Brian D

Designer is crashing every time I use the export persona on my M1 iMac.
Never had these issues and cannot figure out how to avoid this other than to export this manually one by one.
 
here is my crashed report and image.  
designer .rtf

Since the latest update I've been unable to create custom presets for outputting PDFs. I usually change a few things (colour space, text as curves, etc) and create a preset, but "create preset" is greyed out.

Hi Brian D,

Thanks for letting us know - this is an issue we're aware of. I will get your comments passed over to development.

I disagree, it's far worse than before in every scenario for me. I tried expanding a simple stroke around the Honda logo for a customer and it turned into abstract art. Expanding strokes around any text seems to fail for me, and combining the results with the original shape is an absolute disaster.

Thanks for the file - I see what you mean now. I can see that this is being caused by the excess amount of blue triangle shapes in the bottom corner, despite the majority of them being hidden by a vector mask. This does appear to be a regression over 1.7 and I'll get it passed on to development. 

In the meantime you can use Edit > Preferences > Tools > 'Select object when intersects with selection marquee'. This will allow you to get those objects elected without making a huge selection marquee, however be aware it will now select anything it touches!

It will indeed - it is only the Mac App Store version of the app that is affected by this issue!

Hi Brian,

I believe this is caused by the issue mentioned from Matt below, which has caused your preferences options to change. Please go to the link below and download the DMG and follow the instructions (you'll need to ensure your App has not been renamed and is in the root of Applications). This will fix the default preferences options and should revert your font size to be in point (along with other fixes).
 

There have been other Designer bugs that can result in Linked images. For example, in 1.7.3 that will happen if you use the "Print (Press-Ready)" when you create the document.

I think I always placed images in Designer, they simply got embedded, I never stored the image documents separately. Now today after I trashed an already place image, Designer alarmed about missing resource. No clue why sudenly images dont get embedded anymore. And I can not find a setting about that or let alone the ressource manager to manually embed it.
I am stuck now, not able to embed... what else can I do?

No I edited my comment after posting and reading through the link you added. I'm happy to admit this appears to be on Apple and by design, it's not a bug so I don't want to waste anyone's time.

To me there is no new energy info in your "About..."-windows. Yes, as long Affinity is opened, also the door to GPU is open, or like Apple says, Affinity "creates an OpenGL context". That info indeed is given already with your Activity Monitor screenshot: Both the App Nap + the GPU columns show "Yes".
Concerning battery drain the point of interest would rather be how much energy is taken by a napping Affinity compared to the energy of all other processes. You can't determine by your screenshots that Affinity is consuming much or most energy, in particular compared to your browsers it isn't noted that way. To detect Affinities energy use in nap mode you could run your macbook for a couple of hours, twice: one run with Affinity opened, the other with Affinity closed. You should reboot the mac before each run into the same setup + don't work with it + deactivate macbook's sleeping mode during the test runs.
Or, if you like to experiment, you could try to prevent the general, automatical use of GPU by Affinity with a hack of its setting "NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching" in the Info.plist within the app package, as mentioned in the apple developer link above. – To check or set the use of a particular processor you then can try the menubar tool "gfxCardStatus"   https://gfx.io/switching.html#integrated-only-mode-limitations
However, I understand your desire for a comment by a Serif moderator about this topic, regardless whether its source is related to macOS only or Affinity, too. I don't want to prevent them or any others to respond at all.

See several other threads on the same subject: AD can’t handle embedded fonts in PDFs, it tries to replace them with active fonts.

That’s against the intention of PDF and a severe shortcoming, but known.

I would like to suggest that the behaviour of scrolling in the layers panel is changed to allow for one finger to select and hold a layer (group of layers) while another finger can scroll the layers list. That would allow the user to move a layer up or down the list much faster than bringing the layer close to the edge of the panel and then wait for the auto scrolling behaviour that is both slow and unpredictable in speed.

It's no problem to make it smaller. That's just a design choice.
Just a quick tryout and I wouldn't miss anything in a panel like this: all the same information is still there. And it could even be smaller if we replace the placements with icons (we only need two: embedded and linked).
And if we make the panel wider, more of the filename would be visible, so it also works with long filenames. Meet responsive design

Thank you! I've created you a link to our internal Dropbox account:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/Oyj8ohiNuQbeJ9huGCDg

Hi Brian D,
We already have this logged from other user's reports. It should be fixed soon. I'm sorry for the incovenience.
Thanks for your support.

Hi Brian D,

I've gotten this bumped with development, but glad bumping up the Mitre has stopped the flickering for you!

Thank you! I'm guessing that fix has been around a while and I just missed it? Regardless, this is great, really appreciate it!

Hey Affinity, 
I love using your software and with each update it's getting better and better. Really looking forward to Publisher dropping shortly as well which will have no doubt focused on all of your attention.
I use Designer predominately and there are two tools that I know a lot of people would benefit from. I was wondering if they might be in future plans and if there is any time scale?
1) Shape Builder - i know designer already features similar tools but it would be awesome to have a dedicated tool similar to illustrator which would really help with productivity and accuracy. This thread dates back to 2015 so fingers crossed aha!
2) Expand Strokes to Shapes -  This would be so useful in so many different ways. 
Many thanks, 
Cailum
 

Try changing your Mitre: to 2 instead of the 1.4

I literally have to hover and wait for the description every time... this is supposed to be a comic with 2 pictures per icon right? would it be possible to overhaul these icons into something clearer?

To me, that seems quite an understatement, particularly with the current discount!
 
I don't even have a supported iPad (wife has an iPad Air but it is not an Air 2) & I am still considering buying the app at the discount price, just in case I ever get a supported one.  :)

This! I bought Affinity Photo and an iPad Pro in anticipation of it being release for the iPad. This would be amazing for my workflow and is basically *the* killer app for the iPad Pro. I'm sure there are some really good reasons why it hasn't been launched yet but for those of us patiently waiting it's agonizing. In the future please don't announce a product so far in advance! It leads to false expectations and by the time it's actually released diminished excitement. Purely speculative but I wonder if the delay has to do with the focus on Affinity for Windows and ensuring that it syncs seamlessly with that version as well?
 
If I knew we'd see something in the next couple months I'd invest in moving my workflow over to Affinity products completely but without any kind of timeline it's hard for professionals to make these kinds of decisions. 
 
Note that even though I don't actively use Affinity Photo and I'm critical of their iPad release timeline I'm still a huge champion / evangelist and will continue to recommend and purchase any of their photography related products! I want to see Affinity continue to succeed and I only post because I'm invested in that outcome.

The company is too silent.

Most (if not all) RAW processing software I have worked with so far have ways to remember settings and later continue the RAW processing with these settings or perform adjustments to these settings if the final outcome (e.g. final JPG image) proved to be not perfect.
 
There are two aspects here which imho need improvement to make this iterating process less frustrating:
 
1. Saving photo-specific RAW settings (e.g. to sidecar files)
Currently Affinity Photo has only one rather cumbersome way to achieve this: You have to create a Preset for each tab where you changed settings and if you re-open the RAW file later you have to load all these presets again. (Affinity Photo shows them selected, but this is irritating since they have not actually been applied. Only after switching to another preset and then back are the changes taking effect. - A small bug I'd say.)
 
Most other RAW processing software either automatically stores or optionally allows to store a small sidecar file together with the (unaltered) RAW file so that if the RAW is later opened again, the user can continue where it left off.
An alternative is Affinity keeping an internal database about the settings of each RAW file, but this approach usually fails if images are moved to a different folder or archived (which happens to all my images after processing) and Affinity doesn't know about this.
 
2. Allow switching back to real RAW processing from Photo persona
Also when I developed a photo and then switched back to the Develop persona (without doing any edits inbetween, I should note), I found myself not editing the original RAW file, but applying further edits on the already processed image. This was a big disappointment, as it defies the benefits of working on the RAW file.
This means for example that If I found out I applied too strong noise reduction or too strong highlights clipping then switching to Develop again does not help, because what is lost in the developed image cannot be recovered.
 
Please offer the user an easy possibility to apply changes to the originally processed image afterwards. (Which means, that the application must remember the RAW settings at the time the image was last developed).
 
Matthias