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» To be clear: I am not sure if this is a bug, or a native PDF behaviour, but I suspect it is, rather than limitation of PDF format « So here is the thing. Intro: I found myself in need to export multi-artboard project into a one unified PDF format. PDF format is the most suitable format for almost anything for sharing, since you can keep the structure of the layers intact (if you are not using groups, or if you do 'Layer > Promote Group(s) to Layer(s)'), since only Layers behave functionally as an Group in exported PDFs and do not cause issues. At the same time, PDF can be kept small and highly customizable regarding export qualities, while retaining everything needed, so it is the best solution (possibly rivaling with an SVG now, but don't mind this note of mine). Or at least I thought so. When I was testing it on smaller example it worked fine and I got correct results (Vector Layers behaving as Groups/Wrappers for nested ones, great!). But when I did it on my bigger project, contents of the layers get thrown off out of their layers (meaning groups in our context) when I open such PDF back in Affinity Designer, or Inkscape. So I extensively debugged it and found the core issue (that is as a heading of this topic, but there is more). Here are some small example files for you to understand more clearly. There are 4 files: correct--inner-layer-without-name.afdesign incorrect--inner-layer-with-name.afdesign correct--(more-complex)--inner-layers-without-name.afdesign incorrect--(more-complex)--inner-layers-with-name.afdesign The latter two contain more complex structure, where you observe more complex mess in the exported PDF. There are some obvious, other issues with it, not only what I debugged. I was testing that wrapper also for use as: Rectangle, Circle and Curve (Converted from Rectangle) - all export were incorrect. If this is a bug, please fix this, it is pretty important, since it makes PDFs later unusable and we are loosing one of the biggest advantages it provides (retaining nesting and order). And if it is not but rather some PDF limitation, please explain me the mechanics what is occuring here. Thank you. --- App: Affinity Designer 2.6.3 OS: MacOS incorrect--inner-layer-with-name.afdesign incorrect--(more-complex)--inner-layers-with-name.afdesign correct--inner-layer-without-name.afdesign correct--(more-complex)--inner-layers-without-name.afdesign

Since we are able to 'Promote multiple Layers to Groups', we should be able to 'Rename (selected) Layers' at once with the option found in 'Layer' menu and yet, we are not and renaming happens only on the first Layer of the multi-selection. --- App: Affinity Designer 2.6.3 OS: MacOS

But if Canva covers the costs, who cares... but if they can't, since you said 'now they have to kneel and beg...' than that is a shame... It may rather seem just so that if Canva wanted to make a big headlines to promote themselves (Canva, but not Affinity - this could actually do opposite for Affinity)... In the case of Webflow I guess this will be a bit different... they are one of the leaders on the market so they can def. cover those costs, because GSAP team was/is not very huge and they possibly do no needed that extra revenue from those licenses and more beneficial was to choose this tactic, so they would attract more people to Webflow in this way... The issue what I see is, that similar may happen here and more noobs may come to these forums and spam it here even more with their unprofessional behaviour. So you just get it, what some of you guys and gals suffer from is the so called 'post farming' (look it up like B-b-B's previous term) which these forums are loaded with. But I had, nor have high expectations, because Affinity is Affinity (not an Adobe) and most of their users are not a PROs (neither in their apps nor mentally), so I am at peace with this, everyone will learn at it's own pace, it would be however nice, if such individuals rather spent their time more in the app and doing other things (like doodling or whatever), than responding when they should be silent and double, when one asks them to be, for obvious reasons.

Oh, so you think that this did not came to my mind years ago? You are so funny... I would happily do that kitty! But that is not for what their contact emails are, if you did not noticed yet (if I am mistaken, please, tell me more, I will listen) They explicitly have forums for providing Feedback and Suggestions (among other sub-sections). But when I stated multiple times, that this topic is not meant for an open discussion with users, especially the ones, that have no clue about what the topic in fact is, but I am asking for involvement from Mods/Admins/Dev to think about the reasoning in my original post (about which I guess you don't even care, since you are just another spammer) and to consider implementing it, you should have at least that decency and stop yourself next time when you come to reading such a thing. But I guess you are some type of a street cat. And if you think about it kitty, there isn't really much to discuss here - because it is one little trivial thing, that would take a few minutes (but possibly under 5 I would assume) to implement for experienced DEV. Thooough, except now, it seems there are some other things that you would like to discuss. But you know what? Keep that for yourself, I don't care. Though, if it will make you feel better, you are free to express your feelings and opinions (or go to your mama, who cares...). Circus members are all there is needed here, right? btw. Kitty: from your signature I can clearly read that you are on Windows (pun not originally intended, but later realized, lol), so why the h*ll you came to the party down here?... nvm, I get it, streets... Well, it was bought by Webflow recently and few days ago, they released it for free for everyone! No need for licenses anymore... so.

Hi B-b-B. Good to see some soberly thinking person in a while. However, I was not speaking about 'Serif' as being a bad company, as a whole, not at all. They definitely also have some great Team Members, no doubts about that and the software is not as bad, though it does have it's quirks... I was rather talking about some individuals on this forum that try to be very very 'pro-active'. But your mentioned points are spot-on. For the needs I have, Serif's products are good enough and in some cases they are better than Adobe, so I don't complain, I am just some 'random guy', that wants to improve it along the way, so that in a year or so, there can be seen some results. Canva does not seem to be PRO-focused very much in the first place, so I am not really even considering any huge improvementsin this regards, but money can do a lot, so we will see, but I really don't care... on the side note: just look what happened with GSAP

Oh right! I did not noticed it is not by default also in other personas like Pixel (I rarely use it). So while we are at it - yes, it should be present in my opinion by default also in there, since it breaks the continuity, if it is not. But TBH 'Old Bruce'... you are also one of the ones that do not read properly before they write. I was and I still am speaking SPECIFICALLY about DEFAULT UI, yet you are suggesting and repeating the same thing that I already wrote in the main post. (I guess this company is not for me) 🫥 I am still interested to see some response from some Dev/Mod/Admin about some logicall explanation about why 'Status' is not present in those other Personas by Default. 🤔

Thanks for pointing that out. Well in that case, it is not my problem that GarryP read what he had to. I explicitly stated that in my original post "I am on Mac". This is the reason why UNINFORMED members should not respond to a topic which are generally not for open discussion, but meant for Devs/Admins/Mods, and I hope this will be noted. Because a few people here obviously miss some self-reflection and use 'psychological projection'... but for such things, Affinity forums are not the right place. And btw. to you Garry: If you do not know how to respond politely, it says a lot about you, not about me. This forum needs a clean up and to read all the mess each users write should not be paid by any of us. Hope you get it. Thanks. --- Edit for Hilltop below: Great job. And your message is not spam either, right? And I am a Pope. Keep on going... someone else has to say anything completely unrelated to the topic and feel 'touched' by my words? Btw.: just so you know, I do not care how many posts person has and as I stated, I bet some pretty big part of it will be of a posts, that could be considered spam, so the reputation would more like 50/50 (just blind guess, deal with it). I can read from what he wrote that he did not spend a second looking either here on the forum or elsewhere on the internet for what it could even be a 'Status' in a Toolbar, yet he gladly started to reason and wrote some cons to my suggestion... And from what he actually wrote, if you read it again, it seems, he is not a PRO at all. That is reeeeealy helpful volunteer I must say, so wake up. It is pretty easy to find through images either on DDG or Google... As I stated before, this is not an open discussion with users. This is Suggestion feedback to which should respond mostly, but more ideally ONLY Devs/Admins/Mods that are aware of the fact, that this item is present only on Mac and not the ones, that can not understand what is actually spoken about, nor they have interested to search through it. But I have to add, that if he is so helpful, he should also notice that I mentioned that I am on "Mac" and EVERY mediocre Affinity user knows, that there are discrepancies between differing OS of these apps, so think again, if you want to "rate" someone, you are not even in that position. I repeat, users should not be responding to these topics at all in my opinion, which only even further delays already slow company in fixing bugs like Serif is known for. I did not asked for anyone about additional suggestion, nor anything.

This is not an open discussion with some users about such feature/edit request. This is for Admins/Mods/Dev to think about such reasoning as is stated in my post, that want to improve the software as some of their users do. If you want ANYONE to point to explore where some features are placed (or hidden) within the Affinity Suite apps as is your latest paragraph about, I have the same advice for you as an response to you second one: Go ahead, and explore the Customization Toolbar and find by yourself, what is a 'Status' item in Customization of the Toolbar, because since you do not know, you should not respond at all to this topic. To your first paragraph: there are instances, where you finished you work, saved it and are about to do some exports. If you don't have that 'Status' in your Toolbar, you have no idea if the changes you are making in Export Persona (like hiding layers for export and many more) are save-able or not (and other reasoining in my main post, won't repeat that, read). Your count of posts (14.3k) suggest that you have spammed this forum a lot and not grow much. So please, before you try to write again, think first and don't waste time of others. Thanks. To Alfred: Similar response would follow here. Now that this is cleared adults are welcomed to the topic. If you can logically explain/reason why 'Status' is not in the Toolbar of Export Personas, you will have my attention, other than that, I won't bother also, thanks.

I found myself feeling disconnected from the document, not knowing if changes made in Export Persona are being bound to the document or if they are just temporary and if I should/need to re-save file again, when I make some changes in Export Persona. It is illogical to not to place the 'Status' item to the Export Personas (both Designer & Photo) by default. NathanC considered this as an feedback so here I am, but it is definitely 'bad UX design' that should be considered as more of an UX bug... this is trivial to implement anyway. Many newcomers do not know that there is an option to Customize Toolbar (by right-clicking on it) and details like these definitely contribute to the frustrating experience users have with the software (though in my case, since I raaaarely use it, I actually forgot about such feature even exist, so I found myself working without it for a few months, slowly becoming used to it, which is wrong). In this case, it is interruption of the workflow by disconnecting association with the document by missing this important visual feedback. Thanks. PS: If you will implement this, do not forget about flexible space around it 👍 PS2: I am on Mac.

Slicing mechanism seems to be treating it as a square cap, but not quite, since additional pixels in that slice are created in this case scenario only from the bottom left corner onward. This bug can be catched only if you have near-edge object for obvious reasons. Tested on: Affinity Designer 2.6.3 This maybe of some relevance also: Incorrect Size Calculated at Export - V2 Bugs found on Windows - Affinity | Forum butt-cap-slice-issue.afdesign

+1 ... I came here because of https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/231402-layer-insertion-not-respected-by-create-new-layer-or-moving-layer-into-group-pasted-layers-get-reversed-order/#findComment-1370285

Back to this issue, since I find myself that I actually need such feature at times and it comes handy (to switch the order of selected layers, not necesarilly copied)... so it is upon consideration how to implement this, because also loosing such function, is kinda shame. And there are also tutorials on YouTube on this subject: Reverse Layer Order Quickly in Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher | iPad or Desktop | Beginner (but obviously, it should not be embeded into `Insertion > Behind` mechanics, but rather as an separate option) Btw. there was similar issue that walt.farrell considered as "a trick" 🙄. Feature request for the layers panel - reverse order of selection - Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products - Affinity | Forum And another one with same "trick" comment from this individual... layer stack order - Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows) - Affinity | Forum

Great to read this. Possibly, it would be best to have 'progress bar' on the bottom bar of the application, so in the case of not switching between windows, one is able to work on the project without interruption, rather than to wait for the dialog to disappear (so it should be effectively always as the background process, with the progress shown in the bottom bar and option to cancel it 🅧). Current file size would be also handy, since I often find myself checking the size after saving in the Finder Thanks.

App: Affinity Designer 2 2.6.2 When you select inner layer object of created symbol and try to move from symbols panel the same symbol into it, it creates nested symbol group inside the same symbol. This is not weird by the mechanics, but it should move just the object/objects (content/children) from the symbol into it's own symbol group and not the whole group itself and change the structure of the symbol itself. This is not a bug necessarily, however it is probably the main (if not only) reason for the following crash case: When you try to change color of a nested symbol inside of itself. This is not limited to color change, but also stroke and possibly anything else. Sometimes, you are not able to re-open/nor recover the file after this crash. To nest same symbols isn't a regular practice (nor obviously a proper one, without mechanics I propose in the first paragraph), but if you forget that you have selected the object within the symbol, and want to have another one in a document, this is where troubles begin. Crash does not occur, when you want to move different symbol into a different symbol (for example, in cases where you want to keep those symbols editable/linked). 2025-05-02 16-54-25.mkv

Thank you very much for fast response Nathan, hopefully it will get fixed soon... You are right that it is not related directly, but the behaviour I mentioned (by your narrative, more like 'suggested'), makes sense (in more cases than not) for the workflow the user is aiming for, when switching the insertion mode to 'Behind' >> stacking any new (and existing, in my reasoning) layer 'Below'. But if not related, it could be made as an separate option, possibly in 'Menu > Edit' option (and ideally to have an option to have shortcut for it).