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Then I'm editing the embedded file. I still don't get the actual objects in the document where I dropped it.

I dropped an SVG into a Designer document and positioned it where I want it, and now I want to edit it, but I can't figure out which option converts it from "embedded" to actual objects...

I can't easily make the boundaries in that tool straight/linear, so if you have a quick method for that I'm interested.

You can only grab the corners of the border that appears with the perspective tool. Sometimes, I'd like to grab the edges too to move an entire side. Procreate on the iPad did this very well with the distort tool. Affinity should take som inspiration from that, because right now, the perspective tool is a bit cumbersome to use.

...but if I import the AI file directly, things look fine. Very weird. (Can't share the SVG, as it is a customer file, but it looks fine in Edge.)

This is the largest thread for this, so perhaps a moderator could merge these two in here as well? Interesting reflection that users have been asking for five years about this feature now... Also, this is in the desktop section, but naturally the iPad should get it too (I was using the iPad when I needed it). Plus, it should be easy to modify a curve after you've applied the perspective... that's what's missing from the workarounds currently, I suspect.

"Transform studio"!? Why the heck is that necessary when on the desktop you have flip button right in the top menu bar and the flyout menu bar on the iPad has lots of room? I had to search this forum just to figure out how do perform this on the iPad. I've said it before, but Affinity on the desktop is quite nice to use, but the iPad UI is convoluted and unintuitive and I avoid using it as much as possible. 🤬

The creator of that database has said that he does not have time to maintain it anymore. You are a commercial entity using that database, and apparently it is open source as well. Why don't you put some effort back into the community and update it yourselves?

Unless I misclicked it, it shouldn't have been. I tried the wet edge effect but doesn't look 100% the same as in that screenshot above... but again, today the strokes are normal and no amount of clicking in the toolbar can make me replicate what I saw that made me post this thread.

No settings, it's a built-in basic brush. It worked the day before yesterday, then yesterday it was like that all day, and today it's back to normal. Not really stable. 🙁

Why has this happened? Why are there outlines around where the brush crosses an old stroke? Also, if I start drawing inside a stroke, I can no longer draw outside of it.

I think this thick line with a butt cap behaves as if it had a square cap when it doesn't:

Is this still true in 2021? (I was also surprised by the default Publisher behavior, and for my internet search, this thread was the top result.) EDIT: The answer is no, linked documents now reduce the file size of the publisher file, which is very nice! 👍

I can't see if I posted in this thread yet or not, but again I was surprised that Affinity doesn't support DXF when I tried today. Zero chance that anyone where I work will even consider Affinity without this as well (but granted, there are other showstoppers in Affinity too).

I also have the flickering issue. 1440p 144hz monitor using the latest Nvidia drivers. Apparently, Unreal Engine is also affected (several people in their Discord have acknowledged it). I hope Nvidia are aware of this, but there has been two driver releases with this problem in now already.

Thank you from 2021! 😀 Is there an easy way to scale the effect?

After I enable the "force pixel alignment" and "move by whole pixels" buttons in the toolbar, I expect all my copy, paste and move operations, regardless of shortcuts or tool combinations used, to be pixel aligned. And it looks like it is... until you press Ctrl-E to merge... then all of the sudden, things get super blurry. I hope this gets fixed soon!

That's great. One person is like, ooh, artboards are so flexible and can do pretty much anything, and the second person is like, no, they're very different. Talk about a UI that leaves confusing impressions on people! 😂 I'm half joking, but Affinity could do well to make the Ux more consistent and clear in this area, I think.

With that attidue, why have Artboards at all, if Layers work the same? Right now, you're just complicated it for the user, and allowing them to make mistakes they might not even find because they don't expect them to ever be allowed to happen. What's the use cases for all the things you mentioned? Artboards fill a specific use case that has to do with exporting to other formats. I don't think any of what you mention has anything to do with that and can't be exported.

I tried to move the stroke panel from the top to the middle by the appearance panel... but I think I missed and the layers panel got involved. Dragging around trying to get back to where I was, after a while made the whole app crash. The entire experience also felt rather unintuitive and inconsistent in where the panels actually ended up when you released it prior to crashing. I found no other threads about this and of course I don't have exact repro steps, so I'm creating this thread as a data point and hopefully others will chime in with their experiences as well.

+1 (It's also interesting to note that no matter how much you press ctrl+a in the layer panel and choose "collapse selection", you can never get everything to collapse... so the only workaround is a lot of manual clicking.)

But the artboard in the PDF isn't "an object as such" either. I think Affinity blurs the line here in a rather inconsistent way. Oh, and I just discovered that I can set an opacity on an artboard!! Why would I ever want to do that and why is that even supported?

I imported a PDF. In the layers panel, I now get a top category called Artboard, with contents (including the background) in it. I imported a SVG. In the layers panel, I now get a top category called Layer (with a background in it). If I copy the top category from the SVG and paste it side by side compared to the top category in the PDF, I now have one top category of the type Layer and one of the type Artboard. Both can be moved freely on that grey document(?) background... If I select the background object in the Layers panel and use "convert to Object to Artboard" in the layers panel, the top category is still a Layer, but that object itself becomes an Artboard. Visually, in that grey document(?) background area, they now look the same... but in the layers panel, the top category still says Layer This is a bit confusing. Why did the object itself become an artboard, instead of transforming the entire layer into one? Why am I not allowed to click on the top layer category and convert that into an artboard, since that's how imported PDFs behave? Why is a layer allowed to be at the same level as an artboard, and behave basically the same? How is it that an object inside a layer can be an artboard? What's the workflow or use case for that behavior?