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Thank you Walt. You totally solved my problem. Thanks for your answer.

It's a good idea, but I don't think it works easily enough.
I'm not an Export Persona expert, so maybe I've missed some simple trick. But even selecting all the image layers (in Designer or Photo), the Export Persona sees only 1 slice to export. It seems I have to use the Slice Tool to draw a slice for each image manually. That would be a lot of work with a lot of images in the PDF, and as the Slice tool doesn't obey any snapping, it's hard to draw each slice accurately.
Yes, this works nicely. One can go to the Export Persona, select the image layers, click Create Slices (I forgot that), and Export the slices.

I agree it's great software.
I feel a little confused by some of the responses on this thread to be honest (Not so much yours, but others were pretty hostile). 
This section of the forum is for product suggestions.
I had a suggestion which I thought was valid - and so too did @affinitybyserif on Twitter - and they actually suggested I post this here because it wasn't currently a feature of Affinity Photo.
But for some reason, post replies just seems very defensive about anything new - but surely this is a forum to share and suggest ideas?
Just tying to help make a great bit of software better - that can only happen by constructive discussion. 

Not true. If the image inserted into indesign (for example) was actual scaled down to 50% and cropped in the PDF, the original sized image would still be available, so I can get a higher resolution original form the PDF in Photoshop

Hi i'll start a new topic because my first one was a little confusing. 
 
I asked to be able to texture and colorize 3D model made in a 3D modeling software. So what I meant is to be able to import UV unwrap.

Because the way I see it is Affinity Designer could do amazing job as a UX/UI design tool, for concept art and if it could do this (import UV unwrap) than I could certainly ditch Illustrator and Photoshop at the same time and reduce my pipeline of tools.

Thank You

I work in motion graphics and I've heard people say this. I think part of the problem comes down to the subscription model as much as anything. We all love After Effects. It's the only game in town. But your argument that there's no demand for an alternative doesn't make sense.
People do change their requirements or re-asses their needs when software vendors change their business models. There ware rumours a couple of years ago that Maxon were looking at the subscription model and there was quite a lot of uproar. They have implemented this - but you can still buy C4D outright.
I don't agree with your proposition that motion designers won't look at or want alternatives. My motion graphics workflow currently involves, After Effects, Motion, C4D, 3D coat, FCPX, Photoshop, Illustrator, Affinity Designer and Photoscan, When something else comes along I'll look at that too.
There are After Effects artists out there who are specialists in their field. Sure, they're not going to look at alternatives. 
But there are also motion graphics artists out there using a variety of applications to create their work. They will look at alternatives because it's not the tool that's important, it's the final, delivered piece of work that matters.
There are quite a few posts on this forum requesting an After Effects alternative. There's your demand.
Cheers
Dougie
 
 
 
 
 

Right and most likely the others who are asking for this are also here on this forum. 

I never heard any AE artists saying they want an After Effects alternative, and I've been in this industry for 20 years. Mind you, I'm not saying people never complain, but wishing an Affinity After Effects nope, really, never happened. 

A few facts. Anyone in this industry working professionally knows After Effects is not just a 2d animation program, it's way more than that. So, it would actually make sense to either ask for a 2d animation software or (better) look for it (and there are options), but an AE alternative? Do you guys realize what a huge demand is that? Let's just pretend it didn't happen.. 

After Effects animators market's demand would never make an AE artist think  "I have spent all this time learning and finessing my skills, growth a good network, finally paying my bills, feeding my family and get a decent living, let's screw it and start over with a software which will be buggy, will under perform, unknown and that only a few will use. At least il will cost me only 50 bucks"

What an AE artist thinks from time to time is "I should probably learn Nuke or get better with Cinema 4D".

So, either these frequent requests come from people who is getting excited about Affinity (without knowing the limits of the product yet), or doesn't work professionally, hence asking for an AE alternative it's like asking for a scooter with a Ferrari in mind.

On top of that, one thing is clear: you people don't realize what Serif can or can't do. People requesting publisher, a dam, editing, animation.. In the meantime AP and AD updates languish, and this can only get worse. Oh, and let's not forget that a new AE today is not like AE 20 years ago when Mac was dominating the graphic design market: nowadays it has to be released for Windows as one of the major platform and considered how much Serif is struggling with their current products for Windows in terms of stability and performance, your dreams are really going nowhere.

P. S. Before someone will start typing in response to my last sentence, because I know there are people here very sensitive about certain things, remember: you might be fine with your AP/AD for the job you do. I know for a fact that the same isn't true for my type of work.

Well, there's me for a start. 

Given how big video is on social media, and the demand for an alternative to Adobe After Effects for 2D motion graphics,
I reckon a massive amount of people would purchase a software equivalent made by Serif. I hope you guys consider this in the future!!

I second that. After 2 days of researching After Effects alternatives in a strong desire to use something different for my 2D vector animations, I ended up falling back to AE simply because there is no real alternative that's able to do even basic shape morphing (tweening) properly outside the Adobe ecosystem.
 
Serif, please consider buying vpaint.org and transforming it into a real motion graphics product! (Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with VPaint whatsoever, but it consistently showed up in my research in the last couple of days as something I'd want to use; it's way too simplistic now as a product, but its shape interpolation technology is state-of-the-art research as of 2015 so it solves the single biggest challenge in vector animation software IMO).
 
So forget about video effects and compositing – I'm talking simple, effective vector animation à la Tumult Hype, but with advanced shape morphing as in VPaint.

Hi Pete,
 
At this moment in time we have no plans to create a video editing app however this may change in the future. You can see our official statement about this in our FAQ's.
 
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There is indeed a real consumer demand for an alternative to After Effects especially for Motion Graphics type of job (for editing and compositing there are a lot of options). A lot of pros tired of AE.  

Hello forum and dear Affinity Team  ;)
 
Congratulations to your great software, I realy love it and it's the first time I didn't touched Photoshop and Illustrator since 1 month.
And...I'm looking forward to never touch it again  :P
 
So here's my question: Is there any chance that I can leave After Effects untouched in the near future?
Your software is very great, fast and reliable. Would be so great to put all this experience in a replacement for After Effects written by Serif.
 
Thank you
Pete

I've run into a Publisher crash yesterday that somehow involved Apple's JavaScriptCore library – I do wonder if that's an indication of something coming up 
That being said, I'm still hoping for Python instead of or at least in addition to JavaScript. Having written extensions for different software with both languages, I found that writing extensions in Python was always quick, easy, efficient and even fun, and there are tons of great third party libraries available, whereas any kind of JavaScript extensions, particularly for Adobe programs, have consistently been a royal pain. Getting good integration into the user interface of the host applications (like adding custom menu commands or panels) has never been very robust with any JavaScript-based extensions in any application I have come in contact with. And it's so easy to learn the basics of Python that I believe anyone with JavaScript experience would be able to get started in no time.
I realize that's a rather controversial point and everybody has their own personal preference, but I do encourage everyone to have a look at a few basic Python tutorials and form their own opinion.

Thank you very much Jowday. I did as you recommend. Open in Inkscape and saving in "Plain SVG", and now it opens in Affinity Designer just fine.
( However it is ironic, I bought Affinity Designer in order to not having to use Inkscape. I'll still have to use Inkscape. LOL. )
Have a nice day!!!

It is not a regular SVG file; it is (I assume) saved in Inkscape as 'Inkscape SVG' - opening it in Inkscape and saving it as 'Plain SVG' helps:
freestyle0001_plain.svg
(Inspecting the file revealed all this <g id="strokes" inkscape:groupmode="layer" inkscape:label="strokes" xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape">)