JLX

now that v2 is here, with many new features, but many pros still needs some to really be comfortable with the Suite...
could we please have a minimal roadmap on what you are working on?
even something really generic like this Trello roadmap (for the Obsidian app).
we know, and you know, that we don't have many other options today.. or Adobe, or Affinity, unless we want to use separate apps for specific works..).. we want to support you, but we need to be kept engagend, and know where you are going!
for example: if you aren't goind to support ePub or external texts in Publish.. we aren't goind to use it for next books.
if you aren't supporting RTL before 3/5 years, we accept it and use something else from today.
if you plan automation in 2 years, we could use a temporary solution...
 
thank you!
 

I was really hoping you guys wouldn't go the same path as adobe and finally give designers one tool to replace both Photoshop and Illustrator. I was really hoping AD would have been this tool. I'm not sure why you're focusing on releasing a publishing software in 2018 when the offline publishing industry goes down every year. It would have made more sense to me to focus on Designer and bring it to a similar level as Sketch because Adobe XD is still way behind and Windows users (like me) don't have a reliable alternative for doing UI design (which everyone does lately). I've tried to do it in AD but having over 20 artboards for a mobile UI design made AD sluggish and at some point almost impossible to work with.
Oh well you have your own strategy and hopefully in time will pay off.
Thank you for doing your best and giving us hope but right now I still can't give up the damn adobe beast and I'm using AD just for personal projects.
Best,
Cristian

Hi there... I don't have Affinity Photo since I don't need it. Is this tool too much to ask from Designer? After we already have a Pixel persona and the free transform tool would fit right in.

I would also like to know the answer to this question.  I love using Affinity Designer on PC (so far it's a million times more intuitive to use than AI)  but not having a Free Transform seems like a bit of an oversight.  
 
p.s. Free Transform tool should also respect your selection within the Node Tool.  Currently to select some nodes and scale them you need to use the Transform dialog box.

Hello,
 
I was wondering if within Affinity Designer is there a "Free transform tool" to allow perspective distort with shapes, this is something that can be done within illustrator where you can take two points and can move them together or further apart with equal distance like the example below.
 
You can kinda do this with the "Corner" tool set to straight but this is set to only one angle when perspective distort can change the angle.
 
Thank you for your time and I hope you have a great day.
 
 
 
 
 
 

This is about transforming something (free transform) not drawing.
Imagine you drag a photo of a building into Designer and you need to fix the perspective. Right now you can't do it. You either have to use another image editing tool which is not very productive especially since Designer doesn't support linked files. I would really like to use Designer as a all in one graphic design tool but I still can't do that.

Another +1 from me.
Came here looking help on where to activate this in Designer only to discover this thread.

Having reference objects/layers visible but not printable/exportable is extremely useful and something I rely on in other programs.
Hope we get this feature soon.
 

Thanks for your reply Matt, and indeed your candour regarding where I should invest in the shorter term if I need to have that technical functionality. After I posted I also had the thought of maybe addressing it via a "technical persona" ... now that would be really great! 
Addressing it with a different product would not be a good idea in my humble opinion as you are then competing against "proper" CAD products and the development needed to get it taken seriously would be far greater than just adding limited CAD functionality to Designer - as a persona for example. I personally would not object to purchasing the Technical Persona as a plug-in or add-on as long as the price was right.