BtB Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Hi, Got a library of hundred of these (version X6) that regularly get updated. Will they be supported? Haven't spotted any reference to this in anything I've read. Hope I've just missed it. Thanks Richard Jowday, peterterhorst, Mario S and 6 others 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted August 30, 2018 Staff Share Posted August 30, 2018 @BtB Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums and thank you for your suggestion We do not yet have a public roadmap of future features for Affinity Publisher but I am sure your request would be popular with our legacy software userbase. You will need to export as PDF and import or try copy paste for now. bakdoc and mykee 1 1 Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Neil Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 I too love to see this feature (even as a plugin) bakdoc, james.d.holliday@, ctate0617 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan PW Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Please, please, pretty please! The structure, from what I've seen, is very like Pageplus and I've got years of stuff in that. Recreating a lot of text and document formats all over again would be a major pain. In practice, I wouldn't purchase until I had to unless this was on offer. bakdoc, ctate0617, Graham H and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taiko-Karl Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 We also want to use our old PPP files (PagePlus X7) in the new AFP. We have put a lot of work in it and spend hours to create the publications. Ed Lyons, bakdoc, james.d.holliday@ and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicsetter Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Another request here, especially as Affinity Publisher (Beta) is stuck at 'Not Responding' trying to open my PagePlus created PDF!! J Scarlett, Mario S, james.d.holliday@ and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbroth Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Yes. I would also welcome this feature as I have many ppp files that I often reuse. bakdoc, AffHyp, james.d.holliday@ and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisatBRIL Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Yes, agreed very much. Those of us who have been very loyal Serrif users (for decades!) should not be forgotten. I am really surprised that you did not think of this right from the start, especially given the similarity of design and layour of your new Publisher. It means those of us with legacy documents that might be very important will have to maintain PagePlus and the new Publisher. So please don't just put this on the backburner, but get on and implement it. Interior Book Design, ctate0617, J Scarlett and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyEyes Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 What i can never understand is why companies do this, don't offer import from prior product format. They've spent all those years building a customer base and then abandon them, then expecting them to be loyal, they lose customers... people then look elsewhere. MuuSer, SlasherDigitalMedia, Ramon56 and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beegeeblueboy Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 It was clear to me from the initial announcement of the Affinity range legacy Windows customers are of far less concern than Mac users. It’s all about the Apple customer base. They'll tell you the codebase is so different that backwards compatibility is not possible. True but the real answer is “ it would cost us too much time and money to build a file converter utility” It looks like you just continue to use X9 for those documents and decide if you want to buy AD for new ones J Scarlett 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beegeeblueboy Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Just now, beegeeblueboy said: It was clear to me from the initial announcement of the Affinity range legacy Windows customers are of far less concern than Mac users. It’s all about the Apple customer base. They'll tell you the codebase is so different that backwards compatibility is not possible. True but the real answer is ‘it would cost us too much time and money to build a file converter utility It looks like you just continue to use X9 for those documents and decide if you want to buy AD for new ones I would add that Serif’s decision on WebPlus was commercially sound so I have not gripes on that. MoviePlus though I have mixed feelings on. Feature rich and good value for money but for me too buggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 8 minutes ago, beegeeblueboy said: the real answer is “ it would cost us too much time and money to build a file converter utility” That’s only partially true, Julian. The real answer is that the Affinity apps don’t cover all of the features of their ‘Plus’ counterparts, so there will be some objects for which a purpose-built converter utility would give you a result that isn’t any better than importing a PDF file. LyricsGirl and Aristocrates 1 1 Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitoclass Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 10 minutes ago, αℓƒяє∂ said: That’s only partially true, Julian. The real answer is that the Affinity apps don’t cover all of the features of their ‘Plus’ counterparts, so there will be some objects for which a purpose-built converter utility would give you a result that isn’t any better than importing a PDF file. I think most of us long-time PagePlus users would understand and accept that limitation, but still welcome an importer which converted all the many types of object that do have Affinity replicas. Sam Neil, Paul Stokes and Aristocrates 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
René van Elst Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 It's disappointing for me as a serious and happy PagePlus user that there seems to be no way to open/insert/import ppp.files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OGMedia Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 I have years worth of publications, forms, etc. that I have created in Page Plus, would love to be able to open these and not have to start over. Ed Lyons and Paul Stokes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted August 30, 2018 Staff Share Posted August 30, 2018 @OGMedia & @René van Elst Welcome to the Serif Affinity forum. I have merged your post with this similar existing thread. Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medwaymike Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Just to add that the new Affinity program should be capable of opening Page Plus files. Managed to open a pdf of a Pageplus 9 document, text was editable but a simple colour gradient fill heading needed a complete re-draw. I hope when the final program is ready for release loyal Pageplus users will not be forgotten. mrtymcln 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted August 30, 2018 Staff Share Posted August 30, 2018 @Medwaymike Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums We do not plan to support the legacy file formats (.PPP, .DPP or .SPP) in the Affinity range, sorry. The latest versions of those programs continue to work and we would suggest you continue using them for projects you have already invested a lot of time in, and use the Affinity range for your new projects going forward, or import PDF where you want new functionality provided by the Affinity software. bakdoc and mykee 1 1 Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oly5 Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Will Publisher directly open a PagePlus file or is there another preferred process to utilize an existing PPP file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted August 30, 2018 Staff Share Posted August 30, 2018 @Oly5 Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forum. I have merged your post into this thread that answers your question Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyEyes Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 18 hours ago, Patrick Connor said: @Medwaymike Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums We do not plan to support the legacy file formats (.PPP, .DPP or .SPP) in the Affinity range, sorry. The latest versions of those programs continue to work and we would suggest you continue using them for projects you have already invested a lot of time in, and use the Affinity range for your new projects going forward, or import PDF where you want new functionality provided by the Affinity software. You are supposed to support your customers and carry them on your journey. There will be many who've invested years in producing work that they'll eventually lose when the legacy packages cease operating. It might be a business decision down to viability, yet it could cost you more in the long term, if people have to start afresh, why not go elsewhere, as they'll have lost trust in you. Why not offer an independent developer(s) the opportunity to work on a legacy conversions tool under your guidance if you are unwilling. mrtymcln, SlasherDigitalMedia and Paul Stokes 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermot B Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 I've been a dedicated user of Page Plus since its Beta days ( & that's a very long time ). So, I have hundreds of Page Plus files. Unless I've missed something in the Beta, I can't find any way to open or import them directly into Affinity designer. This does make continuity for your loyal users rather difficult. Please help :-) Mario S and SlasherDigitalMedia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doudou Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Je demande également le suivi des fichiers Page Plus. J'attendais vraiment cette possibilité mrtymcln and SlasherDigitalMedia 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OGMedia Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 I opened a 32 page publication as a PDF file in AP and there were no issues other than some minor cleanup work that needed to be done, and it handled all 32 pages without memory issues. tbaucells and Patrick Connor 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted August 30, 2018 Staff Share Posted August 30, 2018 @Dermot B Welcome to the Serif Affinity forum I have moved your post to this relevant thread, where you will find the official answer mykee 1 Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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