Petar Petrenko

Um, we already have Baseline Shift (Character Panel, or Alt+Shift+Up), and a lorem ipsum generator (Text > Insert Filler Text). We don't do auto-hyphenation yet, but you can insert soft hyphens.
 
The other features mentioned are already planned for Publisher (with the possible exception of graphs and charts), although I can't say whether they'll all be in the initial release. Personally, I'm inclined to release the product as soon as it has enough features to be useful for some people, rather than make those people wait until it can satisfy everyone.

I know, I was referring to ADesigner holding content but not displaying it on the pasteboard – not ID or QXP. (Those are the apps that have made me so reliant on using a pasteboard that I don't know how to work without it, Though QXP was a pain because we became reliant on a pasteboard extension to make it large enough to use, which if you didn't have the extension, you couldn't open the document – terrible for sharing documents) 

For Windows obviously: Serif PagePlus - it has very nice vector support.
 
For Windows and OSX: Photoline - it has very power bitmap (8, 16, 32 bit) and layer tools and also vector functionality.
It has pretty powerful text tools (kerning, alignment, multi page text flow). Like PagePlus it also allows linked images.
 
 
I can understand that they prefer to have 3 "apps" instead of a single one with extras, it makes the product more visible. They probably also care about illegal hacks which would enable all "goodies" at once.
 
 
One possibility to avoid those hacks would be the download of an "enabler app" instead of the full download.
 
If, for example, I already have Designer and I purchase Photo, I could only download the  "Photo enabler" application instead of the full 500 MB Affinity Photo and that will 
1) enable the photo tools in Designer
2) Create a shortcut which starts Designer as if it was "Photo"
 
Of course the "enabler app" could contain some required data, such as resources for the GUI and maybe additional contents, such as brushes.
 
This approach should make everyone happy.

+1
 
I would prefer to buy an addon license "Pages" for Designer instead of a separate Product which internally shares most of the code. 
 
Since I have "Photo" I would also like to use the proprietary filters in Designer directly without having to switch forth and back. Since the products are hold separately they consume more space of my (thanks to Apple) expensive SSD space than necessary.
 
I find this separation of features quite annoying in PagePlus vs DrawPlus - I always was missing a feature in one GUI which was existent in the other. For example DrawPlus has this great vector brushes and ISO drawing, PagePlus instead has better alignment and character spacing control. 
 
Serif could bring out the basis "Designer" or "Photo" and sell missing "Personalities" as add ons via InApp purchases. This would be a very modern way to sell the work, and would directly reflect the concept with the "Personalities". It should be possible to accept existing separate licenses as "Addon" licenses.

I like Affinity Layout.  A totally unimportant benefit, :), would be that it would also make it easier to refer to each one by its initials, AD, AP, AL, something you can't do when you have both Photo and Publisher.

I'm really enjoying affinity photo and designer software, and it will be great if affinity creates a program to manage the content and photos, like bridge, lightroom, aperture, iPhoto, Photos, etc...

Classic layout programs do not hold the content which is displayed - Images and text are loaded from separate files and are distributed in frames. This is the reason they do not have their own vector module.
 
I would be surprised if Affinity Publisher would work like such a layout program. I would rather expect an approach like Affinity Designer obviously with added multi page support + connected text boxes, + image placeholder and extended text features. It would do no harm to "Publisher" if it also has i.e. the "Pixel Personality" of Designer or if "Designer" has the character baseline control of Publisher.
 
In fact - I have a use for both wether I design a one page or multi page document.
 
... and there are programs which combine the feature set, also for OSX, not as slick as Affinity though.

(I've been using Indesign as illustrator and Photoshop for 10 years, and have made many magazine spreads on InDesign and Logos and Illustrations in Illustrator etc.)
 
Forgive my ignorance on the matter but is it possible to combine a vector program and page layout program in one? Or would that bloat the program too much? Perhaps text flow programming is more complicated than it looks and requires an completely new program?
 
I'm guessing Affinity will probably just go ahead and make Affinity.Publisher and ONLY THEN consider other possibilities.

It's just that whenever I use inDesign and Illustrator, sometimes I make a quick logo in indesign whilst doing a page layout and needing to transfer it to Illustrator. InDesign just feels like a stripped down vector program sometimes. And illustrator feels like inDesign without the option of adding pages and columns in a text box. image Linking and other features too of course.

Illustrator and Indesign just seem practically very similar sometimes. Is there a good reason why they can't be one?
 
If Affinity do combine the 2 in future, I'd gladly pay another $50 or more. Anything beats paying Adobe $1000 every year!... seriously...

Some applications display the glyphs only for Normal/Regular font or better said -- non-italic ones. It would be very convenient if Affinity software displays the glyphs from ALL members of the typeface family because, especially for Macedonian users, there are some specific glyphs for our language in italic fonts.

I would also like this...
In my haste i thought I couldn't move selections, but now  I see I can move a selection by having the selection tool still selected. The cursor changes depending if I"m over the selection. I can move it that way... (But the move tool is only for layers.)
 
Also playing around a little more and agree with you about resizing selections. The way to do it is with the transform panel (a little clumsy if you ask me) typing numbers.
 
I also would like to have control points on selection so I can resize them  interactively.

Is it possible to add control points to the selection as other objects have when selected? This way the selection can be easily moved, resized -- just as an object.

I would like to add my voice requesting Actions. I have created several suites of actions for my use in Ps. I use them for everything and have become quite dependent upon them. I am afraid they are a must for me to switch for real work. Until then I will spend some time becoming acquainted with Affinity.
 
I must congratulate you for your accomplishments so far. Impressive! I look forward to working with it.

I'd be thrilled to have the realistic oils and watercolor brushes of Painter.  And of course, just for fun, the Distorto brush.  I wind up taking Designer files into either Painter Light (can't afford to upgrade to whatever the latest one is) or ArtRage to add a bit of texture and depth.  I'd love to be able to do it all in Affinity Designer and Photo.  I don't think it's likely to happen but one can dream.

MEB,
 
Thanks for the tip, I looked through the menus for "Step and Repeat" but I didn't see that option and to be honest, even after looking at the Transform tab, it doesn't appear overly obvious how to to do it or that you can even step and repeat. If I hadn't seen the video that you posted, I would never have guessed how to use it. I was looking for fields that say "Step: ____mm (cm, inches, etc) Repeat: ____ times" but there isn't any such field. To make matters even more confusing, there is a "R" and a "S". Now normally in a Transform tab, I would guess these to be rotate and skew but the fact that you can also step and repeat using the same tab is confusing. Why not just have the whole word "rotate" and "skew"?  For me, I like the old Quark Xpress "step and repeat" dialogue box, super simple and straight forward. I do like the extra things that I can do using the Power Duplicate in Affinity Designer but I request that it be a little more user-friendly and intuitive, of course that is just me.
 
Hokusai

I'll chime in too. Would love to see Pantone color swatches as well. Currently when I import Ai files my spot colors are missing. The file is just blank and I have to reassign fills and strokes with new colors. Spot colors are a must for production. - this program is a great start to giving ADOBE a run for it's money. Adobe has become lazy.

I'd also have a straight up "delete unused" command to save the extra click :)

Very interesting points about not copying Adobe yet splitting the roles up along the exact sames lines as Adobe's products. Our shop primarily uses Illustrator to produce web layouts. It's currently our best option because we can keep related layouts together in a single file with multiple artboards/pages, but still have complete drawing capabilities and more freedom to move things around than in InDesign.
 
We don't want a tool just for making single illustrations, and we don't want a tool just for publishing long documents with master pages and text flowing. We want a tool we can do layout and design in.
 
We own Sketch, and have used it, but the lack of print support is a serious drawback -- designers don't want to have to move assets between two similar but different tools. There aren't any other current, viable options that support multiple artboards/pages (one of many features that Freehand nailed so many years ago). Gravit might become an option at some point, though it needs to gain a lot more traction, and I'm disappointed that they are dropping the dedicated desktop version in favor of a purely browser-based cloud service. Or maybe iDraw will step up and add this feature.
 
I am hopeful that once development of Affinity Publisher is underway in earnest, Designer will gain support for multiple artboards/pages without the need to switch back and forth to another app. If that's not going to happen, and the only way to use multiple pages in this suite is to flip back and forth between Designer and Publisher, quite frankly we will never switch to it.

It is absolutelly wrong. No one designer uses only one kind of app. Everyone needs something from all these 3 apps. And so it will be absolute need for only one app that will merge all the three of them. It is very irritating to jump from one to another app just to do a portion of the job and then to continue to the third one, and so on.
I completelly agree with Achim63, and I have posted this same question a month or two, ago.

That's how Adobe does it - why should that be the best approach? The three have much code in common - e.g. the prepress and printing capabilities are a necessity for all of them, as are typography features. So what I'm thinking of is more of a publishing framework, where you can switch to the specialized part whenever needed. Remember the OpenDoc philosophy Apple introduced years ago? It resembles the personae approach we see in AD. So I really don't see the necessity to have three programs when the transitions between them are so fluent.

Unfortunately Affinity is already doing the same - instead of putting the Liquify and Development personae into AD, they made it AP, so you'll have a second app to pay for. I'd rather pay twice the price for AD and have it all in one package.
What will be next? Maybe an Affinity Painter app - instead of giving us custom brushes and full Wacom support in AD with a "natural media" persona, they might put it in even one more extra package. I hope I'm not giving them ideas here ...
But maybe the planned layout app will make my wish come true and include all personae under one roof - they could even make the different personae available as in-app purchases, so they'll be kind of "plug-ins".

At the end the result is 0, because all three terms mean the same, i.e. ghosts = clones = symbols.  :D

Actually Petar_MK it seems that's not accurate.
 
Check out this video I put together of InDesign CC v9.0 and how changing the stroke width and color settings influence each other:
 
stroke weight and color palette behavior.mov
 
 

You're right. We already do that for Shapes, and not doing it for text is a bug. We'll get it fixed.

I agree this should be a feature in Affinity. There are many applications in the Mac space that include the ability to make minor shifts in page position when printing. Label printing apps use this extensively, for example. Different printers and drivers work differently, and for small design runs where I work & turn or work & tumble, it's be a HUGE help to have this ability in the Print dialog box. The devs can extend the Print Panel fairly easily by adding an accessory view (with locationOfPrintRect: and addAccessoryView:), which would allow one to add left/right shifts of the page at the point/mm level.

When printing duplex, the printout does not match, usually. First/second page has to be repositioned for a small amount of units. So, can you add this option to print dialog box to offset one of the pages to fit each other while printing (on paper or PDF) instead of reposition them in AD? I saw this feature in Papyrus (text processor) and it is very usefull.