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I canceled my Adobe subscription for January and I bought the Affinity 2 upgrade.

This is going o be hard. I've been using Photoshop since I was 14, it feels natural to me. I switched from Premiere Pro to DaVinci Resolve (Editing, I used DaVinci for Color Grading before) years ago and now its time to say goodbye to my beloved Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator 🥺

When it comes to "page design"/DTP, most people know of InDesign, or the free Scribus. But there's another free tool too for all OSes (including Linux): Viva Designer. Very advanced, and with a good UI, albeit not open source. They have a time-unlimited free tier that doesn't lose too many features over the full version.

#dtp#linux#indesign

InDesign crashes as soon as I try to delete a specific page (containing a specific text object that I’m unable to delete either) AND as soon as I try to export the entire PDF file, the software simply shuts down. It’s a nightmare.

I’ve updated the app, restarted it obv, deleted cache, tried to work locally and not inside iCloud, checked all image links and font availability and everything looks good.

Any idea/advice on what to try next?

Replied to Mario Fritsche

@mario sieh gut aus! 👍 Ich habe mal etwas ähnliches geschrieben, was allerdings nicht über ein Plugin gesteuert wird, sondern online. Der Weg führt dann über ein #IDML. Das sieht so aus: calidar.io/de-de/kalender/erst Hatte damals für uns Vorteile, aber man ist etwas »weiter weg« von #InDesign.

www.calidar.ioEine Kalender-Vorlage erstellen. In Sekunden zum DownloadErstellen Sie hier Ihre individuelle Kalender-Vorlage. Sie können die Vorlage nach Ihren Wünschen anpassen, speichern und dann in Adobe InDesign bearbeiten

Adobe #InDesign 2025 has been released, and we have already updated our #IDML Creator! 🥳 Support for InDesign 20.0 is available from version 3.9 and 4.2.

The IDML Creator is the only library in the world that can generate IDML documents natively and from scratch. It is written in #PHP.
You can find more information about it here: idml.dev/en/idml-creator-php.h

www.idml.devIDML Creator for PHPThe IDML Creator for PHP is a fee-based library, that allows converting IDML content natively in PHP.

Para quien lo necesite, algunas #alternativas a #Adobe gratis o de un solo pago:

#Photoshop 👉 GIMP o Affinity Photo
#Lightroom 👉 Darktable
#Illustrator 👉 Inkscape o Affinity Designer
#Indesign 👉 Scribus o Affinity Publisher
#Premiere 👉 Blackmagic Resolve
#AfterEffects 👉 Blackmagic Fusion
#Audition 👉 Un DAW o Izotope RX
#DreamWeaver 👉 Pinegrow
#Substance3D 👉 Armory3D
#FillAndSign 👉 PDFgear
#Dimension 👉 Blender
#Fresco 👉 Krita
#Behance 👉 DeviantArt
#Figma 👉 Penpot

Edit: cambio Foxit por PDFgear