Plug-Ins, Add-Ons, Add-Ins, Extensions

[Joachim_L 117]

Being a tester of Publisher here for while watching wishes, suggestions. The wanted features for a software vary with each personal demand. Some want a calendar wizard, some want a Word Count, some want a QR-generator, some want this some want that. Personally I don't need none of the listed above. But this is fine, I accept the fact and not judge that others have other demands.

So wouldn't it be nice if there would be a possibility for extending APublisher/ADesigner/APhoto with third-party software/scripts? A kind of store where you can buy the extra feature you want? So Affinity could focus on the core and would others do the gimmicks/extras. I am confident that this move will open the Affinity Range to a wider market. Often enough I was reading "I won't buy Publisher until it has this feature". On the other hand there must be someone who see the (financial) benefit programming the extensions.

Just an idea.

P.S.: I would love to see a ADesigner plug-in for my vinyl cutter.

[Kimbo 10]

I think once publisher is officially launched people may well be more interested in doing that. I was thinking of some kind of resource website for stylesheets, tutorials and templates kind of thing.

[Joachim_L 117]

There is already a forum with resources, but in my eyes not well structured.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/11-resources/

and tutorials of course (also not well structured):

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/9-tutorials-serif-and-customer-created-tutorials/

[toutou123 46]

There was a discussion about enabling scripting at some point. They might include it after the official release.

[RickyO 5]

On 6/14/2019 at 3:30 AM, Joachim_L said:

Being a tester of Publisher here for while watching wishes, suggestions. The wanted features for a software vary with each personal demand. Some want a calendar wizard, some want a Word Count, some want a QR-generator, some want this some want that. Personally I don't need none of the listed above. But this is fine, I accept the fact and not judge that others have other demands.

So wouldn't it be nice if there would be a possibility for extending APublisher/ADesigner/APhoto with third-party software/scripts? A kind of store where you can buy the extra feature you want? So Affinity could focus on the core and would others do the gimmicks/extras. I am confident that this move will open the Affinity Range to a wider market. Often enough I was reading "I won't buy Publisher until it has this feature". On the other hand there must be someone who see the (financial) benefit programming the extensions.

Just an idea.

P.S.: I would love to see a ADesigner plug-in for my vinyl cutter.

It is common for this to happen.  However, my thoughts are it would only add a burden on Serif to have to staff and add functionality to accredit each offerings.  Not sure how that would impact allowing them to focus more on core issues.  But still, I'm sure you will see such plugins appear.  Look at WordPress as an example.

Edited June 15 by RickyO
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