moi.cool

Hi there,
Backstory:
When I created a curve with a brush (in Affiniy Designer)   I had to realize that the exported svg   was basically an pixel image wrapped into a svg file. After finding out that the brushes where (and custom brushes had to be) a png,   as well as the svg format-'technology' seemingly not having a feature for custom brush-strokes,   it made sense.
But obviously, I use vector tools for a reason, so I would be very interested in seeing the following feature being added to Affinity Designer:
Be able to import svg as brushes and be able to export a curve with brush that is entirely vector graphic (or maybe even keeping it two different curves inside the svg? one as the actual path?).     In addition to this having the default brushes as curves, or maybe something like this would be helpful.

Thanks.

@Shi LichuanDo you know any Affinity user group in China by any chance?
I would like to share information each other regarding Asian language problem.
I belong to a Japanese Affinity user group and we are having same problem with Chinese.

+1 From China

Quite.

对中国的设计人员来说，垂直排版也是必要的功能。

I wouldn't, just testing.
Honestly I barely need vertical writing so I'm not so interested in it myself.

But people complaining about vertical writing support in Affinity should try other options rather than just complaining here.
Same goes for people complaining about RTL support.
Or even MS Word/Apple Pages are much better than Affinity at Asian/Middle Eastern typography.
Otherwise, Serif may take eon to implement to it.

If they are satisfied with it, then the problem will be solved.
Or they will notice how good Affinity is and come back to here, that's rather my intension. lol

Hello, I'm French and I work on both Indesign and QuarkXpress. I'm also starting to work on Affinity Publisher. It depends on the type of work and the client. But when I have to do layout in Japanese, I use QuarkXPress 2020 which for me is better than Indesign both with vertical and horizontal text as well as Rubi. With Indesign I have to buy an extension for the vertical text as well as for the use of Rubi. So if with the Adobe subscription I still have to pay a subscription for extensions, it is extremely expensive.
 

I feel like I am beating a proverbial dead horse by adding my voice to this thread, but it nonetheless seems worthwhile to add my perspective to the other voices who have chimed in here.
My background is that I have nearly three decades of experience dealing with CJK character sets, CJK encodings, CJK text layout, and CJK font development, with a very strong focus on the Unicode and Japanese aspects of those fields. I worked at Adobe for 28+ years.
I should also state that I bought a license for Affinity Publisher late last year, but I generally do not use it mainly due to the lack of this very fundamental feature. In addition to supporting the appropriate OpenType features, in particular vert (Vertical Alternates), vertical text frames need to be added. There was also mention of supporting ruby, which is also referred to as furigana. While this feature is certainly used in horizontal layout, with the 50% glyphs floating above the characters they annotate, there are special considerations for vertical layout in terms of their placement relative to the characters they annotate.
My daily-use layout app is Adobe InDesign, and have mine set up to expose full Japanese (and CJK) functionality. I am fortunate to have a lifetime Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, but decided to give Affinity Publisher a fair shake, which I did.
While my entire book, CJKV Information Processing Second Edition, would certainly be helpful, Chapter 7, Typography, in particular would be the most helpful for the Affinity Publisher developers. Please find attached the PDF for Chapter 7 for your reading pleasure. While the book was published almost 12 years ago, its content is still completely relevant today.
I suggest considering a Baby Steps™ approach, such as to start by adding support for 1) vertical text frames; 2) the OpenType 'vert' feature; 3) respecting the metrics in the OpenType vmtx (Vertical Metrics Table) table; and 4) the 90-degree clockwise rotation of Western text in vertical text layout. Also, be sure to study UAX #50, Unicode Vertical Text Layout.
Adobe InDesign, with its full Japanese functionality exposed, is the most sophisticated Japanese text layout app on the planet, meaning that it represents an extremely high bar. Still, it is not without its flaws. When I typeset my book over 12 years ago, using Adobe InDesign CS3-J, I faced many issues. While I was able to resolve or work around all of the issues, I felt compelled to write a two-page White Paper that detailed the issues I faced. Interestingly, although it is 12 years later, many of the issues have not yet been resolved. Of course, I am using Adobe InDesign 2020, and will have access to the 2021 version in a little over a month from now.
cjkvip2e-07.pdf

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Hi all. I've been wading through this thread as I too have missed envelope warping/ object-distort / perspective since I left AI for AD, and while I wait for those hard working engineers at Serif to implement these features into this fine program, I have been trying every other possible work around I come across. I found this today and though it may have been shared before, I'll post it here: www.photopea.com
It's an online tool for editing PSD, XCF, Sketch and CDR formats, but I opened up an SVG file and had little trouble warping it as i saw fit. Not a solution, I know, but it works -today.
Thank you,
Joe 

I suggest that the next version can have the function of vertical text, as in PS, which is the basic function. It is often used in work. Office software also has such a function, which is sufficient to prove the importance of this function. Without this function, it is incomplete.
thank you

I had hoped that there would be a fix for the pixel tool, which is broken for both the Mac (intel) and iPad versions. I reported on this issue before, but as no improvement has been made I would like to bring it to the attention. It affects many of the standard brushes like the pencils and airbrushes. The pressure dynamics is somehow broken so it either makes no mark or a mark at full pressure. I hope to see a fix for this as it is something I like  to use.

+8 (without w∞ing)
… and to write all those announced 1.X features

" - Fix for non-UK locales..." hahahaha

I use vectorization of a pixel based graphic a lot - but I learned, that there are cheap one-time buy tools (Super vectorizer for multi colour and Image vectorizer for one colour) that do a much better job than Illustrator (at least when I last used it about 1.5/2 years before). So this is not a plus for Adobe IMO. However free transform of shapes/text,... would be really handy needed. But I'm sure that we will see this in the near future.

I just came here because I was looking for something like a simple arc transform/deform thing. I'm UV mapping a tire, and need a company logo - and for this to look correct I need to arc the logo to match the curve of the tyre.. Something this simple, not possible in Designer!? 🤪

建议大家购买了正版的用户，到商店中进行评价，这样才能引起他们足够的重视！

Need need neeeeeeeeeeed 

We've been waiting for this feature for years now, it's been requested for a long time 🤔

This application really helps me in working but I'm always waiting for this effect feature to make it easier or finish my work

Hi - Once again late to the party, but I don't think I can use Affinity Designer for artwork for my games because when I go to do a vector line, of basically any shape, just drawing a leaf, the end result is actually worse than my free-hand drawing, like the stem goes all wonky, Am I doing something wrong? Thanks

Yes, but required is "vector" drawing, no "pixel". 

It's kind of amazing that this can't be disabled.

If Affinity were more publicly open about their bugs and prioritisation list that would be super helpful. It is 2021, the era of open source collaboration and transparency, ... and we can be better than Adobe!