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Thanks Walt. Seems a terrible waste of disk space if this is the case. This is especially problematic with the premium Mac puts on getting a hard drive bigger than 256GB. I hope Affinity rethinks this process, especially with a unified “persona” thing happening. To have to add the same asset three times is a serious waste. A central asset location accessible to all apps would be much more functional and less work for the end user.

Meh. The export features of Designer do not stack up to what I get with Illustrator. I am glad it works for you. It does not work for me to my quality vs size expectation necessary to provide a professional product for my clients. I really hate these forums as a form of tech support as I have to deal with a-holes like you who invalidate my totally real experience and tell me to use something else such as SVG. No amount of links to documentation will provide a better JPG and that is what I need. I also need the company that provides me the product to stand behind it and fully support it via a ticket system that allows me to discuss the issue with an employee, rather than argue with some fanboy. I hate this shit. The product sucks. Twitter and a public forum are not tech support. Refund please.

Well I was able to resize the view of the new preview, but as others said the window was oddly connected to the main dialogue. What now becomes apparent though is that (in Designer anyways) the exporting of jpg from vector art is terrible. I had an 800px x 800px image that came out to over 1mb and even at 90% quality had terrible artifacts around the lettering. I am now not worried about if there is good UI as what it eventually exports is totally useless and frankly an embarassment. I cannot use this and will be asking for a refund. Maybe I will check back again next year when my CC subscription comes up for renewal. Hate to pay so much to make Adobe billions, but at least it functions. What choice do I have?

I absolutely need this in Photo and Designer. As a web designer it is essential: Adding image preview when exporting for web graphics... So we can balance file size vs image quality. Especially when working with vector graphics. Without this function, 75% of my workflow has to be in some other program. This really should have been in the first beta of these programs, yet here we are with a 6 year promise. The web is not going away and those who design for the web are in need of this function forever and always.

Hi All, I just purchased and installed Designer, Publisher, and Photo and it came with all these free assets such as Snow Overlays, Fog Overlays, etc. - these became available to download via the new My Account syncing process. After I registered each product it offered me to download them and install them automatically, which I did for each app. But when I was done it seems that it downloaded them each three times, which was over 2GB of content each time. It did not seem aware of if a creative asset was even usable in that particular app. And in each asset it does not say anything about which app they could be used for. How should this have been done? Could I have just downloaded them once from any one app and had the asset available in whichever app it is supposed to be available in? Or do I need to figure out which app it should be used in and only install it in that app? If it can be used in multiple apps do I need to have it duplicitously downloaded for each app? This is all the Desktop apps on a Mac running Bug Sur (not M1)