silent_knight

I sometimes run Illustrator 2019 on an old Microsoft Surface Pro with 4gb of ram. It's your hardware or malware issues, not software. 

Have you been trying the 1.7 Betas?
They have been released frequently for many months now and introduce many new features.

If we all thought like this then no new company would ever rise up unless they had virtually limitless investment funding. I purchased the software to support the devs so they can hopefully get things done quicker. There is literally no point in this software if they don't pivot themselves as Adobe competitors. Obviously, that's exactly what their main goal is as they have released direct software competitors to Adobe software and marketed them in the same way. Every month that passes that they lack the most basic features is a detriment to their overall goal. If they keep up this strategy they will find out really quick why Adobe switched to a monthly subscription plan. $50 for software isn't going to pay the bills for very long. When Affinity first came out I was excited at what they had and what was coming. As time passes it just gets more disappointing seeing their chosen direction and very slow updates. GIMP is open source, it can't be that difficult to take open source features and give it your own UI and UX and perfect it how you see fit. GIMP has SO many more features and is free, while I'd rather support Affinity at this point, their lack of updates makes it very difficult and I've already gone back to Adobe for the time being. 

Thank you for the link! Scale with object isn't bugged at all for me. I just don't get the reason to have it off by default. I do a lot of different things in AD and haven't come across one scenario that I would want something not to scale with the object. I could see if it were strictly pixel based maybe as you wouldn't want to distort certain images(?) but being that this is AD and not AP I would just like some clarification or maybe a setting that would allow us to have every "scale with object" checked by default. 

An interesting implementation talk with samples about this theme (Github warp.js) with references ...
Warping arbitrary coordinates?
... see the following references:
Warping Text via Warp JS samples ...
Warping Text Example Animated Example For T-Shirt designers ...
A test demo For the C# coder ...
Envelope Distortion using C# and GraphicsPath Class
Clipping and offsetting lines and polygons
For those who love algorithms and higher math ...
Barycentric coordinates (PDF report paper UNI Clausthal) Barycentric Generalized Barycentric Coordinates for Mesh deformation (UNI of Wisconsin-Madison)

$10 per sale can't make any company rich. $10,000 can't either. They have a very specific target market and constantly high development cost. Well, at this rate I can't be sure of their development cost, but that's beside the point. The longer the updates take, the more complaints they will receive on online forums and reviews on Reddit which have a huge outcome on their customer's purchasing decisions. They don't spend much on marketing from what I can tell (which can be good or bad) and their website looks really nice but does a HORRIBLE job of selling the products. There are dozens of more popular apps and software out there with comparable or cheaper cost. I did a few searches in the app store. While it sounds like I don't like them, I'm just giving constructive criticism. I bought both Designer and Photo and didn't want my money back so that says something. I actually REALLY like the software and would be a huge supporter and recommend it to a lot of people, but at the rate they're going it's difficult to maintain a steady sales flow and I can't be sure of their longevity. Perhaps that's where we're at right now as development seems pretty slow imo. Maybe I'm expecting too much. The thing is, if they don't address it quickly the main problem for them will be customer perception. If they plan on me or other people purchasing future software they really need to step it up. When you don't market much and don't utilize your website to sell your products you are going to heavily rely on word of mouth, the strongest type of advertisement. When those recommendations show a lot of people complaining and saying they support other software, that's not the type of advertising you want. They are definitely trying to pivot themselves directly with Adobe, which is great imo. I just hope we can get to version 2.0 sometime in the next 5 years. The current roadmap is very basic stuff that should already be here but instead, we have to wait for the basic stuff, then the more powerful features will hopefully, eventually come. People will move on by then and competitors will only get stronger. Here's to wishing Affinity the best and hoping they can speed up this development. It's a great platform, it just needs a few more powerful features. 

$10 per sale can't make any company rich. $10,000 can't either. They have a very specific target market and constantly high development cost. Well, at this rate I can't be sure of their development cost, but that's beside the point. The longer the updates take, the more complaints they will receive on online forums and reviews on Reddit which have a huge outcome on their customer's purchasing decisions. They don't spend much on marketing from what I can tell (which can be good or bad) and their website looks really nice but does a HORRIBLE job of selling the products. There are dozens of more popular apps and software out there with comparable or cheaper cost. I did a few searches in the app store. While it sounds like I don't like them, I'm just giving constructive criticism. I bought both Designer and Photo and didn't want my money back so that says something. I actually REALLY like the software and would be a huge supporter and recommend it to a lot of people, but at the rate they're going it's difficult to maintain a steady sales flow and I can't be sure of their longevity. Perhaps that's where we're at right now as development seems pretty slow imo. Maybe I'm expecting too much. The thing is, if they don't address it quickly the main problem for them will be customer perception. If they plan on me or other people purchasing future software they really need to step it up. When you don't market much and don't utilize your website to sell your products you are going to heavily rely on word of mouth, the strongest type of advertisement. When those recommendations show a lot of people complaining and saying they support other software, that's not the type of advertising you want. They are definitely trying to pivot themselves directly with Adobe, which is great imo. I just hope we can get to version 2.0 sometime in the next 5 years. The current roadmap is very basic stuff that should already be here but instead, we have to wait for the basic stuff, then the more powerful features will hopefully, eventually come. People will move on by then and competitors will only get stronger. Here's to wishing Affinity the best and hoping they can speed up this development. It's a great platform, it just needs a few more powerful features. 

It is not "high expectations". At. All. Let me repeat:  We are requesting missing basic vector editor features in a commercial "professional" program.
Of course I am on the Adobe subscription plan. How the Hell would I be able to work and deliver only using Designer?
The point could be - just could be - what would it take to move many Adobe or Corel users from that kind of expense and feature overkill to fx Affinity Designer. Perhaps something like a few features that you would expect in any professional vector design program. Photo is surprisingly feature packed. Designer is surprisingly ... not.
So, when Serifs marketing is allowed to claim that Designer is "The Best Graphic Design Software Available" - they have to deliver more and in an acceptable time frame. 

If we all thought like this then no new company would ever rise up unless they had virtually limitless investment funding. I purchased the software to support the devs so they can hopefully get things done quicker. There is literally no point in this software if they don't pivot themselves as Adobe competitors. Obviously, that's exactly what their main goal is as they have released direct software competitors to Adobe software and marketed them in the same way. Every month that passes that they lack the most basic features is a detriment to their overall goal. If they keep up this strategy they will find out really quick why Adobe switched to a monthly subscription plan. $50 for software isn't going to pay the bills for very long. When Affinity first came out I was excited at what they had and what was coming. As time passes it just gets more disappointing seeing their chosen direction and very slow updates. GIMP is open source, it can't be that difficult to take open source features and give it your own UI and UX and perfect it how you see fit. GIMP has SO many more features and is free, while I'd rather support Affinity at this point, their lack of updates makes it very difficult and I've already gone back to Adobe for the time being. 

The last thing people need is to take out another years subscription to PS to then find the [insert feature here] they desperately needed was added to Affinity 2 months later. That's 10 months wasted money given to PS.  If you knew the [insert feature here] would be ready in 2/3 months you could have (and would have) planned differently.

That's a bit like Brexit.
Almost 3 years later (for Brexit) and we still don't know what's going to happen
Very hard to plan for your business's future when there are no timings given.
 

Today I discovered Affinity Photo and was instantly amazed. You want to know how I discovered Affinity? With the simple Google search "best photoshop alternative". I was amazed at how similar the two programs were and even more amazed by the price difference! You want to know the first thing I tried to do with Affinity? Edit an animated gif...  Now I am here responding to this post.
I understand that your company doesn't want to/shouldn't be compared to Adobe, but that's what your product is known for! It's known as Photoshop's #1 competitor! 
I really hope you do consider adding this feature...
If it is ever implemented, I can promise you that I will never mention Photoshop ever again... or at least not without instantly mentioning why they should consider Affinity Photo instead.

That`s a serious issue! If you want Affinity Photo/Designer to replace the Adobe Suite, you have to offer this feature.
I myself am (next to UX Designer and Adobe Certified Expert) a social media specialist and need to adjust images and create gif's from videos combined with text daily. I create the gif and also different versions of images from the same file. Why should we switch to Affinity if we would need again another program for this - that may not be compatible with Affinity? Adobe combines all those features in one program. 
 
My actual workaround: Creating the type in Affinity Designer, copying it as smart object to Photoshop and then go forward and create my gif in Photoshop. Awful! 
So: PUSH to this topic! It`s an important feature!

It's been over a year since this post was made. There are already similar tools in their Photo software, why would such a simple, commonly used tool be overlooked for so long in their Designer software? I'd rather see a bunch of small updates that add completed features than having to wait years for an update that finally gives commonly used basic features. Affinity has something really special going but they can definitely mess it up if it's going to take this long to add basic stuff. I literally just bought the Designer software and can't use it anymore until they add a tool for perspective. I can live with a distort tool I guess but I have to go back to Illustrator now and there will be no point in me switching back and forth. I suppose Affinity got my money already so what's the rush right? I completely understand QA as I used to do quality assurance. It takes time, but there are ways to speed up the process where it doesn't completely ruin the usability for so many designers that rely on this basic function every day. 

The only items committed for the future are listed on the published roadmap. Prospective buyers should, in my opinion, base their purchase decision on whether the software is useful to them now, not on what functions it might have in a year, or two, or five.

Here's another user who is suddenly quite shocked and surprised that this fundamental set of tools isn't hiding somewhere... Really enjoying working with Infinity Designer, but this is certainly an unexpected wall to slam quite violently into.