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Try this.
 
You need to tweak some preferences on your Mac.
 
System Preferences -> Accessibility
 
Select Keyboard from the list on the Left
 
Click Open Keyboard Preferences (bottom)
 
Once then select Shortcuts from the top tab.
 
Select All Controls (bottom).
 
 
See whether this works for you.
 
Regards

That's a very good question quarki69.
I also think that duplicating the same background onto 3 or more parts is not the best way to go about it. But at the moment that the only way to do it.
I hope that when Master Pages are added to the Designer that should fix this issue.
Best regards

JGD,
 
Your logic would work if the Affinity products were on an equal feature-set with Adobe.
At the moment that's not the case so there is no need for any secrecy, etc.
That may change in the future of course.
 
An early community feedback on certain choices taken by the developers might prove to be of great benefit to them and us, who end up using the software.
 
But, this is only speculation on our part. But it does require bold thinking.

pullapooh- The icons should be updated to be prettier.
 
I couldn't agree more.

Hi rui_mac,
I don't think these two things should exclude each other.
We should definitely have a plug-in architecture mentioned by tomek as well as the facility to script the all the applications.
And you are absolutely right, this should be suit-wise.
Regards

I know that you're hard at work with on the other cornerstone of the Affinity suite - Publisher. And having seen the quality of your work with the other two applications I have no doubt that you've done your homework. But, when doing research on this sort of development project it is easy to lose sight of things that are not on the development map. It's also easy to dismiss ideas that go against the architecture or particular implementation details. And in the end it is what is useful to the intended end user that is actually more important than the internals of the software.
 
Hence I would like to start a thread where all serious DTP experts, professionals and advanced users could contribute ideas. In particular, features that have been long standing requested of other software but haven't been implemented.
 
Anyway, I await the first beta of Publisher with much anticipation and to get started here's my first request:
 
Enable plug-in architecture similar to InDesign which would allow a whole Affinity eco system to flourish while freeing the core team to concentrate on the important bits.
 
cheers,
-tomek

I would love to be an alpha tester for Affinity Publisher (to get my hand on it as soon as possible :-) ). I have a lot of experience in the publishing field (~30 years) and would love to contribute in any way I can to make the Publisher the platform of choice of a new generations of publishing tools.

Hi cekuhnen,
In that case you should stick using Affinity Designer which is pitched to be equivalent to Adobe Illustrator and Freehand.
For me Affinity Publisher should be a professional grade publishing platform, equivalent to inDesign but in time hopefully much better.

I would love to be an alpha tester for Affinity Publisher (to get my hand on it as soon as possible :-) ). I have a lot of experience in the publishing field (~30 years) and would love to contribute in any way I can to make the Publisher the platform of choice of a new generations of publishing tools.

Hi cekuhnen,
In that case you should stick using Affinity Designer which is pitched to be equivalent to Adobe Illustrator and Freehand.
For me Affinity Publisher should be a professional grade publishing platform, equivalent to inDesign but in time hopefully much better.

Hi cekuhnen,
I'm sure you are aware of the fact that artboards are coming to Affinity Designer. I'm not sure when but this feature is definitely coming.
Also, AD is not a finished product. It's in constant development, so please start nagging the developers for the features you need and if you get the community behind you they might implement it.  :)

Hi cekuhnen,
In that case you should stick using Affinity Designer which is pitched to be equivalent to Adobe Illustrator and Freehand.
For me Affinity Publisher should be a professional grade publishing platform, equivalent to inDesign but in time hopefully much better.

Please don't do that. It's a stupid idea.

Hi Oval,
Well, I've been in the digital publishing space ever since the Mac+ and a Laser Writer came on the scene (and even before that) so I know a thing or two about publishing software.
I remember using PageMaker when it was still in Beta and I remember when inDesign beta came along (not to mention QuarkXpress).
It took a good few iterations of inDesign to bring it to the Professional level.
The same will happen with Affinity Publisher and other software from Affinity. Unfortunately, that's life.
 
I am also a programmer so I know that to eradicate all bugs is just not possible but I have full confidence in Affinity folks to get it right.
 
Also, no offence Oval, but you need to re-read your posts a few times more before posting, because some of your posts come across as very offensive, at least in this country. You can achieve much more by expressing your views in a more "friendly manner". :-)
 
:)  :)  :)

Chill out man,
 
I know, the wait is killing me too, but that what it is. Affinity will always play a catch-up to ADOBE, unless they commit more manpower towards the affinity Trio. (Designer, Photo, Publisher).
 
Remember, it's £29 a pop so it's not that they are taking your money and running away with it. The price more than fully justifies what the software represented at the moment.
 
The professional moniker attached to the Designer and Photo is bit of a stretch at this point in time but that's the space they want to be in.
 
I'm confident that they will get there. Until then, people who would want to use these programs professionally and break away from ADOBE, will need to wait a bit.
 
I think that's what's killing you, right :-)
 
:)  :)  :)

Please don't do that. It's a stupid idea.

By not intuitive, you probably mean that the feature doesn't work like the equivalent in Photoshop.
You need to understand that this is not a Photoshop product and the designers are trying to correct the way some features work in Photoshop.
I find this particular feature more intuitive that the one in Photoshop.
You need to give yourself some time to learn a better way.
Don't expect all features to work the same across these programs.
Just because a given feature works differently it doesn't necessarily mean that is less intuitive.  :)

By not intuitive, you probably mean that the feature doesn't work like the equivalent in Photoshop.
You need to understand that this is not a Photoshop product and the designers are trying to correct the way some features work in Photoshop.
I find this particular feature more intuitive that the one in Photoshop.
You need to give yourself some time to learn a better way.
Don't expect all features to work the same across these programs.
Just because a given feature works differently it doesn't necessarily mean that is less intuitive.  :)

Chill out man,
 
I know, the wait is killing me too, but that what it is. Affinity will always play a catch-up to ADOBE, unless they commit more manpower towards the affinity Trio. (Designer, Photo, Publisher).
 
Remember, it's £29 a pop so it's not that they are taking your money and running away with it. The price more than fully justifies what the software represented at the moment.
 
The professional moniker attached to the Designer and Photo is bit of a stretch at this point in time but that's the space they want to be in.
 
I'm confident that they will get there. Until then, people who would want to use these programs professionally and break away from ADOBE, will need to wait a bit.
 
I think that's what's killing you, right :-)
 
:)  :)  :)

Chill out man,
 
I know, the wait is killing me too, but that what it is. Affinity will always play a catch-up to ADOBE, unless they commit more manpower towards the affinity Trio. (Designer, Photo, Publisher).
 
Remember, it's £29 a pop so it's not that they are taking your money and running away with it. The price more than fully justifies what the software represented at the moment.
 
The professional moniker attached to the Designer and Photo is bit of a stretch at this point in time but that's the space they want to be in.
 
I'm confident that they will get there. Until then, people who would want to use these programs professionally and break away from ADOBE, will need to wait a bit.
 
I think that's what's killing you, right :-)
 
:)  :)  :)

Chill out man,
 
I know, the wait is killing me too, but that what it is. Affinity will always play a catch-up to ADOBE, unless they commit more manpower towards the affinity Trio. (Designer, Photo, Publisher).
 
Remember, it's £29 a pop so it's not that they are taking your money and running away with it. The price more than fully justifies what the software represented at the moment.
 
The professional moniker attached to the Designer and Photo is bit of a stretch at this point in time but that's the space they want to be in.
 
I'm confident that they will get there. Until then, people who would want to use these programs professionally and break away from ADOBE, will need to wait a bit.
 
I think that's what's killing you, right :-)
 
:)  :)  :)

I would love to be an alpha tester for Affinity Publisher (to get my hand on it as soon as possible :-) ). I have a lot of experience in the publishing field (~30 years) and would love to contribute in any way I can to make the Publisher the platform of choice of a new generations of publishing tools.

rui_mac,
I've noticed that too.
In fact when you create a box and then add text to the box (flow inside if you will) then you loose all box attributes like colour, stroke, etc.
I think that one should be able to control the inside margins (standoff text) as well as other positions like top, centre, bottom and top-left, top-right, etc. of the text.
And of course its colour and stroke.
Unfortunately, this is not supported at the moment.
Regards,

Call it plug-ins or scripts, I would love to see something like that developed by Serif.
I hope that Serif will do a better job than Adobe, though.
 
Quite frankly I would standardise on JavaScript.
It would satisfy both mac and windows users and would prevent maintaining 2 languages by the plugin developers one for Mac and another for Windows platform.

I've been in the Graphics business for the last 30 years. I can only speak for myself, but the majority of the professional graphics companies I worked for use macs. That doesn't mean that there are no windows based graphic designers. Affinity wants to position the Designer as a professional tool and for that reason it seems to me to be a very reasonable choice.