I’ve now bought into the Affinity suite and I wish them all the best. To have your files held hostage by one company on the subscription model is tempting the fate that befell Quark. We were an independent lot and back then jumped ship from Quark to Adobe in a minute. ![]() They miss the point and I suspect they are not designers. ![]() And yes, I’ve heard other commenters opine that if you’re a working designer, the monthly fee is an acceptable cost. But I feel sorry for any independent designers forced to pay the outrageous subscription fees. I’ve since managed to do all my photo editing using other software. I have the luxury of leaving the industry just when Adobe turned arrogant. I still have the entire work flow hardwired into my brain.) (BTW, I loved Photoshop and InDesign and to a lesser extent, Illustrator. And then Adobe introduced the subscription model and became Quark. As a result, printers bent over backwards to stay alive and took anything, even Word files (shudder). Many, many printers and most service bureaus went belly up with the decline of print publishing. A quick 2-3 years later 9 out of ten were using the Adobe suite.īut that was then and a couple things happened. At one time 9 out of ten service bureaus and printers were using it. And yes, I dumped Quark when they neglected customer service. I did everything from CMYK offset printing of 400k runs to full page colour ads in weeklies, to brochures. Fifteen years ago, I was doing heavy weight publishing in a medium size Canadian city using the Adobe suite. Auto-convert image formats, convert print formats to digital publishing.Interesting! I’m a retired graphic designer and now contemporary artist.Sync text, images, and formatting automatically.Advanced image control, import and so edit PSD documents, import columns and charts from Microsoft Excel (XLS, XLSX), import text, style sheets, images, and links from Microsoft Word.Paste as native objects from Illustrator and Microsoft Office.Convert Illustrator, PDF, and so EPS files to native QuarkXPress objects.Import native Illustrator files and so new image tools.Common Illustrator and Photoshop keyboard controls.Easy page layout with drag and drop capabilities.Suitable output styles for PDF rotation include PDF / X and so PDF / X PLUS.Control creative features such as layer transparency, blend modes, and color channels.Ability to import, drag and drop Illustrator files directly into the page, import Photoshop files. ![]()
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