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Re:Adobe XD, where did it go wrong? by chocolatkey on Saturday February 12, 2022 @08:14AM (#30312543)
> why

I work in the manga/webtoon localization industry, and all files received from the original publishers that aren't TIFF are INDD or PSD. There is no choice but to use photoshop and indesign. Recently, I had to cough up money for the pricey indesign server in order to be able to ingest the .indd files en masse. There's no other choice. At first I thought I could do it with a mix of humans converting to .idml (the xml zip slightly less proprietary format) and my own python!... but you still need indesign for that first part, and after weeks of python, I gave up trying to parse that nasty mess that is idml. Now I run an ugly indesign js script that also talks to photoshop via bridge to create workabke files. It's disgusting and I pay the adobe tax, but it works. P.S. protip: never export images from indesign using any other option besides PDF, Indesign's built in image renders are awful for manga. Tune all the pdf settings so there is no quality loss, then "print" the pdf to image using ghostscript

Re:Adobe XD, where did it go wrong? by wanda on Saturday February 12, 2022 @02:21PM (#30315466)
Have you tried Affinity Designer?

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/

One-off purchase price, like Adobe apps used to be, and a very reasonable price at that.

Re:Adobe XD, where did it go wrong? by chocolatkey on Saturday February 12, 2022 @03:01PM (#30315813)
I love the afinity line but #1 affinity products only take in .idml, not .indd, so you still need indesign, and #2 affinity's own file formats are less well known that adobe's, therefore there are no tools out there to convert them or make them, and #3 affinity products do not support scripting (or have open enough file formats for me to make files) like adobe ones do, which is essential for creating files for the localization team to work on.
Re:Adobe XD, where did it go wrong? by miguel-muniz on Monday February 14, 2022 @10:42AM (#30333326)
I figured that industry would use Clip Studio Paint EX?