My OS is Windows 10 (64). I don't think I've had any particular issues with fonts. At the beginning of every session, the text tool hangs for about 30 seconds, the first time it's accessed, no matter which font I'm using. My other big complaint was how it corrupted one of my documents, picking up bold and italic I had applied, de-applying it where I put it and randomly (to my eye) reapplying it to other words somewhere within the previous two or three lines of text, so that I had to go through the whole 350 or so page doc and fix all those instances one by one using find/replace or manual search. That was pretty weird. Nothing like that has happened again. But, per what I've been reading in this and another thread, other folks are having issues I haven't. Just today, someone mentioned they are able to "undo" only once. I have not run into that. I begin to wonder -- now that you've mentioned OS -- if computer configuration variations (OS, RAM, 32 vs 64, etc.) are causing different users to have different problems. If so, then this release of InD is even buggier than we thought! I checked out Affinity last eve ... it has some features that Adobe should adopt. For example, the visuals you get when you have aligned two objects or drawn a text box that snaps to guides. Affinity kind of "lights up" with red and green lines to signal you are spot-on in your positioning or snap-to. Also, their equivalent of control panel acts more like the context ribbon set-up in Word, where the tools change per what you're doing, and nearly everything is accessible via that. It does have some drawbacks, still, such as lack of keyboard shortcuts in some cases, and apparently it doesn't support (currently) a version of primary text frame, at least not in any way I've figured out yet. On the other hand, they currently make the free beta download available along with the caveat that it IS Beta, that some features are missing, and they want to hear from users about what they'd like to see. I do like the interface, I have to say, and I'll be interested to see where they go with it. But, that said, I've been pretty happy with InDesign up until this release. If Adobe gets its act together, I will likely continue the way I am. After all these years paying for a subscription, I'm afraid Adobe has me over a barrel now. I stopped subscribing now, my software would be inaccessible and, thus, so would my old files. That isn't a good scenario for business with ongoing clients whose old files are all in InDesign. Therefore, in my opinion, once Affinity gets its bugs out and its program nailed down, the best thing it could do for itself is to be able to import InDesign files (without breaking them, of course!). Meanwhile, I do hope Adobe is hard at work fixing this debacle of a release.
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