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For any who are struggling with this: The solutions posted here didn't work for me. I added bleed in Document Setup, then turned on Include Bleed in my PDF exports—no bleed. It makes space for bleed, but does not give me bleed. To test/prove this, I set bleed to 3" on an 8.5x11 document and made a bunch of green rectangles in the bleed area—see attached screenshot of the interface, and the resulting pdf. No combination of setting/unsetting/resetting bleed in document setup or export options fixed this, and switching "clip to canvas" on/off had no effect either. The only thing that allowed it to work was if I turned off my live effect layer—then, suddenly, bleed on export worked as it should (though the images looked not at all as intended). So I grouped the live effect along with the images, rasterized the group, and it continued to export bleed properly. To be clear, this is a workaround—the fact that a workaround exists doesn't mean it's not bugged. It means it is bugged. "But, dude," you say, "live adjustments are an Affinity Photo thing, not an Affinity Designer thing, so why would you expect them to work in Designer?" Well, if they're going to tout as a selling point that the programs are interoperable on the same document, those programs need to actually support each other's features. Designer displays the live layers just fine, so it's bizarre that it can't extend them out to the bleed. blankbleedBig.pdf blankbleedBig.pdf

I’ve just had a minor disaster in that Affinity Designer for iPad froze up while I was working inside of a Project and rearranging the order of my individual files. Suddenly it stopped responding to my input, and then began adding files from outside the Project into the Project before freezing completely. I waited, to no avail. I then closed AD, and reopened the app. When I did, the entire Project and all of its internal files were gone, including the two that had somehow been moved into the Project by AD during the glitch. They’re nowhere in the Files app, either. I’m extremely curious about what caused this, but I’m certainly going to be doing continual exports of files as I work until I can be sure this won’t happen again. I lost about 20 designs. Does the AD team have any sense of whether my files are at all recoverable, if I (for some reason) can’t see them in the Files app anymore? Thanks! Hope this isn’t a problem that ever appears again...

Yeah, I love Affinity but this bug drives me INSANE and it's the only reason I keep the dreaded P-shop on my machine. The way shift-click currently operates in Affinity makes no sense at all. Each shift-click of the brush should ONLY paint a straight line from the last clicked place—there's no reason it should somehow recall 50 clicks ago when you last shift-clicked... which, incidentally, you had to do and then undo because the first time you tried shift-clicking it jumped from some random location, thereby making a line you didn't want. This can't possibly be harder to code properly (i.e. shift-click only remembers the last click) than the way they've coded it... I thought this would get fixed early on but it's somehow still the case, which leads me to believe it was designed this way on purpose. If anyone can explain the logic to me, I'd love to hear it. Voila_Capture 2018-09-01_11-36-18_AM2.mov

I've had this problem, too. I love Affinity Photo, but have had to keep another image editor as my primary editor simply because I use workflow software (formerly Aperture, currently C1P). If Affinity's default for "Save" were to save the file back to its original location and in its original format (.tif) as opposed to automatically converting it to an Affinity file, that should, I would think, solve the problem. Seems simple enough, but then I'm not a coder.