subetha

I completely second Keito64's wish! The main reason for me is the buggy version 1.8.0 of Publisher on Windows right now - it did not even start after a few times of usage. I had to downgrade the complete Affinity suite on two computers just because of that - not only on that Windows machine, but also on my mac to still be able to work with both computers on the same files. Luckily I noticed the problem before converting all the recent files... else I'd really had been f***ed!
I can totally understand that problems in new versions of any software may occur - but in that case it's an absolute necessity to have some kind of interchange of files between versions!!! Maybe a possibility to import newer formats, or a separate conversion app?
 

Pretty much everyone is looking to get away from Photoshop and Illustrator. That's what I'm doing. I have a list of maybe a dozen features I absolutely require and Affinity manages to hit them all except something as basic as proper transforms. It doesn't look like they care either. All it takes is one thing not working and we're not leaving Adobe. What a missed opportunity.

This option is included in Publisher, but missing in Designer. Including the automatic update of externally changed files, please...

In
Edit > Preferences > General
Make sure "Automatically update linked resources when modified externally" is ticked

Yes

If you also have Publisher you can use that to change all embedded documents/images to linked documents/images in your designer document and to also specify that any new documents/images will also be linked by default.
Other than that there is no other easy way that I know of to do it using Designer alone

I completely second Keito64's wish! The main reason for me is the buggy version 1.8.0 of Publisher on Windows right now - it did not even start after a few times of usage. I had to downgrade the complete Affinity suite on two computers just because of that - not only on that Windows machine, but also on my mac to still be able to work with both computers on the same files. Luckily I noticed the problem before converting all the recent files... else I'd really had been f***ed!
I can totally understand that problems in new versions of any software may occur - but in that case it's an absolute necessity to have some kind of interchange of files between versions!!! Maybe a possibility to import newer formats, or a separate conversion app?
 

I just imported an IDML into the beta, worked on it for a bit and than saved it as afpub. When trying to open it again in the retail version I can't. How can I get around this? What use is it for me to play around with the beta when I am not able to use the files in another context again??

BTW will there a possibility to also EXPORT into IDML format to exchange files with Indesign users, or will my designs be locked inside the affinity ecosystem forever?
How about exchanging files with other users who own lower/older versions in the future, thinking about Publisher 2.xx? One of the annoyances Adobe provides to its Indesign users are the constantly changing file formats, will I have to expect the same from Affinity?

This was the one missing feature that chained me to Adobe CC still... and kept me from buying the complete Affinity suite. Did so today for my PC, and will probably buy it for my Mac as well! Thank you so much!!!