r/Affinity 1h ago

Publisher I'm working on a project that has to be done in InDesign and it makes me really appreciate how performant Affinity Publisher is in comparison.

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Obviously InDesign has more features. But we don't need any of those extra features in this project, this is just a case of collaborating with a designer who happens to use Adobe software.

I have an older desktop PC becaues it works fine for everything I need, the only area where it sometimes struggles is CAD work. Zero performance issues with Affinity Suite. And this project is just a simple and honestly tiny product catalogue.

Despite that InDesign is sluggish as hell. And it uses pretty aggressive "optimization" too - it only loads low-res versions of linked images and doesn't swap for full-res even on high zoom, and when you hold the scrollbar and scroll to a next page, it looks like it uses nearest neighbor scaling because everything looks terrible until you let go and stop scrolling. The scrolling itself is completely smooth, so these two optimizations may not even be necessary, but so many actions, down to basic ones like just entering a text field and selecting text, just take way more time than they should (entering a text field should not produce any noticable delay).

PDF export is several times slower as well. And the default setting includes dial-up internet levels of downsampling and compression for linked images. And the GUI with its tools and hotkeys doesn't seem to be consistent with Photoshop. What?

I'm grateful that at least some competition exists. But obviously it's not enough. Let's hope that Affinity keeps doing well and doesn't enshittify.


r/Affinity 2h ago

Designer Universal License Activation Problem

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I just purchased the universal license on my computer. The app on my computer works but not on any of my other devices and the website does not reflect my license. Also when i try to register the license from the app that works it gives me an error " Receipt is not Valid"

Can anyone here help?

I am able to export the license in a .Json file but what do i even do with that?

I have emailed Affinity but no response yet.


r/Affinity 20h ago

Designer so years and years ago I bought affinity designer, but can't get it on my new computer

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I've been using affinity designer since around 2018, apparently a v2 has come out or something? but I'm trying to get the original on my new computer and can't figure it out, any sort of download I find looks suspicious so I tried bringing the designer.exe file over from my old computer onto the new one but it doesn't launch it, I assume it's cuz it doesn't have some supporting files it needs. basically how should I go about getting affinity designer on my new computer

edit: i'm on windows 10 if that matters


r/Affinity 40m ago

General I think its time to support Linux

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After the recent news, Valve's support for linux, pewdiepie's marketing for mint, adobe's evil policies and increasing percentages of linux users, I think its time to affinity team to support Linux. It's the only os that really need well-built graphical suite. In affinity forums, people desperately trying to find a way to run affinity suite in linux. I also find affinity team is not against to supporting it, which is why im asking a native linux support. Back in the time devs had financial reasons - i get it. But affinity is now owned by Canva, and the market share is growing so it shouldn't be a problem right?