Horseflesh

Great post, thanks. Found it when I was trying to figure out why my LG monitor at "actual size" zoom was way off. Sadly that utility is temporarily unavailable, I hope it is restored soon.

Thanks guys, I appreciate the help. It looks like the lesser evil for now will be to use another product, since I do have one with this specialized function. It's just so inconvenient to convert an elegant ADe document full of clipping paths and so on into a portable SVG! I'll head to the other thread where we complain about missing features now.

I need to warp artwork so that it can be printed and put onto a tapered item, like a latte mug. In other products the UX might look like the image below. I would sure like to avoid an export/import rodeo with crummy design app I have which does have this one useful feature. Has anyone figured out how to do this in the Affinity suite? It doesn't have to be as pretty as the below, as long as it is reliable.

As much as I like AD it does needs to be supplemented. Having worked in software for a long long time I have my suspicions as to why features are delayed but that kind of speculation won't help anything. I still like the Affinity suite and will keep supporting Serif, I just wish some things were different. Tacky though it may be, when VectorStyler next goes on sale I hope someone will post a note here.

In addition, Apple has a history of hosing users of its photography products. They abandoned Aperture, and then they abandoned iPhoto for Photos. At each step you lost features and metadata. The migration was a real hassle. If Apple had a Lightroom-like product again today, I wouldn't touch it. So, anyway, put down my vote for Serif taking on Lightroom too, I'd buy it right away. In the meantime, has anyone found a pleasant and affordable Lightroom alternative? I realize I can Google a list of options and install them all ... but if anyone will vouch for something they like, that would be great to see.

@ra.skill OP started that discussion but another poster wanted source document protection too. Though now I see that was an old post, so I guess that guy bailed out!

If you need your SOURCE DOCUMENTS protected then it seems like you are better off using a tool which encrypts your whole volume, rather than getting each individual application to cook up their own encryption method. Since this is something every OS already provides I would rather see Serif put their efforts into adding PDF protection, which would be truly useful to many.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Affinity Designer shot Kennedy. Do your own research.

Nice table @QasimMGM. I hope the Serif staff have one like it. All of us are dying for one feature or another.

This remains an unfortunate state of affairs. If there is a button I can click to vote for these tools, I'll click it.

I also use AD with a laser cutter and I have never noticed the stroke width to change anything in how the cutter works. Maybe it's a difference in our cutter software--mine sees a stroke of any visual style as a cut line, and it cuts on the centerline. Regardless I support all laser-friendly enhancements!

A tool like Illustrator's Offset Path is absolutely critical for many of my laser cutter projects ... thanks a million for putting it in our toolbox. And it has the miter option, also required for my needs! This makes a really big impact on my effort to abandon Adobe 100%. Well, I think Inkscape has the feature too, but I'd rather poke out my eye than use Inkscape most days. As others have said it would be nice to have an option to leave the original object behind too, sure. But for my projects I only need one contour on any object and I actually love how it works now, remembering that the object has a contour on it until you bake it in. I'm usually adding a contour of ~0.007" (or half that) which you can't see at normal working zooms ... so having a reminder in the toolbar that an object has been contoured is fantastic. FYI, I use the feature to make laser cut parts that snap together like puzzle pieces, for example this journal cover.

I'm actually having a big problem with this. A linked Designer file won't show an update until I quit and restart Publisher. And now Publisher is in a very weird state where I have gotten the linked Designer file to appear correctly on screen... but when I export the file as a PDF, the PDF output is clearly using the originally linked version of the file. I'm actually going to have to delete/replace the asset to get around this. For me, linking is pretty borken. (Windows 1.7.3.481)

Well that is good news! It still sucks that it doesn't work the other way.

Try iMazing, the desktop app. It includes means to browse the iOS file system. I think that it is fully featured during the trial period. Good luck!

Yeah, this definitely sucks. However I think you can work around it with an an alternative file manager. Get "Documents by Readdle," which is fortunately free. Pour a drink Copy your .afdesign file to Google Drive. Open Documents, configure it to access Google Drive (maybe this is done in Files first, can't recall now). Copy your .afdesign from Google Drive into Documents' LOCAL file system. If you hit "download" on the "..." menu next to your file in the file list, you can choose Download (this will put it into Documents' "Downloads" folder and from there you can move it to any other folder, etc.) Be careful: there is an iCloud folder for "Documents" too. You don't want it. Have some of that drink now Your .afdesign file should now be copied from Google Drive into Documents' own filespace on your iPad. Now, open Designer on your iPad. Hit the "+" and "Open from Cloud." THEN, use the "Locations" nav link in the upper left to back out to the top level of the file picker. Under Locations, choose "Documents" (the Readdle icon). Yes, we had to pick "Open from Cloud" to navigate to a location in our local file system. Tim Cook says "deal with it." Find your .afdesign in Documents' file space, and tap it to open it. Finish that drink and be creative? Or maybe it's time to call it a day now. What were we doing? This sucks too, of course, but at least it works. Honestly this kind of nonsense keeps me from using my nice iOS productivity apps. I own all the Serif apps, but 99.6% of the time I wait until I am at a real computer so I don't have to do this kind of dance. This is objectively not a good system, Apple!

This is not awesome, but on the plus side we at least got a detailed answer.

I use Cascable on iOS to view photos on my camera via wifi, and then I can transfer raw files in to Affinity Photo. BUT, Cascable is only as fast as the wifi on your camera. It's barely tolerable in my case and I intend to experiment with a card reader since I have an iPad Pro with USB-C.

Ok, thanks. Never thought to check that. It seems strange that those rules would change as they did. Squares work one way, circles another? If that is intentional it doesn’t make sense to me.

I was trying to punch holes out of a shape, and noticed that I was able to subtract shapes made with the Rectangle tool, but not the Oval tool. The problem happens 100% of the time if I am trying to subtract from the specific shape in my sample file. (That particular base shape was the product of a random SVG download and then a handful of other binary operations.) If I draw a new primitive shape, then I can subtract ovals from it just fine. This is happening in Designer for Windows version 1.7.3.481. binary ops bug.afdesign

Oh, good good, I misunderstood the combo of your post and a followup. Whew. Because that would have been bananas in pajamas.

That's intentional? If you are not allowed to change the values until the shape is drawn, it's very confusing to offer those values to you, let you change them, and then snap them back to the default value. The inputs ought to be hidden, dimmed, disabled, locked, something to give you a hint that you are not allowed to interact with them yet. It's also inconsistent with other tools. I can change the stroke width without any item selected, and then that value is applied the next time I create a shape that has a stroke. It's also inconsistent with the desktop app where polygon sides and start points etc. may be input before drawing. I did try to get a video anyway, but with the Assistive Touch marker on, the selection bubbles don't seem to work and I can't draw. Is there another trick for showing touch inputs when getting a video?

My report was when trying to configure the settings before drawing a shape. I'll see if I can grab a video and post it later today.

Glad it isn't just me! I looked at this issue some more and it isn't fair to say any settings bubble, but it is a lot of them.

Your post with the link got me to think about manipulating the LINK instead of the file at the URL, so it was still helpful!