qbenguy

Look in Tools, not the actual tool that is named (Paint Mixer Brush).

I think you need to investigate the Pixel persona.

Hi @Alfred, thanks!
I'd rather not switch to edit in Photo 2, and I must be overlooking how to erase the information in Designer 2. I'm gonna take a deeper look because it sounds like I may not have the eraser tool in Designer 2 added to my toolbar. 

In addition to the above: You might also check + edit the various entries in the "Fields" panel in APub / the "Metadata" panel in APhoto to avoid unwanted info in an exported file. – For the export of documents as rasterized image file type you have an additional option to "Embed metadata" in the export dialog.
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There’s no need to switch between apps. In either app you can delete the information (regardless of whether it’s included as pixels or editable text) and you can create rectangles.

As far as  I know Affinity lacks a dedicated „redact“ function available in Adobe products https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/removing-sensitive-content-pdfs.html
You should use extra care and carefully inspect exported files when manually redacting PDF documents in Affinity Apps.
I would suggest to create a flattened / rasterized PDF if possible, this reduces the risk of leaving traces of readable text.
 

How are you actually deleting the information?
You can export a PDF that will require a password to edit content.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer 2, version 2.0.3
The changes in Affinity Designer 2 for Windows 2.0.3 (those made since the last release Affinity Designer 2 for Windows 2.0.0) are as follows:
We plan to also release this build as a MSI/EXE installer. Please follow this FAQ thread for notification of it's release.
Fixes & Improvements:  (since the last release 2.0.0)
New Document: Custom Document Preset order is not retained between app sessions Current DPI of selected layer does not show in V2 Shape Builder Tool now has an additional option to delete open curves that were inside a newly created area, plus you can now hold Alt to delete areas while still in Add mode - more to come... Warp Group editing now supports the Shift modifier to lock node edits to an 8-axis grid. Also can be used with off-curve nodes to maintain their angle while dragging them Modifying Global Colour swatch fails to update document until you click out of the Colour Selector Sliders for Warp Group are broken Using the Select object/ transparency object selects all objects Symbols - Delinked nodes get forgotten when swapping out nodes from synchronised instances Shape Builder Tool: Alt to delete on rotated shapes fails Shape Builder Tool: sometimes drags out a selection marquee Shape Builder Tool: functional improvements on some shapes Placed documents with bleed fail to render the top and left side correctly Quotes can be incorrectly put on newlines and cause text to render differently compared to V1 Straightening in the Develop Persona offsets the image from the canvas entirely, until developed or crashes Transform Panel- Differences in panel size when switching between Curve strokes and expanded objects Cmd+Z / Ctrl+Z isn't working in V2 apps for adjustments Outline Layer Effect is making the anti-aliased edges transparent, rather than blending with the shapes colour Quick Access to Node Tool no longer allows you to insert node Fixed spurious "future version" error under certain circumstances Improvements with PDF Import and Layers Fixes for RTF import - font name discrepancies, fields in footnotes Update for HEIF importer DWG Import scaling improvements DWG file takes a long time to open then shows incorrectly (file specific). Colour Panel now remembers user preference for CMYK documents Export Panel UI fixes Fixed some tool drawing issues relating to selections across spreads etc Pen tool tweaks and fixes Fixed hang that could occur composing vertical centre aligned text OpenType handling does not respect lookup flags such as IgnoreMarks Hit box of scaled text could be incorrect Gradients on text strokes don't render unless the fill also has a gradient Fixes for line breaking in some odd cases with punctuation Resource Manager updates Light UI Improvements Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes Clipboard: 32 bit DIB support added Auto Flow Place: Added an option to auto-flow place to replace the content of already populated picture frames More attributes are retained when replacing images in frames Ensure global colour edits update live Select Same Name should only select objects with user supplied names New clearer icons for stroke properties (cap, join, align) Help & localisation improvements. Licensing and Registration improvements and new help links  
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer ).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store — each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (those installers are NOT for Windows Store purchases).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store — Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo 2, version 2.0.3
We plan to also release this build as a MSI/EXE installer. Please follow this FAQ thread for notification of it's release.
The changes in Affinity Photo 2 for Windows 2.0.3 (those made since the last release Affinity Photo 2 for Windows 2.0.0) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
New Document: Custom Document Preset order is not retained between app sessions Placed documents with bleed fail to render the top and left side correctly Lens Correction in Develop Persona has no effect on non-Raw files when a Lens Profile is applied Quotes can be incorrectly put on newlines and cause text to render differently compared to V1 Can't place image when recording a macro in Photo V2 V2 opens raw files slower than V1 Running a V1 Macro that uses 'Add Image' (Place) crashes app - also applies to Batch Processing Importing .JPG and .TIFF files with Keywords only displays the last keyword in the Metadata panel Straightening in the Develop Persona offsets the image from the canvas entirely, until developed or crashes Exclusion blend mode causing unexpected results on 16bit file layers with blown highlights Transform Panel- Differences in panel size when switching between Curve strokes and expanded objects Tone Mapping Preset options missing. Blemish Tool failing after developing image. Develop Persona 'Sync Before' no longer functions Lens Correction Mis-Centered for Portrait Orientation Raw Files Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S not identified Phase One IIQ files are being rendered all black Mesh Warp doesn't work with multiple Outline FX. Cmd+Z / Ctrl+Z isn't working in V2 apps for adjustments Incorrect AF region display for Canon PowerShot G1X Mark III White Balance Tool giving different results for Infrared processing. Outline Layer Effect is making the anti-aliased edges transparent, rather than blending with the shapes colour Fixed Curves adjustment settings panel 'Colour Space' picker being blank when colour space is RGBU Crop Tool displays checkerboard when rotating image in Develop Persona. The Patch Tool doesn't work with Global Sources & 'Set Global Source' remains greyed out Unable to Undo crop after pressing Enter key in Develop Persona. Blemish Tool lag in Develop Persona Quick Access to Node Tool no longer allows you to insert node (Windows)  Fixed spurious "future version" error under certain circumstances Improvements with PDF Import and Layers Fixes for RTF import - font name discrepancies, fields in footnotes Some functions in layers context menu should not be available for non-child items. Update for HEIF importer DWG Import scaling improvements Colour Panel now remembers user preference for CMYK documents Export Panel UI fixes Fixed some tool drawing issues relating to selections across spreads etc Pen tool tweaks and fixes Fixed hang that could occur composing vertical centre aligned text OpenType handling does not respect lookup flags such as IgnoreMarks Hit box of scaled text could be incorrect Gradients on text strokes don't render unless the fill also has a gradient Fixes for line breaking in some odd cases with punctuation Resource Manager updates Light UI Improvements Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes Clipboard: 32 bit DIB support added Auto Flow Place: Added an option to auto-flow place to replace the content of already populated picture frames More attributes are retained when replacing images in frames Ensure global colour edits update live Select Same Name should only select objects with user supplied names New clearer icons for stroke properties (cap, join, align) Help & localisation improvements. Licensing and Registration improvements and new help links  
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Photo).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store — each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store — Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Publisher 2, version 2.0.3
We plan to also release this build as a MSI/EXE installer. Please follow this FAQ thread for notification of it's release.
The changes in Affinity Publisher 2 for Windows 2.0.3 (those made since the last release Affinity Publisher 2 for Windows 2.0.0) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
New Document: Custom Document Preset order is not retained between app sessions afpackage fails to find Resources on Open Fixed spurious future version error under certain circumstances Improvements with PDF Import and Layers Fixes for RTF import - font name discrepancies, fields in footnotes Update for HEIF importer DWG Import scaling improvements Opening and closing chapters in a Book can leave the files locked / read only Crash opening a bunch of chapters from a Book simultaneously Colour Panel now remembers user preference for CMYK documents Export Panel UI fixes Preview exported PDF fails on Book exports Fix for export of Books with Bleed Fix for Booklet printing model Fixed some tool drawing issues relating to selections across spreads etc Pen tool tweaks and fixes Fixed hang that could occur composing vertical centre aligned text OpenType handling does not respect lookup flags such as IgnoreMarks Hit box of scaled text could be incorrect Gradients on text strokes don't render unless the fill also has a gradient Fixes for line breaking in some odd cases with punctuation Merge runs of tabs using leaders Resource Manager updates Fixed various issues involving handling of placed document files Placed documents with bleed can fail to render the bleed correctly Light UI Improvements Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes Clipboard: 32 bit DIB support added Auto Flow Place: Added an option to auto-flow place to replace the content of already populated picture frames More attributes are retained when replacing images in frames Pages Panel, double clicking does not zoom page to view Ensure global colour edits update live Select Same Name should only select objects with user supplied names New clearer icons for stroke properties (cap, join, align) Hidden/Empty columns/rows are ignored when importing xlsx files into Data Merge, causes fields to get out of sync Help & localisation improvements. Licensing and Registration improvements and new help links  
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Publisher ).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store — each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (those installers are NOT for Windows Store purchases).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store — Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

It might have something to do with the time it seems to take to generate the font previews in the Windows versions: the preview text is IMO also unnecessarily big on Windows (or perhaps it can be adjusted somewhere?). They might have made the list limited to 11 families to alleviate the problem.
Earlier e.g. in CS6 Adobe apps (at least on Windows) the main font lists with samples were limited to listing just families (and actual styles could be selected only from a sub list; InDesign CS6 has the full list under Type > Font but that works poorly, but not so much because of problems with the system than because of the control itself as it misses a scroll bar and only has a a kind of a "more" arrow), and certain apps like QuarkXPress (2018) really struggle in getting a full font list with all styles built and properly responding. That depends much also on number of fonts installed, and the kind of system that is used.
But this has improved in the current versions of the mentioned apps, and nowadays e.g. Adobe apps have the main font lists extending from top to bottom and they contain all styles, and featurewise they are identical on both platforms.

Hi Herojas93,
If you signature has lot of details (like a handwritten signature for example) they may be lost or become blurred if you reduce the size of the PNG when you export.
This is simply because there isn't enough pixels in the exported PNG to reproduce all details clearly and because downsampling the image (reducing its pixel size) may place the pixels misaligned with the pixel grid, blurring the boundaries of the letters.
 
I don't know how you have created your signature (it's a raster signature (scanned), a vector one, just a logo/text using a regular font), so I can't give any specific advice but overall, working with a document in Affinity Designer with the same size of the image you intend to export and aligning all vector objects with the pixel grid (whenever possible) will lead to sharper results in the end if you are working with small images/detail. If you are working with a large scanned image, changing the Resample algorithm to Lanczos 3 (non-separable) when you are downsampling/resizing to the signature size will increase the sharpness of the details a little.

What has happened to my font list in Affinity Photo. I have recently updated to the latest version in August 2021 and my font list is limited to the first 11 fonts in alphabetical order. Can anyone let me know how to restore my full font list, please.

Hi Nic727,
No, it's not possible to move multiple guides at the same time. There will be quite a few improvements to grid and guides in the next version but i don't think this will be included (i may be wrong here). I'm moving this thread to the Feature Request section.

Hi,
 
Is it possible to select multiple guides and move them at the same time? It's a very good feature from Illustrator and I have difficulty doing this in Designer.
 
Thank you

It would be useful to be able to select and option+drag guides to duplicate them, or copy and paste them to be used elsewhere in the document. It would also be useful to be able to select a series of guides and drag to move them as a group, or nudge them with the arrow keys to fine-tune their placement.

Hi,
I just recently migrated to Affinity Suites and this is one of the features that I definitely use a lot in Adobe.
I find it impossible to select multiple guides, let alone duplicating them. I tried the Guides Manager but it also allows one guide to be deleted or even selected.
EDIT: I have to also mention that this feature is quite useful for making logos 
 

A lot of points raised which if Team Affinity were to revisit these areas would make Designer much more powerful. 
As a lifetime Adobe Illustrator user, I also used to face the same frustration when trying to duplicate objects in Affinity until I had to relearn the other duplicate option. Simply use the Control key on Windows and you will get the desired and expected behaviour. The Control key when used for duplicating will behave in exactly the same way as the Alt key used in Adobe Illustrator. Affinity once got it right a couple of versions back where you could actually have the Control and Alt key sharing the same behaviour when duplicating. Alas, this was to be short-lived. I don't know what went wrong and the functionality somehow got broken on the Alt key.
Also note that Adobe Illustrator favours the Alt key to transform or scale objects from the centre and Affinity favours the Control key...

I forgot to add another problem with swatches not carrying over to another document via copy-n-paste... if your swatch is a SPOT color, the SPOT swatch is left behind. Try and re-make that swatch from your pasted object and you'll only create a CMYK swatch. Your SPOT color is gone for good.
This is a blinding oversight that should be treated as a bug fix rather than a missing feature.

Lots of stuff for them to work on there Stephen, don't know if any of it gets fixed in V 1.9
Guide colour has been on the must have list for over a year or more. Apparently in the beta you can now actually save workspaces with the palettes, requested that at the photoshow two years ago.
I love Affinity stuff and I'm sure they will get there, took Adobe years to add some stuff aswell
I'm sure they are listening, really want them to succeed, my mac is Adobe freeeeeee

I purchased Designer and Photo years ago but I just couldn't replace Illustrator & Photoshop because of a few missing features that are just workflow basics. I've moved to the Windows platform and just downloaded new trial versions of them to give them another chance, and these problems persist. Most of them relate to features that prevent the user from making critical, unprofessional mistakes like inconsistent color use across multiple documents. If you are deigning a flyer, a business card and a name badge, you can't have variations between them. These are a few [very] minor omissions that I am missing that risks me making amateurish mistakes:
- Global swatches don't carry to another document when copy-n-pasting a logo from one document to another (same as in Publisher)
- Swatches not carrying over to the new document also means that overprint setting are lost because overprint is defined in the swatch, not in the object.
- I can't tell what color mode I'm working in. If my mode is RGB for a flyer, I need something to shout out at me, or at least give me a clue that my print job is going to be disaster. A simple RGB/CMYK icon would suffice. Even Photo displays its color mode in the document's header, but Designer [where it's more important] doesn't.
- The colour picker only picks up RGB/CMYK values, not a global swatch. Even if I've pasted a logo into a new document and it's displaying a global color, the eyedropper doesn't read it as a global color so I can't even reliably copy colors from my source logo. 
- To duplicate an object by dragging it, I have to press the Alt key before I select the object, not during the drag. Most of the time, I need to be certain I have selected the correct object before I duplicate it, however, now I have to duplicate something and then find out if I selected correctly. I don't know how many times I have moved items I want to duplicate and duplicated items I didn't want to duplicate because of this. An application is not fast to work in if I'm constantly undoing my actions.
- Changing the colors of margins & guides. If I design a blue brochure, my margins and guides disappear. I need to make them red or yellow or anything. I don't expect to be able to mix my own colors, but a dozen pre-mixed swatches to choose from would solve this problem. (apart from working in wireframe mode)
- Connecting the selected transform corner in the transform palette to the free transform with the move tool. It's very strange that I can select a corner in the transform palette, but then I always rotate around the center. I have to manually type rotation values in degrees to get the rotation around a corner. Why the disconnect? This disconnect is similar to the disconnect I experience between the swatches, color mixer and eye dropper.
- Previewing at export. Even in Photo, I can't see the effect of the level of JPEG compression being applied to my exported files (neither in Designer nor Photo). I have to export a file half a dozen times until I hit upon that sweet spot of small file size to barely noticable quality loss. Even the open source GIMP does this with a live preview at export. I can do awesome professional work, and then break it all with a poor export... and not even realise it.
- Proofing colors. I really need to be able to see how my colors will separate before I save my PDF. If I've accidentally worked in RGB, this will reveal my mistake as I go to repro. Overprinting and knockout will also be a disaster if not picked up in time. (Who here hasn't experienced the dreaded white text set to overprint and wondered where all your text went?). This feature alone forces me to keep a professional, licensed copy of Adobe Acrobat around to preview color separations. In my final repro file, I have to know if my spot colors are still spots and if I'm printing fine black text as 100% black, or a full color breakdown that will turn my single color print job into a full color one. Previewing the separations (or channels in your photo editor) points out my potential errors.
- Overprinting settings. The previous point leads straight into this one. Why is over printing set in the swatch and not the object? If I want some small paragraph text to over print, but large display text to knockout, I have to make 2 identical black swatches to do this. Why can't I specify this on an object-by-object basis? I guess "Multiply" does the same thing and works as a work-around, but you're targeting print designers, and use the term overprint yourselves so why the strange and risky implementation.
- Snapping to "round" values. When manually selecting a color in CMYK, we are inevitably creating a color using round number values from a color chart. It's slow and frustrating trying to select exactly 50% in a slider as it hops from 49 to 51 and back again while we search for that perfect pixel placement. How about snapping to increments of 5% by holding down the shift key? Your snapping features are awesomely powerful, but only in the document. Why not extend this into the sliders and the rest of the application? (Admittedly, I don't know any other application that does this, but it makes sense and would be welcome.)
 
Basic features that are even in open source software seem to be missing. We waited for years to get arrow heads. You claimed it was because you wanted to get it awesome, but they are no more powerful/different to anything else out there on the market. I suspect we only got them when Publisher was released. Did we have to wait for a whole new app to be leased to get arrow heads? Now we sit with other missing basic, common features like:
- Blend/Interpolate
- Stroke drawing tools like a grid tool and a straight line tool. These are enormous time savers.
- Tabs. (I understand you want to protect Publisher by keeping high end text features like hyphenation, drop-caps and text wrap out of Designer, but this feels like a very basic feature compared to your range of kerning, alignment and Opentype features already here from day one)
 
I understand that everyone's needs are different and you can't satisfy everyone, but you are targeting print designers as well and illustrators and web designers, and  these are all features every professional expects and is surprising that they're not here. You give us features that most professionals just leave on the defaults because few of us even understand them (like color profiles and LUTs), but then drop the ball by not pasting a global swatch from one document to another.
It's confusing and just doesn't make me feel confident in the files I send to print.
Please can you look at these issues before adding new features. I understand that new features are needed to sell products, but a lot of us early adopters are just wondering where the small tweaks and refinements are.
It seems that your development team needs to consult with an old school designer or printer to get these fundamentals right. It feels like you've only got young designers who have grown up with an RGB workflow and have never had to bang out 6 flyers in an afternoon and send them to print with the job being rejected.
 
 

Raskolnikov,
 
I just finished a full plan view with internal details, etc.in AD. I just set up the document so that the drawing size was in inches (US here) and made the drawing board slightly larger than the lot size. My scale was 1 inch = 1 foot. All my walls are rectangles. I create two wall segments to copy and use. each one is maybe 6 inches (6 feet) by the wall thickness I need, say, .5 inches. I set the fill to black and the stroke to none so it is accurate and set the end caps to square so that all alignments for lengths are ace upon the center lines.
 
I also create door icons, sliders, windows, sinks, fixtures, etc. group them and save them to a single file “Fixtures”. These I can simply open in a second file, copy and paste them and/or rotate the and drag them to where they belong. Works great.
 
 
If I need a wall segment 18.5 feet long I simply drag off a copy of either the vertical segment of the horizontal segment and while it is selected I enter the exact length I need it to be in the Transform field depending on whether or not I am using the vertical or horizontal segment and i have the wall segment I need in exactly the length I need it.
 
To measure any wall simply click on it and the transform area shows you the exact size in W: and H:.
 
If you use metrics just create the drawing document in millimeters ( my preference) and do the exact same thing. Now the accuracy is easily 1/10 of a millimeter.
 
Max
 
P.S. Here is my house done in Affinity Designer format.
 
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MyHouse.afdesign

I would like to have the possilibity of drawing with more accuracy in AD. :) I use it not for graphic design only but for architecture where the getting perfect lines, angles and lengths is quiet important.

Thanks for the quick responses. So this is clearly a Windows problem. Maybe a tip to Affinity to fix this in a future update?