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Still lacking... Moreover: slices don't seem to snap to anything. So if you create a grid with ruler lines, you're still out of luck when you want to create a number of equally sized slices. Serif really has my sympathy, but as a (graphics) software developer I find it hard to understand why someone tasked with a feature (let's say: slices), just makes things this half-baked. Did the spec say: "something with slices", or was the spec actually complete, making slices a feature people could actually use? Tip: create the software you actually want to use. I've said it before: you have some really smart people working on the Affinity suite, you can do better than this.

Please add this as high as possible on the feature request list. It's probably low hanging fruit, because the image library used probably allows the dithering algorithm to be on or off. It should not default to "on", just as @pgrimaldi points out in this topic. Like the OP, I'm ending up with way too big GIF and PNG exports from Designer and Photo. It seems there aren't many tools that offer the fine-grained control over PNG output as Photoshop does (tried ImageOptim (free) and GraphicConverter).

The segments are always straight. That's the way the formula works (Bézier or DeCasteljau). What you see as a curve, is actually a large number of 100% straight line segments. Would be really, really simple to implement.

That's not how you measure cubic curves. It's not difficult though, in the end the curve is made up of small straight line segments (Bézier or DeCasteljau's point interpolation methods) that can easily be measured individually and summed. Affinity Designer 2 has a "measure tool", but it can only be used for measuring one thing. You can't add measurements to your artwork. Amazing how they thought this would be useful to anyone. I'm used to Astute Graphics' Dynamic Measure in their VectorScribe Illustrator plugin. It's all so basic, I can't fathom why they didn't go the extra (quarter?) mile.

Again: wow! Every time I try to do some thing trivial in Affinity Photo or Designer, I end up Googling how to do it, ending up on this forum, only to find out that such trivial things are just not possible. Not once or twice, but every - single - time I get stuck doing simple things, like indeed, copying one single letter within a complex compound path. Wouldn't even have to think about it about how to do it in Illustrator, completely straightforward. I hate to break it to Affinity, but I'm going to take my loss on purchasing licenses for Photo, Designer and Publisher, and going back to the dark side. I truly hate Adobe and their greediness (Illustrator user since version 1.1 here, circa 1986), and their bloated software isn't even that good ever since they started hiring cheap engineers abroad. But they do have the basics covered, and don't create funky features no one needs or understands, like shown in this thread. Affinity products have some really nice features, and I love the general snappiness of their suite. But they're not for professional use, period. I hope they will someday make it happen, but for now: totally fine if time is not of essence, but not suited for professional workflows with clients breathing down your neck.

Hey, I'm Pim from the Netherlands. I'm a really old-skool graphics-guy, starting as a self-taught designer, turned into software developer over the years. I started out with creating graphics on the Mac when I was 14 years old. I must have seen the above startup window many, many times (there was no stand-by mode, you had to switch your Mac off every time you were done, and the floppy, also containing the operating system, was ejected before you could). Macs were pretty rare back then, and I only had access to them on weekends. Eventhough my daily work now mainly involves writing code (also a super creative exercise, mind you), I still have a strong "affinity" (yeah, yeah) with graphics programming. At one time I wrote an entire OpenGL game-engine from scratch for a (highly successful) iOS app. As you can imagine, I have a long history with Adobe. I was even sideways professionally involved with them after the Macromedia merger. It hurts me to see what has become of the company that has had such a great influence on my professional career. I'm still running macOS Mojave because this is the only OS that still supports Photoshop and Illustrator CS6 (and you know why). But it's time to say goodbye, Adobe's holding me back. Time for something new and fresh. I'm very impressed with what I've seen in the Affinity suite so far. Pretty amazed too about how much Serif is allowed to "borrow" in the user-interface department. I remember that before Adobe acquired them, Macromedia had to remove the "tear off"-palettes from their products because Adobe owned the patent to that. Different times. We live in a strongly globalized economy, and software developers work around the globe. But it's hard to deny that most of the big (and best) players in the software industry are based in the US. So I'm pleasantly surprised to have learnt that Serif is a British company, located just under 400 km away from where I'm based. Excellent! Let me take this opportunity to add my first request to the wishlist: that long overdue "simplify path" feature in Designer. I already ran into this omission after some doodling yesterday. Looking at how the rest of the products look and feel, it's not the lack of talent on the Serif team that's holding the implementation of this (relatively simple) feature back.