Affinity products for Linux

[yesreallylinux]

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

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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.

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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.

 

[Komatös]

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!

[Alfred]

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]

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]

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:

 

[yesreallylinux]

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

[Komatös]

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!

[Helmuth Pandora]

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. 

[Raayaan Sahu]

wineserver: using server-side synchronization.
002c:err:wineboot:process_run_key Error running cmd L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -r" (2).

info:  Game: SetupUI.exe
info:  DXVK: v2.3.1
info:  Vulkan: Found vkGetInstanceProcAddr in winevulkan.dll @ 0x682c3330
info:  Built-in extension providers:
info:    Win32 WSI
info:    OpenVR
info:    OpenXR
info:  OpenVR: could not open registry key, status 2
info:  OpenVR: Failed to locate module


info:  Required Vulkan extension VK_KHR_surface not supported

Hi, I recently downloaded Bottles and everything seems to be going okay, but I can't seem to be able to run the app. Shortly after it sends a notification saying there was a failed setup, but after I run it as through the terminal, this problem seems to come up.

Thanking you for your help in advance, since I can't seem to locate this error on this forum! If I do happen to repeat someone else's issue, it would be awesome if you could link it back here?

 

[-Jp-]

Hi Raayaan,

 

I hope you are well.

Regarding your post requesting support for Affinity Linux, Affinity has already let us know that they aren't supporting their product on Linux at this time. I personally hope that they eventually will though. This being the case your best hope for fixing your current issue will be to search wine as that is the software you are using to try and run Affinity on Linux.

Below is a link that will take you to a reddit page where a user detailed how  to get affinity working on Linux.

Affinity working on Linux

This next link takes you to CodeWeavers website where yoou can type in the software and see how well it is supported on linux. CodeWeavers uses wine but they've put in a lot of time and effort to make it easier for users to run windows apps on linux. They update their stats every so often.

CodeWeavers app Compatibility

Here is a third link from a user on theis forum giving additional info:

Affinity on Linux

On 5/25/2024 at 11:53 AM, Raayaan Sahu said:

wineserver: using server-side synchronization.
002c:err:wineboot:process_run_key Error running cmd L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -r" (2).

info:  Game: SetupUI.exe
info:  DXVK: v2.3.1
info:  Vulkan: Found vkGetInstanceProcAddr in winevulkan.dll @ 0x682c3330
info:  Built-in extension providers:
info:    Win32 WSI
info:    OpenVR
info:    OpenXR
info:  OpenVR: could not open registry key, status 2
info:  OpenVR: Failed to locate module


info:  Required Vulkan extension VK_KHR_surface not supported

Hi, I recently downloaded Bottles and everything seems to be going okay, but I can't seem to be able to run the app. Shortly after it sends a notification saying there was a failed setup, but after I run it as through the terminal, this problem seems to come up.

Thanking you for your help in advance, since I can't seem to locate this error on this forum! If I do happen to repeat someone else's issue, it would be awesome if you could link it back here?