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[JBurton]

I got a PowerPoint slide with the doc pasted into it

This is, how the kids say, chef's kiss. Everybody go home, Guam just won all of the stanley cups.

F all of that and F HP, just another reason do drop their shit.

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[gnubler]

Check this out.

HP and Canva Announce Partnership to Democratize Design and Printing

Collaboration to deliver enhanced capabilities, on-demand services, and seamless design-to-print experiences to millions

press.hp.com

I pity the commercial print workers who have to process nothing but Canva crap day in and day out. They probably hold contests for "worst design of the day" and such.

 

[Johnny Best]

Canva bought Affinity software so maybe their process will improve, but then a lot of you will have to find something else to complain about.

 

[Gettin'By]

Doubt there's a shortage of that, Johnny.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Check this out.

HP and Canva Announce Partnership to Democratize Design and Printing

Collaboration to deliver enhanced capabilities, on-demand services, and seamless design-to-print experiences to millions

press.hp.com

Epson will be next. You all are digging your own grave buying from these companies and all the wholesalers. Good luck to anyone who agrees to be under HPs thumb while they continue to work on cutting you out of the picture altogether.

 

[ikarasu]

Canva bought Affinity software so maybe their process will improve, but then a lot of you will have to find something else to complain about.

More like affinity is going to go downhill!

Rather than be an illustrator clone it'll be a canva clone

 

[Gettin'By]

I would hope that they are going for a two tiered approach. Keep Canva for amateurs to compete with other low cost online design options, and use Affinity to compete in the professional space. Tying them together in some way would allow users of both skill levels to collaborate on a project. Say the pro designer can log in from Affinity, and the customer with the cheap/Free Canva. The customer can just move a thing and pick a color, then describe the more challenging parts to the pro. Or something like that. I use Affinity for my side gig....I don't want to lose it.

 

[WildWestDesigns]

I would hope that they are going for a two tiered approach. Keep Canva for amateurs to compete with other low cost online design options, and use Affinity to compete in the professional space. Tying them together in some way would allow users of both skill levels to collaborate on a project. Say the pro designer can log in from Affinity, and the customer with the cheap/Free Canva. The customer can just move a thing and pick a color, then describe the more challenging parts to the pro. Or something like that. I use Affinity for my side gig....I don't want to lose it.

While they may, I doubt it. That would be doubling the efforts. They would have to keep both separate, they don't even live in the same space code wise. Even the download app is really nothing more than a webview based on what I saw. I would have to wonder if they do keep both around long term, I would bet Affinity goes full web and is no longer a native app. While I don't mind and have used browsers for UI on some of my apps, they still were local, I don't see any of that coming in the future for most commercial apps as it is (the joys of always thinking newer tech is the way forward).

I could easily see one gets parted out and eventually disappears (I saw nothing in their response that would give me confidence long term, unless I missed something in later responses, which is possible). Have to bare in mind there is a bigger customer pool going for the "normies" versus the pros (even some pros are just "normies" with bigger pocketbooks).

As to the hardware stuff out there, pucker up, it's going to get worse in that world as well (if one could even imagine that happening).

 

[Gettin'By]

Guess I'll be using 2.5 till it just wont run anymore, or something else comes along.

 

[gnubler]

Monday morning treat, received a file from a customer for a banner. File name: "Screenshot_8-5-2024_278615_www.canva.com.jpeg"

Good lord, it just gets worse.

 

[Boudica]

Monday morning treat, received a file from a customer for a banner. File name: "Screenshot_8-5-2024_278615_www.canva.com.jpeg"

Good lord, it just gets worse.

It was created in the future?

 

[gnubler]

It was created in the future?

LOL, no idea. If the customer took a screenshot I'm wondering why Canva is in the file name at all? Must be a browser or smartphone function.
Either way, it was the first file to greet me this morning. A wonderful way to start the week.

 

[JBurton]

It was created in the future?

European dating conventions place days.months.years, makes more sense for finding stuff in a list, less sense for tiny american brains trying to parse out how hot it will be on a given date.

 

[Boudica]

European dating conventions place days.months.years, makes more sense for finding stuff in a list, less sense for tiny american brains trying to parse out how hot it will be on a given date.

Maybe so, but I'd wager her customer is somewhere in North Idaho. Maybe Montana.

 

[JBurton]

somewhere in North Idaho. Maybe Montana.

So the SAE format would hold true, 5.8.24 doesn't look nearly as hot as 8.5.24...

 

[jochwat]

Monday morning treat, received a file from a customer for a banner. File name: "Screenshot_8-5-2024_278615_www.canva.com.jpeg"

Good lord, it just gets worse.

So am I to understand that you received a screen grab of a design made with Canva? Because OMFG.

 

[gnubler]

So am I to understand that you received a screen grab of a design made with Canva? Because OMFG.

That's what I'm saying. This isn't the first time a customer has had no idea how to export a file they created in Canva. This one took it the next level and just took a screenshot and called it a day.

 

[WildWestDesigns]

Be thankful it was a screenshot, that is progress. The "screenshots" that I get are usually cell phone pictures of a screen, reflections and all.

 

[Boudica]

I LOVE it when someone comes in and shoves their cell phone in my face to show me the color they want, the font they want.... and/or the content/layout... Etc
On a good day, I just absorb what I can at a glance, and ask them to email it to me, I'll lay something out and send them a proof.
On the bad day's.... I'll say the same thing, but probably come off as annoyed and condescending.
Either way I respond, they either obey, and work hard to do what I ask them to do, or go away....
Or deal with my boss. Who may take time to get back to them. The latter two are rare occasions, but it happens.

All that said... My job/role isn't sales person and new walk-ins instantly have me cringing when I'm the only one there. so by default I suddenly have to fill the role, good days/bad days.

ETA... Just realized I posted this in the wrong thread.... I was thinking I was in gnubler's cu moron thread.

 

[gnubler]

I LOVE it when someone comes in and shoves their cell phone in my face to show me the color they want, the font they want.... and/or the content/layout... Etc

Yes. This is becoming another worsening problem at my shop, where someone walks in and does the hundred-year swipe on their phone to show you an image or something. Meanwhile I'm standing there tapping my foot, trying to figure out how to speed up the process without being rude. When I ask to just send it to me via text or email, half of them say they don't know how...a couple weeks ago I actually took a picture of someone's Smartphone screen with my Smartphone, it was faster and easier. I'm a sign shop, not tech support.