DDA

Shape Blending is the last real feature that is painfully missing from Affinity Designer. Even just basic functionality would add so much to the experience and productivity capabilities for me and many designers like me. 
 
 

Hi,
I found an interesting solution for creating an icon library with affinity designer.
The icons can be manipulated globally with a CSS file.
The effort is relatively low.
Simply comment in an interest then I will describe the process here in the forum in detail. 
michael

This beta has been superseded by the release of Affinity Designer for macOS 1.7.2 to the public. Check back on this forum for future betas.
Status: Release candidate
Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download link removed as 1.7.2 is now live
 
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate build of Affinity Designer 1.7.2 for macOS.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.7.1 version recently released to all customers. We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
Matt
 
Changes Since 1.7.1
- Improved usability with Apple’s Sidecar for macOS Catalina and iPadOS 13. (This build is still not notarized, so requires user action to allow it to run)
- Grid gutters reinstated.
- ‘Edit all layers’ can now be used to allow/disable artboard object reparenting during translation drag/object creation.
- Fix for bleed export options.
- Fix for issues with constraints on children of constrained objects which are used as clips.
- Fix for failure to load SVG colour 'none' causing import to stop.
- Fix for pen tablet barrel rotation input turning the wrong way.
- General performance improvements.
- Text performance improvements.
- Added ‘d’ default keystroke to restore objects to black and white colours.
- PDF export improvements.
- Added TGA export.
- Different icon for beta builds.
- Added a warning when deleting a global colour.
- Fixed broken Japanese keyboard input (sorry!).
- Fixed printing CMYK documents on older versions of macOS.
- Fixed crash when reentering export dialog under certain conditions.
- Fixed crashes when pasting screenshots into the app.
- Fixed loss of legacy HSL adjustment HSV state after a save.
- Assorted small fixes and improvements.
- Help improvements.
- Localisation improvements.
- Import 16bit half float JPEG-XR files properly.
- Improved LAB colour conversions.
- Pantone palettes are now sorted alphabetically.
- Fixed crash when starting app in a folder containing weird characters.

They're back - just get the latest beta.

Please bring back grid gutters! Thank you!

Please reinstate gutters. 

Since Grid Manager and Guides Manager are two different tools and serve different purposes, i can't see the reason why gutters option was removed from Grid Manager. Why not have the option in both tools?

@pjglad@LittleFella Totally agree with you guys. It's step backwards in terms of functionality.

Jep, it's a step backward. The Guides Manager is not a replacement. Want the gutter feature back!

Well this sucks. I was starting an icon project and the original setup would have been awesome and painless. Now I'm scratching my head opening/closing two panels to sort this out. Can't get my gutters to line up with grid squares.
As others mentioned, you had it in there working and rather intuitively, but instead removed it causing a workflow bottleneck. Just bizarre and I gotta mention, so Adobe-ish.

Months ago, I was extremely impressed by Designer's grid possibilities, and immediately fell in love with the gutter setting, which enabled me to very nicely and consistently draw icons for software (which are then easily exported as either PNGs or SVGs, depending on the project). It is very sad that this feature is now hidden by default. Luckily, I still have the 'old' files that make use of the gutter, can still open them and - surprise! - the corresponding edit field becomes visible again.
It would be nice if Designer could revert to the old behaviour and make the gutter available again for new documents - thanks.
With best regards,
Andreas Weidner

Please bring back gutters!
Why can't we have them?