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here we go, I managed to capture. Nothing to do with the Rotation/Zoom value, it simply stops. I started the screen recording when I noticed my selection vectors/bounding box were gone, leaving to start the recording and coming back did not fix. What the screen recording doesn’t capture is me tapping and tapping to select. You’ll see that when I zoom, the vectors immediately re-appear. I still see no rhyme or reason, it just… stops until I do the resize trick. But it’s frustrating, because it just happens randomly and I’m not sure if I missed clicking or the problem has come up again. But as you see here, no vectors no vectors no vectors zoom presto vectors. Fully up to date on system and program, I do so much production work I don’t like to work on beta versions. RPReplay_Final1682793594.mov

Not sure it's a sample file thing, it's pretty much anything I do will have this happen, but randomly I'll try to capture next time it happens. I can try the beta app, but I do vector art professionally and avoid beta versions for work. Hoping the update ends the problem It's an M1 12.9 pro model. I can look at zoom level, but the problem again seems to be a screen refresh issue without it being a common element like at a certain zoom. But I'll pay attention to that. It's more like a redraw failure at random times, where I am suddenly unsure whether I've selected or not. The second I zoom, forcing a redraw, the selection bounds show again.

I’ve experienced issues where I’ve selected objects but no vectors or selection box appears. But, if I pinch to zoom in or out, they suddenly appear. Apparently, the screen refresh is failing on a simple selection, though not consistently. The second I force a refresh, the missing selection indicators magically appear.

V2 has not added this

I’m sitting here stunned that the Designer on iPad is STILL limited to a single decimal place. What… the… actual… It is one of those “seems small but is massive to me” and though I’m still looking at the new stuff this actually angers me a bit.

As much as I love Affinity Designer, it’s holes in the functionality like this that really undermine it as a serious tool. That and the single digit decimal number sizing.

Personally, I would place this as the number one problem to fix on AD for iPad. Everyone will have their own, but this one seems fixable and also fundamentally flawed in its current state.

Is there a technical limitation on iPad that prevents giving us even two decimal places? I work with laser cutters and create pieces in AD, but the lack of verifiable precision on the iPad version makes it a no-go beyond initial conceptual work. I simply cannot trust it. There are many many people out there who need verifiable accuracy, and this, for me, should be considered a bug unless it simply cannot be achieved on an ipad. I can’t think why this would be a thing considering how powerful these things have gotten.

It’s been almost 3 years so I’m hoping this gets some love and attention. A huge issue for me.

Here's step one, I'll need to get going on a screen recording, though I must say the process is "select the tool, set the origin for the clone, paint with the tool using my Cintiq". There's the usual enlarging and shrinking the brush using the bracket keyboard shortcuts. I'll play with the screen recording and try and get it to replicate the problem.

If I do enough work on my Mac (Mac Mini 2018, Big Sur 11.5.2, newest Photo update) using the Affinity Photo clone brush, it will eventually take a square transparent cut out of my image. This will NOT undo, the area cut out is simply gone. Has anyone else experienced this?

This is seriously affecting my workflow, I must say, so praying for an update really soon.

Glad to know as I too have this as a brand new issue, I had an earlier issue with it just crashing on print attempt that was fixed by reinstalling the printer drivers... no such luck this time.

Since Affinity software doesn’t work in keyframes why would onion skin be a thing? For tracing in traditional illustration layer modes and opacity handle this.

Yeah, it’s a long shot but considering how good Moho got with 12.5 (additions in 13, not an improvement at all) I would love to see a company like Serif pick it up and use the bones to create a new part of their suite. Smith Micro is refocusing and if they don’t sell it off, I fear it will be gone. Looking at Harmony otherwise.

I’d love to abandon adobe, but the video and animation are the problem. Moho seems a tighter fit in style for an Animate substitute, though something that allowed bone rigging and AE style compositing would be amazing. I’d pay more that $50 for that, for sure.

I feel that maybe Serif should acquire Moho from Smith Micro. SM have abandoned it. And it’s actually quite strong, though the 13 iteration is actually far worse than 12.5. But I feel Serif cares. And as a technology to challenge Adobe, they are the strongest candidate for acquiring and improving Moho.

As for the UI, turning off “automatically hide UI” solved it. So we’re down to the deselect. Would love to have a single click option on that.

yes but... still extra work for a top level action. And i find that sometimes the press hold reads as a tap, maybe something to do with iPad Pro responsiveness issues (lotsa discussion on this one in Apple boards) Don’t know why, but I often get the hide UI if click near the top edge with the pencil. On further experimentation it seems to happen with pencil but not finger. If I tap either if the first two top icons (the two with ellipses) and then click again on another of the icons this happens. So as you learn and search around for different things, it happens. A LOT for me. bless you

I have to add, Adobe made such a huge deal over bring Photoshop to the iPad without even coming CLOSE to having a full-featured program such as this.

I know a few of these have been addressed elsewhere, but my initial thoughts on playing with this very good program. 1. Deselect is hidden away, it takes two clicks. Such an incredibly common action should appear in the menu bar for the Selection portion 2. Clicking the edge goes to full screen, hiding all the tools and such. However, it is so easy to hit this when trying to use one of those tools/boxes. I find myself constantly frustrated by how easily this happens. 3. Why no undo/redo button available? When working with the Pencil, having to switch to finger taps for this feature is not ideal. I'm so used to Procreate and other tools that have this along with the gestures, and the lack is glaring to me when I work in Photo. The rest, I believe, is teething pains and learning curves. I'm really pleased overall.

I've uploaded. This was sent by a client wanting me to improve the layout, so I didn't build the original. It's... bad. It's really ugly. But, it crashes things so you I hope it helps.

Fair point and will share file with tech support. Wouldn’t post on an open message board.

Uh oh. I'm on 1.8.2 it seems. Crash crash crash crash with IDML. 5 times in 30 minutes.

Was going to second this, since I'm looking to move from InDesign to Affinity Publisher. But crash crash crash while evaluating how IDML works with Publisher. Will eagerly await 1.8.2