tropilio

OMG found it; it's in the character-panel... that was the last place where I would expect a language setting, but maybe that will make sense to me later? At least I found it and it works! 
 

This is very frustrating

Late to this party as we have just hit this issue.  If I remember correctly, CorelDraw had an option to import a PDF as curves, so it converted the embedded fonts to curves on import, giving a visually identical, but not editable, PDF page import.  From what I can see, AP rasterises the 'Placed' PDF which mostly looks OK, but doesn't seem to be as efficient a solution to importing PDFs without their fonts.
I have found an option in Foxit PDF Editor to convert a PDF to curves: Edit Object > Text > Select text strings (Ctrl+A to select all) > Convert to Shape
- but it would be nice to have that as an option on PDF import into AP.

I'm happy to report that SDK development is progressing well. We are steadily working towards exposing enough app functionality to make useful plugins, but there's still quite a lot to do before we can consider even a "technology preview" release. 

The Latin Modern fonts from GUST are an updated version (in OTF format) of the Computer Modern fonts.
https://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern/download
Take a look at the History and ReadMe links on that page to see what has been done.
Those fonts may work better.
 

The issue "Lasso node selection fails on duplicated shapes" (REF: AFD-6510) has been fixed by the developers in internal build &quot2.1.0.1769&quot.
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.

Yes, they will log the problems with their developers, but in the meantime I have to pay my subscription to Adobe because I am struggling to get professional results with the Affinity suite. It may take weeks to solve these problems, perhaps months or even years, and in the meantime I've spent 120€ for nothing. Besides, the PDF export problem seems to be a known bug, as this other user points out as a major problem with Affinity Publisher in this post:
I am just very disappointed by my experience with the Affinity suite, and not by small details, but by the presence of fundamental problems, such as lags, crashes and basic import/export problems, and I wonder how people manage to work with this softwares.
(BTW The CMU font problem is only partially a font problem, the double quotes are still rendered incorrectly in Publisher)

Hi, about the lag issues of Affinity Publisher, I've got lots of files on my Mac (on Win is the same) that can recreate the lag (on each system: 16 or 32Bg of Ram, 100 or 250Bg of free space on the SSD, each kind of GPU and CPU and OS).
I think the problem is related to the heavy use of Data Merge. In one project, I've about 70 Excel files linked. And both on V1 and on V2, if I start the automatic update of all the linked files, the app will crash. I have to do that individually, by hand, waiting 30 to 60 seconds for each. It's a mess and a big loss of time.
On another project, I have about 70 different pages imported from an external .afpub file.
Both projects will start eating CPU time and SSD space only if I leave them open in Affinity Publisher. And if I try to work on them, the app start to lag in 10 minutes. So that I have to quit and lunch the app again.
This happens both in V1 and in V2.

Hi @debraspicher, thanks for your reply. No, I haven't tried the beta yet, as I said I went back to Adobe because I need to get some work done and can't lose any more time at the moment. I'll try leaving the programs open at idle and see if that results in lag build-up.

Hi everyone, I would like to publicly share my negative experience with the Affinity V2 suite, so as to alert potential new buyers and let people know the poor attention I was given by the Serif refund service.
I bought the Affinity suite about 2 months ago, encouraged by the offer of 120 euros instead of 200.  After a first month of fairly sporadic use, during which I got on relatively well with the suite's applications, I started using them more intensively, trying to switch completely from the Adobe suite to the Affinity suite. Unfortunately, however, the more I use the 3 softwares, the more I encounter problems with stability (freezes at least once a day) and speed (after a few hours of use, Affinity Publisher becomes incredibly slow and laggy, sometimes taking several seconds before a simple operation such as selecting an object takes effect), not to mention the numerous bugs I encounter every day.
 
Sometimes, when I encountered a bug, I took the time to write a post on this forum, hoping that some moderator would notice it and report the problem to the development team, such as: 
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/182300-lasso-node-selection-not-working/
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/183955-incorrect-rendering-of-cmu-serif-font/ Recently, I came across a bug related to importing and exporting documents from Publisher that really surprised me and made me strongly doubt the overall quality of the Affinity suite, and I again spent half an hour reporting it on the forum:
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/184149-serious-importexport-bugs-in-affinity-publisher/
I had hoped to have found a good alternative to the (very expensive) Adobe suite, but unfortunately there are still too many problems and I cannot work with these programmes reliably. Therefore, I am forced (reluctantly) to renew my subscription to Adobe.
 
Given the number of problems I have encountered, I have contacted the Serif refund service, expressing my wish to cancel the purchase and request a refund. Even a partial refund would have been fine with me. I would like to point out that I am not asking for a refund for a simple 'dissatisfaction' with Affinity products (in which case I realise that I would only be covered by the buyer's guarantee for the first 14 days after purchase), but for the fact that I just can't use these products for work, there are too many bugs!
Importing vector files does not work well and exporting to pdf is a Russian roulette. How can I make presentations with software like this? It's like I bought a mobile phone that sends text messages but doesn't make phone calls: I can't use it, I can't work with it, it's too unreliable.
I sent a long e-mail explaining the situation, and Serif's refund service simply replied:
What can I say. I thought I had found the antidote to Adobe, but instead I realised to my cost that not only is Serif's software nowhere near good enough to replace Adobe's for professional use, but that the Serif team itself pays almost no attention to its customers. If you are thinking of buying these products, beware.

Yes, they will log the problems with their developers, but in the meantime I have to pay my subscription to Adobe because I am struggling to get professional results with the Affinity suite. It may take weeks to solve these problems, perhaps months or even years, and in the meantime I've spent 120€ for nothing. Besides, the PDF export problem seems to be a known bug, as this other user points out as a major problem with Affinity Publisher in this post:
I am just very disappointed by my experience with the Affinity suite, and not by small details, but by the presence of fundamental problems, such as lags, crashes and basic import/export problems, and I wonder how people manage to work with this softwares.
(BTW The CMU font problem is only partially a font problem, the double quotes are still rendered incorrectly in Publisher)

Hi, I am an advertising graphic designer with 25 years of experience. I have been using the Affinity Suite for 3 years (starting with Photo and Designer and then adding Publisher as soon as it was in beta). In Italy, I have created a course dedicated to Affinity Publisher and numerous Live sessions to help other users understand the differences between Adobe and Affinity workflows. I have helped some graphic studios to make the transition. Unfortunately, I have repeatedly highlighted the significant technical limitations present in both the V1 and V2 Suites, which, from my point of view as a Senior professional, are extremely frustrating and cause significant workflow time losses for graphic agencies. This text will be a bit longer, unfortunately, but I hope effective and understandable.
These are essentially the points you will find below, primarily related to Affinity Publisher:

    •    PDF export is not currently reliable. Depending on the values entered, there is a risk of obtaining terrible unintended effects without realizing it. This includes text rasterizations (which automatically transform a Black K-100 into a Rich Black in part of a text), knockout black instead of overprints, and unwanted effects when certain types of FX are applied at the layer. Not to mention what happens if I work with a text with an FX shadow on a Pantone color (the Pantone becomes a CMYK where the shadow is present, instead of remaining a Pantone and accepting the shadow in overprint).

    •    Color management is terrible. If I assign Fogra39 to a file and then I have to print it at a printing company that uses a different color profile when I load the new color profile, all the colors in the file will have to be reassigned because they will completely lose their real composition (the K100 black will become a rich black again and so on, as if the entire color flow passes through RGB and then returns to CMYK).    

    •    There is no internal control system in the Suite that allows the user to understand in advance when these problems occur. Nor is there a tool to understand it after creating the PDF. An Export Persona is necessary for Affinity Publisher that gives the possibility to see exactly what happens in Color Separation when a certain combination of values is chosen from the PDF export menu.

    •    Swatches management is too slow. On the palette, I have to build my Global Colors, otherwise, I won't be able to modify them intelligently later on. But what happens when I copy an object from one document and bring it to another document? Its color palette is not added to the existing palette (each color has to be manually added one by one), and this creates a considerable loss of time.

    •    Why is there no way to transform a Global Color to which I have given the Spot value into a normal four-color process? It doesn't make sense. Often, in the workflow, the same color is changed several times, from Spot to Non-Spot, and only in the end is it decided what to do based on the printing. Here you cannot. The color must be remade and reassigned to each object.

    •    Why is there no way to replace one color with another? A "replace color" function would be excellent. As well as a function that asks me if I want to replace it with another color when I delete a Global Color from the palette. 

These are the most important and limiting things for me. Although one could list a whole series of minor bugs that have existed for years and have not been resolved.

After accepting that none of this was done in V2, my idea is that I am not part of Affinity's true target audience. I am a professional with extensive experience. I worked with Quark before, and then with Adobe for decades. Why should someone like me switch to an "economic" system like the Affinity Suite? My answer is that I appreciated the great effort made by Affinity to invent a new workflow that is non-destructive by default, more modern, and suitable for the hardware available today. I was bored of using Adobe.
However, after this first step, made years ago, it seems to me that there has been a change of direction. Not surprisingly, most of the Affinity users I talk to are students, enthusiasts, or even mid-level freelancers, but not high-level professionals. This makes sense. It would be a bit absurd to go to war against one of the largest software houses on the planet, we would come out of it with broken bones. Yet I still hope. I hope I am wrong and believe that Affinity can make it.
I have 3 copies purchased of V2 in the drawer. I don't use them because I don't need them, and my workflow now works well on V1, while on V2 I immediately ran into bugs that weren't present in V1. It also happened in Adobe, I'm not scandalized.

But the question to Affinity is: do you plan to address the points mentioned above? Are you aware of them? Do you have any ideas on how to remedy them? Or is it not in your plans?

The answer to these questions would certainly help thousands of professionals like me understand how to orient themselves.
Thank you and sorry for the length.
Sincerely, Beniamino (PS: translated from Italian with ChatGPT)

When you apply a brushstroke to an object it’s impossible to find the corresponding brush in the brush panel . This is soo annoying when you can’t remember which brush you used , this happens when you have hundreds of brushes . This should be so that when you select an object and you go to brush panel the applied brush would be highlighted in the corresponding category. Also when exporting a document the used brushes have to go with the document 
RPReplay_Final1680330009.mp4

Do you really mean Microsoft "Outlook", the e-mail program?

Hi, please see this thread where Tim from Serif provided some updates in the past week.
 

Hi @tropilio,
Thanks for your report!
I can confirm I've been able to replicate the issues with this font here and I will be logging these with our developers now.
I can also confirm that disabling the 'Change straight quotes to typographic quotes' will use the same 'straight' quote shown on Font Squirrels preview, though the ff ligature still renders incorrectly.

Interestingly, on macOS / iPadOS the apostrophe is rendered correctly, though the 'ff' ligature is still incorrect so I will be including this information with our devs also
I hope this helps

The point behind the comment was the "why do people have to come here" not just "why do people come here". It wasn't about the questions being simple, but about the functions being non-intuitive, such that users can't understand the simple function without asking.
(I don't agree with the comment, by the way. I think too many users just assume it will be like Photoshop, and do not take the time to educate themselves by examining the Help or the Tutorials before they dive in.)

Photoshop shows a warning*, but Affinity just deletes the layer without  saying anything or giving any warning. Affinity isn't intuitive enough, why do people have to come to this forum to ask such simple questions?....
*

Affinity should make it more simple: select and just hit delete key!
(already made this request)

Hi Jeff
Have a closer look at the text frame. You'll see two handles/nodes in the bottom right corner.
Moving the inner one will scale/transform the frame only, moving the outer one will also scale the contents of the frame.
Brilliant.

Haha I feel dumb now lol.
 
You want to click on the icon that looks like a crosshair it's tooltip should say "Show Rotation Center".
 
Then you can drag that control point wherever you want to adjust the rotation handle

Listen @oO5Dynasty, I don't know if you are really not getting the point, or if you are pretending not to. In any case, you are answers are really confusing and sometimes just plainly wrong. You just wrote that:
This is false. This whole topic is about the lack of possibility to do that in AP. We shown you even with videos what we mean by cropping to selection.
If you don't know the answer to something, then maybe, if you want to help people, you should consider the option of keeping quiet, instead of spreading misleading information.

Long term Adobe Illustrator user here. Trying Affinity Designer for the first time today. It's a very nice software, so far, but the lack of this BASIC functionality is baffling..! As already many users pointed out, for people that are editing exported vector graphics (for example CAD drawings) this is definitely a deal breaker.

Of course. For example, to remove extra white borders from data plots. I created a simple macro in Photoshop that does this: select by color (black) > expand selection by some px > crop.
I honestly don't know how to achieve that in AP.
Video:

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Wow, just wow, this thread...
I have selected the area I want to keep and crop everything else.
It just boggles my mind that there is no simple option to do that.