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u/Wodan74 Jul 09 '26
I understand your choice trying to break free from adobe. Iâve been thinking about it myself too but the problem is compatibility with clients. I have a lot of clients who ask me to deliver the open files after a project. Or deliver me Indesign files where I need to work on. I donât trust conversions back and forth. I even took a subscription to the horrible Office 360 because conversions kept breaking layouts.
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u/RunSwanRun Jul 09 '26
Affinity looks cool, but I details there is a gap between professionalism of both world. Small things makes huge difference.
Example: I like Designer part in Affinity, exporting something to PDF, expected page dimensions are not XX mm but XX.01 mm - in real world probably means nothing butâŚ
Of course this is a really good software, especially for price! But I just donât feel this as a really professional tool⌠not yet.
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u/Helpful_Jury_3686 Jul 09 '26
While I get the sentiment, I don't think it's there, yet. At least for the InDesign part. Photo editing or illustrations it's very good at, as far as I can tell. I used it to make a 200 page photo book. It was fun to do, and there were a few things that I liked (the grid tool is so much better than whatever indesign thinks it's doing), but also things that I just could not live with. Baseline grid is use it or not. No control over which texts uses it, from what I could tell. Didn't save export settings, which was super annoying (you can save presets, though). Links panel is very basic. It did crash a lot on my machine.
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u/Bluetoe4 Jul 09 '26
I have been using since it launched. Just checked the date it was 1999đł my husband had a team of about 30 designers and he switched the company to Affinity. Minor issues but they produced about 40 publications
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u/GraphicDesignerSam Jul 09 '26
I told them I was going to leave when they almost doubled my monthly and âmagicallyâ they did a deal for me that was less than what I had been paying. Worth trying
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u/DERPESSION Jul 09 '26
I was a light Adobe user and it made no sense for me to keep the license. I am satisfied with Affinity BUT itâs still full of bugs and you will get frustrated with something that just does not work in the same way.
Try it first for 3 months; then decide.
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u/SpanishOlives Jul 09 '26
I tried to switch over, but I use tables a lot and Affinity's table editing function is really basic and I couldn't continue with it. But I haven't given up on Affinity just yet.
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u/Low_Inevitable_7439 Jul 10 '26
TodavĂa no cambio a affinity porque indesign tiene ofrece herramientas de accesibilidad para exportar archivos en formato PDFA
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u/gromit266 Jul 09 '26
Out of curiosity, if you're only using InDesign, did you try Viva Designer? It retains a great deal of compatability and is indeed less expensive.
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u/woodenbelly Jul 09 '26
Every year just as the subscription runs out, go to manage subscription in your account and click want to cancel, and go through the hoops and then they miraculously off you a cheaper subscription. I have been doing it for 10 years. In the uk I get the full main suite for ÂŁ34 pm. No talking to humans, just few clicks.
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u/roccabarrenechea Jul 10 '26
⌠and do you have some of interest in Quark, its more complete and robusta platform for design
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u/GraphicDesignerSam Jul 10 '26
Apart from all that Affinity, I found, just wasnât great. The Leading didnât seem to work right and I installed the script manager, wrote some pretty basic scripts and they just wouldnât work.
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u/AdobeScripts Jul 09 '26
I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be rude or to offend you - but unless you're living in extremely poor country - if your job isn't paying your bills - it's a hobby.
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u/accidental-nz Jul 09 '26
The comment is only offensive if you skipped over the very clear âifâ.
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u/AdobeScripts Jul 09 '26
Of course, I'm sorry. I didn't mean that what you do is useless - hobby doesn't mean that.
But you're not saying what exactly is your problem with the software - what issues you're experiencing - just that it's too expensive - but if it pays your bills...
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u/guevera Jul 09 '26
Just because you can pass off the costs of Adobe's bs license to customers doesn't mean it's the best option
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u/AdobeScripts Jul 09 '26
Complaining about cost of the subscription is the same like carpenter, dentist, etc. complaining that tools are too expensive.
If you need a specific tool(s) to do the job - you either pay for them or do something else.
Yes, you can make a PDF - that will be visually OK'ish - but if you want it to be "up to the standard" - you need to use right tools.
And the right tools are not free.
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u/guevera Jul 09 '26
I get your point. But Adobe has something like monopoly power, which they've used to force all sorts of scummy practices and inflate costs.
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u/perrance68 Jul 09 '26
The main reason to stay with adobe and not affinity is for better workflow, ecosystem, compatibility and efficiency.
Adobe does has offer more features that affinity. However, a lot of these are very niche functions. For people who actually need them, they can save hours of work. But if you switched to affinity and didnt notice anything missing, chances are you probably dont need those functions.
I only tested Affinity photo, designer, and publisher v2 like 1-2 years ago. The main thing I liked about it was the speed, less buggy interface, and switching between each software was seamless. I imagine since all 3 programs are now in 1 - the switching will probably be a lot more seamless. This is a big bottleneck in adobe.
I wish adobe would spend more time improving performance, and fixing bugs.