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I share the sentiment, but fortunately there are alternatives out there, and some of them are even free and open source, like Kanva and Gimp or Photopea. They might not be super polished but they can get you the job done all the same. Personally, I love Affinity for the slick design and utility but it is not a hill I'd die on when it comes to my fidelity as a client.

Note: also being discussed as a bug:

If your image is within the Master Page layer on your document page, @Paul Mc, as it seems to be, it will be locked for certain kinds of edits. To get around that, right-click on the Master Page layer and choose Edit Detached. Click Finished when you're done.

Just look at this - introduced in April 2010 in Serif DrawPlus X4 - Serif never implemented this interface in Affinity.

I strongly recommend that the elements adjusted with the line width tool be enlarged, and especially that they are also affected by the tool handle size setting in preferences. I don’t know what it is with Serif and microscopic elements in the interface, but things really need to go together here.

Yeah, it's annoying. It takes much longer to manipulate one layer at a time and is fiddly getting changes to match. I know development is complex but I wonder what changed after version 2.0, that can not be reverted.

Now, there are limits to how much desktop functionality can be implemented in iPad apps, but I would really appreciate if the very mechanical and algorithm-driven model became truly visual and usable as in the bygone DrawPlus. It just seems incredibly pointless that something so visual and experiment-driven is implemented so primitively in Designer. Implemented correctly and visually, it is an extremely useful tool for all graphic designers who, by the way, know what they are doing with colors. In the desktop version, I would like something feature complete like in DrawPlus, and reasonably, a simpler version in the tablet edition.

Just here to report that this is still an issue. When working with multiple artboards, it is SUPER inconvenient and will often crash the app trying to select the pixels for the ENTIRE document, not just the artboard you're working in. I have to remember just to never select inverse when working with multiple artboards.

Aaaaaaah! Thank you so much! This was driving me crazy!

Hi Peter, I don't know if it's considered a bug or a feature request but there are lots of posts on this forum asking for it to be changed. Serif is aware of the issue.

Thanks, Walt. I checked the other post and still have the same error.

There is a setting in the Context toolbar, should be the last one on the right. It is called Keep Selected.

Thank you, I have done that and that is going to be a big time saver, everything now starts where I want on a new document

When one of the Shape Tools is active, a ‘Keep selected’ checkbox is displayed on the Context toolbar. Make sure there’s a tick in that box.

Make a text frame and choose the [No Style] Paragraph Style. Write something, set it up like you want. With the text caret still in the text (which is [No Style] go to Edit > Defaults > Synchronize from Selection and then imediately go to Edit > Defaults > Save. Now your default [No Style] will look like that for all new text. Or you can just take care to always select the desired Paragraph Style before typing. Also you should maybe go to the Text Styles panel and choose Save Styles as Default from the little three line menu indicator.

I am very much aware of Sketchup's file support, I have been using Sketchup since 2006, so no, you misunderstand the reason for my request, I am not here in this thread to discuss other applications' file support. I am interested in Affinity file support in this thread, not Trimble or Sketchup or suggesting using other programs... Indeed with that logic I could use Adobe Photoshop or Gimp or a whole range of other applications. Sketchup's Style Builder requires .bmp files for constructing custom strokes for creating custom styles.

Hi everyone, Something changed in the last updates. Before that, after creating a shape, a rectangle, for example, that newly created shape would remain selected. Now, Designer drops the selection immediately after the shape is created. Is there anything I can do to revert to the previous system? Thank you.

@Old Bruce I have set up the paragraph styles now how I like them. Is there a way to make it always default to that style like a persistent setting somewhere.

11 on 12 or 12 on 13 or 14. I also use First line indents instead of an actual Tab for the start of a paragraph and I tend to use no space between paragraphs for the bulk of the text. Unlike this setup for the forums where there is no first line indent and a line space between paragraphs. Again this is just how I work, choose your own look.

Thanks!

@Old Bruce thank you for the reply, I have made note of your suggestions and am just about to explore them to see if I can get a better workflow going. Out of interest, what font size do you prefer and leading size Ian

Here is an example of an edit I did in Affinity Photo 2 using the Photo Reactor Player sub-pixel sharpening, multi-tone adjustment, and HDR enhancement. And a little help from Jpeg Un-quantize in (G'MIC) Before and After: I think it is quite cool.

Hello! I would like to know the best way to change the RGB color profile to CMYK when exporting a JPEG in Designer. The situation: I have a design in an Affinity Designer document in RGB mode, profile sRGB IEC..., and I want to export the document in JPEG format with CMYK color mode, profile FOGRA 39 (I'm in Europe). I want to know how and when to make the conversion so that it converts the colors in perceptual mode (as I have it configured in settings). On the other hand, I have a doubt: When making the conversion when exporting, does Designer use the perceptual mode conversion as in the settings? Thanks in advance!

Since last update can no longer select an artboard and then -->File-->Export the selected artboard. When trying to export an artboard the system defaults to the first artboard created and will not export any other artboard. Additionally, there is an exceptionally long lag in generating the export previews (these are small files, less than 1mb) that was nonexistent in the previous version.

The "Area" setting in the PDF Export dialog box reverts to "All Spreads" every single time the "Export" command is invoked on any document. Other settings in that dialog box seem to be more persistent, so I assume this is a bug. I have to use the "All Pages" setting quite often, hence this can become a bit frustrating to change every time. And if I miss it, I have to go back and re-export the PDF one more time. Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 on Windows 10.