://www.nodebox.net/node/documentation/using/data-visualization

Nodebox can import .csv also .svg
and export .svg, .pdf, .csv and .png

[loukash]

5 hours ago, Alfred said:

Have you tried copying a graph from […] Numbers and pasting it into an Affinity document?

Sure.
Works seamlessly. It's copied to the clipboard as PDF, so you can paste it as native curves and artistic text blocks, and then tinker with it in your layout as you see fit.

[loukash]

Speaking of which…

5 hours ago, No more Illustrator graphs said:

in order to make graphs for print, is by using Illustrator. That function hasn't changed much since the last millennium

Exactly.
I surely wouldn't ever want to deal with that … uh, workflow (?) ever again…