Thanks for any suggestions, and sorry to the mods for the probably wrong location for the thread. If they are totally unwilling to sell, that would be unfortunate, but everyone has a price, and that software is dead otherwise as far as I know. If I knew they would sell, but only for X hundred thousand or million dollars, it would be very helpful. If anybody here knows how to contact the present owners of the software to communicate about this potential, let me know. These are things we could add if it was an open source program. I have thought of quite a few mods I would like to write to handle certain tasks but that is not possible without the source code or a mod or complex macro system. At minimum it would be great for Windows users, because Inkscape is just so strange in how it is set up. Large parts work in Wine already, and once the third party commercial stuff is gone, I am guessing it may mostly work with very little tweaking. Inkscape and Xara are decent but, Drawplus as an open source resource would be game changing for Linux. I understand certain components are third party commercial software and these would not be included, however, I am guessing it will not be beyond FOSS to replace them with existent open source components in fairly short order. The app started branching out to other platforms in November 2016, when it was first released for Microsoft Windows.I am trying to find out if there is any possibility that whoever owns the codebase to Serif Drawplus X8 might consider selling it to the open source community? With version 1.5 in October 2016, the app received several new features, including symbols, constraints, asset management, and text styles. In December 2015, version 1.4 later introduced new features for managing artboards and printing. Version 1.2, released in April 2015, introduces new tools and features, such as the angular tool and pixel alignment mode for GUI design tasks. At the time, the Serif vector graphics application for Windows was DrawPlus however, following the release of Affinity Designer for Windows, this product has now been discontinued. The first version was released in October 2014, making it the first Affinity app released by Serif (and their first macOS release). It was developed completely from scratch for this operating system, allowing it to take advantage of core native technologies such as OpenGL, Grand Central Dispatch, and Core Graphics. Affinity Designer started as a dedicated vector graphics editor for macOS. It supports RGB, RGB Hex, LAB, CMYK and Grayscale color models, along with PANTONE color sampling and end-to-end CMYK workflows with ICC color management, and 16-bit per channel editing. The app can also import data from multiple Adobe FreeHandfiles (version 10 & MX only).Īffinity Designer’s core functions include vector pen and shape drawing tools, support for custom vector and raster brushes (including the ability to import Adobe Photoshop (ABR) brushes), dynamic symbols, stroke stabilization, text style management, and vector/pixel export options.Īffinity Designer provides non-destructive editing features across seamless layers, with pan and zoom at 60 fps, and real-time viewing of effects and transformations. It has been described as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator, and is compatible with common graphic file formats, including Adobe Illustrator (AI), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Adobe Photoshop (PSD), Portable Document Format (PDF), and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS). We hope to offer better/improved features over the old line as time permits. Its not a replacement or expanded version of the old plus line/code. 2 In addition to traditional vector drawing tools, DrawPlus provides realistic, natural-looking brushes that allow the user to paint with watercolours, oils and other media whilst retaining vector editing capability. The Affinity line is being written from scratch to be cross platform and take advantage of the new APIs/resources of modern systems/OSs. Affinity Designer is available for purchase directly from the company’s website and on the Mac App Store, iOS App Store, and Microsoft Store.Īffinity Designer serves as the successor to Serif’s DrawPlus software, which the company discontinued in August 2017 to focus on the Affinity family of products. Serif have ceased development of DrawPlus in order to focus on its successor, Affinity Designer, following its release for Windows. It is part of “Affinity trinity” along with Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher. Affinity Designer is a vector graphics editor developed by Serif for macOS, iPadOS, and Microsoft Windows.
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