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matt

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  1. Feel free to check my existing threads going back years. The issues exist across all Affinity apps (they're all basically the same app with different defaults/presets/toolbars, I wrote a thread about that too). I should clarify that I'm doing pixel accurate layouts using vectors. Figma does this stuff with its eyes closed.
  2. I'm Matt Sephton an indie game developer and former Technology Evangelist at Apple. I am trying to use Affinity Designer for pixel work but have top say I am close to giving up. I've been here since the beginning of Affinity. Before that I used Xara Studio (where some of the Affinity developers once worked, IIRC) and before that FreeHand, Fireworks, Canvas, artWORKS, UltraPaint, SuperPaint, Deluxe Paint, PageStream, etc. The fact that all of those old apps are better at pixel work than Affinity is a crying shame. Figma and Penpot are where I will probably end up.
  3. Well it was happening as recently as March 2023, see my post above. I can't be bothered opening a new thread as the likelihood of it being fixed is almost zero.
  4. I'm affected by this so much I've just started looking into other apps. AD is increasingly death by a thousand cuts. "Small" but important problems have been ignored for years. It's just not cut out for serious interface work. Figma and Sketch and Penpot get this right. Fireworks, Freehand and all the apps of the past got it right. Where did it all go wrong?
  5. I want my bitmap fill to wrap (tile) which is easy. However the dimensions the bitmap fill is applied seem arbitrary (it's not 1:1) and there is no option to set the bitmap fill size to 1:1 or lock it at a chosen size So I'd like to request both of those. The goal is simply have more of the 1:1 bitmap fill revealed as the object is resized. To compare with other tools... Success modern tools Figma: very easy to set up and very pleasant to manipulate link Sketch: slightly trickier to set up, not quite as pleasant to work with Success old tools Fireworks: yes, it can do it and very pleasant to manipulate FreeHand: yes, and all the patterns are built in so you don't even have to use images 🔥 Xara Designer: you can enter/correct bitmap fill dpi in the infobar 😅 Partial success Amadine: could do it but it's a bit fiddly and requires even numbered size dimensions Could not do it: PenPot Boxy SVG
  6. Still an issue in 2.2.0, September 2023. All these smaller issues amount to death by a thousand cuts. Really takes the shine of things.
  7. Good example, John. it would likely be quicker to list all the places that have correct tabbing behaviour as it seems to be broken in every place I try it.
  8. Thanks, I only use Mac so it's interesting to know there's a difference with this.
  9. I agree, to have tab order still wrong in 2023 is an absolute crime for accessibility.
  10. I'm so disappointed with v2 it is literally the worst upgrade I have used in recent memory. So much stuff still half-baked since the early v1 days. Sigh.
  11. But it's possible to set dashed lines on a table, so it should work well IMHO. Anyway, I used it as a guide and placed some horizontal and vertical dotted lines to get what I wanted.
  12. Is there any way of forcing all measurements to snap to whole pixels?
  13. Oh, good catch! I will check my main artwork for that sort of thing.
  14. Sure! I've included it as an attachment. Make sure to set View > View Mode > Pixels ...because this option is still not saved with the document. Bonus layer of a dotted line table which behaves in an almost psychedelic way when you zoom in. Grid madness.afdesign
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