serif professional files

[Babz]

Will Affinity open my serif professional 2 files?

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Babz

Can you explain a bit more about what your “serif professional 2 files” are?

If you can tell us the application name(s) and file extension type(s) then we can help further.

If you mean the files created by the older legacy Serif applications (PagePlus, CraftArtist, etc.) then those files cannot be directly opened in the Affinity applications, but you can export from PDF to then import into Affinity.

See here for more information about the legacy applications:

 

[mopperle]

9 minutes ago, GarryP said:

those files cannot be directly opened in the Affinity applications, but you can export from PDF to then import into Affinity.

Which is IMHO a real shame. Wondering what will happen, when Serif comes up (together with Canvas) with a brandnew suite, abandons all other products and there is no migration path.🤔

[Komatös]

6 hours ago, mopperle said:

when Serif comes up (together with Canvas) with a brandnew suite, abandons all other products and there is no migration path.

Then you will be able to use the old suite until you give up the spoon. The wiser person always keeps the last and the latest installer as a backup!

[Bound by Beans]

It's all very theoretical, but if Canva were to move Affinity into a new file format and concept, the smartest move, if they want to be taken seriously as a professional alternative to Adobe and others, would be to create a migration tool that could even batch convert Affinity documents… and, well, maybe even additional formats into their own. 

An individual user statement like that completely misses how a company attracts customers with some presence and gains a foothold in the part of the market I believe Canva is aiming for. Oh, and professional support!! It’s an investment that pays off well, benefiting all kinds of users—but especially loyal old customers and the big players. If you’re really smart, the file formats are designed so import tools can be built without crazy costs. And if you’re even smarter, it means the software can save in older versions of its own format!

A smart person always has options. And some are better than others. 

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, Circulus said:

It needs to be completely loaded as opposed to other vendors that use an archive based/temp format.

That is not true. One of the major concepts for the native file format is documents do not need to be completely loaded into memory at the same time. (This is part of the reason that it is not advisable to open files directly from cloud storage or any other source that cannot be guaranteed to continuously available, the #1 cause of file corruption.)

[Bound by Beans]

That’s the major concept that causes major file corruption and is a major flaw, leading to major incidents for customers with major data loss, which should prompt major considerations about a major change to the file format—switching to another major concept that provides major stability for customers.