Wood Kit

Like p10n said, it was really great, if Affinity go to:
the folder, where the file is saved by clicking on SAVE AS the last export folder, by export with STRG+ALT+SHIFT+S And additionaly the possibility to set different save path for the slices and store it in the affinity files.
At this moment, i must navigate through my complete folder structur, when
save a file (save or save as) export file export slice and because the behavior with this 'save as' problem i save many files in the wrong location. After that i begin to search the project files, because the path is not shown under recent files and i can't get the path with the 'save as' option.
 
In the Affinity Photo i missed the option to export multiple layers with the document size. When i creat slices from the layers, they will have the layer size. And if i export the background slice, i must export it for every layer individually. Or i must resize every slice to fit the document size.
 
This is a really bad behavior and cost much time. It is a really good software but this is much better at Adobe Photoshop
 
Some other Things:
Is it possible to copy effects from one layer to another?
Is there an option for layer composition (in german 'Ebenenkomposition' in Photoshop)? 
 
Best,
Timo
 
 
 

I agree, the way the save location works is unintuitive and different to all other software I work with. 
 
 

+1000! I just bought AD for Windows and the saving/exporting path is pretty silly. It should definitely work like p10n suggested above. Not sure why they didn't made it this way from the get go since it's the most logical way of working.

First: Affinit Designer is really great - thanks to the Affinity team! (Former-time Corel user, then Inkscape, now switched to Affinity due to CMYK and better color management)
 
My request:
I often use Save-As to generate numbered versions of files (as backups, and so that when I discuss them with a client, we can refer to which version we are talking about). In the Save As dialog, it appears that AD defaults to the folder where I last saved anything. This is very tricky when working on files that lie in different folders. To me, the current behaviour is somehow unexpected, and I often accidentially store files in the wrong project's folder.
 
The same happens when exporting, to PDF for instance.
 
I can imagine that people might want to always export all PDFs to a certain folder no matter where the curent file is, so maybe we should also consider this use-case.
 
My suggestion is:
1.) Save As: Default to the folder where the current file lies.
2.) Export (pdf etc, but also for palettes): Default to the folder where I last exported the respective file type when the current document was open.
 
(Maybe its not a good idea to store file paths in documents (like the export paths necessary for 2.). For me, it would be ok if this only works for the last, say, 30 files I worked on, so it could be stored somewhere in the application options storage, not in the document files.)
 
Would this cover all use-cases?
 
Best,
Philipp

+1 from me aswell! I felt there was something fishy with the saving location, but I wanted to make sure it is the case before I make a report about it! 
What you suggest, is indeed the intuitive-expected behavior so you totally nailed it!

Would soooo much like to see this basic behaviour included:  I.e an option/default for save in current/source folder.
The annoying workaround alternative to browsing (again) to your working folder:
Keep a finder window open with your working folder  click drag > cmd+tab > Affinity  & drop in the save dialogue window to update the save location.
 

Hello all - Recently moved form ID to A Pub and am enjoying things 🙂
Having a question about ruler scales - With Measurements set to mm, my rulers are showing divisions of 4 and not 5/10?
(The orange dot shows the cursor position to avoid any confusion about ruler lines.)
Im on v1.8.4 on Mac.
 

Ah thank you! I did search beforehand for other threads, but apparently not well enough! - Thanks J_L