Vibe Design

For everyone (like me) looking for this in the future: There's now a built-in solution called the "Data Merge Manager": https://affinityspotlight.com/article/populate-pages-in-an-instant-with-affinity-publishers-powerful-data-merge-manager/

I was wondering, why this thread is continuing after this answer here. Ctrl + J does exactly do what is requested (although its labeling with "Duplicate Selection" doesn't really show that it'll repeat the last action as well).

I think I found a fix for this, which got mentioned in a different thread: I don't know if it works in the mentioned case above, but I had the issue of exporting a custom brush stroke with a spot color which always got converted to CMYK. The solution was like mentioned in the thread to set the Rasterize Option to "Nothing" during export:

Thank you for your response! Although of course, really not what I had hoped to hear. This basically makes inline strokes unusable. I have used different (both paid and open source) vector manipulation software in the past and none of them had this issue, but I guess it comes down to this: So why is it that way? I guess there are are plenty of good reasons to do it this way (and accept other downsides therefore). Thank you for this possible workaround, that's not usable in a professional environment though, I don't really want to trade one bug for another. I guess for now I just have to avoid inline strokes completely...

I noticed that when the stroke of an object is set to inline that the fill color of that object is clearly bleeding through behind the stroke. I don't think that's supposed to be as it would mean the stroke is not aligned properly with the border of the object. As you can see this also transfers to exports and is not just a visual glitch. In my example image I have a simple circle, filled with black and on top of that a smaller circle with a white fill and a black stroke set to inline. You can clearly see the white bleed on the border of the inner circle. The bleed also changes with the color of the inner circle's fill. Is there any settings I might have wrong to fix this or is this a bug?

Are those examples somehow integrateable with Affinity? It looks like they are more web based solutions and I don't really want to code my graphics Thank you so much for your effort! I wouldn't mind using a different Affinity App (or really any other App) but I need to recreate pretty much the exact style I mentioned as it's part of a Corporate Design. So unfortunately I don't have much room for variations... really appreciate your help, though!

@v_kyr I was thinking about the same thing, but that wouldn't work for fills or did I miss something there?

@v_kyr Thanks for your reply, I saw this thread as well, was just hoping for a different result to this question after 4 years... 😬

In the vector based image manipulation software I currently try to replace with Affinity Designer, there is an effect called "Scribble" which lets one easily style fills and strokes in a scribbled look. Length, width and all that are customizable and they allow to create elements like the one in the image attached. I couldn't find such an effect in Designer so far, so did I miss it, or is there a way to recreate this effect with different methods?