tudor

Guess what, in the near future your colleagues will probably be able to use Affinity apps to deliver quality templates to clients who use Canva. As a designer who makes money selling graphic design services to business customers, I see this as an opportunity. Canva is huge in the business world.

If they will succeed in integrating Canva with Affinity it's going to be a boom in sales for both Canva and Affinity. I work with business clients and they require branded editable templates for all kinds of graphics, from social media graphics to brochures and presentations. Some of them already use Canva. I look forward to the day when I'll be able to make a template in Affinity, push it to Canva and have it editable there. No more "could you please send us the source files?" headaches.

I have business clients who use Canva a lot. From now on it'll be easier to explain to them why I use Affinity and not Adobe apps: "they're all made by Canva, don't you know?" If you'll find a way to exchange editable files back and forth between Canva and Affinity apps, that will be a huge selling point for Affinity.

Sometimes it goes in the other direction.

Yes, it doesn't seem to like that character pair at all... This is a new, never scaled frame text object:

It is definitely a bug. Just look at the horrible character spacing after the conversion. It should not behave like that.

Yes, the bug seems to be triggered if the text frame has been scaled before.

In my example above it was a font from Adobe Fonts (not a variable one). The bug also occurs if I replace it with Montserrat. I attached a test file. test.afdesign

There is a bug when converting frame text to art text. I think it started happening in v2.3 if I remember well. Basically, under certain circumstances, the spacing between characters goes awry and it cannot be fixed using tracking/kerning controls. I have to retype the whole thing from scratch. Here is a GIF screen recording from Designer 2.4.0 / macOS Sonoma 14.2.1 / Mac mini M1:

Steps to reproduce the bug: Create/open a Designer document with artboards Double click the name of an artboard on the canvas (NOT in the layers panel) The Rename Artboard dialog box appears on screen with the name of the artboard already selected. At this point I usually move the cursor using the left/right arrows so I can type wherever I want, but now the cursor is not visible anymore, so I don't know where I am in that field. (Renaming via Cmd-Shift-R is not affected by this issue). Affinity Designer 2.2.0, Mac mini M1, macOS Sonoma 14.0.

That could happen if the text was rasterized in the PDF for some reason. Or if you have black text that is CMYK black instead of 100% K black. That won't help you much when working for print. You still need to calibrate your display if you want a more accurate simulation of CMYK colors on screen.

Yes, this happens often with placed PDFs. They become visible if I click on them. I often work on things like logo wall banners and this bug is very annoying. I export low res mock-ups for the client as PNG or JPG and every time I have to double check if all logos are visible.

I can confirm there is something weird going on with the windows of the Affinity v.2.2.0 apps on macOS, when switching between displays with different resolutions. I had no issues until today. I started Publisher and the window was completely off-screen. I entered the full screen mode and then the panels went awry.

My mistake, I should clarify that I was talking about the Backspace key on a Mac. After upgrading to 2.2 I could not delete anything with Backspace. Prior to the update I had a couple of custom keyboard shortcuts, so as the bug report says (PD-935), "some shortcuts are broken when upgrading from 2.1.1 to 2.2". I believe that's what happened on my computer. Resetting the shortcuts to Serif Defaults restored the Backspace key functionality. Objects are now successfully deleted using either the Backspace key or the Delete key.

I just upgraded to v2.2.0 and noticed that the delete key doesn't work. Seems like this bug hasn't been fixed: "Some shortcuts are broken when upgrading from 2.1.1 to 2.2 with modified shortcuts" (REF: PD-935). The quick fix was to reset my keyboard shortcuts to Serif Defaults.

This is the oldest version of MacOS that Affinity claims to still support. I wouldn't trust using a new beta on an old OS that will most likely be dropped from their list in the near future. Copy and paste the content from beta to non-beta. And never ever use beta software for any production work.

Have you tried the Path option available in the Export persona? It lets you specify export paths for slices.

When are you going to start fixing old, v1 bugs that are still lingering in v2.1?

Seriously, we're at the Golden Master stage and nobody cared about fixing this damn bug? It's a simple alignment issue that should not take much time to fix.

That swatch is always 100K here. It remains 100K even when I convert the document to another profile (obviously, that doesn't apply to objects filled by it).

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "default black", but on my computer, in a new press ready CMYK document, black is 100K.

Still not fixed in beta 1781, which according to Ash is supposed to be a release candidate version.

Now when I can't use it anymore I can fully appreciate how awesome StudioLink is

You can still open any file in any of the three apps, just not via StudioLink.

Aaaand of course one day later I cannot open Designer beta anymore. It probably figured out that the build has been tampered with.