AshTeriyaki

There's quite a lot to gain for Canva. They get a mature suite of professional level tools they can integrate with their other stuff. Likely meaning designers can work directly on Canva documents, have inline review etc etc. They could spend a fortune developing these tools from scratch or buy out a veteran graphics company and inherit all of that knowledge and work. Affinity is a bit of a bargain for them.

I can’t see much good coming from this. Personally, I’ve never really cared about the lack of subscription, and I’ve always thought Affinity products were priced too cheap. I moved some of my illustrator work to Affinity in the early days for performance reasons and before I knew it, I had moved over entirely. Not saying I like Adobe, I don’t like their business practices* but it was not my motivation for investing in Affinity and being an early advocate. Selling to a company with a similar lack of financial scruples isn’t much different, enshittification comes to all of their services eventually. Capitalism comes for all of us and something like this was kind of inevitable. Still a bit sad though. *Adobe are a dream compared to Autodesk.

Gonna add my idea to this rather than a new thread, but IMO a hex input should be shown everywhere a colour value exists, so in both swatches and in colour panels in every mode, in this scenario the RGB hex option would not need to exist. Bonus points for being able to copy colours in and out in other text formats like HSL/HSLA/RGB/RGBA

It's dawned on me I haven't checked this thread in several years. 9,000 downloads? Blimey.

Do you speak to people like this in daily life? If so, do they respond positively? I doubt it. The developers are people, speak to them that way.

Importing and exporting master layouts would be interesting.

Currently when you create a document and do not set it to have facing pages, when you create a master, you still have a checkbox that shows an option for facing pages, although greyed out, it probably shouldn't show at all if the document does not have facing pages set, it's just confusing.

Making it work in a panel can be solved though, I'd like to see them take a crack at it. I do agree that the selected image details should show in a studio as well.

It's something you review frequently enough that it shouldn't be buried in a menu bar, I'd also say the same for the section manager.

I'm actually behind this, Designer now has a load of UX specific features but the unfocused UI makes it less usable than sketch for this kind of work. I'd love to see a stripped down UI for Designer specifically for UX work,

I don’t think so. They’ve mentioned adding a JS API sometime in the future, but I don’t think they’ve committed to a date

I don’t think so. They’ve mentioned adding a JS API sometime in the future, but I don’t think they’ve committed to a date

Bloody hell.

I'm utterly astounded, this is wonderful. How many objects is it?

They are working on adding scripting. As far as I can remember they’re going with JS(boo)

Pixave is a decent image manager, plus it reads Affinity files. FWIW, I don’t think Affinity should release their own DAM. It’s a saturated market and besides a handful of companies, this software often seems to be produced by one man outfits. I’m not sure there’s enough money in it. It’d be smarter to outreach to other developers and ask them to add the Affinity format. Something that can be done with a few phonecalls and a PowerPoint deck.

This is already on the roadmap I think.

Nope, not in the slightest, both apps serve different markets. Theres significant crossover, but theres myriad use cases for these being separate applications. Just because it doesn't suit your work, that doesn't mean it applies to thousands of other users. There is a common code base to these apps(Including Publisher), so they can share bug fixes. That isn't a weakness, it's a huge strength and a hallmark of thoughtful engineering. With average hard disks being around the 500gb-1tb range, a completely presumed saving of 200mb is negligible.

I've been trying not to jump on the criticism ship, as a lot of older users have started to I think. But I am admittedly beginning to become a teeny bit frustrated with the prioritisation and release cadence. You guys achieve some immense things, in the last year or so you've release both products on windows and photo on iOS, impressive stuff. Designer 1.6 is shaping up nicely, but I'd love to see a bit of time spent on refinements rather than new tools. Improving little UI quirks and inconsistencies and adding loads of those little edge case and minor features that would just improve quality of life. Pixelmator pro does look quite awesome, it's the first I've heard of it too.

It's been brought up before a few times I think

So I've been using Designer to make a banner ads recently (Oh god, I haven't done that in years, kill me) and on a doc with ~90 artboards needing export, I have some feedback and ideas to make it a little smoother. It's a bit long... ...sorry. 1.Artboard selection tool I know this isn't necessary technically, but selecting a ton of boards to move at once for export or to move together is too fiddly using the standard select tool. A tool that ignored other objects would be stellar. If this tool were also available in the export persona, that'd be a bonus. 2. The export persona I personally don't really like the export persona, I'm all for specialised views, but it should be that, a view. I'd love to be able to use all of the same tools and panels outside of the persona if desired, and I'll tell yer for why. I'm unable to rename layers inside the export persona, which is a pain in the arse, having an additional three button clicks to correct a minor mistake is pants. V doesn't select the select tool. I know I can map it manually, but it should be shipped that way, it's reasonable for a user to expect the same tool to have the same shortcut in a different view. I can't delete layers in the export persona. Similar to the first one, this is a bit of a edge case but any basic operations that require a round-trip are bad. I'm not saying the export persona shouldn't exist, it's still useful for slices and whatnot, but I'd rather a little more flexibility in the main viewport. Having the slices and export panels there would speed things up somewhat. 3. Put an add slice button in the toolbar Both panels are visually quite similar and I find myself frequently going to the wrong one to create a slice, the muscle memory just isn't happening for me. 4. Export options and export presets in the slice panel This is pretty confusing, we have two different places to set export presets, with differently populated preset lists, and which overrides the other? I'd suggest ripping export presets and batch builder options from the slices panel and putting them in export presets. 4. Export options defaults This is also pretty obtuse. The default set up used when creating new slices, right? I'd suggest removing this button entirely and when no slices are selected, have the inputs usable and whatever is populated is the default. I fumbled with this quite a lot before realising it only applied to newly created slices. It really does feel unnecessary. I'd also advocated showing some kind of small marker next to slices in their panel, just showing something like the format they are exporting to, making your set up less fiddly and more glanceable. 5. Change the label on artboards to "artboard" in the layer panel I know an artboard can be other shapes than a rectangle, but having that word in little parenthesis behind one, would make working with the layers panel a whole load easier. 6. Sack off the colour selector in the export persona toolbar. I have no idea why it's there. 7. Expose all document presets in artboard tool. It's strange to have only the devices ones show, unless this is a bug or something? 8. Artboard grid This isn't important, it'd just be nice to have a grid for things outside of an artboard, just for anal people like me to align them nicely. 9. Artboard align A Tool or option to align all artboards by name (respecting slashes in name/path setting) so common paths would group together. So if I had a load of boards for iPad let's say, I'd name them all ipad/screen 1,2,3 and click to align them by this grouping. That would be wizard. 10. Quicker way to apply multiple output presets Currently the workflow is - go into a slice, change the settings, hope you don't change your mind before adding anything that can't be copied, click the copy to clipboard button, then click the apply button. I'd suggest changing the export preset list from a dropdown to a true, always viewable (but probably collapsable) lists so you can firstly see the selected preset(s) applied to the current slice and also drag and drop them over to the slice panel. You could also add an apply button to the right so you can apply to all selected slices. This combined with labels in the slice panels I mentioned earlier would make the experience wondrous. (Happy to do you a doodle if I've gotten confusing) 11. User variables in export path Right now you can add custom use variables to file names, which is grand. But a second (Or even shared) pool of variables for paths would be great. 12. Animated gif export I know, I know, but hear me out. I'm not suggesting going down the path of Photoshop's animation panel stuff. But a nice, simple "Few frames and duration" setup like the slices panel would be awesome. Shift click a few slices, say add them to a gif. Set a universal (Or per slide) duration and it gets added to the export pile. I know you could say, where do you draw the line, but unfortunately people still want banner gifs (I hate them too) and this would make life a lot easier. Trying to find a simple standalone gif creator (That doesn't want to do giphy videos) is actually quite hard to come by, I searched for an hour or two and found something called "Smart gif maker" on the Mac App Store. It works, it's 2 quid, but a bit shit. This would be a great addition to AD. And I'm done! ...I think. ....There might be more I'm forgetting.

Blimey. This thread is still going?

It's a beta. Enough said.

You're just resorting to pedantry now. It's broken, it's known to be broken, it's being worked on, it'll be fixed. Some things are complicated and take time, sometimes priorities have to change, a software package is a large and complex thing. You're obviously frustrated, but I don't think this conversation is helping anyone anymore.

Another one I've been struggling with when moving text from emails/word to designs. It's pretty rare you'll want the formatting provided by the client when adding text to a document, I'd swap the behaviour so text pastes without it's format by default and in cases where you'd like yo identify unknown colours and fonts quickly, add a shortcut to paste with format. Well, only from outside the application, there might be a case for this to be ignored when you're pasting text between positions in the same document for example. But pasting the text object rather than the text inside would solve this right?