yesreallylinux Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 On 12/29/2022 at 6:34 PM, Komatös said: It's simply not worth it to employ a development staff for a few people, which in the end costs more than it brings in. For these reasons, there is also nothing from Adobe or Corel. Funny you should mention Corel. If you know your history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)#Corporate_sponsorship Quote As with the WordPerfect suite, Corel adapted its graphics applications to run on Linux using Wine. This consisted of the CorelDraw (stylized CorelDRAW) suite. While the eponymous program was paid software, Corel Photo-Paint was available as a free download. Quote The involvement of Corel for a time assisted [Wine], chiefly by employing Julliard and others to work on it. Corel had an interest in porting WordPerfect Office, its office suite, to Linux (especially Corel Linux). Corel later cancelled all Linux-related projects after Microsoft made major investments in Corel, stopping their Wine effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 3 hours ago, yesreallylinux said: Webapps for Affinity like Canva in the future? I don't think there will be fully-fledged web apps. But it will certainly incorporate some of the rudimentary functions of the Affinity Suite. And as far as Linux (Wine) support is concerned, I wouldn't get my hopes up for the time being. There are enough development priorities that have priority here. Above all, the stability of the programs, RTL and CJK support (with possible extended localization), to name some. However, the development roadmap may be different! Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 36 minutes ago, Komatös said: RTL and CJK support The Affinity apps already offer some CJK support, but I don’t know enough about CJK to say how limited it is. However, support for Indic languages is currently missing entirely. Komatös 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 37 minutes ago, Alfred said: but I don’t know enough about CJK These languages lack the option of writing from top to bottom. Alfred 1 Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 6 minutes ago, Komatös said: These languages lack the option of writing from top to bottom. It seems that vertical writing is actually supported, at least to some extent: Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yesreallylinux Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 As someone who writes Japanese, good CJK editing is nice to have. There's actually a recent proposal by a GSoC student to implement this in GIMP that explains what an implementation would need: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/11181 Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 23 minutes ago, Alfred said: It seems that vertical writing is actually supported, at least to some extent: However, this does not work with multi-line, sorry, multi-column text! Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helmuth Pandora Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 So I’m hoping the Canva acquisition has a positive side, that affinity is ported to Linux, so Educational Institutions can you use ist for free, also when there infrastructure and endures devices are on Linux. Affinity getting to Linux and Inkstitch ever improving would enable me to finally ditch windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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