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Designwiz

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  1. I would like to add that in Affinity v1 apps I could see a lot more easily what was what in the list of layers and groups. However, in v2 I am having a hard time working with layers, because everything is so confusingly just simply dark grey and the worst experience for me is NOT being able to properly see the hierarchy, where disabling "Show Group Thumbnails" helps a lot, but I miss the preview... (in v1 I worked with previews on, in v2 I am unable to do it as it makes me very slow to work that way). To me, to overview of the new Layer panel in v2 is a lot worse that it was in v1, especially when I have to deal with the hierarchy.
  2. A picture is worth a thousand words, I guess: Anyone can spot the difference?
  3. No, I did not. The ones you presented here are the PSD, SVG and IMDL icons which I was not referring to. I clearly said: "afdesign, afpub and afphoto icons", so I was talking about the other three icons he designed. It is not about recognizing icons or not. It is about easily spotting the right ones. When icons are pretty similar to each other (which the new Affinity document icons are), then UX suffers.
  4. Unfortunately I have to disagree. While I was also not a fun of the old document icons (using the app's own icon is surely a bad choice) , the new ones are even worse than those used to be. I don't know about others, but most of the time I use either list or column views, and it is impossible to see the completely unnecessary labels of the extensions written on the icons themselves. I do not think we are often looking at 256x256+ pixel versions of the icons, so big dimensions do not count in usability. The new document icons are just generic white sheet icons with some hard to tell apart tiny colored spots on them. Just look at my everyday view of these icons: I would expect a company like Serif to do a better work than this. I hope they are going to fix these icons soon. @Lmpessoa Your afdesign, afpub and afphoto icons are great! Clearly distinguishable even in tiny sizes, and that thing DOES matter a lot. Thanks for sharing!
  5. Hello @Sean P I am not allowed share the file I'm afraid. BTW, in the meantime v 1.7.1 let me down too, unfortunately. Even though the copy/paste operation worked there, when I changed text styles in the text frame in question, somehow non-detached symbols place on different artboards went out of sync. When trying to fix it, all artboards disappeared so I had to revert to the last saved document. I decided not to use pasted-in vectors within text frames, instead I press the spacebar a few times to make room for the vector icon and group the icon with the text frame. This is how a beginner would do it, but if the feature does not work properly, I have no choice but to use this hackish technique.
  6. Hello, I have documents created with Designer 1.7.1. I pasted a vector logo into a text frame (which is in a symbol, if it matters or not I do not know). When copy/pasting the text frame in Designer 1.7.1 all is good. However, updating to 1.7.3 results in a crash when performing the copy operation of the text frame. To me, the last stable versions of Designer and Publisher are 1.7.1 as I also ran into a serious bug when using Publisher 1.7.2, see: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/96343-publisher-172-embedded-document-related-bugs/ I am pretty busy these days, so I have no time to test which application versions are reliable and which are not, so I cannot investigate such issues further. 1.7.1 versions are not bug free either but at lest no serious bugs emerge in my workflow. That is why trying to update1.7.1 is something I will try to avoid in the near future for sure.
  7. Yes it did. I could click on the "Embed button" in order to embed it again: Thank you! It's my mistake to update a few days after a new version of app has been released. Normally I wait for weeks to avoid being sort of a beta tester. I do not know what happened to me today Anyway, keep up the good work! Publisher is the most productive app you sell (as it is in pair with InDesign, at least for me), following Designer which I also like A LOT but its feature-set is not yet there for me to replace Illustrator just yet, and the last one is Photo, which I cannot use for any useful work, but I am hoping one day you will add "Smart Object" with all sorts of distorting options so that I can start using it too.
  8. Hello, I have updated to Publisher 1.7.2 from v1.7.1.408, but after experiencing the following bugs I quickly downgraded to 1.7.1.408. I have a document created in 1.7.1.408 with an embedded Publisher document which used to be a linked one but I used the Resource Managed to embed it in order to introduce changes to it. After updating to 1.7.2, this embedded Publisher document reverted back to be linked, so Publisher reloaded the original and all the applied changes were lost. Out of curiosity, I embedded the document once more and introduced some changes to it. After closing the open tab of the embedded document, its main view and its layer preview was not updated, as if I had not made any changes to it. In the layer panel I made the embedded document's layer invisible then visible again, and the views were updated this way. Alfter experiencing all this, I downgraded to 1.7.1.408 and opened up a backup of the document so that I can make sure I do not work with something that was changed by 1.7.2. Reading other forum topics, others are also having serious issues with 1.7.2 so I guess it is not too safe to update to it.
  9. +1 for the improvements suggested above. Thanks in advance
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