Talisman999

Leaving some notes here for future lookers. I saved all my live docs to the cloud, closed them all, shut down the ipad and restarted. Nothing changed in the file sizes. An uninstall / reinstalled did fix it (FYI - you will loose all your custom items - ex: brushes - so make sure you export those first). Reinstalled and opened a couple files and Designer 2 has been staying steady at 2.5 GB. I guess we'll see if the bloat happens again or if it was a one-time thing. Thanks for your help @Callum and @walt.farrell

I have been noticing this for a while but it hasn't become an issue until recently. There's something funky about the file size calculations on the ipad settings: I have a 64 Gig ipad. In the settings the file size "used" for Designer says it is at 95.69 GB... however the ipad still has 5GB of unused memory (I just deleted 2 programs which is what cleared up this space). Regardless - something isn't matching up. See screenshot. Deleting / closing Live Docs in Designer doesn't seem change the storage being used (at least not to a useful level). For context, I am an artist working on vector line drawings: lots of linework, some of them use symbols heavily, only a couple files with hatching / fill. Many of the files have photos in them as references. I initially thought the photos could be the problem, however I saved all of the drawings to my drive / cloud (about 50 of them) and the total file size of ALL of these drawings on my computer is 2.22 GB. This is 95% of the work I am doing in Affinity. Updates to apple and affinity software haven't changed this file size mismatch, and while affinity saying that it is using "a larger size than the maximum space available on my ipad" has been concerning, it hasn't caused any problems until last night when the ipad notified me it was out of room, and started behaving in ways that corroborate that story (slow to open and close files, freezing, etc). I've gone through and deleted / closed everything in live documents I am not currently using (10 drawings / about 20% of the files), and it doesn't really seem to budge the ipad storage number seen in the settings. I thought about closing everything, deleting affinity, and reinstalling and reopening everything - but that sounds time consuming and doesn't guarantee success. Also, not a permanent solution. What is a human to do? Is there a setting that maybe is causing this? When I save files to the cloud I have the "save history" switch turned off, but the ipad seems to save history between settings. Is there a way to check the file size of drawings that are open in my live documents? This could give me a way to identify any files that are problematic. Is there a way to save everything in live documents all at once to the cloud? This would streamline the uninstall / reinstall option. 💙 this program and this community!

Thank you for the new tool I did not know I needed. ⚙

Ah, here it is. Thank you for the quick fix solution. It took me a minute to find, so for future seekers, an ipad screenshot below. You need to have the object selected with the second selection arrow to get the option for reverse direction.

(Edit: .afdesign file removed) This was done on an ipad and exporting to the default pdf option (but also the black fill appears when I export to other versions of pdf). Thank you!

Good morning, I've been having this problem periodically since I started using Affinity Designer 1 and it persists with AD2. Sometimes vector objects that I draw print black. See the black objects on the fin of the attached turtle picture. I work on an ipad and export to pdf. Going in and changing the fill or style does not seem to fix it - I typically need to recreate the objects in order to get rid of it. To my knowledge I am not doing anything differently when I create these objects, they just seem to pick up a black fill. The fill isnt shown on my screen on the ipad and doesn't show up at all until I export the pdf. I don't always notice it right away which means I need to re-export all the images. This black fill doesn't appear when I export to png so I think it might be something about the vector objects. I use symbols and layers a lot so maybe there is something about my process that is confusing the program? Regardless, can you tell me how to fix this / and or why this might happen so that I can avoid it in the future? ~ Thank you! ~

@moovme Did you ever find a resolution to this problem? I am also experiencing the same thing, and it was helpful to read through this discussion and know that I wasn't the only one finding this frustrating. I'm a little late to the party, but I did find a workaround. Changing the lines to grey instead of a true black seems to read much better on my various devices without having to change any settings. This might not be a good option for architectural drawings, but it works for art & sketches and might help someone else. Using recently released Designer v2 and exporting pdfs from Publisher (v2).

@loukash I would still prefer a setting. Essentially flipping the default so that keeping the setting is the default and overriding the lineweight is the extra step. This would be a HUGE time saver. I thought I had just found such a setting in version 1 right before I switched to version 2. Did I dream that?

@,,, On an ipad? Note, I am not using the "Touch Shortcut" (pictured in the image below) as I am finding it a bit too abstract and have always been an ipad user so I dont have the keyboard shortcuts in my brain-map. This would of course have the alternative for opt/alt-click. I'm looking for something logical and simple on an ipad. A setting that always stuck would be by far the best for me as 90% (maybe 99%) of the time want the brush size to stay the same. Thanks for the suggestion and hope it helps someone else.

I feel like there was an option in V1 to have the program remember + retain the brush size from my previous selection but I can't find that on V2. I am constantly picking new brushes and having to scale the brush size down with every new brush is time consuming (and a little rough when there's a lot of lines / information). On ipad, Affinity Designer v2. Thank you!

Would love love love to be able to make custom vector brushes that are actually vector. You know, where we can expand stroke and it will expand it to the outer edges. Made some cool brushes and it hurts soooo bad to have to run it through another program to turn those into vector lines again, especially as I made them out of vectors in the first place. Is this on the V2 wishlist? Is this (better yet) in the works? ...Is this something that exists that I just dont know about?!?! (Affinity Designer V2, on ipad)