Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux
The Affinity Suite is great, but I’m suspicious of its acquisition by Canva—I’m afraid their solution to “bringing the suite to Linux” will be turning it into a web service.
A subscription web service
If we all spent that money on gimp, scribus and inkscape, they would be so much better in just 2 years.
I am actually producing PDF/X-4 print-ready stuff with Inkscape, ghostscript and Scribus. I even have TrimBoxes and proper CMYK.
But it involves many manual steps, especially overprinting for the K color channel does not work and I need to adjust every polygon and vectorized text manually.
I whish it would be possible all in one tool. I can afford the time, because it is only a hobby. If it would be professional the extra steps involved make it not good enough.
Agree.
Oh no, when did they get bought by those ghouls?
Awh fuck. I bought a lifetime thing for the whole Affinity studio like two years ago when it was on sale. Is there a decent alternative to Affinity? I would rather not go back to GIMP for images, just cos the UI/UX isn’t so smooth!
The current version of Affinity is great and will continue to work forever—there’s no need to switch to an alternative if you’re already using it. I just don’t have much hope for its future development.
Its moot because Affinity have already said they will not, not ever.
But surely this petition with nearly 400 signatures will convince them there’s a business case for supporting Linux!
I tried multiple times but i ended up loading it in a vbox 🤷♂️ since the Canva acquisition I started getting used with gimp, krita and inkscape. I have zero hopes for this.
I’ve always been surprised affinity isn’t on linux I would think people looking for alternatives to adobe would also be looking for alternatives to windows so it makes sense to put them together.
There is a wine branch that can run Affinity just search for it
what is it?
Adobe alternative
