Affinity Designer User Survey

Robert said:
To be fair though, I think the layering issue is specific to Tayda's UV printing service.
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Yep, and I haven't actually tried to have Tayda print something exported from AD yet. When I need to I'll just man up to whatever workarounds it takes, I reckon. Back when Pedal Parts Plus did one offs they had a nominal setup fee and did a test print on your box wrapped in Saran Wrap. I'd gladly pay Tayda or Amplifyfun or you to do the same, but since I'm not looking to do too many one offs my perspective is a little different than many folks here.
 
Big Monk said:
Seriously though, Corel Draw is an awesome, if expensive, graphics program for the kind of stuff we do.

I’m using a pirated version so I have to be careful not to open it when connected to the internet.
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I downloaded a demo version a while back for a laser etch job for my new tube amp build. Using it was quite intuitive and it worked perfectly, if they did a 50% off sale I'd seriously consider ponying up.
 
Passinwind said:
Back when Pedal Parts Plus did one offs they had a nominal setup fee and did a test print on your box wrapped in Saran Wrap.
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I was actually considering vacuum sealing the enclosures for a test print. It does a pretty dang good job of "coating" the enclosure tightly.

Corel Draw better be good, they've been around since the days of DOS. If they haven't gotten it right by now..... :ROFLMAO:
 
Robert said:
I sure do like the pen tool better in Affinity Designer though... Every time I try to use it in Illustrator I want to smash my mouse into pieces.
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Next time in Illustrator try the Curvature tool (windows shortcut is Shift + ~ ) instead of the pen tool. They introduced it because of how steep the learning curve is for Illustrator's pen tool, especially compared with alternative software. Using the pen tool is the one time the part of my brain that somehow learned calculus ever feels activated again. It's the mathiest shit ever
 
Anyone using AD on iPad with a pencil?

I’ve been tempted to test it, or even try a full enclosure design in iPad only.
 
Random question, why don't people tell Adobe and other software companies just shove the whole continual payment thing? WE are the CUSTOMER what happened to $40~50 and done for personal use which most of us would be doing and/or happily paying. Shouldn't be to condoning of piracy but the sheer greed brings it on themselves. Corel does have 1 time buy fees but those are still ridiculous and should be like half...only 100 years and Henry Ford's lesson of 'the more people that are able to afford/buy it I get more money" is forgotten?

/soapbox


As you were gentlemen. I'll stick to my airbrush wally world frisket/stencil sheets cut out on things I made using the free copy of paint that came with windoze...
 
it does cycle in to a catch-22. does the current answer solve the problem or make it larger and more rampant? 90% of the things I've acquired in the grey area of the 'net are more a matter of if it's even available for sale to me(floyd albums from before DSotM, foreign tv shows that never had a direct sales or streaming service option...)
We are DiY people. no shame in finding the point between cheap and convenience!
 
Big Monk said:
The issue with Corel Draw is that they don’t offer the dimensioning tool set until you get to the Graphics Suite version.

If they offer the dimensioning tool on the $114 Corel Draw Essentials version, it’d be a steal.
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Yep, the dimensioning aspect is exactly why my luthier friend is using it. And when I tried to send him DXF exports done in Inkscape there were issues, not so surprisingly. The Front Panel Express software can work fine for that with a little cleanup but I'm pretty sure doing so goes against the user terms, FWIW. I've thrown quite a bit of money at those guys and cough cough may have tried it just out of curiousity desperation, or maybe that was just a fever dream...

Back when I was doing government subcontract work in fisheries research I had a legit seat on all the Adobe stuff and lots of other expensive software tools. Since I worked from home sometimes I could and did load it on my home computer, until we got a different HR management entity running the show and had to start meeting quasi military security standards. My outfit was full of hippie biologists and other assorted misfits so it was a pretty funny juxtaposition. We took IP issues very very seriously though, we had to.
 
Companies accept piracy because it builds their platform. Becomes the industry standard.

Suddenly, the job calls for Adobe skills. You boycott, no job and someone else grabs it. Once you become the standard then you can move to the recurring revenue model, which isn’t a bad thing if you’re a professional. You used to pay for maintenance anyway.. but as a hobbyist, the lack of consumer tier makes it hard to justify the cost.
 
I used AI professionally since their second version, Illustrator 88. Feel that it peaked with CS6 and got hugely dumbed down after that. That’s the version I still prefer to work with, and own. I had to have a subscription to stay updated so I could track with clients that always had the latest version of everything. But no longer. I’ve seriously thought about Afinity, but haven’t downloaded the trial yet. I’d be amazed if it can’t export to AI though (in terms of what Tayda want)—for a graphics program not to be able to output into an Adobe blessed format would be a huge impediment to it being adopted.

I must be the oddball that really loves AIs bezier (pen) tool. I would go through hoops, importing and exporting cad files when I needed to put beziers into something, since to me it was much easier to get the curve right. There used to be (ancient, pre CS days) an add on tool (from a third party) that gave AI auto dimensioning.
 
Robert said:
It cannot. It can open AI files, but not export/save them.
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I assume it will save as pdf. Does it keep all layer etc. info with the pdf export? If so, I could then open (since I have CS6) and save as AI. Adobe tried to do the same thing with Photoshop, and the industry sort of went around them with DN formats. Most of my vendors that did graphics typically wanted pdfs and not AI native files, but they were expecting files from people that knew the ins and out, so since it’s easy to make a really useless pdf, I can understand where Tayda is coming from.

But the withholding of rights to output in their format is, while legal, such a slimy move. I guess I’m not surprised.
 
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