nik78

Yes, you're right!

Is this a bug? If I bring in a PDF page and select group as text frame, I cannot scale the type. Only the box around gets enlarged, as in picture 1. If we bring in the type as individual lines and then group them or select them individually, we can then scale them.

The problem is this: It is five years already (an eternity in software design) and the programs are still riddled with bugs. Some features that are being mentioned were talked about years ago. You can't live off potential forever. They have to take a big step forward at some point and fix the bugs that are there for starters.

When using the crop tool, it seems to zoom in to a bigger size after applying it. Is this normal?

On system 10.13.6 (High Sierra) the persona bar is there in separated mode. The contextual menu only seems to show up if I pick another tool after using the selection tool.

It's quite an odd problem. It seems to be related to the color profiles. I'm using the halftone filters in Affinity Photo to create a circular and dot like pattern on an image. If I export as a tiff with everything flattened, I believe it comes in looking correct in Photoshop. With layers, it gets converted which changes everything. In Affinity Designer, the psd file comes in correctly, but I have to change one layer from colour burn to linear burn. Clip Paint studio converts it as well, although I don't believe you can stop the conversion in there. At one point, Photoshop seemed to bring in a basic two layer version with color burn on one, correctly. I added more layers and it converted the file.

Looks like it is related to the color profile settings in Photoshop and the settings used in the document for Affinity. When I replaced the Photoshop pref file with an old one I was able to open the Affinity file. But even though I have the settings in Photoshop set to not convert the profile to the working space, it seems to convert the colors.

Not sure why this is happening. I export the file using the psd setting for editability. Photoshop opens, a wheel spins and boom it closes. 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The basic vector set seems rather useful. Wonder why they got rid of it?

I see the basic brush set for the pixel persona, but is there supposed to be one for the vector brushes in Designer?

How do I pay in US dollars rather than Canadian? I can buy it on b and h photo for 24.99 but how do I do it on the website?

Saved it as a Tiff in Photoshop and I turned off font layers. Start up Photo and then click open and find the file. Should work.

Aha! so there is a bitmap pixel brush in designer in pixel mode. After you draw a line however, if you move the cursor around you get a trail. If you use another brush and move that around you seem to erase the trail when you move the cursor over it.

Most professionals I know don't see it as a replacement at this point. It can be used in addition to Adobe, but there is too much missing. Not telling people what is planned makes no sense to me and limited resources is an excuse. If they were listening, some basic features that people have been asking for (proper percentage scaling boxes for one) would be there after, what 4 or 5 long years? Not sure where they are heading with these programs at all.

Affinity has been around for a while now and at this point, it is still not a replacement for Adobe. There are a lot of good things, but the development is just taking way too long. There is a golden opportunity that is being missed, because a lot of people are fed up with Adobe. So what exactly is the long range plan and what are the features that are going to be added? There is a lot of stuff that is not there (including proper plugin support) and I wonder if any of the developers are actually listening.