Twomen

Thanks for the separated printer marks options in the pdf export.

Thanks team, wow you guys are really pushing the boat out. ;-)
 
Some observations...
 
Seems you need to hide grid then show grid if you want it to line up with a rotated canvas. Not a biggie. Are there plans for a more natural application of rotate canvas down the road. Like a user determined key short, click, drag, rotate instead of predesignated increments?
 
I realize art boards are still a wip but I'm curious, what's the light grey area around the art boards all about? Currently it seems a little jittery at the moment when moving an art board around or zooming in and out. Why not just have the darker grey background? Just wondering...
 
Seems you can select and move an art board with the move tool when the art board is empty but not after there's an element on it... is this a possible confusing convention? I would expect to use the art board tool to do anything to an art board...
 
Is there an art board panel/palette coming for rearranging, resizing and renumbering?
 
Thanks for those marquee selection and hide selection fixes!!

Why would someone do that?  :(  Matt will not be alone. The Miaow will be remembered.

Seems you’re on fire, guys … the third update within two weeks, if I counted correctly …  but now it’s time for a great restful weekend, isn’t it? Well deserved …  :D

Hope you're all better now, Matt.

Hi, 
 
Firstly can I just say that I love the tool, it feels so great to use!
 
One feature that I would love to see implemented is an 'align to last selected' or 'align to first selected' option. 
 
So basically whenever you use the align buttons they would always snap to whichever object the user selected last, or first, depending on the user's preference.
 
Inkscape has a great option menu which allows you to select which you would like to align to based on your preferences. In my opinion this is even more useful than the 'align to key object' system which Illustrator uses, as the key object system requires an extra click which slows things down. 
 
Anyway keep up the good work!

Great update……
 
Just thought you should know that the tint slider for the colour palette when using spots has noticeably blurry text on the "Edit Global Colour" button.
 
I am using a non-retina 2012 imac using El Capitan, perhaps, that has something to do with it?
 
Thanks

Here's some feedback about the new Artboards functionality introduced with v1.3.5.7:
 
- It took me ages to find out how to add Artboards. Eventually I found it's a tool nested with the selection tool button. While I understand I can quickly switch to it the a keyboard shortcut, I think it's hard to find and access with the mouse. I'd make this a separate button in the toolbar.
 
- I'd separate layers from artboards, i.e. make a separate panel for listing artboards. I may need to select multiple objects contained in the same layer, but on different artboards (I'd have to select multiple layers now, which is not practical if I have several artboards
 
- Need number input to be able to customize artboard dimensions in toolbar (surely that's coming soon :)
 
- Need option to customize colour of background behind artboards. I'd prefer if the default is what you use for single artboard documents (dark).
 
- Need UI buttons (in artboard mode) to cycle through artboards at current zoom level. Perhaps placing it in the bottom "help bar"
 
- Need keyboard shortcuts to cycle through artboards at current zoom level
 
- Allow for direct ALT-drag of artboards without having to select an artboard first
 
- Allow for toggling duplicate mode (hold ALT) while dragging an artboard, instead of required ALT to be pressed before starting to drag. This helps compensate for error/forgetting to press-hold ALT before starting to drag to duplicate.
 
- Nice to have - ability to edit artboard name directly above the artboard
 
Other than that, great start with this feature. Thanks.

Just a quick one, I'm not sure hide selection is an appropriate for the context bar.. feels like an application wide state, behaviourally more like showing guides/rulers, I'd expect to see this in a dropdown. Also you should be a little more descriptive in it's tooltip, something like "Hide selection while moving object" otherwise people might assume this just persistently hides objects' bounding boxes.
 
Regarding disabling the document settings when multiple arboards are on the canvas, it might be better for clarity to add some context in-line as to why the dimension options are unavailable.

Symbols are on our roadmap. They will be in a post release free update and will be more powerful than any symbol feature I have seen before.

Oh, thats great! Thank you Alex :-)

Hi Twomen,
 
and welcome here …  :)
 
This option is available in the latest beta of Affinity Designer. You can also use different measurement units there:
 
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/14652-affinity-designer-customer-beta-1357/
 
You can install the beta alongside the app store version, both won’t interfere. But please be aware that you have to keep the app store version in order to run the beta. The next update to the Mac app store version of Affinity Designer should be available by the end of the year, hopefully before Christmas …  ;)
 
Cheers, Alex  :)

It is going to be added as I know it's on a lot of users' wish lists, but so are a large number of other things that can't be worked around, so these are currently a higher priority, being realistic. :(  I am hoping to start adding arrowheads in about 3 months time.
 
Thanks,
Matt

Knock Knock. Who's there? Arrow Head. Arrow Head who? Arrow Head in Affinity Designer.
 
Um... is this coming anytime soon? :)

Or if you have a graphic tablet with an eraser tip on the end of the pen, just turn the pen over to the eraser end and it'll automatically choose the Erase tool - even in Draw Persona :)

Select the line. Go In the menu "Layer" and select "Expand Stroke". After that your line is a filled shape that you can use with compound shapes.
Hope that could help.