VikasMG Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Hello, I used to be a Canvas user. After ACDSee took it over there is no Mac support for Canvas and I'm wondering if Affinity Designer is a good substitute. Any advise appreciated. - Vikas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aloach Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Hi, Whilst I haven't personally used ACDC Canvas, why don't you give the Designer a try? You could download the free trial, and at the moment after winning the Apple Design Award, the program is discounted if you did want to purchase it. Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 16, 2015 Staff Share Posted June 16, 2015 Hi Vikas, ACD Canvas is geared towards technical illustration and has specific tools that you will not find in Designer. If the type of work you're doing fits in general illustration, Affinity Designer is a great option, if you depend heavily on technical/cad tools then Affinity may not be the best choice at this point. As aloach said the best you can do is try it for yourself (there's a trial available here) and see if it fits your requirements. You can find some good tutorials on our Vimeo channel, Affinity Review and a few more shared on the forums by other users (links for all of those here). Any help/question you may need/have just post here. Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Krebs Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Hi Vikas, that depends on what are you doing with Canvas (see MEBs answer). ACDSee is currently working on a new MAC version (rumors are that there's a beta running since last fall), so if you need some of the Canvas-specific features (e.g. geolocation, page layout features, technical illustrations), just be a little bit patient, you might hear something soon. :-) Here's a link to a forum thread on the Canvas user board, talking about a realease in "late 2015" with a beta phase, starting in "late 2014": http://forum.acdsee.com/forum/canvas/326-canvas-for-mac/page13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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