[Network graphing tools please!]

+1 for this feature.

It would be a great addition to Designer.

Even if it may not be the goal of Affinity to be an everything app, I think there are areas where Affinity could fill a (seemingly) small gap to be usable as a substitute for some other tools. A Connector tool seems to be the final step for Designer to be great at diagramming as it already has styles, assets and constraints.

Other tools simply don't have all the features and user experience we love in Affinity.

[Feature Request: Multi artboard view as well as single artboard view.]

2 minutes ago, loukash said:

… then:

… from the other artboards that distract you.

You can also make use of View Points: affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Panels/navigatorPanel.html

1. double click an artboard to zoom to selection
2. Navigator panel > hamburger menu > Advanced
3. add a new view point from the cog button or hamburger menu
4. make sure that you have defined a keyboard shortcut for View > Move To Previous View Point & Move To Next View Point in preferences
5. switch back and forth between saved view points by shortcut or by the Navigator panel popup menu

You can also combine this with View > New View. The difference being that the latter is only temporary by opening the document in a new tab or a new window.

These are workarounds to me, not solutions.

Moving artboards away breaks your artboards layout. And zooming in (even with a view point) will make it reappear as soon as you zoom out.

It's just in your way when you try to focus on an Artboard, call it irrational if you want

[Feature Request: Multi artboard view as well as single artboard view.]

I like this proposal.

Sometimes you want to focus on your art board with no distraction from other artboards.

Just hiding them is not enough if you still have the white background in the sight.

Let's call that a non-distraction mode 🙂

[Workarounds for Distortion, Warp, or Perspective distort?]

+1

Kind of worrying to be honest to see threads like this one

[Coreldraw (.cdr) Import?]

+1

[Proportional Editing Mode]

One of the features of Blender I like most is what they call the "Proportional Editing" mode.

It allows to displace, along with one particular vertex, other vertices in its neighbourhood (with a configurable radius easily modifiable with the mouse wheel).

How the vertices are displaced also depends on a selectable mode.

Of course, Blender is a 3D software, but it also has powerful 2D capabilities with Grease Pencil, and the proportional editing mode is also very powerful in this context.

The feature is described here:

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/3dview/controls/proportional_editing.html

And is very well demonstrated by Andrew Price in this tutorial:

https://youtu.be/RaT-uG5wgUw?t=385

[Better way to complete text editing]

I went "Inkscape" on this.

I'm sure it's not as popular as the Adobe way, but F1 => Move, F2 => Artboard, F3 => Node Tool, F4 => Corner, F5 => Pen, etc. works pretty well for me.

F8 is for the text (because it is in Inkscape), and of course you can select Text Frame Tool by pressing F8 again, etc.

So after editing text, I just need to press F1 to leave edition mode *and* select the move tool.

[Blending shapes]

+1

On 7/6/2019 at 10:25 AM, deeds said:

Yes, this feature needed. Miss this most from Illustrator and CorelDraw. It is the heart of geometric repetition and evolvement. 

I used this feature in Corel Draw!, like 20+ years ago actually

Not that I'm saying every imaginable feature should already be in Affinity Designer *right now* of course. But I Love this feature too.

[Mouse pointer for Pen tool displays shifted using external monitor]

Hi,

Thank you for your message.

I don't mind about it for my current usage, but for the record, I think that the lack of support for DPI settings other than 100% is a pretty serious limitation, and you probably should consider it as such.

[Mouse pointer for Pen tool displays shifted using external monitor]

Ok, for your information, I solved the problem by disabling "High Dynamic Range" option in the displays settings for my external monitor.

It also disappeared when I switched back to the default resolution (not scaled), while keeping the HDR on.

[Mouse pointer for Pen tool displays shifted using external monitor]

I have a weird issue with Affinity Designer.

The mouse pointer displays heavily shifted to the bottom-right of the actual spot when using the Pen Tool. Of course this makes using the tool a lot harder.

I have recorded two videos to show the issue. The first video is a recording from my phone while creating a bezier curve. The second video was taken at the same time using the screen recorder of my Mac.

Yes, because, funny thing is that on the screen recording, the mouse pointer is at the right place, so I had to make a video with my phone to show that the pointer is actually shifted to the bottom right of the actual spot.

Of course, I'm not experiencing this issue in any other software than Affinity Designer, so I'm assuming the issue comes from Affinity.

I have enabled the grid to make it more easy to see the issue.

I'm on Catalina 10.15.7 on a brand new Macbook Pro 16", using a Benq PD2700U external monitor. Here is how my performance settings are configured:

Important note I've just noticed: the issue with the mouse pointer only occurs on the external monitor, not the built-in retina display of my laptop.

Any help will do.

[Affinity products for Linux]

Hello everyone.

I don't feel too much like reading the 56 pages of this thread, but count me in for Linux Support.

I've just fell in love with Affinity Designer and I'm gonna buy it. Would love to use it on Linux too.

+1