LarryStew

While I understand your point, if Affinity wants to grab as many ID users as they possibly can to increase their market share AND profit, then their most efficient way of doing so would be to make the transition as easy as possible. Adobe did this with ID. They provided configurable preferences to make ID’s interface work like QXP and for the most part it worked very well. I swore I would never switch to ID but Adobe made it too easy not to. IMO, this one change would make switching to APUB a no-brainer.

I echo Wild Dingo's experience. I've worked with files from Freepik for YEARS using an older iMac with Adobe Illustrator and NEVER had file open times like I've had with Affinity Designer. Yes, Freepik's files are sometimes wild with masked, over-loaded small vectors, etc., but they've always loaded in under 30 seconds. At the moment, I'm trying to open an .eps file currently in AD using my Macbook Pro (as old as the iMac), and it still hasn't loaded after a few minutes. This has to be a bug.

I would prefer to have all available settings show in the various FX panels wherever they are. That’s a bit inconsistent. Actually I’d rather have one place where those settings are found instead of two. With two it becomes a bit confusing as to where I should look, causing me to click on both places.

Here's a screenshot of the document with the FX palette selected in the right side toolbar along with a screenshot of the fx icon options when clicked on the Layer.

Thanks, firstdefence! Apparently, to see the Intensity setting, the art must first be rasterized. But even then, I could only find the Intensity setting when I clicked on the fx next to the layer name. If I looked in the FX panel, Intensity is not there. ????

I searched on Affinity's forum for this topic but it wasn't the same "spread" as to what I'm referring. I want to know (when creating dropshadows) if there is a comparable "spread" attribute such as the Spread attribute in Adobe Photoshop where one can increase or decrease the intensity of the dropshadow near the object. I'm not referring to the overall radius spread of the dropshadow. Thanks!

Just chiming in to voice extreme desire for this option. In ID, I found it to be the tool/option I use far and away the most out of any other! Hurry!!

I disagree. I'm new to Publisher, coming from InDesign. I just did a test in my document, an IDML document saved in .afp format. When I got my text formatted as I wanted and then clicked the text overflow icon, then DREW a new text box on a new page, it came in with totally different styling, smaller text AND smaller column gutter width. I NEVER used the detached handle to ever re-size the text frame. I just started over by copying the text inside my original text frame, created two new pages, then created a new text frame on the first new page. I clicked the overflow text icon, went to the new page, and drew a new text box for the overflow. It worked fine. There must be some carried-over settings on the original text box, possibly from it being copied over from my IDML doc. I suppose in the future I will have to copy only the text within the frame, not the actual frame itself when trying to use text from IDML docs.