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Thoughts on opensource alternatives? - Inkscape is an obvious one --- there's also https://cenon.info/ , perhaps Gravit Designer? Any word on Graphite.rs 's stand-alone desktop version? - GIMP, Paint.net, Darktable and Krita - Scribus or LaTeX or Typst
Thoughts on opensource alternatives? - Inkscape is an obvious one --- there's also https://cenon.info/ , perhaps Gravit Designer? Any word on Graphite.rs 's stand-alone desktop version? - GIMP, Paint.net, Darktable and Krita - Scribus or LaTeX or Typst
Viva Designer as an alternative to Publisher. There's also a Linux version as well as Mac and Windows.
What a fascinating thread. I bought Affinity Photo and Designer V1 as one-time purchases a few years ago. I didn't upgrade to V2 when those came out. I have continued to occasionally use the V1 apps - I was just in Photo the other day. To me this is exactly why you would want to buy software licenses as one-time purchases - the company can't rug pull you for what you already bought. If I want, I can keep using the Af…
The future roadmap we thought we had seems to have gone away. I won’t be using the “free” version, as there are unknown strings attached I’m sure. If not now, down the road. Yes, I can keep using v2, but how much do I want to invest in an app that I know has an expiration date for me? I need to start planning my exit, so I’m not left in a bad spot down the road. I’m curious what Apple plans to do with Pixelmator. The…
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I used Quark XPress, and it really felt like it had a monopoly on the professional market in the UK at the time. It didn't really innovate, it was slow and clunky. Then InDesign came along and it was a breath of fresh air. Took many years for the transition to happen, but a lot of people in my circle wanted to see the back of Quark.
Don't forget FrameMaker, who was also very much in use for structured, long documentation.
so this means that the linux-wine version will not stop working after some random update i assume?
Does the latest version actually work under wine? I remember trying a while back and only v1 was usable.
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What will you recommend to people instead?
Stick with Adobe. They may like to squeeze the money out of you but at least their tools are top tier.
Also if you're making video games, and you don't need to export multi-res textures and work on the edge of file formats for advanced texturing etc, if your budget and needs are served by Affinity why spend on Adobe?
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This is such a shame IMO. The Serif suite was great, and I used to try to get every designer I could to dump adobe and switch to serif. Now that it has switched to a freemium model trying to get you to subscribe to AI, I wont be using this or telling other people about it any more. Their priorities have changed. No longer are they trying to to beat adobe at their own game, they are just chasing AI money like everyone…
I think it's really cool they can get AI money from the people who want to pay that, to give away the core for free. I can empathize with feeling their focus will be elsewhere (whatever increases revenue) but I figure AI isn't magic, they need to have the rest of the creative suite work well to, yaknow, synergize Edit: I'll add that I much prefer purchasing perpetual licenses for software that can work without a clou…
To clarify ... it is not capped. You may scale the lifetime payment option to any size you like in 100 GB increments.
You may also upgrade it later in life, most likely for less money/TB ...
This means that our (the provider) and your (the user) interests are perfectly aligned: we want you to use more storage and we will make it easy for you to do so. Your needs, and usage, will grow and you will make further payments to us over time - just on a longer, more drawn out schedule.
Devastated about this. Good for them for making money on the sale to Canva, but still, this is a sad day. Studio is now freemium, in the future probably more and more features (outside of AI) will be added in the subscription, and you will end up with an app full of disabled features and pop-ups encouraging you to subscribe and unlock the new and shiny thing. There is absolutely nothing in the world that anyone can s…
I was so in love with the idea of "purchase and own for life" I thought every now and then I will buy the license and have a piece of mind. What started after SaaS is now at its closing days to have fully ruined software and from now on there will be hell like we have never seen before. Free Software is dead, Indie software as we used to is dead, and great businesses like Serif are down the road of being dead. I'm so…
Only immediate existential threat is political attacks via corrupt laws.