moi.cool

+1

I think this causes the biggest frustration..

Not worthless for Windows users nor to Mac users that have a VM running Windows. 
Certainly no more useless than when a Mac user posts a Mac-only application for this and/or bitmap tracing as regards Windows users.

Since it has been YEARS for no vector warp (especially for text) and other vector essentials they cut  ... please use Xara ... https://www.magix.com/us/photo-graphic/xara-designer-pro/

Can you see the difference between 1 and 2?

(1) is Affinity (from your picture). The object is rendered into the transformation the handles for object are always a rectangular box. That makes it impossible to deal exactly with the edges of the containing object.
(2) Is a screenshot of Photoline. The object is transformed with the handles and can be returned anytime into original. The handles in touch with the object allow a perfect transformation. You may pick a single edge and transform to any shape. The following picture is object (2) after moving two edges without any aditional tool (only pressing ALT for "move single handle"):

This is what I am talking about…

I call it an everyday basic vector functionality

I don’t need a forum police. I need free transform, distort, envelope distort. Whatever it is called, we need it.
A lot - LOT - of posts are created and replied to by active or potential (!!!) Serif customers because the feature is extremely missed, needed and anticipated. 
CREATE. Don’t patrol.

Thank you very much for your feedback.
I really dislike the forum - the same question or problem being asked multiple times - with different answers - quite a mess...

But I couldn't log into my account.

Any update on this?
Please devs, this is definitely a must 

+4 for perspetive wrap!
 
Especially needed when we want to set in perspective a group of layers.
 
Non destructive will be awesome.

I can't find a way to paste with the same colour values.
eg the colour should always be 0/100/10/0 if I paste the object into any cmyk document.
some function like "paste (preserve values)" would be nice.
if there are many documents, it's hard to sync the document source profiles before and keep track of all the changes/files/workarounds...
(many files with logos etc. which have predefined cmyk values. )
s.
 
 
 

Hi @Paul123,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
This is a known issue that's already logged to be looked at (only happens with artboard based documents). Select the artboard layer and delete it - when prompted to delete objects, select Keep objects. Export the file as PDF. It should export as you want.

+1 I agree with you.

Totally agree
 

In my opinion Shape Builder Tool is very necessary. I can't switch to Affinity Designer from Illustrator completely just because of this one missing tool. I've seen post back from 2015 of people asking for this tool, why 4 years later this still isn't a thing? I'm very frustrated...

Hello @PaRunk,
you might be interested in this thread started a while back on the same topic:
 
I, too, support this request. Even though I have been able to use APh's Live Perspective filter on some occasions I agree that this is not a true replacement.
Cheers,
d.

The appearance panel is great! I love the trick of alternating strokes to get a multi-stroke effect. See attached for example.

I have been stress testing this use case and I have some serious frustration points :
I have to edit each stroke one at a time. I kinda want to select multiple, duplicate settings across many, such as 'scale with object' or round/square etc.
  Once I have all the strokes set up how I like, copying the style to other elements is very unpredictable. The last selected stroke in the list *Only* will have a scaling applied (I assume based on its 'scale with object' toggle). Attached is a screenshot. See how after the copy/paste, one of the strokes (the selected one, indicated by the dot in the appearance panel) has received the 'scale with object' transform while the others have not. Now, lets go to the Style panel to save the effect, the same problem will occur when reapplying the style- only one of the strokes last selected will be unpredictably scaled. In theory my solution is that All strokes scale uniformly when applying to new objects, and I can easily disable this by selecting all the strokes in the appearance panel and unchecking 'scale with object'.

There are many threads about the absence of a Shape Builder Tool, so there is no real need to make a new thread on the subject.

Please please please, shape builder.... 

+1

This feature would be great to have - not too dissimilar from CorelDraw's mesh fill tool from 2008

Can you attach the PSD?
I can add this as an improvement. We don't currently support everything and this feature is in its infancy at the moment. 

I think distortion is not yet supported on SmartObject import.
Actually "Warp" function similar to PS is not yet available in Affinity.

Basic tools like deform and mesh warp have to be live for different techniques live mockup or smart object deformation
- when deforming smart object it get rasterized and I can’t no longer edit the smart object this is a must have for mockup creation