Boldlinedesign

I'll reconsider donating to Inkspace in near future, given the rest. Sorry for the delayed response. It is strange that CMYK is still not supported.
Very nice. PSD also.

PDF/X file exporting was just added to Vectorstyler today in the newest update to version 1.2. Might be worth looking into and providing feedback for improvement. Vectorstyler and Affinity Designer work well together; it's easy to copy and paste vectors between the two programs. 

This post warms my heart so much. I have both CorelDraw and Vectorstyler on trial atm.

This has been on my silent wishlist for Designer for ages, finally getting around to requesting it.

Illustrator has a set of color adjustment tools similar to the kind you'd find in the adjustments of Photoshop, typical things like color balance, convert to RBG/CMYK, black and white, etc. These adjustments are destructive and change the set color values of fills, outlines, and gradient points on vector objects.
I use this alot when doing slight warming or cooling adjustments to my vector illustrations before posting to adobe stock. Affinity Photo has color adjustment tools, but they create non-destructive adjustments layers, which are stripped away when exporting to SVG or EPS for stock use. 

It would be super convenient to have really simple color adjustment tools in Designer to edit vector color values.
My wishlist for color adjustments would include:
- Simple RGB/CMYK balance sliders
- Whitepoint/Temperature adjustment (to cool down or warm up colors overall)
- Black and White conversion with color sliders (so you could make yellows into lighter grays, reds into darker grays, etc.)
- Convert to RGB/CMYK (to quick remove mixed color values that may be present from pasting between files)
- Saturation slider
- Convert to Tone (pick a color tone to change all selected objects to the same color value while maintaining light/dark tone variations)
A bit of a niche use case, but i feel like it would be useful to alot of designers to have permanent color adjustment as an option. It's hard to adjust vector colors in Designer on complicated images in a way that keeps them compatible with stock imagery creation. 
 

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PDF/X file exporting was just added to Vectorstyler today in the newest update to version 1.2. Might be worth looking into and providing feedback for improvement. Vectorstyler and Affinity Designer work well together; it's easy to copy and paste vectors between the two programs. 

PDF/X file exporting was just added to Vectorstyler today in the newest update to version 1.2. Might be worth looking into and providing feedback for improvement. Vectorstyler and Affinity Designer work well together; it's easy to copy and paste vectors between the two programs. 

PDF/X file exporting was just added to Vectorstyler today in the newest update to version 1.2. Might be worth looking into and providing feedback for improvement. Vectorstyler and Affinity Designer work well together; it's easy to copy and paste vectors between the two programs. 

PDF/X file exporting was just added to Vectorstyler today in the newest update to version 1.2. Might be worth looking into and providing feedback for improvement. Vectorstyler and Affinity Designer work well together; it's easy to copy and paste vectors between the two programs. 

I paid about 20 euros for Pixelmator Pro and 45 euros for VectorStyler. Without a subscription, very powerful apps and you are not ignored by the developers. 

What? This deal was done 3 weeks ago and you seriously think "noticeable progress" (by which I assume you mean new features) will be beta ready by the very next cycle, as a consequence of Canva influence or involvement? It's hopefully starting this week. The contents of 2.5 are no way to judge any influence in my opinion as it's really early days. But I do love your thread and the scope of it's ambition.

My „must to have” list, if met in V2, will make me stay on this boat.
Straight from the head without any prior writing down.
Kidding. I have been building it for the last half a year, working intensively with the V2 version.
Higher on the list = higher priority
 
Common for all apps (ADe | APh | APub)↓
Less bugs, better performance
Finally take control of the redrawing process so that this problem doesn't keep coming back
Better UI
More readable (better contrast)
Better dialog layouts (size, alignment, well grouped options etc).
More advanced guides
Selecting individual or multiple guides
Change their position using transform panel
Align them to page, spread selected object
 
Distinct for each app↓
Affinity Designer
Better svg export/import
The svg structure must be better organized,
Better support for feaures of an svg format is needed,
Unwanted elements such as <rect> representing artboard surface shouldn't be created
True vector brushes
Vector pattern / fill objects with created vector pattern
Blend tool
Mesh gradient
Symbols panel
Ability to create and manage symbol libraries.
Making it global for every document.
Affinity Photo
Better rendering engine
Smooth zooming in/out when in quick mask mode or when activ pixel selection present
Instant refresh | update of regular and mask thumbnails after changes made
Better procedure for resizing selected pixels (no need to be in quick mask mode)
Align to pixel selection (marching ants) bounding box.
Affinity Publisher
True, professional object styles
Dedicated dialog
Clear | replace all object settings or just specific ones
Setting for position
Setting for choose (honour) first and next text style in a text frame
Setting for text frame size
Span | split text across columns
Span | split footnotes across columns
GREP styles inside paragraph styles
Muliple spread managment
Move page(s) command with dialog
Moving page inside current document
Moving page to other opened documents
Move master pages to other documents feature
Support for Variable fonts
Insert tables in text frames
option to set „space before” & „Space after” for such a table
Tables across multiple pages
option to repeat table headings
Find and Replace the attributes and effects applied to objects, graphics, and text frames.
Find and Replace — replace text with contents of clipboard for allowing Replacing text with icons
Table styles accesible for every document (global)
Story Editor for proofreading
It's an ambitious list, but that's probably a good thing.
So, dear team, now Canva team, the ⚽ is on your side. What will you do about it?

bbrother -- pretty much nailed it.
Off the top of my head I'd also add a printable slug area, proper separation preview and a shortcut to view thumbnails of all open documents similar to how it used to work in V1 (see screen grab vid) if you have 20 documents open, it's a total pain in the arse to find what you want by either control tabbing or clicking through all your document tabs. Also the ability to print CMYK vector work direct to a rip that expects CMYK, without Affinity first rasterising at 300dpi and converting to RGB, leaving the rip to convert back to CMYK and ballsing up all your colours 
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I think you mean tailwind! A headwind holds you back.
 
Every time I use Inkscape I’m reminded of how horrible its UI is for such a feature-rich application.
Vectorstyler is pretty amazing, given that it’s developed by a one-man band.

There's something productivity-focused about CorelDraw. It is not interested in throwing UI at you (even when you expect it most) and seems to push you straight to work more quickly and it does indeed seem plausible to create things much quicker than in AI. However it could also be an InDesign replacement depending on the complexity of the document.
The problem I've had with AI is that it required subscription-based plugins to actually do most technically challenging things very quickly. So not only we would be paying for Adobe, but also the plugins. Vectorstyler in this respect seems to look at the most popular baseline programs and seeks to address these shortcomings.

I'm completely in accord with the sentiments voiced by most Affinity users here: NO SUBSCRIPTION MODEL!!! Canva will do well to realise that most Affinity Suite users are disaffected former Adobe ones and the reasons we put up with the reduced toolset, snail's-pace development and lack of response to feature requests is that 1.) We don't have to subscribe (whether we have the work to pay for it that month or not) and 2.) the apps feel slick and stable enough to be genuinely GREAT enough to whoop Adobe's ass, given time.
Now if Canva dosh enables 2.), then I'm all for it, but NOT at the price of accepting 1.) And that is absolute. Subscription models for software suck balls and now, at the twilight of my career, I'm perfectly happy to investigate alternatives, like the incredibly promising VectorStyler and that classic Mac Photoshop alternative, Pixelmator.
So do the right thing, Affinity and stand by your customers!

There were no changes to functionality in 2.4.1 aside from the new Lessons or Samples in the New Document dialog.
I don't know what will be in 2.5 but I'll update the manual again then so check back for a new version of the manual each time a 2.x release happens.
Cheers

I love Affinity Designer, but I cannot understand why the issues with the boolean operations persist years after they have been flagged repeatedly in the forums. Trying to expand simple strokes and divide and add together parts of these simple shapes results in a ton of errors. When I had discussed this in prior posts to the forum, it was alluded to that "dirty geometry" was the issue - because I had used the pen tool like a brush, building up multiple strokes at times to get the kind of thick to thin lines I wanted. In this case here, I'm using single pen strokes.
I really want to replace Illustrator with Designer - but I cannot understand why such a major component of Designer is still not anywhere closer to being fixed years after the problems began. I literally have to take the design out of Designer and into Illustrator or VectorStyler to expand it and merge cleanly the different parts

Anchor.afdesign

As is your display name 😂

The massive update just came out of beta officially a couple weeks ago. Sounds like you were using the older version. Might be better to try the updated program and not rely on experiences with the older version when assessing the program. Really impressive update a year in the making

When was the last time you used Vectorstyler? They just released last week a giant update to version 1.2 with a lot of stability fixes and improvements. There are some bugs but I use the program day in and day out each day and rarely have major issues

I have had a quick look at VectorStyler and I think you may be right. I will check it out further.

To followup on some of my comments yesterday, we are today enshrining our commitment to the Affinity community in 4 pledges made by the Affinity and Canva teams.
You can read about them here.

We do truly believe the coming together of Affinity and Canva is only going to be a good thing for our customers, staff and the development of our apps. We very much hope you will all continue to be with us on this journey.
All the best,
Ash

I'll have another play with it sometime but like the majority I don't normally try apps every couple of months in the hope that they have improved enough unless perhaps there's some big announcement about how wonderful and non-buggy it is now.

Vectorstyler is a terrific vector editing application and is not SaaS

@Dazmondo77  Are you still using Vectorstyler? I haven't seen you on the forum there in a long time. Big update was released recently