DesignerDude0621 Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Hi guys, First off, I'm new to this forum so I apologize if this question has been previously asked in the past—Does anyone know if Affinity plans on expanding to the PC world? Currently, I'm on a Mac however, I'm building a high powered PC. The Creative Cloud membership that Adobe offers is becoming very...obnoxious, to say the least. $50/month ends up resulting payment of over thousands of dollars over the course of a few years. But I digress—I guess my curiosity is, will this program eventually be available to users across all interfaces? Thank you all in advance for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 2, 2015 Staff Share Posted May 2, 2015 Hi DesignerDude0621, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) From our FAQ: Is it available for Windows? No, Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo are exclusively available for the Mac right now. We are going to focus on completing the full suite (including Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher) on the Mac over the next 12 months. After that we will look into other platforms. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference | Call for Camera Images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGD Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Hi all! What about these latest developments from BUILD'15? http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-introduces-tools-let-developers-quickly-compile-ios-apps-windows-10 http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-also-working-towards-swift-compiler-ios-developers-come-windows-10 Something tells me that if porting iOS apps to Windows becomes easier (and Serif, as far as we know, started development on Affinity products for iOS first, which is interesting), porting OS X apps will, too. I've read somewhere here in the forums that the underlying engine of Affinity was coded in a somewhat platform-agnostic form of C already (I don't recall which, but I do remember it wasn't Obj-C…), so porting the rest of the code (the UI part, I'm guessing) would be a breeze. While I know that porting is not the best way to addressing multiple platforms (hey, I should know better as I used the infamous Corel Draw 11 for Mac for a while before ultimately switching to FreeHand; it was buggy as hell), Adobe's approach isn't the nicest, either. And, snobbery be damned, it would be the ultimate irony: Windows users using a port of a Mac app and actually *liking* it (because, y'know, performance… ;) And I believe the team at Serif would do a better job at adapting/redoing the UI for Windows than Adobe did back in the day when they still kind of attempted it – and failed miserably at it, as the multiple layers of cruft and stupid pseudo-native UI controls still found in CS6 attest to –, anyway). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yasir Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Regarding compatibility, will AD open Adobe creative cloud AI file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 12, 2016 Staff Share Posted January 12, 2016 Hi Yasir, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) If the AI file contains a PDF stream, yes, Affinity Designer is able to read the PDF stream from the file (like most other software), otherwise no. This means when saving an AI file, the Create PDF Compatible File option must be checked. The AI format is proprietary. Only Adobe applications can open it if there's no PDF stream present. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference | Call for Camera Images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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