How to Edit an Adobe Illustrator File in Affinity Designer Step 1: Open Affinity Designer. When you open Affinity, you’ll be shown the empty Affinity workspace. Your installation. Step 2: Open an AI file. Now it’s time to open an Adobe Illustrator (AI) file. Go to the top menu and choose File. Affinity Designer was developed by UK-based Serif Labs. In simple terms, it is a vector graphic editor that can be an alternative to Adobe Illustrator. The company was established back in the 90s as a producer of low-cost software for Windows. Not it seems that they are starting to. Affinity Designer: The Basics. Affinity Designer offers a full-featured vector and raster workspace. While Photoshop allows you to open vector files created in Adobe Illustrator or other vector design apps, Photoshop does not allow you the capabilities to design or edit vectors.
A message from the Affinity team
As a way to lend support to the creative community during these difficult times, we’re once again offering a 90-day free trial of the Mac and Windows versions of the whole Affinity suite, for anyone who wants to use them (even those who have previously completed a free trial). We’re also bringing back the 50% discount for those who would prefer to buy and keep the apps, including our iPad versions.
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our apps are fully optimized for the next generation of Mac
Ready to go on Apple’s Big Sur and primed to deliver superfast performance on Macs with M1 chips, recent updates to the macOS versions of our apps mean huge performance gains.
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