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I disagree. I am working with both, Affinity Photo/Designer and Photoshop/Illustrator. I personally can't see an advantage of PS SmartObjects over the various ways that the Affintiy apps offer to deal with placed images, scaling by keeping the original resolution, repeating objects while keeping the ability to change them all at once at any time, distorting objects by keeping them editable etc. which are all aspects that SmartObjects are handling.
You can use many different ways to substitude PS SmartObjects: Starting with linked images, live filters on image layers or groups of images/pixel layers, using chaining objects in AP, using Symbols in AD etc.. Each method has its own advantages or shortcommings.
But the best of all is: you can adjust or edit the contents live and in its context. With SmartObject you are always landing in a new separate window if you are going to edit the content. You have to place the original context (the document that contains the SmartObject) in its window side by side with the window of the edited SmartObject to see, what your changes at the SmartObject mean to the main document. Otherwise editing the SmartObject becomes just guesswork and you have always to switch back and forth between the documents.
In the Affintiy apps you can always stay in context an see the changes live. Ok, not in case of editing linked documents.
The great strength of the Affintiy apps is the possibility to combine the tools and functions of all three apps. For example, the live distortions in AP can't handle vector graphics. But you can create the vector part in a separate AD document that can be linked to an AP document and combined with live distortion. If you need, you can edit the vectors in AD again and the updated file placed in the AP document will still be distorted. And the best: you can than open the AP file in AD and go on with vectors. You can even adjust the live distortion in AD, though this is a AP feature.

Maybe Affinity Photo is better for scaling up or down images with preserving pixel information natively is better than Photoshop Smart Objects. But Smart Objects can help a lot for warping objects for muckups and quick change of logo and other elements. With the Mesh Warp being a live filter now, that's good, but still not as good as Smart Objects. It's really the only feature I miss from Photoshop.

I use the Mesh Warp to extend the background of some images. But there is no option to constraint the handle drag horizontally or vertically like in the perspective warp or most of the other dragging tool. It's much a needed option, especially on image that fit horizontally or vertically only. I don't think this should be a hard one, so please add in the next update.

Maybe Affinity Photo is better for scaling up or down images with preserving pixel information natively is better than Photoshop Smart Objects. But Smart Objects can help a lot for warping objects for muckups and quick change of logo and other elements. With the Mesh Warp being a live filter now, that's good, but still not as good as Smart Objects. It's really the only feature I miss from Photoshop.

I use the Mesh Warp to extend the background of some images. But there is no option to constraint the handle drag horizontally or vertically like in the perspective warp or most of the other dragging tool. It's much a needed option, especially on image that fit horizontally or vertically only. I don't think this should be a hard one, so please add in the next update.

For formatting books, I moved away from Publisher to Word so I can export epubs quickly and not have to format the book twice.

$97 for TransType, a software that I'll barely use here and there while Affinity 3 software that are more complicated and I use almost daily bought for $99.99. This just shows how crazy of a value is Affinity.

Thanks for letting us know, I've logged this with our developers to look into.

@LibreTraining Thanks so much. I really appreciate it.

This is the box color wheel I'm talking about.

I heavily need this feature for book interior formatting. Can you please try to implement a feature to import/export the content of a text frame (or all of them) into an html document. It just needs to export the text as is with assigning html tags to each paragraph/character style. For example:
Paragraph style: title > <h1 class="title"> Paragraph style: Chapter title →  <h1> Paragraph style: Sub-chapter →  <h2> Paragraph style: Body-text → <p> Paragraph style: 1st-paragraph → <p class="1st-p"> Character style: emphasis → <emphasis> Character style: list-item-title → <span = class"l-i-t"> And also to ability to ignore certain styles is useful. Like:
Paragraph style: page-number → ignore Paragraph style: Header → ignore If you can implement exporting, I think importing HTML is also possible which is equally important. Many writers will want to reedit some of the text before publishing once or twice. Having HTML as the base ground will ease the work because all styles, and hence formatting are saved independently. We can't really work with word since it's a mess to export to HTML and most authors will apply local editing instead of using paragraph/character styles.
BTW, copy-pasting the text from publisher to any word processor will remove all formatting and extra lines between the paragraphs.
Nowadays, almost all writers publish for the web and print-on-demand. Since Affinity Publisher doesn't support export/support to ePub or html, we have to format the book twice. Which is so annoying and time consuming, especially for revisiting.
You can also try to export to import/export the style properties to and from CSS. It will be helpful for the authors who can't work with HTML.
I'm not sure, but in my opinion, this should be a fairly easy task. It's just remapping the styles to the specific tags, and if you guys can do it with Microsoft word, I don't see why you can't do it with HTML which has a simpler code. Unless you are waiting to release this for the 2.? version of the software to give the users enough reason to update. At least implement it by then.
 

That would be nice for people who don't know what they mean.
 

I heavily need this feature for book interior formatting. Can you please try to implement a feature to import/export the content of a text frame (or all of them) into an html document. It just needs to export the text as is with assigning html tags to each paragraph/character style. For example:
Paragraph style: title > <h1 class="title"> Paragraph style: Chapter title →  <h1> Paragraph style: Sub-chapter →  <h2> Paragraph style: Body-text → <p> Paragraph style: 1st-paragraph → <p class="1st-p"> Character style: emphasis → <emphasis> Character style: list-item-title → <span = class"l-i-t"> And also to ability to ignore certain styles is useful. Like:
Paragraph style: page-number → ignore Paragraph style: Header → ignore If you can implement exporting, I think importing HTML is also possible which is equally important. Many writers will want to reedit some of the text before publishing once or twice. Having HTML as the base ground will ease the work because all styles, and hence formatting are saved independently. We can't really work with word since it's a mess to export to HTML and most authors will apply local editing instead of using paragraph/character styles.
BTW, copy-pasting the text from publisher to any word processor will remove all formatting and extra lines between the paragraphs.
Nowadays, almost all writers publish for the web and print-on-demand. Since Affinity Publisher doesn't support export/support to ePub or html, we have to format the book twice. Which is so annoying and time consuming, especially for revisiting.
You can also try to export to import/export the style properties to and from CSS. It will be helpful for the authors who can't work with HTML.
I'm not sure, but in my opinion, this should be a fairly easy task. It's just remapping the styles to the specific tags, and if you guys can do it with Microsoft word, I don't see why you can't do it with HTML which has a simpler code. Unless you are waiting to release this for the 2.? version of the software to give the users enough reason to update. At least implement it by then.
 

I heavily need this feature for book interior formatting. Can you please try to implement a feature to import/export the content of a text frame (or all of them) into an html document. It just needs to export the text as is with assigning html tags to each paragraph/character style. For example:
Paragraph style: title > <h1 class="title"> Paragraph style: Chapter title →  <h1> Paragraph style: Sub-chapter →  <h2> Paragraph style: Body-text → <p> Paragraph style: 1st-paragraph → <p class="1st-p"> Character style: emphasis → <emphasis> Character style: list-item-title → <span = class"l-i-t"> And also to ability to ignore certain styles is useful. Like:
Paragraph style: page-number → ignore Paragraph style: Header → ignore If you can implement exporting, I think importing HTML is also possible which is equally important. Many writers will want to reedit some of the text before publishing once or twice. Having HTML as the base ground will ease the work because all styles, and hence formatting are saved independently. We can't really work with word since it's a mess to export to HTML and most authors will apply local editing instead of using paragraph/character styles.
BTW, copy-pasting the text from publisher to any word processor will remove all formatting and extra lines between the paragraphs.
Nowadays, almost all writers publish for the web and print-on-demand. Since Affinity Publisher doesn't support export/support to ePub or html, we have to format the book twice. Which is so annoying and time consuming, especially for revisiting.
You can also try to export to import/export the style properties to and from CSS. It will be helpful for the authors who can't work with HTML.
I'm not sure, but in my opinion, this should be a fairly easy task. It's just remapping the styles to the specific tags, and if you guys can do it with Microsoft word, I don't see why you can't do it with HTML which has a simpler code. Unless you are waiting to release this for the 2.? version of the software to give the users enough reason to update. At least implement it by then.
 

Lol, I don't know how I didn't notice that you said you're on MacOS, I think I focused too much about finding the color profile and didn't focus on the operating system. Sorry for the confusion.

They should add running head variables that are based on paragraph/character styles.

They should add running head variables that are based on paragraph/character styles.

They should add running head variables that are based on paragraph/character styles.

There was a discussion about enabling scripting at some point. They might include it after the official release.

+1.
My best workaround is to create any document of any size, drag drop one of the stock images in it. "Ctrl+C" to copy, then "Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N" to create a new document from clipboard.

@loyukfai People speaking different languages have expressed the desire to use Affinity products with their non latin languages over and over again. Especially right to left languages like Arabic and Hebrew.
The problem is that Affinity needs a text shaping engine for complex languages, currently there are 3 main ones: core text from apple, uniscribe/directwrite from microsoft and harfbuzz (open source but mainly managed by google).
As you can see, it's not a simple task and only the biggest tech companies in the world Apple/Microsoft/Google that create operating systems have the ability to create such complex systems.
Unfortunately Serif has a small team and they can't in anyway create a fully operational text shaping engine for the many languages of the world in the near or far future. We have advised them to use HarfBuzz since it's ready and open source but they refused to. Even more, one of their stuff directly expressed that they don't want to use any third party app for the text engine, but they can't develop one too and it'll require a lot of time, so they dropped it from their to do list altogether to work on other things. They want to focus on Latin scripts only. And to be honest I don't know what to say or do after that statement.

Having multiple paragraph styles with master page override on the same page is really problematic, but that can be solved by finding a mechanism of priority or an error message. If the designer makes his design to avoid such problems would be fine.
What I meant when I said that triggering a certain master page at section break won't work, is let's assum we have:
[Body Master] : with running head and page numbers for full-text pages; [Chapter Master] : with page numbers only fur chapter openers; [Blank Master] : with nothing on it, I apply it to front matter pages and other purposes like full photos... Now the problem with a section break, is that sometimes I need to use the [Blank Master] page, and sometimes I'll need to use the [chapter master] page. A feature to trigger only one master page at every section break won't really work.

Please add a feature that allows overriding the master page choice if there is a specific paragraph style in that page.
A use case scenario for this is:
in books interior. we need a master page (Body) for the main matter, usually, it has running head + folio (page numbers).
We use a different master page (chapter) for the 1st page of each new chapter, it has folio, NO RUNNING HEAD, plus or minus some graphics.
If we apply the (chapter) master page to each chapter opening page, let's say page 8 for chapter 2, then I make the font size bigger, which pushes the chapter 2 opening page to page no 9, but the (chapter) master page is still applied to page 8. Which means now I'll have to apply (chapter) master page to page 9, and apply the (body) master page to page 8 too.
Now imagine if you have a book of 50 chapters, everytime you make some tweaks that changes the pages order, like font size, tracking, lining, add or remove pages and so one, you'll have to apply those master pages 50x2=100 times, which is a very time consuming task. If you implement this feature it would be of great help.


 

Affinity publisher is aimed for professionals who create documents for print, not hobbyists. If you can't make $40 back from your work, it might not be for you in the first place.

You can also group the image and the caption, and then apply the wrap to the whole group.