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Come on Affinity!
App window restoration on a mac is a core component of MacOS so why don't Affinity apps restore windows by clicking the app icon in the dock like ALL OTHER Mac apps do?
This has been a long standing issue that should have been fixed long ago but Affinity doesn't seem to think it's important enough to fix.

I "had" the same problem with my new M1 Max MacBook and I tried a couple of suggestions I found here in the Affinity forums and while one suggestion (copy app to Desktop, rename or delete original app, copy app back to Applications folder) cut the start up time almost in half, it still took quite a bit longer then Publisher which opens in 2 secs.
So I was looking in the Preferences in Designer and I noticed that Display rendering was set to OpenGL so I changed it to Metal and restarted my MacBook Pro and Designer and Photo now open in 2 sec. just like Publisher.
Hope this helps everyone!

I have not found a way to automatically EMBED a SVG in a Designer document. No matter what I do SVG files are always EMBEDDED in my Designer documents.
Here's what a I mean by WEB document. CREATE a new  WEB document  from the New Document dialog.

Thanks for clarifying!
 

I "had" the same problem with my new M1 Max MacBook and I tried a couple of suggestions I found here in the Affinity forums and while one suggestion (copy app to Desktop, rename or delete original app, copy app back to Applications folder) cut the start up time almost in half, it still took quite a bit longer then Publisher which opens in 2 secs.
So I was looking in the Preferences in Designer and I noticed that Display rendering was set to OpenGL so I changed it to Metal and restarted my MacBook Pro and Designer and Photo now open in 2 sec. just like Publisher.
Hope this helps everyone!

I "had" the same problem with my new M1 Max MacBook and I tried a couple of suggestions I found here in the Affinity forums and while one suggestion (copy app to Desktop, rename or delete original app, copy app back to Applications folder) cut the start up time almost in half, it still took quite a bit longer then Publisher which opens in 2 secs.
So I was looking in the Preferences in Designer and I noticed that Display rendering was set to OpenGL so I changed it to Metal and restarted my MacBook Pro and Designer and Photo now open in 2 sec. just like Publisher.
Hope this helps everyone!

I "had" the same problem with my new M1 Max MacBook and I tried a couple of suggestions I found here in the Affinity forums and while one suggestion (copy app to Desktop, rename or delete original app, copy app back to Applications folder) cut the start up time almost in half, it still took quite a bit longer then Publisher which opens in 2 secs.
So I was looking in the Preferences in Designer and I noticed that Display rendering was set to OpenGL so I changed it to Metal and restarted my MacBook Pro and Designer and Photo now open in 2 sec. just like Publisher.
Hope this helps everyone!

Column Span YES!
Here's my work around for column spanning.
Create a paragraph tag for the text/paragraph you want to span and uncheck No Break in Positioning and Transform. Create a column break tag for the bottom of the column that matches the current text/paragraph settings for the text to force it to the next column.
(This tag also helps you find column overflow problems) Create a top of column tag and set its Below Paragraph spacing to match the paragraph immediately below the text/paragraph you created the No Break tag. Now you can quickly use tags to manage column span and break in an easy and efficient manner. Hope this helps! I've had a smile on my face while reading the comments from all the old Corel Ventura users in this forum.
Believe it or not I used Ventura Publisher when it was first introduced by Xerox back in 1986. Back then my desktop was the ONLY stand-alone PC desktop in an organization full of Mainframe terminals. I was always amazed by Ventura's ability to handle virtually every type of document and/or publication I threw at it, especially very large documents (500pgs+). SGML tags blew me away and it did not take me long to harness their power. I had office automation groups teach basic tagging to users that regularly sent me large documents for design and importing these pre-tagged documents into Ventura saved an incredible amount of production time, literally hours spent tagging document elements.
I stuck with Ventura until the mid 2000's when I sadly had to move to Adobe CS for production and compatibility reasons.
The last Adobe CS version I purchased and still use is CS6, the final stand-alone version. I refused to pay a monthly subscription for my software.
Since Adobe CS stand-alone versions were end-lifed I've had been looking for an alternative and thank the gods for Affinity! I have been very pleased with Affinity's Design Suite and only hope more professional designers give this amazing software a try.

Sorry Tags is an old expression for styles. You'll  need to create a style for the first line or paragraph of text that is under your No Break text. Ideally the first line should be empty, just a hard return.
Then adjust the Below Paragraph spacing to force the text below the No Break text and even with the text in the left column.
Regards, M@

My first Xerox Ventura GEM workstation in the mid 80's was comprised of a 80386 PC with a Wyse 700 monochrome monitor and a Xerox 4000 laser printer cost $35,000!
Xerox allowed me to use the setup for a month as a trial because they really wanted to sell these setups.
I did a demo of the system to the senior managers at the time and I showed them how fast I could import a 300 page budget document and format the entire document in a day. At that time our budget documents were printed on dot matrix printers the bound together in a huge book (11"x17"). I also showed them how I could import a pre-tagged document and drastically reduce the amount of time it would take to complete a document design.
They were really impressed and so began my career as an computer-based graphic designer! Fun times!
Ventura was unmatched in power and productivity for years. I used to laugh out loud at PageMaker and Quark users who would have to pay several hundred more dollars for their software and still not even come close to half the features of Ventura.

Sorry Tags is an old expression for styles. You'll  need to create a style for the first line or paragraph of text that is under your No Break text. Ideally the first line should be empty, just a hard return.
Then adjust the Below Paragraph spacing to force the text below the No Break text and even with the text in the left column.
Regards, M@

Column Span YES!
Here's my work around for column spanning.
Create a paragraph tag for the text/paragraph you want to span and uncheck No Break in Positioning and Transform. Create a column break tag for the bottom of the column that matches the current text/paragraph settings for the text to force it to the next column.
(This tag also helps you find column overflow problems) Create a top of column tag and set its Below Paragraph spacing to match the paragraph immediately below the text/paragraph you created the No Break tag. Now you can quickly use tags to manage column span and break in an easy and efficient manner. Hope this helps! I've had a smile on my face while reading the comments from all the old Corel Ventura users in this forum.
Believe it or not I used Ventura Publisher when it was first introduced by Xerox back in 1986. Back then my desktop was the ONLY stand-alone PC desktop in an organization full of Mainframe terminals. I was always amazed by Ventura's ability to handle virtually every type of document and/or publication I threw at it, especially very large documents (500pgs+). SGML tags blew me away and it did not take me long to harness their power. I had office automation groups teach basic tagging to users that regularly sent me large documents for design and importing these pre-tagged documents into Ventura saved an incredible amount of production time, literally hours spent tagging document elements.
I stuck with Ventura until the mid 2000's when I sadly had to move to Adobe CS for production and compatibility reasons.
The last Adobe CS version I purchased and still use is CS6, the final stand-alone version. I refused to pay a monthly subscription for my software.
Since Adobe CS stand-alone versions were end-lifed I've had been looking for an alternative and thank the gods for Affinity! I have been very pleased with Affinity's Design Suite and only hope more professional designers give this amazing software a try.

Thanks Peter!
I agree. Span Columns doesn't seem to be a feature that would be that hard to implement given they're half way there with the No Break feature.
Let me know if you have any issues or questions.
Regards
M@

Column Span YES!
Here's my work around for column spanning.
Create a paragraph tag for the text/paragraph you want to span and uncheck No Break in Positioning and Transform. Create a column break tag for the bottom of the column that matches the current text/paragraph settings for the text to force it to the next column.
(This tag also helps you find column overflow problems) Create a top of column tag and set its Below Paragraph spacing to match the paragraph immediately below the text/paragraph you created the No Break tag. Now you can quickly use tags to manage column span and break in an easy and efficient manner. Hope this helps! I've had a smile on my face while reading the comments from all the old Corel Ventura users in this forum.
Believe it or not I used Ventura Publisher when it was first introduced by Xerox back in 1986. Back then my desktop was the ONLY stand-alone PC desktop in an organization full of Mainframe terminals. I was always amazed by Ventura's ability to handle virtually every type of document and/or publication I threw at it, especially very large documents (500pgs+). SGML tags blew me away and it did not take me long to harness their power. I had office automation groups teach basic tagging to users that regularly sent me large documents for design and importing these pre-tagged documents into Ventura saved an incredible amount of production time, literally hours spent tagging document elements.
I stuck with Ventura until the mid 2000's when I sadly had to move to Adobe CS for production and compatibility reasons.
The last Adobe CS version I purchased and still use is CS6, the final stand-alone version. I refused to pay a monthly subscription for my software.
Since Adobe CS stand-alone versions were end-lifed I've had been looking for an alternative and thank the gods for Affinity! I have been very pleased with Affinity's Design Suite and only hope more professional designers give this amazing software a try.