[Affinity Photo choking on big files...]

Changing filetype should not matter, internally Photo still works like using .afphoto file. 

8 GB is a bit low RAM for big project but maybe someone can check if it should be enough for mentioned project. (I have also mid-12 MBP but 13" so I have upped RAM to 16 GB ages ago...)

[When to use Vector vs Pixel Persona?]

The basics are usually taught first year graphic design classes.... maybe this explains some: https://www.psprint.com/resources/difference-between-raster-vector/

[Word count in Publisher]

4 minutes ago, Moudy01 said:

surely it's a little impractical to keep switching to an fro.

what kind of work flow asks for constant knowledge of word count? 🤭

[Autosave is Necessary]

You should not have hours between manual saves.

I prefer to save manually as I sometimes need easy way to revert if I do some experimentations.

[View 2-page spread]

2 hours ago, jelkomme said:

i CANT see the check for facing pages.

Looks like Designer Document setup? No such feature there.

[Feature request - Channels and calculations like Photoshop]

I do not really miss those "chops" from early '90s but otherwise "+1"!

[How to achieve lightrooms "white" slider effects in Affinity Photo?]

I you want to set white point I use curves or levels adjustment.

[Any plans for PDF form editing?]

Sure you can do forms in InDy, there is even the old way and the new way. It seem not to be optimal tool anyway..

Creating industrial strength forms is a bit an art this moment and there seem not to be really good tool for it. Thus Publisher would fill a need here if it offered such tools. On the other hand creating forms is demanding and adding features for it would not happen by allocating 2 weeks of coding time. It would take serious commitment to make forms tools right, otherwise it would be just another halfbaked toolset.

My company is in the process converting old "paper" PDF forms to electronic live PDF forms, but I can see there are problems making them really smart..

[Why no Bitmap mode?]

Engineer thinking says more is more and 1-bit graphics is so '80s anyway. We will get 64-bit graphics before 1-bit, I am afraid.

[Something like P-Shop’s "Free Transform" – it's missed!]

On 3/31/2020 at 4:06 PM, Lorox said:

please add that option to move a selection's cornerpoints individually in order to allow distort freely

Mesh Warp and Perspective tools do almost what we need... if devs added just some options to behaviour it would be perfect.

[Export with bleed]

4 minutes ago, R C-R said:

It is not a UI problem, just a consequence of modifying a named preset. At that point it is no longer that named preset & thus logically should not retain that preset's name.

It is a problem if people keep asking what is happening in this dialog box.

[Creating Clip Art from .Jpeg?]

Clip art is not a filetype and not very useful tag anyway. Any kind of pixel or vector graphic can be a clip art in some application.  If application is digital scrapbooking  it may give some cues what is needed.

[Export with bleed]

Modifying a preset clears preset name in the selection box. It is a UI problem, not a technical one. This is discussed there: 

 

[Toolbar disappearing]

16 hours ago, CJ_LAX said:

In separated mode (which I prefer), the toolbar is not visible.  I tried fullscreen and windowed- no luck.  In the merged or tabbed mode the toolbar appears.  

This is an old bug devs have trouble squishing. Seems only way to handle it now is to start application with control key down and clear user preferences.

[Flatten Transparency]

Would be wonderful feature.

[Vector clipping masks]

You can simply use crop tool if you just need a rectangle crop.

[Feature Request PDF Import - Affinity Designer and Publisher]

Imported PDFs should import as passthrough in the first place. Opening as editable with text as curves should be merely an option.

[Gamma Correction as in PS]

Now, certainly Affinity should allow gamma slider to go all the way to 11!

I usually handle gamma corrections with curves but gamma slider (are we talking about levels tool?) should allow more extreme adjustments. Maybe entering numbers greater than 2 even when slider ends would be enough as Affinity allows that in some other tools.

[Simple conversion to grayscale?]

2 hours ago, GarryP said:

f you just want to make an image greyscale you can apply a Black and White Adjustment.

That allows you to adjust to what greylevels each colour translates to. Useful, and you get greyscale lookalike, but technically document is still RGB. You can convert format after that and that makes it true greyscale.

[DAM Please!!]

58 minutes ago, PeterBull said:

Does anyone know of a visual file manager which will display and preview Affinity format files

 

[duplicate document]

9 hours ago, cinemachine said:

The easiest would be to option+drag a copy of your document in the finder to create a separate copy

Even easier is to hit CMD-D

[Resizing artwork]

Check that you have right physical size applied. Document>Resize Document... untick Resample and enter right values with units set to millimetres.

[Plugin for Artistic Effects]

19 hours ago, R C-R said:

As a hobbyist, FF was always out of my price range, but now the 80% sale makes buying it very tempting.

Gotta say that FF pro is usually 80 % off and $399 is just marketing ploy.

[How can I make a reasonably sized PDF for printing?]

A normal press quality A3 PDF with full image should be somewhere 3-8 MB. Affinity definitely makes them bigger. Possibly there is less image compression applied than in other tools?

[Printsize]

I think your printers just wants 148mm x 210mm PDF document with 3 mm bleed areas. When you set your document thus, there will be some extra area around the page to contain printers marks. Exact printer area does not matter as imposition software will handle that.

Recheck you printer instructions.