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Vectornator is a free (rather interesting) iPad app that has image trace, although I had to look up how to use it. It’s not as good as Illustrator’s, nor have I tried those online solutions, but one more thing for y’all to try.

While I do still think it’s kind of unfortunate that writing in any Affinity app isn’t a super great experience, I *have* found an app I really like to write in: Notion. It’s good for lots of other organizational and database-lite stuff too, but I really like how everything can be organized in a wiki like way. Makes finding stuff I write real easy, and it’s markdown-esque in its presentation.

I am wondering about this as well since the tech specs for Affinity Designer now list "bleed preview" as a new feature for 1.7, but I can't find information on it.

This is definitely true. Illustrator handles this just by breaking the connection, if a text box is linked to another one. (It doesn't do a great job of demonstrating that break happening, which has probably led to my frustration once or twice! A warning would be really welcome I think.) I still think it would be well worth it to have. also, I just checked in Illustrator and it doesn't appear that you can convert text on a path to a frame. But that does seem like a less likely scenario to me - never thought to do that before.

Yep - I found it there - but for years at this point (lol) I didn't know it existed. I'm just saying it should be more discoverable, maybe by putting it in the right-click menu. Something else that would help would be a simple message in the FX panel (there's a good amount of white space along the bottom bar) subtly mentioning "You can paste FX in the Edit menu." Or something to that effect.

That is so weird, I never realized that APhoto can't create artboards since they introduced it. I think what threw me off is that if you already have at least started making artboards in Affinity Designer, you CAN use the same command-drag to make new ones in APhoto too! So ... weird.

This is a dumb little thing, but I actually thought the Affinity suite didn't HAVE this feature until I went up to the edit menu and saw "Paste FX." (In other programs I know this as Paste Attributes or similar). So I was actually just about to make a request for this feature... but it exists! So that's great. But I feel like the most logical place to discover it would be right-clicking on a layer? Is there a reason it is not available in that context menu?

I'll jump on this even though I am referring to text styles in APub: It would be great to have the option to add new styles directly from the context menu. Either a "new" listing in the drop-down or the same 'create text style' (and paragraph) buttons up there. (And Update, too, why not?) For at least a day I thought I was stuck with that pre-set list because those buttons are only in the studio panel and they're really tiny and inconspicuous! And honestly I really don't want to have the text styles studio open if I don't need to. I don't really find seeing the list all that useful all the time; I'd much rather just have the buttons available whenever I'm working with text!

Agreed; I also posted about this in the Affinity Publisher suggestions forum. Just do it the way Illustrator does it! It's a pain the way it is now.

Great, thanks! I obviously didn't expect this to actually work yet but was just curious to see what would happen. If I can save somebody from losing a few steps of work who has the same curiosity and might not have saved in advance, thought it may be worth a mention!

That is what I do... but this is one of the (relatively newer) Illustrator features I do wish Affinity had. (The way it works in that program, a little symbol that looks like a handle can be double-clicked and it changes from a circle to a square depending on the mode. It's pretty darn functional!)

1.6.5.123

Just out of curiosity I just tried this on Windows. In AD, it has a COMPLETELY different behavior - it actually treats the afpub file like a PDF, with the same relative editability. (Not the same effect I am hoping they'll get around to of making the afpub format interchangeable with all three apps, but definitely better!)

That's what I meant!

File > Open. I thought they would give me an error, but nope. Perhaps I'm using outdated versions — 161 for AD and 167 for APho. Those numbers do seem slightly lower than what I recall upgrading on my Windows machine recently. (I've only just tried this on Mac.)