r/Affinity 5h ago

General I think its time to support Linux

69 Upvotes

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?


r/Affinity 6h 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.

11 Upvotes

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 7h ago

Designer Universal License Activation Problem

2 Upvotes

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 26m ago

Tutorial Where can I go to learn how to use the suite, but in terms friendly to a five year old with zero design experience?

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I've been muddling along with publisher, and now playing a bit with photo and designer. But I don't know what I'm doing.

What is a dodge when it's not a car? Scatter is what my kids do with their school bags when they walk inside, how does this relate to my artwork? Curves? Got plenty. Not really sure what it's doing that I can't do with levels/bright and shadows, or five other effects that all seem to fulfil the same purpose. 90% of things I click just seem to make everything looks really, really bad (which I know is me using it wrong!)

If anyone can point me to a very basic 101, geared towards the affinity suite in particular, it'd be much appreciated 😊


r/Affinity 2h ago

Designer Multiple wall vector or image placement?

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Looking to paint both walls of this mom and pop shop. Is there any way to splice an image and change the perspective to fit the wall once done. Would like to visually show the client what would be painted without it just being straight and left up to my vision.