Mark Ingram

1. You're assuming that we work the same way that you work. You're also assuming that your way is best.
 
2. You seem to be the odd one out here. 
 
3. Designer is a vector drawing and illustration application - not a technical drawing application. I'm sorry that it doesn't have the features that you require, so you should probably look into getting a refund and / or using a different piece of software for your needs.
 
 
 
I've spent enough time trying to point out that we're trying to help here, but as you're just ranting about our methods, and not bringing anything constructive to the discussion, I'll be switching back to helping other customers on the forum.

1. You're assuming that we work the same way that you work. You're also assuming that your way is best.
 
2. You seem to be the odd one out here. 
 
3. Designer is a vector drawing and illustration application - not a technical drawing application. I'm sorry that it doesn't have the features that you require, so you should probably look into getting a refund and / or using a different piece of software for your needs.
 
 
 
I've spent enough time trying to point out that we're trying to help here, but as you're just ranting about our methods, and not bringing anything constructive to the discussion, I'll be switching back to helping other customers on the forum.

I assume that in your mind, your mean Professional = Corporate? I'm a developer, and I'm on the forum trying to help out. I have the best knowledge of our software, our code, and I can actually fix or implement features. Yet for some reason you would rather speak to a marketing person? Or a member of a support team? Or someone else that can't actually implement the change that you want. That's certainly not the feedback we've received from the majority of our other customers - they really appreciate being able to speak directly to development staff.

1. You're assuming that we work the same way that you work. You're also assuming that your way is best.
 
2. You seem to be the odd one out here. 
 
3. Designer is a vector drawing and illustration application - not a technical drawing application. I'm sorry that it doesn't have the features that you require, so you should probably look into getting a refund and / or using a different piece of software for your needs.
 
 
 
I've spent enough time trying to point out that we're trying to help here, but as you're just ranting about our methods, and not bringing anything constructive to the discussion, I'll be switching back to helping other customers on the forum.

I assume that in your mind, your mean Professional = Corporate? I'm a developer, and I'm on the forum trying to help out. I have the best knowledge of our software, our code, and I can actually fix or implement features. Yet for some reason you would rather speak to a marketing person? Or a member of a support team? Or someone else that can't actually implement the change that you want. That's certainly not the feedback we've received from the majority of our other customers - they really appreciate being able to speak directly to development staff.

1. You're assuming that we work the same way that you work. You're also assuming that your way is best.
 
2. You seem to be the odd one out here. 
 
3. Designer is a vector drawing and illustration application - not a technical drawing application. I'm sorry that it doesn't have the features that you require, so you should probably look into getting a refund and / or using a different piece of software for your needs.
 
 
 
I've spent enough time trying to point out that we're trying to help here, but as you're just ranting about our methods, and not bringing anything constructive to the discussion, I'll be switching back to helping other customers on the forum.

1. You're assuming that we work the same way that you work. You're also assuming that your way is best.
 
2. You seem to be the odd one out here. 
 
3. Designer is a vector drawing and illustration application - not a technical drawing application. I'm sorry that it doesn't have the features that you require, so you should probably look into getting a refund and / or using a different piece of software for your needs.
 
 
 
I've spent enough time trying to point out that we're trying to help here, but as you're just ranting about our methods, and not bringing anything constructive to the discussion, I'll be switching back to helping other customers on the forum.

1. You're assuming that we work the same way that you work. You're also assuming that your way is best.
 
2. You seem to be the odd one out here. 
 
3. Designer is a vector drawing and illustration application - not a technical drawing application. I'm sorry that it doesn't have the features that you require, so you should probably look into getting a refund and / or using a different piece of software for your needs.
 
 
 
I've spent enough time trying to point out that we're trying to help here, but as you're just ranting about our methods, and not bringing anything constructive to the discussion, I'll be switching back to helping other customers on the forum.

I assume that in your mind, your mean Professional = Corporate? I'm a developer, and I'm on the forum trying to help out. I have the best knowledge of our software, our code, and I can actually fix or implement features. Yet for some reason you would rather speak to a marketing person? Or a member of a support team? Or someone else that can't actually implement the change that you want. That's certainly not the feedback we've received from the majority of our other customers - they really appreciate being able to speak directly to development staff.

I assume that in your mind, your mean Professional = Corporate? I'm a developer, and I'm on the forum trying to help out. I have the best knowledge of our software, our code, and I can actually fix or implement features. Yet for some reason you would rather speak to a marketing person? Or a member of a support team? Or someone else that can't actually implement the change that you want. That's certainly not the feedback we've received from the majority of our other customers - they really appreciate being able to speak directly to development staff.

1. You're assuming that we work the same way that you work. You're also assuming that your way is best.
 
2. You seem to be the odd one out here. 
 
3. Designer is a vector drawing and illustration application - not a technical drawing application. I'm sorry that it doesn't have the features that you require, so you should probably look into getting a refund and / or using a different piece of software for your needs.
 
 
 
I've spent enough time trying to point out that we're trying to help here, but as you're just ranting about our methods, and not bringing anything constructive to the discussion, I'll be switching back to helping other customers on the forum.

1. You're assuming that we work the same way that you work. You're also assuming that your way is best.
 
2. You seem to be the odd one out here. 
 
3. Designer is a vector drawing and illustration application - not a technical drawing application. I'm sorry that it doesn't have the features that you require, so you should probably look into getting a refund and / or using a different piece of software for your needs.
 
 
 
I've spent enough time trying to point out that we're trying to help here, but as you're just ranting about our methods, and not bringing anything constructive to the discussion, I'll be switching back to helping other customers on the forum.

I assume that in your mind, your mean Professional = Corporate? I'm a developer, and I'm on the forum trying to help out. I have the best knowledge of our software, our code, and I can actually fix or implement features. Yet for some reason you would rather speak to a marketing person? Or a member of a support team? Or someone else that can't actually implement the change that you want. That's certainly not the feedback we've received from the majority of our other customers - they really appreciate being able to speak directly to development staff.

1. You're assuming that we work the same way that you work. You're also assuming that your way is best.
 
2. You seem to be the odd one out here. 
 
3. Designer is a vector drawing and illustration application - not a technical drawing application. I'm sorry that it doesn't have the features that you require, so you should probably look into getting a refund and / or using a different piece of software for your needs.
 
 
 
I've spent enough time trying to point out that we're trying to help here, but as you're just ranting about our methods, and not bringing anything constructive to the discussion, I'll be switching back to helping other customers on the forum.

@Pathfinder, you have no idea how valuable having direct access to a developers means.  All I will say is that if you think the developers are not prioritising your request and you find the feature in some bloatware, by all means no one is stopping you from using the bloatware.  In fact, do us the favour and go to the bloatware so the developers can have their peace of mind do innovate without being pested with these discouraging comments from you.
If you love the so-called "Professional" or "Corporate" guys, then what brings you into this forum??  You should have no business here, IMHO.
I think "Professionalism" should be reciprocated. If you demand professionalism from the developers as you put it, lead by example.

I assume that in your mind, your mean Professional = Corporate? I'm a developer, and I'm on the forum trying to help out. I have the best knowledge of our software, our code, and I can actually fix or implement features. Yet for some reason you would rather speak to a marketing person? Or a member of a support team? Or someone else that can't actually implement the change that you want. That's certainly not the feedback we've received from the majority of our other customers - they really appreciate being able to speak directly to development staff.

I assume that in your mind, your mean Professional = Corporate? I'm a developer, and I'm on the forum trying to help out. I have the best knowledge of our software, our code, and I can actually fix or implement features. Yet for some reason you would rather speak to a marketing person? Or a member of a support team? Or someone else that can't actually implement the change that you want. That's certainly not the feedback we've received from the majority of our other customers - they really appreciate being able to speak directly to development staff.

I assume that in your mind, your mean Professional = Corporate? I'm a developer, and I'm on the forum trying to help out. I have the best knowledge of our software, our code, and I can actually fix or implement features. Yet for some reason you would rather speak to a marketing person? Or a member of a support team? Or someone else that can't actually implement the change that you want. That's certainly not the feedback we've received from the majority of our other customers - they really appreciate being able to speak directly to development staff.

I assume that in your mind, your mean Professional = Corporate? I'm a developer, and I'm on the forum trying to help out. I have the best knowledge of our software, our code, and I can actually fix or implement features. Yet for some reason you would rather speak to a marketing person? Or a member of a support team? Or someone else that can't actually implement the change that you want. That's certainly not the feedback we've received from the majority of our other customers - they really appreciate being able to speak directly to development staff.

That won't happen because those formats rely on Windows APIs to write them.
In this day and age, there really is no need to use WMF or EMF, there are many better formats to choose from.

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Stability
Requirements: A valid product key (issued if Affinity Designer was purchased from the Affinity Store).

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. 

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.

Fixes
Fixed crash when making a gradient document fill global  Improved performance when History and Layers panel are visible Fixed PDF Export bleed for artboards Fixed PDF Export for some documents Added bottom right resize grip corner to floating document windows Added Float, Float All, Dock and Dock All commands to Window menu Fixed Adjustment panels appearing at an invalid location if the panel was closed on a monitor which is then subsequently unplugged Fixed metadata not loading for unicode paths opened via drag and drop Fixed failure to close down due to waiting for invalid files to finish opening Fixed Text Styles panel to reflect the document defaults when no text is selected  Fixed Layers panel to add more distinction between clipped and nested layers  Fixed document DPI showing decimal places Fixed Workspaces getting reset when new panels are added in updates Fixed vector export of clips on rasterised items Fixed Fit/Shrink to printable not fitting to printer margins  Fixed second Print having a zero size document in printer dialog  Fixed exporting artboards to include any adjustments drawn on top of it, even if they are outside of the artboard Fixed fonts being rejected if they had a space in their Postscript name Fixed being unable to move the Greyness node in Layer Effects > Colour Overlay Improved resizing of floating document windows Fixed closing a floating window through the taskbar closes the app Fixed Alignment Editor applying a second time when clicking away via a direct new selection Changed 'Arrange' button text to be 'Alignment' Fixed being unable to adjust custom wet edges spline  Fixed sporadic hanging when opening many image files at once 

Hi mqudsi,

I think you've misunderstood how these features work and have incorrectly set up your document. Both of the objects on the left hand side are actually vector clipped. This means that any object placed inside the parent object are clipped to them. Removing the green fill from this will just show the fill of the parent object's fill.

The right hand column are actually vector cropped. As the bottom object has no fill in that cropping object it will not show the content of the parent object. However as the stroke does have a fill, it is showing that area. 

Take a look at these two pages:
https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Layers/layerClip.html
https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_crop.html

clippingcropping.afdesign

Great, the Shadows and Highlights Live Filter does not revert to 50 % (Shadows Range) anymore when a file is re-opened. Thank you, finally it can be used like a real Live Filter again. Before I always had to merge the results to a new layer to avoid wrong corrections when re-opening a file.

We don't generally provide timescales for fixes or features, but I believe @Chris J has already implemented this and will be available in the next beta.

We don't generally provide timescales for fixes or features, but I believe @Chris J has already implemented this and will be available in the next beta.