Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux

  • Raccoonn@lemmy.ml
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    21 days ago

    If a program insists on Windows, it is instantly deemed incompatible with my operating parameters and fails my system requirements…

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    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.

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        23 days ago

        If we all spent that money on gimp, scribus and inkscape, they would be so much better in just 2 years.

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          23 days ago

          The thing preventing me from using Gimp is the terrible UI and UX. And that situation hasn’t really changed very much in the last 15 years, either. I’m getting the feeling that Gimp is stuck as it is because the devs and current users want it like that.

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          23 days ago

          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.

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            21 days ago

            I use Ghostscript for postprocessing the PDF files. What do yo I use to add a color profile for example?

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              21 days ago

              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. (:

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                  10 days ago

                  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 \
                      -f
                  

                  I don’t now which of ProcessColorModel or ColorConversionStrategy is the important one. I kept both and did not bother to try to omit one of them. -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress makes sure that embedded bitmaps are in 300dpi and I think -f prevents Ghostscript staying in interactive mode after all pages have been finished.