[Modifier Key Customization]

Seconded. Specifically on a Mac, resizing from both sides is universally done using the Option key, even when resizing windows in Finder. It's very confusing that Affinity Designer requires the Command key to be pressed to do this.

[How do you make selected objects to have the same width or height?]

Is this still the best method?

I believe manually typing in a width or height while transform each is turned on should automatically make all the objects the same width or height based on what was typed. The current behavior doesn't seem nearly as useful.

To circumvent this I am dragging my images into Figma, which does do this. When multiple objects are selected it lists the width, height, and positions as "mixed". Manually typing a value forces all of the selected objects to scale to that value. I would love to see this in AD in the future.

[Expand Stroke for image-based strokes doesn't do anything]

Is this a bug or am I missing something? I created a custom stroke using an image texture and when I click the expand button, which is not greyed out in the quick menu, it doesn't do anything.

[Folio case angle prevents keyboard from hiding]

41 minutes ago, Dan C said:

Many thanks for providing those for me and my apologies for the delayed response here!

I can confirm that I've been able to replicate both issues using an iPad Air, both with and without a Folio case - it appears to be due to specific angles detected by the accelerometer in the iPad, the keyboard will reopen or the adjustment dialog will close, causing the issues shown in your screen recordings.

I'm logging these both with our developers now, as the accelerometer shouldn't be determining either of these functions, as far as I'm aware.

I hope this helps

Wonderful. I'm so excited to hear this will be addressed. Thank you!

[Folio case angle prevents keyboard from hiding]

Okay I was just able to replicate this on a 12.9in iPad Pro M2. It wasn't as easy but I was able to get the issue to start happening if I slightly lifted the base of the iPad that was touching the counter so that the angle changed slightly. So basically if you hide the keyboard, and then change the angle slightly the keyboard pops up again. Perhaps the accelerometer in my 11in causes this to trigger more easily.

[Folio case angle prevents keyboard from hiding]

1 hour ago, Dan C said:

Many thanks for verifying that for me! I assume when you mention 'low angle mode' you are referring to the following setup?

I'm not able to replicate this currently - can you please provide a screen recording showing both issues for me? Including the aforementioned keyboard issue in the recording may also help me to understand your workflow.

If you're unsure how to take a screen recording, please check out our FAQ linked below - 

Many thanks once again

Here are two screen recordings.
 

The first demonstrates the keyboard failing to go away while in the position you sent the picture of. 
 

The second is taken in Affinity photo and demonstrates some adjustment layer bugginess when the iPad is in this position. You'll notice the adjustment layer's edit controls disappear frequently and it has to be tapped again. In addition when I move the curves controls the image responds correctly for a second but then fails to respond at all. This all works just fine once the iPad is propped up at a steeper angle. At 37 seconds in the second video I prop the iPad up further and you'll notice the curves layer responds just fine. 
 

 

[Folio case angle prevents keyboard from hiding]

In addition I'd like to mention this comes up when using adjustment layers in affinity photo. Editing them doesn't work as they occasionally disappear and don't respond, so I'm assuming there's something universal between the affinity apps that's going on here. I just tested this now. 

[Folio case angle prevents keyboard from hiding]

8 hours ago, Dan C said:

Hi @dantaylr,

Thanks for your report!

There are 4 generations of iPad Pro 11" models - can you please confirm the exact model number you are referring to, so that I can test this further here?

Many thanks in advance

iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation) A2301

[Folio case angle prevents keyboard from hiding]

This is a bug since V1. When using the official folio case for the 11in iPad Pro in the low angle mode the keyboard will refuse to hide. It will hide and then immediately come back. I'm wondering if this an Apple issue or an Affinity issue but it doesn't appear to do this in any other app so I'm tempted to say there's something in designer that's the culprit. 

[Linked symbols are copied between documents... sort of]

Yes, I forgot to mention I was referring to the iPad version. Good to know that this is logged.

[Linked symbols are copied between documents... sort of]

I'm not sure if this is a bug or if there's something I'm missing here. If I create a symbol and copy it, both symbols are linked so I can make changes to them. The symbol also shows up in the symbols panel. If I then copy both of the symbols to a new document, they remain linked to eachother but they don't show up in the symbols panel for the new document. Is there any menu that describes or allows you to control the linkage between these two objects?

[Crashing on image export, iOS 17]

FYI crash still happens on the public beta. And it isn't when exporting it's when you exit the export menu. If you go to export and then hit cancel it crashes. I'm losing lots of work due to this because auto save isn't kicking in frequently enough. Hope there's a fix for this soon. 

[Crashing on image export, iOS 17]

When exporting images of experiencing a crash immediately after. The image appears to save just fine.  I'm using an 11 inch iPad Pro M1 with iOS 17 beta 3

["Prevent widowed last lines" not working in Publisher]

Ah actually what I'm thinking is the classic process of soft-returning the previous word so that at least two words end up on the last line rather than a tracking adjustment. I believe this is a feature that can be turned on in InDesign, as I remember previously using it.

["Prevent widowed last lines" not working in Publisher]

18 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

None of those settings applies in this case. Widowed Last Lines prevents the last line of a paragraph from appearing by itself in the next frame.

Walt, thanks for the clarification. Are you aware if there is any setting to prevent widows?

["Prevent widowed last lines" not working in Publisher]

Please let me know if I'm missing something but the "Prevent widowed last lines" checkbox in the paragraph styles settings doesn't seem to do what it says.

 

[Difference between designer/photo and their personas in Publisher?]

Great summary. I started using Publisher for some designer tasks as it can do tables. Interestingly if you open a designer file in publisher, add a table, and then open it back in designer all the table controls show up 😆

[outline of text box]

Where is this on iPad?

[Difference between designer/photo and their personas in Publisher?]

I just realized there are "Designer" and "Photo" personas in Publisher for iPad. Could someone explain any major limitations in these as opposed to their respective apps? I'm especially curious about designer.

[merging anchors (or nodes)]

If I could simply delete the point I would but the path isn't approximated correctly after the deletion. Path approximation after deletion beautifully happens when you delete a node in the Glyphs app for Mac.

[merging anchors (or nodes)]

This is not okay. Am I missing something? I have snap to nodes turned on and snap to geometry turned off.

If there is actually a way to do this I would additionally suggest a button to merge all selected vertices into a single one. I've seen this in Blender.

[Stage manager triple dots blocks important buttons]

When using stage manager on iPad, I am running into important features in Affinity Designer being blocked by the triple dot menu that shows up at the top.

[Constraints inside group mess up outlines]

9 hours ago, NathanC said:

Hi @dantaylr,

Unlike regular groups, constraints groups will clip content off that exceeds the area of the bounding box which is defined by the nodes. As such, strokes aligned to the outside/centre exceed the bounding box, and causes the area to get clipped. This is logged with the developers to be improved so that objects inside a constraints group can exceed the bounding box, similar to a standard group. I've bumped the existing Improvement with your report.

Thank you Nathan, I appreciate the explanation and that makes sense. It'd definitely be a great improvement as the behavior is unintuitive from the other side of the fence 😄

[Where is the line break (soft-return) button in 2.1?]

3 hours ago, DWright said:

Can you please confirm the iPad model and iPadOS that you are running asI am seeing the symbol icon on the on screen keyboard in Designer 2.1 on my iPad Pro running iPadOS 16.5

 

 

I'm on an 11in M1 iPad Pro with Affinity Designer 2.1.0. Screenshots attached. The first tab available is "symbols". 

[Constraints inside group mess up outlines]

This appears to happen with anything that uses constraints for the outside of a group. Occasionally when I set the constrains and then try to group the two objects the group disappears entirely.