Watch yer back, Adobe!

[Slappy]

There's a new kid in town! Affinity Designer, a vector app meant to be an Illustrator killer much like Pixelmator is to Photoshop. For $40, I'll get it, and if they're working on a page layout app as it seems, for home use at least, I'd do that before I'd pay out of pocket for an InDesign subscription.

[born2print]

Competition = good for users!

[Joe]

Serif? Well I sure as hell hope it is better than some of their other software. Their HTML web site creation software sucks majorly.

But yeah...any competition is great.

[Ear]

aaahhh there's a new Serif in town. Gonna be a shootout at the CS Corral.

[born2print]

aaahhh there's a new Serif in town. Gonna be a shootout at the CS Corral.

Ya know, it's a little known fact that the Shootout at the O.K. Corral was originally known as the "Gunfight on Fremont Street" by the local denizens. Upon release of the 1957 film "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" the American public assumed that name and it still stands today.

[Ear]

   Thanks Diane.

[StudioMonkey]

Shootout at the OK Corel Draw  

[almaink]

Why pay anything? This is still free and it's been around for a while now. I don't know why more people don't use it.
http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus

[Made in Taiwan]

Scribus is a nice piece of software. But the big advantage of the Adobe products is, that everything is compatible together, for example, you can place a psd-file into InDesign and if you want to make changes to the picture, it takes you only two clicks and you're back in Photoshop to edit the pic. Most of the designers care a lot about time, and in their opinion, Scribus wastes too much of this precious good.

Another thing in Scribus are the output options, an option to output PDF-X1 is still not available (but the developers say it might be available with the next big update to 1.5), other options are only for various PDF-versions as well as for X3. Tried various times to output a CMYK-only PDF, but so far I didn't get deep enough into it to find out how to get this mission accomplished. I guess, once version 1.5 is available, I'll have a look at it again.

[Designia(o_O)]

If you're just looking for a Creative Suite for home use, you can download CS2 for free at the Adobe website.

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

Or you can just use the your credentials from your work CC copy at home. Perfectly legal.

[Made in Taiwan]

But make sure that nobody is using it at work at the same time while you are using it at home, otherwise the big red light starts flashing in Adobe's headquarters.

[Joe]

Except their employess think the flashing red light means it's time for a Starbucks break.

[frailer]

If you're just looking for a Creative Suite for home use, you can download CS2 for free at the Adobe website.

...love the way they try and dangle an alternative to the low-end user like that; I assume to keep them away from Scribus-style software.

[frailer]

Or you can just use the your credentials from your work CC copy at home. Perfectly legal.

... a gap in my American entertainment culture database. Who is your avatar?