ashf Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 @GabrielM This is urgent matter actually. Not something you can postpone.(putting vertical text layout aside) Typography is basic of basic thing on graphics apps. Especially when you claim it as a "pro" app and promote it in East Asian languages. Who use a publishing app that can't handle text properly? Please do not ignore this, you are losing customers and reputation in East Asia. hosoi_h and PaoloT 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted July 12, 2019 Staff Share Posted July 12, 2019 I'm afraid no. We don't have an ETA for this issue. Sorry Stocker.jp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyukfai Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 Noted with thanks. Just, please understand that this is a critical matter for Asian-text users. And right now we're not sure if Affinity has any plans to mitigate the issue, if at all. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Well, look at Twitter. almost half of them who is tweeting about Affinity are Japanese. And many of them are complaining about buggy/incomplete typography feature. Is this something you can ignore?https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23AffinityDesigner OR %23AffinityPhoto OR (Affinity Designer) OR (Affinity Photo) OR %23AffinityPublisher OR (Affinity Publisher) OR %23Affinity&src=typd&fbclid=IwAR0LuXEwMo8JM7saManFTngoL3tEFFfVyztgq34Pr8T_dGCl1ALB9vtuV8c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyukfai Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 There is a post in Chinese advocating people to come here and request vertical layout and improved punctuation support. Apparently, it's the official reseller of Affinity products in mainland China. https://www.3rdway.com/2019/06/26/700/ Edit: Ah, I see you're already over there... bgteach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 Somebody wrote a blog post how to apply line breaking rules for East Asian language. It's not perfect due to Affinity's ability but practical enough. https://cs5.xyz/blog/2019/07/affinity1.html It's Japanese article so please use Google Translate. Also Serif should read it to learn how to implement line breaking rules for East Asian language quickly. One of problem of Affinity he pointed out is: It's prohibited that some symbols such as closing brackets are separated from next character to it on Affinity. like these !"),.:;>?]}’”〉》」』】〕〟!),.?]}。」、・ This cause a problem on line breaking rules for East Asian language. loyukfai, PaoloT and bgteach 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 @loyukfai if you need East Asian specific auto kerning feature, please vote for this. loyukfai 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Another blog post about line breaking rules from the same guy I posted above.https://cs5.xyz/blog/2019/07/affinity2.htmlhttps://cs5.xyz/blog/2019/07/affinity3.html loyukfai 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyukfai Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 @ashf Have you received any updates with regard to this issue? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 25 minutes ago, loyukfai said: @ashf Have you received any updates with regard to this issue? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyukfai Posted September 14, 2019 Author Share Posted September 14, 2019 On 7/12/2019 at 5:57 PM, GabrielM said: I'm afraid no. We don't have an ETA for this issue. Sorry Can you give us an update? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted September 16, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 16, 2019 As before, we do not have an ETA for this issue. When we have an update, it will be either in the changelog of a beta or a release version. You can find those threads here and you can follow them to see when there's an update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyukfai Posted September 17, 2019 Author Share Posted September 17, 2019 Another thread on the same issue bgteach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyukfai Posted September 17, 2019 Author Share Posted September 17, 2019 中日韓亞洲標點符號問題 bgteach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyukfai Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 BTW, this issue is not limited to Publisher, but also other Serif products including Designer and Photo as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgteach Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sungkhum Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 On 9/16/2019 at 1:07 AM, GabrielM said: As before, we do not have an ETA for this issue. When we have an update, it will be either in the changelog of a beta or a release version. You can find those threads here and you can follow them to see when there's an update This is a needed feature! bgteach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyukfai Posted November 15, 2019 Author Share Posted November 15, 2019 On 10/4/2019 at 12:55 AM, sungkhum said: This is a needed feature! Sadly, Serif doesn't seem to think it's important enough yet to offer a fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyukfai Posted November 15, 2019 Author Share Posted November 15, 2019 Since Serif has created another sub-forum, am re-posting the links there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
$ERGE Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 (edited) On 12/20/2018 at 4:53 PM, Gabe said: Hi @loyukfai, We do not tend to reply to feature requests. As for your actual question, I'm not really sure I understand it correctly. When you say "should not appear at the beginning of a new line" , is that based on the grammar rules? For example, the same would apply for English. You should not start a sentence with a full stop or a semicolon. But that does not stop you from doing it. Technically, you can type whatever you want and start a sentence with whatever character you wish. If it makes sense or not, it's a different story. Thanks, Gabe. When you say "should not appear at the beginning of a new line" , is that based on the grammar rules? Yes, that's the grammar rules. Some punctuation marks, such as comma, period and back quotation mark, cannot appear at the beginning of a new line. Of course, some punctuation marks, such as the front quotation mark, cannot appear at the end of a new line. This is the writing rule of East Asia. Besides, the inability to vertically arrange text is also an important factor affecting East Asian typesetting These are the only problems that I have encountered that makes me unable to use the software normally, and for this reason, I can't recommend it to my friends. It's really a pity. Edited December 26, 2019 by $ERGE PaoloT, ashf and bgteach 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 As a writer of technical documents, I obviously find that good support for CJK languages is or the greatest importance, due to the multilanguage books I work on. I can't think of including a tool without this kind of support in my workflow, and drive a change in the companies I work for. So, I too am hoping to see this set of features covered soon! Paolo bgteach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTree Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) Affinity系列已经步入了1.8,在IOS平台已经购买了Affinity Designer用于绘制插图和图标,但是windows平台我放弃了很多次优惠活动(包括近期的新冠肺炎活动)始终没有购买,我并没有指责的意思,只是奇怪,非常的奇怪,Adobe系列早已经实现的功能真的不能引起重视吗?逼迫我们最终不得不使用Adobe的程序作为日常工作用途。事实上,他们说的对,Affinity正在损失一大批用户,而官方对此的态度,正加剧这一情况的发生。(抱歉我英文表达不出意图,请用Google翻译) Edited April 2, 2020 by TheTree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyukfai Posted April 4, 2020 Author Share Posted April 4, 2020 Since Serif has created a new forum after 1.8 was released, I've also created a new thread over there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liumingming Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 On 2019/6/26 at AM1点23分, loyukfai said: 不知道中国有任何Affinity用户组。 尝试谷歌搜索一下,但没有任何反应。 干杯。 Chinese people cannot access the Internet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liumingming Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 It's all in 2020 and this problem has not been solved yet? No vertical layout, no punctuation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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