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While I install profiles to be available system wide, unless for a typeface I know I will only use once in an app hoping Apple adds categories/albums to the font manager in iPadOS.

Do agree in getting hex values on the iPad in both Affinity Designer and Photo.

Hi team, As iOS list views often have a search bar at the top of the list, that’s out of view initially, and brought into view by a quick small pull down on the list. How about implementing this in studios like Assets, Fx, and Adjustments? This could cut down times in finding what you are looking for, and focus more on the creations. This can help in both Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo on the iPad. Hope this helps

Hi team, As iOS list views often have a search bar at the top of the list, that’s out of view initially, and brought into view by a quick small pull down on the list. How about implementing this in studios like Assets, Fx, and Adjustments? This could cut down times in finding what you are looking for, and focus more on the creations. This can help Affinity Photo as well. Hope this helps

You’re welcome guys

Hi Serif, One thing I like in iOS 12, is better external display support. This can help with Affinity Photo as well. When using AirPlay mirroring, an app that makes use of iOS 12’s external display support can display the entire canvas on the external display while working normally on the iPad independently. I use my 4K HDR TV which is fantastic. No palettes will display on the TV/external display as Apple is yet to make a touchscreen external display. While in this mode and using artboards (or spreads when Publisher comes), maybe have a gesture to move between the artboards or spreads on the External display. I already find it useful to see the whole picture on the external display, while working zoomed in for more detail on the iPad.  Hope this sounds good to the team.

Hi team, Hopefully you can replicate this. I have 2 artboards in a Designer document. It’s a A4 portrait print document. I want to export the artboards separately using the export function in the menu to reduce size i.e. not as slices in the export persona. I reduced the width, have the ratio locked so the height remains much longer than the width, and the resulting export image is attached.

I remember reading iOS 12 has some limitations that limit Publisher from working as it should. Sincerely hoping the updated Files manager in iPadOS will be more than enough now, so you can bring Affinity Publisher over to it

Hey Chris, Good news. No issues with the latest Photo beta. Realised the document has changed a lot since then, so tried again by... Creating the new document with a text field in Designer beta 1.7.0.9 Opened this document in the latest Photo beta and no text refresh issue. Likely was just an issue with the earlier Photo beta. Will let you know if I see it again Chris.

Hi Sean, Here is an attached video. Designer 1.7.0.9 works great, happy to say. Haven’t tested drag & dropping on an empty Welcome screen, as I have some of my files and projects already on there. Hope the video helps. I had Designer 1.7.0.7 at the time, with Files open in Slide Over, and dragging the file from there to Designer’s Welcome screen, and having the plus on the document whole dragging. 37B66A33-0991-47CD-8BD0-29A54CA1DCF3.MOV

You’re welcome Sean. I’ve removed the Star shape since, so created a new document. Designer 1.7.0.9 works much better, allowing multiple-select of nodes of the Star. A couple of things... While selecting nodes with the Corner tool and making radius adjustments, tapping away while the corner tool is selected causes the Star to disappear, and still gone after selecting the Move tool for example. Document attached. When selecting a node with the Corner tool, the radius value tends to be the value of the previously selected node and stays there, regardless of how many times I change nodes. The radius value once took the value of a node I selected, but then stayed there from memory while selecting other nodes. Hope this helps. Nodes & Radius.afdesign

Hi Chris, I’ll look for the document.

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Just to let you know...when creating a rectangle yesterday, then trying to create rounded edges, the radius value always was at 50px regardless of the node, from start to finish. Something new, the actual corners of the rectangle did not visually change on canvas i.e. remained at right-angles. I have closed and reopened Designer numerous times before the issue, during the issue and afterwards with no change. The iPad Pro got rebooted before the issue yesterday. This morning, the changes to the corners appear on canvas, while the radius value still remains at 50px. Wonder if the latest iOS update is causing much of this? Even have typing issues at times on this form in Safari while using the onscreen keyboard.

Hope you had a good time away Paul. Welcome back

Yep, have seen the bounding box get disassociated at times. Well spotted.

Yep, these issues are really inconsistent. Sometimes zooming in or out helps. A lot of times, nothing seems to help. Even when unable to select multiple nodes of a shape, I was able to seconds later a couple of times. I’ve restarted the iPad Pro just yesterday.

Hi again team, When drawing shapes like a Star for example... Sometimes the shape does not appear until you let go of drawing the size/ratio of it. Usually the next shape to be drawn appears right away as it should, while dragging to create its size. This might affect other shapes. While using the corner tool on the Star, doing a multiple select on nodes of the Star, often does not work. Occasionally when can’t multi-select, switching objects then back to the star can get multi-select of the nodes working again. Corner types appear changeable for the Star, but don’t appear selected on screen menu in the context bar.

Hi team, Letting you know when using the corner tool, the correct radius value does not show (in context bar) for the corner nodes that are selected. The radius value always starts at 0.0px, regardless of the value I’ve set to each node previously.

Hi team, Just noticed a text refresh issue. I opened a Designer beta document (v1.7.0.7) into Affinity Photo for the convenience of the Stock studio. Thanks so much for that. Would find it convenient in Designer as well if that helps To continue, I have 3 paragraphs of text on a layer. Opened the document in Affinity Photo beta and added an image (from Stock studio) in a layer above the text. I put in blank lines in the text layer to push the text down enough to make white space for the image. The text moved down, but also did not refresh the text layer to create white space for the stock image. Moving the image over the intended white space corrected the refresh error and created the white space.

In case it matters, using the Apple Pencil to use the Y-axis control to move the object up, instead of finger sometimes. This can result in moving the object, along with a transparent duplicate of the object appearing say, 30-50 pixels below the real one. This transparent object moves along with the real one. When done moving the real object and letting go of the control, the transparent object disappears.

Hi team, letting you know while switching studios and going back to canvas, all one finger taps, sometimes the canvas skips (not smoothly) say to the right a fair way, down, etc. It seems random as this doesn’t happen most of the time. When using the Transition studio e.g. sliding the Y-axis position to move the selected object up, letting go of the control sometimes results in the object reversing part of the way down, closer to where it originally was. Designer v1.6 is stable and consistent in moving objects.

I tried this for consistency with Affinity Photo beta and convenience. While I can drag documents from the Apple files manager into Affinity Photo beta, and it appears on the app homepage, I cannot do this in Affinity Designer beta.I can drag the document as usual, even the plus sign appears by the document when above Affinity Designer beta. The document doesn’t appear in Designer beta when I let go of the document.

Haha! Yep. She probably doesn’t want you working in the living room rather than watching a good movie You can use smaller desk displays, like USB-C on the iPad Pro

One thing I like in iOS 12, is better external display support. This can help with Affinity Photo as well. When using AirPlay mirroring, an app that makes use of iOS 12’s external display support can display the entire canvas on the external display while working normally on the iPad independently. I use my 4K HDR TV which is fantastic. No palettes will display on the TV/external display as Apple is yet to make a touchscreen external display. While in this mode and using artboards (or spreads when Publisher comes), maybe have a gesture to move between the artboards or spreads on the External display. I already find it useful to see the whole picture on the external display, while working zoomed in for more detail on the iPad. Hope this sounds good to the team.