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Just bought Designer with the hopes of phasing out of Illustrator. Love what I'm seeing so far, and wanted to add my 2 cents that a Live Trace option looks to be the only thing I've noticed so far that's keeping me from being able to use Designer exclusively.
 
Nothing fancy... I do a lot of black and white cartoon work that gets vector traced in order to bring into file prep for merchandise. I need a tight fidelity so that the hand-drawn roughness of the line quality is preserved. Black and white is necessary, though color options would be great to see.
 
 
Thanks so much for the program, and I look forward to seeing future updates!

trace functionality its a must. I vote on it.

Yes please! I just purchased Affinity Designer, and was very surprised to find there is no trace functionality..

A tool to convert into SVG, based on tracing a bitmap image, would be very nice for me as well! So please count me in !

maybe I'm missing it, but is there an option to open a JPEG, or bitmap image
and trace,or convert it to a vector file for further editing? If not there should be one, it would be a great option. even if it had only a few modes like black and white, and 5 color
it would make me convince me to convert from adobe illustrator

The ability to bring in a raster image and trace into vector would be a good feature. This is something I often use in Illustrator and would love to see in Affinity, ideally with more control. 
 
While switching tools between personas is great, only being able to rasterize a vector and not the reverse is troublesome.