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When working with photos/images in Affinity Designer, (with Affinity Photo installed), there should be an easy way to launch Affinity Photo (or another chosen bitmap editor) from within Affinity Designer to edit bitmap images (beyond the photo editing capability integrated into Affinity Designer). This should be available both from the right mouse context menu and the context aware bar across the top when a bitmap image is selected.
With such excellent Affinity application interoperability I am surprised this has not yet been implemented.
This type of integration should also be incorporated into Affinity Publisher.
 
Another possible interface enhancement, could be to (optionally - in preferences?) replace the Affinity Designer Pixel Persona with the Affinity Photo 'Photo Persona'. If this capability were implemented, it would still be useful to include the ability to launch Affinity Photo as a bitmap editor from within Affinity Designer, as Affinity Photo provides further capability (i.e. Liquify Persona and Tone Mapping Persona). I would love the integration of the Affinity Photo 'Photo Persona' with Affinity Designer when editing bitmap images within Affinity Designer. (Considering how these applications are designed I wouldn't be shocked if such integration were technically feasible.)

Yes, that says that things should be faster using OpenCL. 
But where does it say that 1.9 will be slower than 1.8 if you're not using OpenCL.
We're pointing out that 1.9 without OpenCL will have equivalent performance to 1.8.
Therefore, lack of OpenCL for your GPU is not a good reason to revert to the old release.

It seems in AD "Global Colors" are what I know as "Named Colors".
But I found it endlessly complicated to define and change them.
The whole color selection system of AD is really really bad compared to Xara Designer or Photoshop
In Xara I can create, name and change colors, strokes and fills without ever having to open or change between "Color" "Swatches" and "Stroke" or any other pallette.
I find it very, very intuitive and fast.
In AD it is way more complicated and counterintuitive.

Coming from my former graphics software, I am very used to:
leftclick on a swatch changes fill color of selected object
rightclick on  a swatch changes line color of selected object
Leftclick works of course, but I have not found an easy way to change line color yet.
Is there a way to change it to the way I am used to?
Or what is the next-best way to change linecolor?
Going to the swatches pallet, switching to stroke color, then changing the color is really tiresome.

I can only confirm that!
Wanted to change the document format afterwards and it did not work. The only thing that helped me was to activate "Anchor to Page" in the "Document Setup" menu. 
Unfortunately the "Rescale" does not work and you have to resize the objects manually
AD_1.8.0_doc_setup.mp4

Hi Kampos!
you are right. I used CD for many years. At that time I was constantly using this option / shortcut to break the text lines.
It was my habit to type all the text matter in the design at a time and then use 'Ctrl + K' to separate it and immediately put lines wherever you needed and then change their font, color, size etc. But this cannot be done in Affinity. Each line has to be typed separately or cut and pasted separately with the help of a text tool. Professionally this is very time consuming work.
In CD, those broken lines can also be selected and added again by pressing 'Ctrl + L' shortcut. This is a very enjoyable and easy way to do dynamic work.
I urge developers to make it easier to break or re-add a line or a word by a shortcut.

Dan C, CorelDRAW has both paragraph text in frames and artistic text which is more like graphic elements, but still subject to changes in font, font size, justification and alignment unless and until it is converted to curves at some point.  Ctrl-K is CD's general "break apart" operation.  When applied to a multiline text element (either paragraph or artistic), it creates multiple text elements, one for each line.  The interline leading is not included in the newly created text elements.  When applied to a singleline, multiword text element, it creates multiple text elements, one for each word.  The interword spaces are not included in the newly created text elements.  When applied to a singleword text element, it creates multiple text elements, one for each character.
When applied to paragraph text, CD preserves as much as it can of the original text frame boundaries.  Any excess vertical space is kept with the rows at the top and/or bottom of the text element. Any excess horizontal space in a single line is kept with the words at the left and/or right ends.
While interline leading and interword spacing are omitted from text elements created by Ctrl-K, it is still possible for the new text elements to overlap, especially in the presence of large ascenders and descenders.
(This describes the behavior of CorelDRAW 2018, but I am pretty confident it has not change significantly for many years.)