[Auto Hyphenation for Affinity Designer]

10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

1. We do not know that they refuse to do it; only that they have not done it so far. There is no official answer of "no".
2. Publisher has many more enhancements for designs and workflows that use text; it's not just hyphenation. Multiple columns, for example. Or Linked Text Frames so text can flow between frames. Pinning objects within a text flow. Flowing text around objects. And more.
3. No, you don't need to open a different program just to enable hyphenation. You could do most of your work in Publisher, from creating the project up until final Export. It would only be at final Export time you might need to switch programs, and that would happen only if you need Designer's Export Persona. But until that point, you could probably do all your work in Publisher if you also own Designer and Photo.

1. The fact that there are threads asking for hyphenation support in Designer dating back to 2015/2016 is as good as a "no". Besides, literally after enabling the option in Publisher and switching back to Designer, it stays active and working perfectly. That means it IS already implemented in Designer, they just hid the tickbox to enable it, as a form of primitive "DRM" to see if you purchased Publisher. It's only a matter of time before some hacky solution comes along to enable it without Publisher, but it might require shady addons from shady people on shady sites, putting Affinity users in danger of malware attacks just because Serif refused to add the damn tickbox. This is not okay.

2. I'll trust what you say about Publisher is true, since I've never used the program, I just know it has a Designer persona. It might be an awesome piece of software, and THAT SHOULD be the reason people buy it, not to enable features in other programs that require it as a proof-of-purchase or somesuch.

3. Why buy and work in Designer in the first place then if you can do everything you can do there in Publisher instead? Truth is, the programs have different goals; it's true that Publisher is more catered towards text manipulation, but that doesn't mean Designer can't have a simple feature such as Hyphenation, given the code is already in the program! My work is better suited to Designer, since I need to use complex vector graphics and effects in addition to text manipulation and I'd like to be able to do it one program, not 3. This is the reason I purchased Designer, because it implemented raster editing in addition to vector instead of having to rely on yet another program, and then they go and do things like this. It goes against their main strength and ideology.

[Auto Hyphenation for Affinity Designer]

So basically they refuse to add this simple, essential feature to Designer in hopes that people will buy an entire new program just for that feature, and even then, the workflow sucks ass, because you gotta open an entirely different program each time you want to enable hyphenation for a new textbox. When they already have the code in place for hyphenation to work in Designer after being enabled in Publisher. Am I the only one that sees how insane that sounds? You literally need to prove you own another one of their programs to use a basic feature in the first program.

This kind of decisions are what steered me away from Adobe, because they ruined Illustrator AND set a subscription fee ontop of it. Pure corporate greed. Don't become Adobe, please.

And here's a heads up for you, Serif. No one will buy Publisher just because of that one feature. You have equal chances of putting people off your entire software suite as you are to make an additional software sale. Instead, try to make Publisher its own thing instead of "Designer with Hyphenation included, but not so designer-y". I'll give you an example - you already have pixel persona in Designer. So why would anyone buy Photo? Because it is its own thing, giving people raster options in depth. What you did with hyphenation would be like taking the brush tool away from the pixel persona in Designer. Would it make more people buy Photo? Probably not. Would it irritate the heck out of people? Surely.

Your approach will likely lead to more and more people pirating Publisher and not feeling bad about it because of your frankly stupid practices. Get your sh*t together please.

[Replace Symbol functionality]

And another +1 from me. Please.

[Arrange single symbol instance (move to front / move to back) applies to all symbol instances]

On 5/2/2021 at 5:32 PM, timmolderez said:

I've bumped into the same issue on Windows (using Affinity Designer 1.9.2.1035), but did find a workaround.

What does seem to work is:
- Turn off Sync (the button in the top right of the Symbols studio)
- Arrange your symbol instances however you'd like (because sync is turned off, you'll only affect your currently selected symbol instance)
- Turn Sync back on; the symbol instances still behave as they should

Thanks, that worked out for me. It's a bit annoying that you have to do it every time you arrange a symbol, AND you can't undo if you mess up.

It's a real shame that this problem IS STILL PRESENT 2 years later, c'mon devs, you've been "working on it" all that time?

[Is this a bug? Group selection doesn't work in outline mode]

I stumbled upon this thread because of this weird behavior in outline mode.

Can you PLEASE at least add a toggle to this behavior, because I have a really heavy file that I am forced to work with in outline mode, because performance is so bad in the other modes. I also use a LOT of groups and symbols in this file. You see how this could be really annoying, right?

Another remedy for my situation would be to add a new view mode that disables all effects and other heavy-to-compute things so you could have a "light workmode" that still shows base colors and shapes and stuff. That'd be nice.

[Add option to hide scrollbars ( horizontal and vertical, in canvas)]

Absolutely agree, and I don't know why this isn't a feature yet.