#Serif pledges to keep the perpetual licensing model going into the future. Yes, these kinds of corporate posts don't actually mean anything, but I am a bit more hopeful than I was yesterday.
So I managed to do a thing. I think Wine 9.0 must have introduced some big fixes because #Affinity Designer works now! With some tweaking, of course, but it's pretty cool to see nonetheless.
Designer v2 is still a no-go, relying very heavily on new Windows features that haven't been replicated yet in Wine; unfortunately, most of my files are now in v2 format so this isn't an ideal solution. Still, I can use v1 again, and that's better than nothing.
If #Serif#Affinity#software changes over to a #SoftwareAsService model in their next versions now that they’ve been purchased by #Canva, I’m dumping them —hard. I’ve seen this pattern too many times before to believe when a CEO says “nothing’s going to change” after a reputable company gets taken over in a buyout or merger. Part of me hopes this isn’t the herald of #enshitification come, but the rest of me has been trained over time to anticipate a future betrayal.
While he started three years prior, Otto Lilienthal took the invented glider on his first successful flight in 1894. It wasn't much more than 7 Seconds, but his achievement changed the world of aviation forever. Even the Wright brothers been well aware of the "flying man" from Berlin, but the TNYT missed to mention the pioneers like Lilienthal and Gustav Whitehead, five years after the very first motor flight, in their front page report about the Wright apparatus 1906.
However, in 2024 we can celebrate the 130th anniversary of this historic event and share our #Liliental portrait with you.
It bothers me so much that most used fonts have no easily visible differences between "I" and "l" -- there's quite a difference between "Weird Al" and "Weird AI" as only one gets permission for and pays to reuse the work from a talented artist.
@keirFox I feel like this really makes the case that for accessibility all sites should be using serif fonts. It also seems like the idea of "modern" design is counter to accessibility. 🤔
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was launched 1983 as Timex Sinclair 2068 computer on the US market. Even when Commodore won the #8bitWars in the end, the ZX Spectrum sold 5 million units until 1992 for a initial price of £175 (48KB in the UK). With a Z80A 8-bit CPU running oh 3.5 MHz it was capable to do fancy computer graphics on a regular telly, at home for everybody.
Most likely because Quantel named their first system as simple as they did, Print'n'Plotter sold their graphic software under the same product name "Paintbox", but for the ZX Home Computers. In a resolution of 256×192 pixels and limited to 15 colours #IT was great for the budget. Demo graphics been fancy, even if not as WOOOW as the real Paintbox. https://gfkdsgn.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/quantel-paintbox/
Quantel wasn't in the Home computer business so not even MTV could afford more than a few. Real Paintbox systems are rare today, while the ZX Spectrum isn't so much.
The series of our 2023 tech anniversaries comes to a natural end and content plans for the next year have to be talked about internally. AFK
Even when development started in summer '79 it took twice as long as Apple expected, not only because they had to get rid of Jobs first. So LISA wasn't launched earlier than 1983 with 1Mb RAM for almost U$D 10K. The project was a $50 million investment for Apple Inc., and kept losses low since it sold almost 5K units annually. After 27 months it was in-house competition that buried the Lisa computers, litterally. In the end it was a zero sum game for Apple, but a huge step for modern graphic user-interfaces and more personal computers.
The Indy was SGI's entry-level 3D workstation for CAD and 3D animations in 1993. This beautiful computer was actually the first shipped with a webcam and had video I/O ports built-in.
Since 2023 isn't over yet, there are a few days left to celebrate IT's 30th Anniversary and to realize that @Blender was developed on one of them.
#Affinity#Designer is currently available for 45 instead of 75 bucks and version 2.3 now comes with a spiral tool. Congratulations!
Somehow I can't remember when that function was added to Inkscape, can you?
Maybe that's because V0.45 already got it built in? However, congrats Serif for catching up.
#Affinity#Designer is currently available for 45 instead of 75 bucks and version 2.3 now comes with a spiral tool. Congratulations!
Somehow I can't remember when that function was added to Inkscape, can you?
Maybe that's because V0.45 already got it built in? However, congrats Serif for catching up.
To companies like #Serif
Instead of complaining and making excuses on why you can't make a Linux version, hire #Linux experts from the #Fediverse. You know, you can use the technology and employ the people who want to improve the world.
Airbus open sourced their new cockpit font. Make it the default for all your embedded projects, because it's REALLY good and has real testing in difficult environments!
Yeah, but the #UFL is not #OFL and whilst it's more permissible than any Font #MicrosoftOffice ever included, I know why @ubuntu chose that license and I do consider moving to #B612Mono instead.
Switching from Adobe apps to Serif's Affinity suite, I have to say, unlike the FOSS offerings, they are incredibly polished. There are bugs, but they are subtler than "oops svg import crashes the whole app without a recovery file”.
With that said, there are a lot of features I'm missing. Japanese vertical layouts aren’t supported. There's no blend tool (and adjusting the widths of strokes isn't as nice as Adobe's width tool). There's no image tracing, and there’s no "balance ragged lines”. Nothing deal-breaking, but I do find my designs adapting to the software, rather than the software supporting my designs, which isn’t ideal.
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