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It sounds like we've been in the same boat, for about the same amount of time. I've gone from being a total Adobe fanboy (who isn't a fanboy in their late teens

It sounds like we've been in the same boat, for about the same amount of time. I've gone from being a total Adobe fanboy (who isn't a fanboy in their late teens and twenties?) but it's a company that I absolutely cannot stand now - primarily because of the infliction of the subscription model, which I now pay more for (can't skip releases) and am totally locked-into and resentful of. And yes, there're oodles of issues that have been going around for years but are never resolved (my recent one (ie; for two years now) - do I have x instances of 'CEPHtmlEngine' running, taking up processes, or do I delete the CEPHtmlEngine folder, suffer a couple of popups and then occasionally have my hard disk filled with 26x 16mb files A MINUTE when working on large documents? Fun choice!). I don't even use the Affinity software, but I've bought them, purely because I want Adobe to have competition. from a software standpoint, I could probably get away with Illy CS2 - the 'features' added since then have been .. mostly irrelevant. But if I don't have a subscription, I can't open client files. - ed: numerous typos

egypturnash 7y ago
It’s not at the point where it’s a completely abusive marriage, it’s still less hassle than changing over the huge pile of graphic styles I’ve built for my current GN would be (~100p in volume 1, 5 or 6 total chapters of similar size of all goes well), I like having the font subscription (though I should look into ways to grab those out of wherever Adobe sticks then in case one I rely on gets pulled), there’s definitely things I’d miss if I went back to cs2 (transparent gradients, width profiles, multiple artboards, speed rewrites, pattern editing, god I would kill anyone who tried to make me do patterns the old way (does Affinity even HAVE patterns? It seems to only do bitmap patterns), gradient strokes, auto type area resizes, and that’s just looking at Wikipedia’s chart of features up to 2014) But it’s such a product of a bureaucracy, built by people who never use it, and who awkwardly interface with the people who do.
- detritus 7y ago
  > transparent gradients Oh crikey - I forgot about the workarounds to achieve transparent gradients back in the old days! And we not that long ago got the ability to [finally] open PDFs with more than one page, which is - well, the fact that it didn't happen a decade or more ago - telling.

egypturnash 7y ago

It’s not at the point where it’s a completely abusive marriage, it’s still less hassle than changing over the huge pile of graphic styles I’ve built for my current GN would be (~100p in volume 1, 5 or 6 total chapters of similar size of all goes well), I like having the font subscription (though I should look into ways to grab those out of wherever Adobe sticks then in case one I rely on gets pulled), there’s definitely things I’d miss if I went back to cs2 (transparent gradients, width profiles, multiple artboards, speed rewrites, pattern editing, god I would kill anyone who tried to make me do patterns the old way (does Affinity even HAVE patterns? It seems to only do bitmap patterns), gradient strokes, auto type area resizes, and that’s just looking at Wikipedia’s chart of features up to 2014) But it’s such a product of a bureaucracy, built by people who never use it, and who awkwardly interface with the people who do.

detritus 7y ago
> transparent gradients Oh crikey - I forgot about the workarounds to achieve transparent gradients back in the old days! And we not that long ago got the ability to [finally] open PDFs with more than one page, which is - well, the fact that it didn't happen a decade or more ago - telling.