Affinity Design Viewer - .afdesign file viewer

[dangerman2000]

Context:
I would like to invite other people in my organization to my shared design folder. All my files are .afdesign and they cannot view them without buying the software.

 

Proposal:
Create a simple free viewer so that others could view my work without me doing extra "export/save as" work and managing multiple copies and updates of the same artwork.

 

Requirements:

- .afdesign file preview

- Pan

- Zoom

 

This could be mac only.

 

 

Some of this may already be written. If you have AD installed and click on a .afdesign file, it gives a preview in the file viewer.

 

Aside:
Adobe's Fireworks saved as an editable .PNG and this made it so easy to share work while maintaining editability. This is not proposing a change in file format, but that would be even better because everything supports .png.

[Hokusai]

dangerman2000,

 

This is already possible, just export your Affinity Designer files as PDF's and then everyone in your organisation can do everything that you asked: pan, zoom, and even make annotations using software that is available for free. 

 

Hokusai

[dangerman2000]

Hokusai - Thank you for your response. The issue is that I have over 75 .afdesign files, by requiring me to export everything as a PDF, PNG, JPG or other open format, it doubles the numbers of files that I have to manage; ensuring everything stays in sync becomes a headache.

[peter]

I'd say that Adobe had got his approach spot on with their reader software. This could be a little gold mine; as everyone likes a free sample. Though I'm not sure, how much this Affinity Lite/Reader/SE would cost the dev team in time and effort. Nice if it could happen though.