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I use the Apple Trackpad exclusively. Once you get used to it, you won't go back to using a mouse. There are two settings that I recommend everybody to use when working with the trackpad: Enable tap-to-click, so you won't have to press on the trackpad. Faster and easier than actual clicking. Enable three-finger-drag: you'll draw by dragging three fingers on the surface of the trackpad. This will give you improved stability and precision.

Draw some lines to act as guides. Activate the "Curve Drawing" snapping preset. Apply the mesh and then drag each of the three mesh nodes at the bottom until they snap to the guide lines. For the middle node, enable the "Cusp" option. Drag the handles of the middle node and the two other nodes at the bottom so that they follow the guide lines.

I often work with Designer files that contain many artboards. Right now I'm working on one with 309 artboards. I really need a layer/artboard search function.

I need this too. I have clients who need graphic templates with editable text and placeholders for photos. Canva works great for this. Unfortunately, it cannot import Affinity files directly. It doesn't even have to be a full integration. Just parse the Designer file in Canva, keep the text editable and rasterize the layers.

I often work with Designer files containing 100-200 artboards. The app really needs some basic artboard management functions, like search and batch rename.

No demand. No professional graphic designer would ever use Linux as their primary operating system. There are lots of reasons, including the lack of many other software tools we use in our daily work.

A possibly related bug: in the attached file, expanding the stroke of the curve shown below makes it disappear (I'm on macOS Sonoma 14.5). expand stroke.afdesign

@cboy It looks like the software you've been using for imposition – PDF Snake – is now available online here: https://pdfsnake.app It doesn't require Acrobat anymore.

I switched most of my work to Affinity apps because they are so much faster than the Adobe software. And for me it's not about"time is money" (even though I am running a business). It's about the joy of using tools that don't slow me down.

The last session of the Canva Create event is a 20 minutes "Affinity Creative Session"…

Thanks! That worked. Such a confusing implementation of what should be a simple, basic feature…

I made a new .afphoto file containing three pixel layers. I placed it into Affinity Publisher. I don't see the popup menu that should allow me to override the layer visibility of the .afphoto file. What am I doing wrong? (I use the latest versions of macOS and Affinity 2.4.2 apps.)

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.