Petar Petrenko

With each new version you have a 30-day trial period. I think that's enough time to see if the bugs (you're concerned about) have been fixed, and to decide whether to buy it or not.

Yes, at this moment I am on Windows.

No, it is not. It shows "Use Baseline grid". On both Publishers.

I think that is Microsoft's problem, not Affinity.

Hey @MikeTO. Can you tell me where you found that "Independent Baseline Grid"? I can't find it in both versions of Publisher -- beta and retail.

New feature usually comes with two number versions -- 2.1, 2.2... 2.6, not three 2.1.1, 2.6.3. There were already new features in 2.6.

In FreeHand, that tool doesn't draw smooth lines. It is combination between Designer's pen and pencil tool: when you just click the left mouse button and drag the mouse, you are in Designer's pen mode -- drawing a straight line; when you hold the left mouse button pressed, you are in Designer's pencil mode -- drawing freehand curves.

Curved edges are easy to get when you first draw the straight ones. I miss Freehand tool (pen or pencil?) for drawing straight lines and free shape curves (not like using pen tool in Designer or Illustrator) with one tool only.

Maybe, but that's the way I work. Everyone has rights to have its own style -- right or wrong.

@Bynah Is this OK to you? Plymouth Salads.afdesign

The document is empty (only 6 guidelines). Next, you mention artboards which are Designer oriented elements and you uploaded Publisher file.

Wow, it never happened to me. Can you explain exactly how it does it? How do you create the artboard(s) -- when creating a new document by checking "Create Artboard" or are you trying to convert the new page into artboard?

@thomaso Well, at least you won't end with an open shape.

In case I have to draw a closed shape, I don't use pen or pencil tool. I start with rectangular shape and convert it to curve. Then I start to reposition the nodes and add new ones as needed.

Just curious. Why would you like to delete it even it is not your project? Canvases / Artboards / Pages, are useful to define what is going to be printed or exported or... anything else. It is something like the painter trying to destroy the canvas, but keep the painting.

So, this is what we want. Just a small talk from time to time with a staff member to keep us happy and on trucks. Thank you.

At least, it's moving, to everyone's joy. Affinity goes forward with new strength.

OK, you can do to the very first image you open. What about any other image if you would like to place? You can't do it. It automatically selects the first image you used for defining the size of your document, which you could do that with "New..." dialog box. You can use it only once, for only one image in the document you create.

Would you elaborate on this more thoroughly, please? So, "New..." function is not needed in Photo?

Would they exist after a new version is installed?

Save as works exactly as you want Save a Copy to do. With Save as you can change the name and location (if you need) of the file and, at the same time, you start working with it.

Yes, you are correct. With crop function all you can do is to trim canvas and after that it is useless (Photo). You can't crop additional images with this tool. You need to use vector elements like rectangles, ellipses... to mask the image. BTW, it work as it should in Designer and Publisher. Affinity should change this functionality in Photo because you can define your canvas size when creating new document, just like you do in Designer and Publisher.

InDesign has an option in Preferences to choose between "Display All Blacks as Rich Black" or "Output All Blacks Accurately" for display and print.

I don't recommend CMYK color space at all because it is generic color space and you will destroy your images if you convert them directly. Converting back from CMYK to RGB will not bring back the tones that were previously in the RGB format. Keep editing your images in RGB whether they will be used on web or print. For printing purpose you should create PDF with appropriate color space in "File > Adobe PDF presets > Press quality > Output > Color > Destination". You choose: U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) -- for rotation printing; Coated FOGRA39 -- for sheet printing, or; any other specific to your device. That will converted all RGB images from your document into specific CMYK color space for the device you intend to use. Here it is what David Blatner says about this: https://creativepro.com/import-rgb-images-indesign-convert-cmyk-export/

You missed to mention too much spaces between sentences.