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.
I use Ghostscript for postprocessing the PDF files. What do yo I use to add a color profile for example?
ghostcript can add a color profile, too. I use the regular ISO coated v2 (without the 300%). This is just a step to not do all things in Scribus by hand and make sure colors are not out of gamut.
I don’t now the command line from the top of my head. Just ping me again, so when I am on my computer I can send the complete ghostscript cli line that currently works for me.
The final profile is set up by Scribus, where I have set it to the ISO coated with 300%. Ideally I would like to have less steps in the chain, so that a change in the Inkscape-source involves less manually steps. One can dream of it. (:
Here I am again.
I’ve been fantasizing of making a simple GS GUI.
Finally I found the time to write down, how I use Ghostscript:
gs \ -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \ -o /output/gs_file.pdf \ -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress \ -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK \ -sDefaultCMYKProfile=/path/to/ISOcoated_v2_eci.icc \ -sColorConversionStrategy=CMYK \ source/file.pdf \ -fI don’t now which of
ProcessColorModelorColorConversionStrategyis the important one. I kept both and did not bother to try to omit one of them.-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepressmakes sure that embedded bitmaps are in 300dpi and I think-fprevents Ghostscript staying in interactive mode after all pages have been finished.
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.
One of their pledges when they were bought was to always have a standalone product to buy so people don’t have to do subscriptions.
That’s good of them. We’ll see what their Canva overlords think of those nice intentions 🫡
Its moot because Affinity have already said they will not, not ever.
what is it?
Adobe alternative
It’s a professional-grade graphic design software.
If a program insists on Windows, it is instantly deemed incompatible with my operating parameters and fails my system requirements…
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.
That’s what I do. There’s few programs I still need windows for so I just spin up a VM for them.
How’s the gimp/krita/inkscape transition going? I’ve used Gimp and Inkscape, and they are fine tools, but I don’t think they are Affinity level yet. Though admittedly it’s been a few years since I last touched them.
Yea I pretty much do the same, even tho I still need to figure it out the pass-through for the gpu. And also to be clean, as much as I would love to, gimp and inkscape are not ready for professional use I think. Krita is nice but not very useful to be. Instead kdenlive really shames premiere and AF, i was blown away.
OK thanks for confirming. I’ll stick with Affinity for now. I didn’t know abit kdenlive, something to check out. I’m still getting use to davinci resolve as it is.
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
Question, are you running it? I got really hopeful about it but feedback I read said it wasn’t very good. It worked, technically, but was buggy making it less than ideal. I forget all the details but it was enough to make me not want to even try it.
Yea I got it working. From what I see everything works except it doesn’t remember your settings. But I can live with that.
