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Often, when editing a piece of text inside an Affinity Photo text box, I'll need to undo text changes I've typed, and the fastest way is by keyboard shortcut Cmd+Z. This key combo is so common and widespread across macOS applications that it's almost second nature. In Affinity Photo, however, this key combo is broken when it comes to Japanese text. When typing Japanese text that can change into kanji, there's often an intermediate step where the system/TextKit renders the original kana underlined as it's being typed, then changes it to kanji once context makes it clear what the most likely substitution is. In other text editors like Pages, undoing text changes via Cmd+Z works seamlessly going through the substitution. In Affinity Photo, Cmd+Z and its Redo counterpart stop dead when trying to undo/redo a text substitution, to the point where I have to manually click into the Edit > Undo menu on the system toolbar at the top of the screen. See attached video: the part where the character is underlined is where Cmd+Z does nothing. This workaround does undo the text properly, but the keyboard combo Cmd+Z shouldn't break/halt on these text entries. It's a major productivity killer. Suggested fix: Just mimic what's done from the Edit menu. UndoRedoJP.mov

This has been requested in the Feature Requests section. In many shapes and forms. Here's a post in that forum: But nobody at Serif seems to be doing anything about it, or telling us about when we can expect it. If you want us to post in the Feature Requests section, it'd be nice if our requests were actually addressed or put on a roadmap. 🤨

Ditto. This is so unintuitive, both for new users and returning ones. Every time I open a document to edit it, I waste my first two clicks on an object with the Move tool selected. Along with defaulting to upper-left anchors, this always catches me off-guard because other software tools spoil us with persistent memory of our last selection and workspace preferences. Persistence between sessions would be a huge boon, and a simple way to address this. When I try to get new users to use Affinity Photo, they always complain that it's "too hard to use" because they don't know how to select something in the document. We spend a few minutes debugging. Lo and behold: the problem is always that they have the Hand tool selected, with no guidance whatsoever that it can't be used to select or move objects on the canvas. Such an obvious UI bug. Not addressing this on Affinity Photo's part is not a good look when it's fighting against Photoshop and usability. With so many users complaining about it, I wonder if the people at Serif even listen? Or are they just stubborn in their design choices? So hard to say, but the more I use Affinity, the more of these I discover, which is rapidly tarnishing my faith in the product and its design leadership.

This doesn't work for me. I have text that is staying spaced no matter how much I change the line spacing. Using the Paragraph Leading in Affinity, I can't get the lines any closer than a full line, despite the lines still being far apart with room to scrunch further. (see video) Compare that with how close Photoshop is able to push the lines together, for a more compact look. (see screenshot with beige background, from PSD) AffinityLineSpacing.mov

Still happening, on M1 Max MacBook Pro 14" running latest Affinity saving from Photoshop PSD Beachballing here:

3 years later, and still not fixed… 😞 Please increase the priority of this; it's a serious deal breaker, when I'm trying to put items at the correct coordinates and use X-TAB-Y as the way to match recently memorized coordinates. Having to hit tab TWICE to get from X to Y is a total productivity showstopper, and results in several suddenly-widening objects.