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To be fair, I’m just looking at Firefox and the search field there also has left-aligned placeholder text. In my opinion it’s not imperative that the UI/chrome looks exactly like native applications but Apple does have some UI guidelines that AD currently doesn’t quite follow (I’m thinking more about colors, gradients, and contrasts here rather than text alignment) – or at least it feels like Affinity is trying to follow these guidelines but isn’t quite getting it right yet (like the mentioned chevrons in the system preferences).

Ah, that was it! Thanks. Has been a while since I used a beta version so that might have been before the setting was implemented.

Is it just me or is the “scroll object/layer into view” functionality (in the layers panel when clicking an object on the page) gone again?

I agree with everything A_B_C has said. The contrast of the UI could be stronger (and not just for the light UI, actually). And the studio panels could also get a drop shadow or something because at a quick glimpse they barely stand out from this website I have open behind AD (see screenshot). Edit: For comparison, see the attached screenshot of my favorite UI design application that has unfortunately been discontinued.

Oooooooh! Yaaaayyyyyy! Finally! :D I haven’t even tried it; just saw the new thread and felt like jumping out of joy.

If the new font bears the same name as the old one nothing should be necessary, if I’m not mistaken, because it will just automatically load the new font. Other than that, why would it be a problem to select the new font everytime you re-open a file? Clearly, you aren’t opening 500+ files in one go but just when you need them? How often do you open a file from a couple of years back?

No, viewBox and width and height are two different things. The viewBox sets the corrdinate system and basically the “viewport” (the visible area of the graphic) while the SVG element itself can have a different width and height. I also find myself always opening the SVGs in code editor and adding an absolute width and height because the 100% values can cause issues with default sizing of SVGs (embedded via <object>) in Internet Explorer. It’s usually the best to have absolute values in the width and height attributes.

You could just use the alignment tool in the panel at the top: after duplicating and resizing, select all circles and center align them vertically and horizontally, and you’re good.

25 years is a lot of muscle memory to get rid of, so some struggle is inevitable. You shouldn’t give up on it just yet, though. I’m sure it will grow on you if you keep working with it, and then you’ll think of Photoshop what you’re thinking of Affinity Photo now.

Hey, I want that and have always wanted that for Designer. Why isn’t that function available there? I hope it’ll be included in 1.6?

I’m well aware of ad blockers and tracker blockers; I’m using them myself, of course. When I said I don’t want personalized ads I meant I don’t want that personal information about me is gathered in order to serve ads that the company thinks is what I might be interested in. Of course I’d rather not have any ads at all in the first place. Still, the way companies like Facebook (which is only exemplary for many others) are connecting data you wouldn’t even think is collected (like at what times/how often you access your feeds or whatever, and with whom you are connected) they have a clear profile of you that can be used against you to their advantage in ways we can’t even imagine (yet). But let’s not digress: a note about latest developments on this forum (in addition to the social network channels) would be nice.

You are forgetting one major thing (and the fact that you are forgetting this shows that it works): knowing the location of a person isn’t the only privacy concern (or not even the worst), it’s the combination of knowing the location, knowing who you are connected with, knowing what you like or are interested in (by knowing which websites you visit, for example), knowing when you are online checking your news etc., and then ever so subtly influencing your behavior with all this knowledge about you. Different entities (like ISPs) may know one or two things about you but they don’t connect the data the same way Facebook does. I, for example, don’t want ads that are personalized for what Facebook thinks I may like or be interested in. I don’t want to be influenced without my consent. I don’t want to get caught in a filter bubble because some company analyzes my browsing behavior and takes over the thinking from me. That’s my personal privacy concern. And sorry for getting off-topic, but I had the feeling this had to be clarified because some people don’t seem to understand the real issues with this.

To be fair, the additional work to post the same post on Facebook, Twitter, and the forum is negligible.

I’m also not on Facebook or Twitter (and am still happy – or despite that? :) ) and I didn’t even know it was supposed to be released around Easter. I was just wondering why the devs were so quiet and figured that they’d be working on something really great. ;)

I was looking for a replacement for Fireworks which was discontinued by Adobe and is starting to feel older the more OS updates there are. I was also looking into Sketch for a bit but my work as web developer often requires to open PSD files from so-called “web designers” (no professional web designer would use Photoshop for the task), and no other applications besides Adobe’s were able to do this – until I met AD. And it even got better when I found that it even opens PDFs with layers. And then the price was also unbeatable but that’s just an added bonus. :)

You’ll always have to get used to a slightly different workflow with different applications. As for #1: what’s the problem with pressing ‘A’ to switch to the node tool and then pressing ‘A’ again to switch back to the move tool? #2: This is probably a remnant of the Mac heritage of AD because there it would be Command and Space which is already taken by the OSs spotlight search. That’s why they did it the other way ’round. But again, what’s the problem with hitting ‘Z’ to switch to the zoom tool (and with this you can even use scrubby zoom: click and drag to right to zoom in, drag to left to zoom out) and then hitting ‘Z’ again to switch back to the previously selected tool? #3: No, it shouldn’t. Or it should at least be a user preference, if at all. It’s such a smooth workflow that it just selects the nodes of the currently selected object(s) and not everything beneath. You can Shift-click any other object to also select and edit its nodes. #5: you weren’t very specific which value fields you mean but this works at least in the transform panel and in some other fields like opacity, too. #6: You can type in any unit you like. There was a post somewhere on this forum about which units AD supports but I can’t be bothered to search for it right now. But all the most common units (px, pt, cm, in) are definitely supported. You can even do simple math operations (enter 10-1px and you’ll get a 9px stroke).

For print just export a PDF; that format is universally compatible and can contain vectors (scalable shapes/objects). For screen use SVG where allowed/supported or PNG for lossless raster graphics. For web you need to keep the file size in mind; you need to find a good compromise between file size and quality. I don’t know what your logo looks like (and can’t be bothered to download your source file) but assuming the logo consists of simple shapes with few colors file size should never be larger than 50kb. If it has millions of colors JPEG is probably better than PNG. You don’t need to export to PSD, EPS, or TIFF if you just want to provide the customer the finished logo. PDF, SVG, and PNG (or alternatively JPEG) should suffice.

If you want to put the logo on the web it will most likely never be wider than 1000px. And even that size would only be reached if you feature it specifically in some kind of presentation. However, considering different pixel density on different displays it’s good to have some room, so a width of around 400–600px should be OK. This is only relevant for raster graphics (PNG, JPEG, GIF); for scalable formats such as SVG the size doesn’t matter as it can be scaled at free will. Why do you want to export it to all formats if I may ask?

As web designers we have learned that tables are not meant for layout, or that layout tables are bad practice, respectively. Therefore I would say a table tool should really only be used to create actual data table mockups. However, I think a better way of thinking about this would be a “layout grid” or “grid layout” tool. Visually that’s probably very similar to a layout table but the thinking behind it is different because it doesn’t imply that using tables for layout is OK.

You don’t “Save as” JPEG, you export (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+X) as JPEG.

What? That’s not the task of a shadow but of a gradient. Or are you talking about that one-pixel bevel-like effect at the top and bottom of the button?

Fontexplorer X does auto activation and deactivation for any application.

You can’t seriously expect that some magic application creates a professional program for you that just works. Any program – just as Affinity Designer – is just a tool, and a tool can only create as good a result as the person using it. So, if you have no incentive to learn to code then hire a professional developer who knows how to do it. Otherwise there is (currently) no way to create something substantial. As the saying goes: you get what you pay for.

Schriften werden nicht „in Affinity Designer“ installiert, Affinity Designer registriert die Schriften, die in deinem Betriebssystem installiert sind. Neue Helvetica ist keine kostenlose Schriftart; jegliche Onlineressourcen, die diese Schriftart kostenlos anbieten, tun das höchstwahrscheinlich illegal. Allerdings könntest du vermutlich einen akzeptablen Ersatz finden – dazu gibt es bereits Fragen: http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15462/is-there-a-free-helvetica-neue-alternative

I see what you did there. ;-)