gardenofred

Hi meb, appreciate the reply! 
Yes, that's pretty much what I'm talking about but I personally think Designer can be just as design aids-dependent as Publisher (unlike Photo) so it would be really handy to have the same feature in Designer and... I don't have Publisher yet  but I did have InDesign.

Hi meb, appreciate the reply! 
Yes, that's pretty much what I'm talking about but I personally think Designer can be just as design aids-dependent as Publisher (unlike Photo) so it would be really handy to have the same feature in Designer and... I don't have Publisher yet  but I did have InDesign.

Totally agree! It would be really useful to be able to animate and export simple gifs inside the software. 
 

Totally agree! It would be really useful to be able to animate and export simple gifs inside the software. 
 

This is not as straight forward as you think.
 
Each object has what we call a "base box".  This is essentially the box that defines the bounds of an object, and what is post-transformed to put the object into the correct position.
 
The geometry of some objects are defined by their base box - such a shapes and text.  The internal box is used as the container into which the geometry is created.  Curve objects can easily have their transforms "baked", but for these other dynamic objects, the base box provides a continuing reference for edibility.  So, for example, you can always reselect a shape object and fix it's rotation or shear - you don't lose the transform used to create your shape, or its editability as a shape (as opposed to converting to curves).
 
Another issue is that some shapes and text are adjusted to fit their box based on their absolute positioning and size.  Rounded corners on rectangles are sized based on their on-page base box size and shear.  But, most importantly, the transformed base box ALWAYS contains these rounded corners.
 
Now, if we provided an alternative user-defined box, based on the current transform of a dynamic shape, what happens if you apply a further transform to the shape?  The box you have may no longer contain the geometry as the transform affects the corner geometry which could now grow outside of the user-defined box.  Combining this with snapping, you now have a disconnect between the box edges and the geometry bounds that will be snapped.  I can almost guarantee that users will then complain that "snapping is not accurate" - when what is actually happening is that the geometry bounds and the user-defined selection box are not consistent.
 
If there is to be any more consideration of this issue, I think people will need to provide use cases to illustrate exactly where their problem is.  It might be that it just needs a different approach, but there might also be something we can do.  Bear in mind, however, that we have a wider understanding of the implications of the feature that you may think is trivial.
 

Totally agree! It would be really useful to be able to animate and export simple gifs inside the software. 
 

In my opinion Shape Builder Tool is very necessary. I can't switch to Affinity Designer from Illustrator completely just because of this one missing tool. I've seen post back from 2015 of people asking for this tool, why 4 years later this still isn't a thing? I'm very frustrated...

I've read a thread about a full animation system which is way out-of-scope. But, a simple layer to frame animated gif export would be handy and quite welcomed. Also completely non-intrusive.
 
Thank you

Hi guys, I am new here in our 4rum but I have used AD for more than 3 years. This is an amazing tool which made me quit all Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. I believe AD can match against Adobe after all. However, the new version of Illustrator 2019 has an incredible feature which is Freeform Gradient. Some people might say meh it sucks but I found out that it is quite cool, especially for people who use AD as a drawing tool and suck in coloring like me. 
I am wondering that will AD dev implement this feature to AD in the near future?  It is already 10 months since the last update for AD in Mac and I am really excited to know that we will have a new big update for AD.

I recently posted on the support forum, but there does not seem to be an option for this. So posting here now as a feature request.
I would be super great if there a way to change the space or distance between the spreads/pages/pasteboard?
Within InDesign preferences ( Preferences > Guides & Pasteboard > Pasteboard Options ) there is a way to set this. I can't seem to find this in Publisher. I always found this helpful because sometimes I don't want to see the other page and prefer to focus on the page I'm designing. 
Keep up the great work Affinity!