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What do you think of Affinity 2.0?
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I am glad you mentioned this because all I have is Image2Vector and would love to try out something better/different and Vectornator looks most interesting. Thanks for the tip, even though it wasn't aimed at me!
Maybe I just don't know how to use it, but I found Vectornator's auto trace feature to be shockingly bad at even simple artwork.
So, after spending a week with the new version of Affinity Publisher, I can say that it is absolute rubbish. Crashes all the time, and has corrupted nearly all of my Publisher files.
I've been a longtime fan of Serif and have praised the Affinity apps several times here on MacRumors, as well as social media.
But this product feels like it was rushed out for the holiday sales period. I wish I never touched it and had remained on the original version instead. My experience with V2 has been nothing but a nightmare, and Serif's support has been of absolute no help.
I've been a longtime fan of Serif and have praised the Affinity apps several times here on MacRumors, as well as social media.
But this product feels like it was rushed out for the holiday sales period. I wish I never touched it and had remained on the original version instead. My experience with V2 has been nothing but a nightmare, and Serif's support has been of absolute no help.
Just received an email today from Affinity. In this email they said:
Whew! Version 1 will continue to work.
Yes, I have backups.
You did have backups, right?
I regret having evangelized Serif for so long. They're behaving like Adobe now.
Same here. I am certainly not a experienced user, but I was not impressed by Vectornator’s auto trace function.
But Vectornator is a very nice app with a lot of features, and it’s free.
I've used both already and I think they are pretty much he same other than opening the app which is much quicker on Apple Silicon in my opinion.
I’m going to convert all my vector illustration files from ai and Graphic to Affinity Designer and finally sync them between Mac & ipad
I have a graph in eps. After opening it in Designer, how do I change the wordings? For example, I have on the title:
This is a test
I want to change to:
Relation between age and heigh
In the case of Illustrator, as I recall I just clicked somewhere on the text (be it on the title or name of the axes) and then I could type whatever I wanted.
This is a test
I want to change to:
Relation between age and heigh
In the case of Illustrator, as I recall I just clicked somewhere on the text (be it on the title or name of the axes) and then I could type whatever I wanted.
Assuming it is text and not a graphic, you can use the "text" tool to select and edit it. You might want to expand the layers to see that element if things are grouped. You might want to search YouTube for some videos for terms like "edit text on Affinity designer" and watch what they do just to get you started. Maybe watch a few other similar videos to get familiar with how things work. it's not complicated but it sounds like you are starting at the very beginning and could use some orientation.
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So far my experience with Affinity Photo/Designer 2 has been good, no crashes or weird bugs so far, despite having huge projects. Probably helped that I have had no need to convert old projects over to the new version as they were all finished pre-transitioning to 2.
Not too focused on the general UI, but the blending options panel is certainly improved.
For those interested, I'm running it on my 15" 2015 Pro, with 12.6.1.
Not too focused on the general UI, but the blending options panel is certainly improved.
For those interested, I'm running it on my 15" 2015 Pro, with 12.6.1.
I created the graph from LibreOffice and saved it as eps. I opened it using Designer V2. When I clicked on the words in the title and the numbers on the axes, one of the long list of Curves on the right was highlighted. Does that mean the letters and numbers were not saved as text?
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yes, it does. And I think that is a “feature” of encapsulated postscript files to convert text to outlines (not 100% sure).
You can save your document as PDF and open it in Designer - check wether the export-dialogue of LibreOffice offers an option to »convert text to outline« and make sure it is deactivated. Affinity Designer 2 will open multipage PDFs easily and you should be able to edit the text. Caveat: you might have the right font installed; depending on the version of the PDF and program used to create it, text might not be editable per paragraph but only per line.
I think that is the case here. As @Slartibart suggested, try PDF. Libreoffice keeps the text as text for that format. Note that it seems to add a background rectangle to represent the page so you might need to remove that. SVG also works as an output though multi-line blocks of text are split into separate elements.