That's a valid point Stacey
To add to that, if one is putting that out not having spotted the error and this is consistent, people are going to start thinking what else isn't up to par? Cutting corners here, what about in other areas?
This has been a problem before "AI" came on the scene, only getting worse. In a lot of areas, tech has drastically made things worse (in areas that are at best tangentially related to this specific topic) and I love my tech (although I came from an analog time period), but again, not everything new is actually progress. Typically when they are used too soon in someone's learning of things (and this is actually going to make it to where people won't know as much to be able to fix it, shoot giving the stateside issues of reading that kiddos have now, I doubt even simple grammar errors would be able to be fixed). People need to know what's going on behind the scenes first, before using the abstractions, particularly the really high level ones. And acceptance of quite a bit of this stuff is not organic and really only about the bottom line (and not for us peons that's for sure), but I digress.
No doubt in some form. Too much money in wanting it to stick around.
This is true and it's not really a good thing. A lot of the current younger generation grew up with computers when they had a lot more abstraction and that has made an issue when things don't work right (some don't even know what a file tree is or how to navigate through it, used to auto save and it picking the "best" location for the file in question, I doubt they even know that their phone as a file manager on it). Ironic given how "AI" (and it's really not "AI" as it is now, this is more marketing) has to be prompted to do things, we have an issue with reading/writing, that does put a damper on "prompt engineer" for future generations. We are also getting people less efficient in areas that they can actually do without "AI" ("AI Pause" is a thing). Bare in mind as well, MS is claiming 30 or 40% (of course don't know the specifics there, how it's being counted etc) of code written for Windows is done be "AI", notice a lack of stellar updates recently? Notice too that a lot of system programs in Windows are now web based, as far as GUI goes (I could understand this if there was a need for cross platform builds, but not here, these are very Windows specific)? Not only does "AI" do better (and that's relative) with the web stack, but it's also a high level of abstraction. While there has been some improvements, in a lot of ways, there has been regression. And I truly worry about the knowledge base (just asking "AI" at a moment's notice is not the same thing especially when have to wonder about the bona fides of the info that it is giving).
What kind of print quality? What size? Users aren't considering these things. Don't send me a png for a quality print! "Send as pdf". "How do I do that"? "It doesn't scale even close to the size you want"? "Well, can't you just...."
topaz AI hides some really ghastly faults in the files you are sent
It also can create it's own ghastly faults. Perhaps you weren't there for my story about hitler's angry grandmother....
Too cheap as I believe, at least for SVG, that is a pay function. I have to wonder just how good their master source file is as it has to be geared more for internet usage, compared to what a local file could store. I think there is also a lot of rasterization going on with the exported SVGs and with the pdf exports as well. And SVGs aren't really good in the printing sphere either (at least with Inkscape they are working on getting more functionality in that regard, I doubt Canva will be able to, especially being web centric with the software itself). Thankfully, I have never had to directly deal with Canva files.
Have I mentioned welcome to using the web as a platform for an app? The font issue could be solved if they used a local server and that would still allow for access to local font files (at least would is supported via webview (or essentially the browser) and still be able to use the browser for the GUI. Although I have seen worse usage of web UI for programs that it does not make any sense for.
In a lot of ways, it's not even a pretty picture. It allows people to go from A -> Z with no knowledge of what is between the two. Will it go away....no. There are various reasons (although some could just be speculation on my part) for the businesses behind the scenes want this to continue. Will it get better...doubt it. What passes for "AI" isn't really "AI" and I have yet to see anything (doesn't mean that it isn't going on behind the scenes) to see where they are moving away from how "AI" is used/created now to show that it's going to be much different. Most normies don't know and frankly don't care.
It looks like a late model facing us but a stock car facing the opposite direction LOL Good eye! You're probably the ONLY person that noticed that.
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I have gotten PDFs generated from multiple programs though (if the metadata of the file isn't misleading/stripped) as well as EPS. Rarely do I actually get Ai/CDR files even by places that most definitely would have that available.
I was personally more surprised with Canva. The platform that the app is built on is inherently not good for print work.
It definitely doesn't have an organic feel to it's "acceptance". Unfortunately, those that are pushing it, can still push it regardless what us plebs want.
These are old programs, it's going to be hard for them to actually improve in meaningful ways. I actually don't think of them in regard to their original capacity (same with MS with regard to Windows).
While both Ai and CDR are proprietary file formats, I would say that because there is that pdf compatibility with Ai formats and PDF has been an ISO standard for quite a while, that helps go a long way, especially with OSS programs also having the ability to import Ai files as long as PDF compat is still checked. Post 2000 I think for that PDF base. Before that, I think the base was EPS. CDR doesn't really have any formal specifications that I am aware of for any part of the file (or zip compressed file).
You are lucky. I have gotten all kinds, one I wish I could mention due to the nerd in me, but due to NDA not possible (and that was a fun project) and you would be surprised. I don't know if they just assumed some things, but they even gave me PNGs, although very high resolution ones.
It might be that they think because of what the majority of what I did that the raster files are enough (ironically they typically are as my process is the same regardless if it's vector or not) or the people that I was dealing with just didn't know better (or a combination of the two), but they automatically give me those. There was a time or two that I had to specifically ask for brand guidelines and the only reason that I did that is because I knew these companies had them.