[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.3.5.7)]

Same for me! As soon as I select PDF it crashes on any document. 

 

It does look like PDF export is badly broken, I'm afraid. It's not getting its colour profiles right. As a result it either uses a default CMYK profile (even if you are trying to export to RGB), or else (for PDF/X-3 and PDF/X-4) it just crashes. Either way isn't really usable. If you are crashing, then CTRL+runup with Clear User Defaults checked will reset the dialog so it doesn't open on the PDF page so you can at least export as something else. You can still output a PDF by using File > Print > PDF > Save as PDF..., albeit without any of the new features.

 

I'm very sorry about this. We'll get it fixed in the next update.

[ICC Profile & export explanation]

File > Export supports embedding profiles in PNG; it's one of the extra options you get if you click the More button. You can save this as a preset if its something you always want.

[Select Same Fill/Stroke Color in Designer!]

I'm afraid that's not going to happen this year. However, the current Customer Beta does support global/linked colours, which should help, especially if you are able to create your characters using linked colours in the first place. The Customer Beta is available from here.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.3.5.7)]

One way is to right-click on an object and use Add to Swatches... > From Fill as Global. Another is to use the Swatches page, click on the to-right hamburger menu and use Add Global Colour. They are applied as normal colours. Currently the Add to Swatches method does not change the colour of the object you clicked on, so you probably will want to immediately re-apply it.

[artboard use?]

At the moment printing does not try to place one artboard per page, as you might expect. Instead it outputs a single large page with all the artboards at once. You can see this if you enable "Scale to fit". Does that explain what you are seeing?

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.3.5.7)]

1) I cannot turn the transparent background on and off.

Yeah, that's a bug we'd noticed. For now you should be able to select the artboard itself and give it a white fill. It's not quite right (blend modes will interact with it when they wouldn't with a document background) but it may help.

 

2) Currently, all pages are all lined up horizontally when opening a multipage PDF file.

It would be great, if I could choose an arrangement scheme when opening the file (e.g. 2-page spreads, single page, horizontal, vertical …). This is not a bug, just a suggestion for when you have some spare time and don't know what to do. ;o)

We plan to implement multi-page documents, which will include two-page spreads, facing pages and the like. Artboard aren't really that. You can re-arrange them yourself if you want to.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.3.5.7)]

We can now open multi page PDF (YEAH!) :) , can we also export them? AD just crashed at the first attempt but I think it´s supposed to work at some point?

It's supposed to work now, for PDF using Whole Document. I just tried it and it did work for me. Do all your individual artboards export OK? Perhaps there is some other PDF export issue not related to this.

[CDR Import]

The GPL covers plugins. Basically, what we would want to do is exactly what the GPL doesn't want people to do.

[Stylistic Alternates does not work]

In today's Customer Beta (1.3.5.7), the Typography panel has been improve to show all available Stylistic Alternates (and Access All Alternates, Swashes and a few others). Also, it the options it offers are now specific to the characters currently selected, and there is a preview of what the alternates look like. The Customer Beta is available to those who have the full Mac App Store version installed, from here.

[CDR Import]

The Inkscape licence is GPL v2. That means if we incorporated their code, we'd have to make Affinity open source too, which we don't intend to do.

[Pantone colours]

Pantone and spot colours have some support in the current Customer Beta, but it's still a bit buggy and incomplete. The next beta will be a lot better, and hopefully not many days away now.

 

The Mac App Store version should have this by Christmas. It will also include PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, but not scripting. Until then, if you have the Mac App Store version installed, you can download and use the Customer Beta from here. Please do! We would welcome the feedback.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.3.5.5)]

In Acrobat Pro, under Edit > Preflight, it is one of a long list of scripts

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.3.5.5)]

Create a box with 100%  "K" black outline 10pt. Fill with 100% "C" Cyan.

 

If tick the overprint black in Beta (1.3.5.5) and output a PDF.  Looking at the PDF in Acrobat there's no overprint on the black line.

 

Am I missing something here to create an overprint black?

 

Are you exporting to a CMYK colour space? How are you checking for overprint? I just tried this myself, using "List page objects, grouped by type of object", and my box does have "overprint: on" for its stroke.

[Affinity Photo Customer Beta (1.3.5.5)]

Lojza, I just tried copying and pasting ĚÊ from your post into the current Photo beta and both displayed correctly. This also worked with the Mac App Store version. I was using Arial. Perhaps there is an issue specific to a particular font?

[AD - Global setting for stroke scaling]

You can use Select All and change the stroke scaling for all objects at once. You can also change the default for new objects, and new documents.

[Re: Haze Removal feature]

We hope to update the Mac App Store before Christmas this year.

[Sub forums for AP, AD,.....]

We're reluctant because the apps have a lot in common, so there would be a lot of duplication across the forums and it would get harder to find stuff through having more places to look.

[TinyPNG: optimize for web tool]

Use File > Export > PNG > More, tick the Palettised box and select the number of colours you want.

 

It seems to have a bug getting a blue background at the moment, which we'll get fixed, but it is part of the core functionality already.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.3.5.4)]

In Acrobat Pro DC, all four exhibited the same basic problem. The stroke's spot color was honored, and appears correct in terms of on-screen color (I did not tell it to convert to CMYK and check to see if it matched PANTONE standards). However, the fill converted to what appears to be a CMYK breakdown of 485 C, and is not 286 C in any way.

 

Thanks. I see what is going wrong. I'll try to get it fixed for the next beta.

[Center text inside frame texts]

That's what the Centre Align button does. It's in the middle of the text context toolbar. You can also use Text > Alignment > Align Centre, or CMD+|.

[haze filter]

Hopefully before Christmas.

[The Focus on UX / UI Design]

We also have a lot of openness through our customer beta programme. Often you can see the state of a new feature changing as it gets developed, months before it hits the Mac App Store.

[No Export Custom Presets in Beta 1.3.5.5?]

This is a known bug that will be fixed in the next beta.

[Add links]

No, there's no progress on this. It sounds like an Affinity Publisher feature.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.3.5.5)]

Ok so I'm using Roboto as the font. My word is "Test" then in the Character tab i have only "Small Caps" selected and the result is "TEST" and when I uncheck "Small Caps" and select "All Caps" the result is "TEST" just bigger.. And if I open the file in the stable release of affinity i get "TEST" properly. Doesn't make sense does it?

 

It turns out that this is what the font's OpenType implementation does. It works in Pages because Pages doesn't use OpenType for this. We also have our own implementation for when the font doesn't support Small Caps, but if the font does support it, I think we want to use its implementation without meddling, rather than try to second-guess what the font designer intended. I can only suggest you remove the Small Caps feature from the capital letters by hand.