Neil M

Hi,
Firstly, I like Affinity Designer. But having been a user for several years now I am surprised at the apparent lack of development, despite frequent updates. Is it only me who finds it exasperating that an Open or Place dialogue box and its buttons can be obscured by the program's floating palettes and toolbars which, as long as the requested dialogue box remains open, can no longer be used? Requiring you to move them out of the way in order to use the dialogue you've opened. Surely this is a fundamental interface error than should've been corrected by now. The dialogue box should be in front of all it temporarily disables until canceled or executed. Also, I find chats about requesting the addition of a 'perspective' or free-transform tool (which exists in Affinity Photo) going back to 2018, yet four years on: no free-transform tool. What I have seen on forums is people suggesting that because it exists in Photo, it's not needed in Designer. Which suggests that if you want to pre transform an element you simply need to abandon working in vector and switch to pixel? Oh, ok... Not. The fact that Affinity apps are one-off purchases is amazing, but could it be at the expense of development? Best NeilM

Hi Pšenda,
Thanks, I'll do that. It is intermittent. Next time I hit a stubborn one I'll record it. I overlay identical shapes sometimes and that's when it occurs. I though I might not be 'punching' thru correctly, but the I use the alt key and seems to punch through to overlays on simple objects. N