labgoat Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 I just downloaded a trial of Affinity Designer for Mac in hopes of using it as an alternative to Illustrator. The first thing I did was open an Illustrator file, and Designer is unbearably, unusably slow. Every click spins the beachball for 5-10 seconds, sometimes just moving the mouse spins the beachball. I went to export a PNG, and the whole thing just hung for probably a solid minute while I guess it was calculating the file size? My MBP sounded like a jet ready for takeoff by the time it was done. This is on modern hardware: early 2015 MBP with 8GB RAM. Am I doing something terribly wrong? I had read that Affinity was really fast, but for me it's unusably slow. I was just going to uninstall it and move on, but figured I'd at least ask for help first. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted May 20, 2016 Staff Share Posted May 20, 2016 Hi LabGoat, Welcome to the Forums :) Is Affinity slow when you don't import the .AI file or only when that file has been imported? if you find that it is only that one file that is causing the issue would it be possible for you to attach it to this post so I may look into this further for you? Thanks C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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