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  1.    B0R10N reacted to a post in a topic: Problems with Affinity 2.5.5 and MacOS Sequoia Beta
  2.    Juhani reacted to a post in a topic: Please NO MORE NEW FEATURES!
  3.    Juhani reacted to a post in a topic: [Designer 2.5.1] Expanding rounded corner strokes creates jagged nodes
  4.    Juhani reacted to a post in a topic: [escape] key consistently deselects layers in Publisher and Designer but not in Photo
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  6. Juhani started following V2.5 Expand stroke bug , Cannot assign certain keyboard shortcuts , Expand stroke does not work correctly and 1 other
  7. Juhani
    I'm trying to map ⌘esc as a keyboard shortcut for Deselect (like it is in Sketch). Affinity Photo maps it as ⌘⎋ but when I hit ⌘esc it does not work. Neither does ⇧esc or ⌃esc. Can you please make the esc key available for shortcut mapping?
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  14. Juhani
    Do you have extended experience with VectorStyler? I just checked and it is on sale at the moment..
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  22. Juhani
    Apple acquiring Pixelmator Pro and at the same time releasing Final Cut Pro 11 is interesting/promising. One could dream they're back building tools for creative pros, but we'll have to see about that. If they started developing Motion again, and possibly also acquired Sketch, then it's truly game on.
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  25. Juhani
    It's not pessimistic but realistic to take things as they are. They also pledged "accelerating the rollout of highly requested features", but since the acquisition more than 7 months ago their update pace has in fact decelerated to a crawl – we've got exactly one official release since then (2.5) and that also happened 5 months ago. Facts.
  26. Juhani
    It seems Serif has adopted a rather ivory tower approach with their customers. The best you'd get from the team is that we hear you but we don't know/can't say anything about when or what. I wouldn't be too surprised if they never had an internal roadmap of their own. On a more serious note though, having tried to adopt Affinity Designer as a vector tool for professional use for the last 5 months or so, I finally realize what many older members have been saying here for quite some time (which I didn't want to hear), that Affinity Designer is not a true vector application, which it confusingly claims to be. It doesn't have a vector brush engine at its core, it does not do vector patterns, it doesn't have any vector transform effects, heck, it struggles to outline even the most basic clean strokes precisely. Forget about the blend tool and any other essential tools we need in a proper vector design app. There are other things it does quite well though, and it can be used in many workflows, but let's get real and honest about Affinity Designer as it is today, if you need a solid vector app, it's time to move on.
  27. Juhani
    Not sure what to share here, it's happening basically on every drawn stroke on newly created documents if you look closely at around 2000% zoom level or more. Sometimes it's better and sometimes worse, also rendered a bit differently in versions 2.6 and 2.4.2, but in both cases the integrity of the original strokes are not respected when strokes are expanded. Now I cannot trust the outlines Designer draws at all, and going over them I can spot lots of random sharp nodes even on perfectly smooth outlined curves, which all start to break apart when I manipulate them any further. @Affinity Info Bot @MEB Will the fix for this be in the 2.6 official release?
  28. Juhani
    Ok, I can see this bug goes way back already. How come even after more than 4 months Serif has still failed to fix such a critical issue?
  29. Juhani
    Ok, got the 2.4.2 installed and could successfully paste directly from 2.6 to 2.4.2. The ends of the strokes are indeed correct now, but the whole stroke is still not outlined accurately as seen in the following demo. Should I go back to some even earlier version? Which one? Screen Recording 2024-11-10 at 02.26.00.mov
  30. Juhani
    Thanks a lot! I’ll try that tomorrow first thing.
  31. Juhani
    Thanks I’ll try that, but does the svg/eps export retain the stroke vector data that the older Affinity can read back in? If i opened them in Illustrator i only saw rasterized bitmaps. And now that i’ve worked with the designer file in Designer 2.6 i can’t open it in the 2.5.5 or older version any longer.
  32. Juhani
    Well I’m in the later phases of a brand design project that i was apparently too excited to try doing in Designer for the first time and now no way to accurately outline the strokes, which renders Affinity Designer totally useless for accurate logo work. There’s also no way to export strokes as vector data out of Designer to Illustrator to finish the job. It’s honestly sort of a disaster and completely unacceptable. We need to get this fixed immediately!
  33. Juhani
    Serif, just get the API and scripting out there already, so that 3rd party developers can start filling in all those missing features ("critical" or otherwise) that you take for ages to implement natively.
  34. Juhani
    Expanding strokes is still broken in the latest 2.6 Beta build!!! I'm particularly having trouble expanding thicker open curves with round caps into outlines, which the command totally messes up by introducing a bunch of sharp nodes while not respecting the original vector shape of the stroke.
  35. Juhani
    Absolutely! Decided to do a logo project for the first time in Designer and just discovered that going from strokes to outlines completely messes up my linework, especially the ends of open curves. Tried to get my strokes to Illustrator to expand them there but getting strokes as strokes out of Designer also seems to be impossible. Ended up spending ton of extra time going over the jagged outlines and smoothed them out by hand. Btw expanding text to outlines does not seem to have any issues. But yeah, massively disappointed in running into these kinds of bugs in the middle of actual client job.
  36. Juhani
    macOS Sequoia's QuickLook forces Affinity documents to open up larger than previously, at more than 100%, so since the image preview sizes are still extremely small inside Affinity documents, the renders look blurry and just unprofessional. Please add the ability to set our own preview sizes and quality levels that we save into the file formats.
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