Eran Dax Lonker

Sorry - don't get me wrong ... that was not meant to sound derogatory. But is Phototheca a real Lightroom alternative? Lightroom is a bit more than a photo management tool. It's a tool for developing photos in various ways, for instance very enhanced color, exposure etc. changes and improvements. And like the fact that Affinity's tools sharing features, it would be nice to get another tool that offers managing photos and have a focus on developing them, without the need for opening or switching to Affinity Photo.

Phototheca? is only available for Windows ... looks like a tool for hobbyists. Ok, the price is only half that of Lightroom per year, but with Lightroom you also get Photoshop. It's probably a nice tool for all former Picasa users.

Darktable is not so bad - simplified in usability - but (nearly) all you need is available. The gui reminds a little bit to Lightroom here and there. Unfortunatly it's simply slow (on Mac) even on a good 8/16-core Machine. Significantly slower than Lightroom ... so only an alternative if you really can't or won’t spend money for an fast commercial tool. I also don't understand, why Serif still announced no image management tool. Affinity Photo's code base features nearly everyting that’s needed - the code is already there for developing RAWs - only the image managament is missing. Affinity "Lighttable" would possibly a sales racket. (But on the other hand the market is full of tools like Lightroom - in all price categories. It's not the same as Photoshop, Illustrator or inDesign. It's probably only interessting for user who jumped to Affinity already. Let's see what future will bring.)

Thanks for your fast reply, Sean. Very good to know, and you are right - if I set the stroke to Align Center it works again. 😎 My solution was to load the design into Illustrator and reducing the nodes with the simplify function. So I got a nearly identical design, imported the design in Affinity Designer again and then I could finally export it with an outer stoke. It's a pity that I didn't found that the stroke alignment was the problem - It took me more than an hour to find a solution. 😑

With the attached file Affinity Designer is unable to export the graphics as PDF, EPS or SVG. After trying to export nothing seems to happen. Nothing will be exported. Designer freezes/hangs in that way, thats unable to make a lot of changes in the open document AND it's not possible to close the program at all. It's possible to close the documents, but I have to kill the Designer's task to close the program! It's a very complex graphic, but I found out that the problem depends on applying an outline (stroke) to the graphic. If there is no outline - export seems to work. I'm using macOS Catalina 10.15.7 BR Alex AffinityDesigner192-Vector-Export-Fails-1.afdesign