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When "Show Selection in Layers Panel" in Preferences is checked and user changes visibility of any layer in the Layers pane, the list of layers scrolls to selected layer. This is really unpleasant when working with a lot of layers (about two hundreds in my case) and just switching visibility of another layer than the selected one. Could this be fixed, please, so changing visibility (checking the visibility check-box) won't show selected layer in Layers pane any more..? Thanks for considering!

I'm struggling with the same issue, but only when switching from MacBook screen to external display and vice versa. AD/AP need to be restarted in my case in order to have the checkboxes placed correctly besides the scrollbar, not behind it. A fix could be very useful...

Just curious: what tool did you use to get such a small gif size?

It seems that in both AD and AP is the same bug when copy/pasting layer effects: the fx parameters seem to somehow reflect target layer size (be it a shape or a pixel layer). So when for example an outer shadow of 22px blur, 30px distance is pasted onto a different layer, it gets pasted with 102,4px blur and 0px distance... I haven't tried this with other effects. Is this a bug or is there any "logic" behind this that I can't see? Thanks!

And another investigation: I just realized that embedded documents seem to remain of just one instance when put into the document. Every other copy / duplicate of this embedded document shares edits from other instances. So my previous comment has probably nothing to do with symbols. However, this leads me to a question: is it possible to embed pixel document as "embedded document" draging or placing always creates an "image" layer. Embedded document with previous features (just one instance per AD document) would help where one image is duplicated among many layers / artboards. Hopefully, an embedded document would not increase file size so much. Any tips? :)

Further investigation: it seems embedded document is always synchronized across symblos in which it is contained, no matter that its copy is edited outside any symbol.

Thanks for bringing this up. I'm having the same problem. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/33565-buggy-symbols/(point 2).

Further investigation: most probably, some of the layers keep their reference to a symbol, when duplicated, but lose their orange stripe. As for point 4) above, when I used "Detach" first (on a group that was not marked with the orange stripe, neither contained any nested symbol), then I was able to create a new symbol from that group.

I have now dived deeper into symbols and encountered some buggy behavior. 1) text frames (artistic text) seem to randomly partially detach from symbols (dashed orange line on the side), claiming that unlinked attribute is the "Text Frame" 2) some symbols seem to react no adding new artboard inconsistently - when creating a new artboard manually to the left of an artboard with existing symbol, the parts of the symbol (like pixel layer with a phone image) "travel" outside the original arboard, while parts remain (like an ellipse with gaussian blur effect used for phone's shadow). 3) dragging some non-symbol layers into existing symbols seem unpredictively unstable - sometimes the layer will appear in all symbols, sometimes it doesn't (symbol sync is on, no symbols are detached). 4) now I'm having a document that has 2 symbols created and on certain groups, no new symbol is created when selecting the group and using "Create" button on Symbols pane 5) when moving a layer / group outside a symbol container, it remains with the orange stripe, apparently not belonging to the symbol any more. Even if the original symbol container is deleted, these layers seem like being a part of a symbol. This also leads me to a question, whether there are some constraints on how layers / groups can be moved out / in existing symbols containers. Does anyone have similar problems..? Some of them are hard to reproduce and usually don't appear in simple "flat" document without artboards or a document containing just one artboard, but in my case, when working with more artboards of different sizes, nested content in rectangels, embedded (SVG) documents, it's quite a chore to get at least some symbols working... I may be able to provide a sample "buggy" document for the developers (not publicly), if applicable. Thanks!

"Lock Children" seem to have opposite behavior when applied on shapes (content is fixed) and art boards (content reacts on changing art board size when "Lock Children" is on). Is this a bug that could eventually be fixed? It's kind of confusing... Thanks!

Hi all, there are two rather unpleasant issues with AD's document tabs behaviour: 1) when an embedded document (i.e. a SVG) gets open in a separate tab and then adjusted and closed, focus is given to the nearest tab, instead of being returned the original document, from which the embedded document was previously opened. That is quite unintuitive and leads to more searching and clicking on the document tabs. 2) if there is a lot of layers / groups / elements in the Layers pane and the document loses focus (i.e. user switches to different document tab) then after getting back to the original document, Layers pane shows the top layers, i.e. is scrolled to the top, instead of keeping its previous content's position. That's a little bit annoying because it often requires to scroll way back down to the layers / groups user was working with. In huge documents (one of mine contains 280 groups for instance) it's quite a chore. Thanks for considering a fix ;)

OK, I tried to make one myself. Feel free to use, elaborate, adjust, post a better version ;) Also I don't think I managed to create the best AD material icon out there ;) Please note that this is 400% (192pt) size. For basic material stroke, you shoud use 8pt width, square caps. Material Icon Grid 400%.afdesign

Hi all, please, does anyone have a material icon design template to share, natively made in Designer? Some reference shapes / grid like on the first image here: https://material.io/guidelines/style/icons.html#with proper sizes, etc. I'll need such a guide in a few days so any would be greatly appreciated ;) Thank you!

Perhaps a related issue with AD on Mac: currently, it's only possible to drag/drop files from Finder to currently active document. it would be nice, if an image dragged from Finder would activate desired document by hovering over its tab, so it can be placed inside of any open document. Thanks for considering ;)

Just trying to push this request a bit higher on the priority list ;) Reordering slices would be REALLY handy! Thank you ;)

Hi, there seems to be some weird issue with thick dashed strokes in certain situations. Following video shows this at rounded rectangle. When changing rectangle's roundness, the stroke creates some unwanted residues. https://youtu.be/xoeXyahNqBs Would it be possible to address this in some future updates? Thanks!

Actually, "content aware" crop and "content aware" artboard resize make a big sense in both Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo. I often find myself in need of cropping an image to its boundaries (get rid of the transparent pixels around the edge) or resizing artboard to its content (in Designer). So basically, this would be a really useful feature. Just making the "Crop" tool and artboards resize senstive (snapping) to conent would do that best.

Hi, I'm not sure whether this is Affinity / Wacom driver / may MacBook Pro issue, but it's mighty annoying, so I'm putting it here. Maybe somebody suffers the same issue and have some advice :) The behavior is like this: - using Wacom Pen & Touch tablet, Apple wireless keyboard, Apple wireless trackpad, Apple Thunderbolt Display - hovering with pen over the tablet surface to move cursor - pressing modifier key (like Alt for changing selection tool behavior, Shift for resizing constraints, Command for multiselect...) - doing some actions - pen touches the tablet... - releasing pen from tablet surface and releasing modifier key -- pen still hovering above the surface (tablet doesn't lose connection with pen) - now when pen contacts tablet surface again, it behaves like the modifier key is still pressed! To correct this, the pen needs to be lifted quite high (to lose connection with tablet) and the modifier key has to be pressed and released again. Unfortunately, this happens unpredictedly, in about 80% of the cases. But it never happens when I use trackpad or mouse, instead of Wacom tablet. It feels like this is a matter of complex documents with an artboard, groups, more layers... As far as I remember, I haven't experienced this in simple documents with just one pixel layer, for instance. It occurs in both Photo and Designer (newest (beta) versions). I have updated Wacom drivers with no effect. But still staying with El Capitan. Would upgrading to Sierra help? Thanks for any tips and insights!

Fantastic! Thank you!

Thank you Chris. Actually, I'm OK with the long layer names being truncated. What bothers me a bit is that I cannot quickly hide / unhide the layer - in such case as on the screenshot, I have to unfold the layer first to have the visibility checkbox available.

Hi all, there's a minor UI glitch (in my opinion) - the visibility checkbox gets hidden, if there's many adjustment layers stacked "behind" the element. See the attached screenshot. It would be more practical to have the checkbox available while clipping the rest of the stacked layers behind it (it's usually still necessary to expand the parent layer in order to see all the stacked layers, anyway). Thanks!

+1 on this. Photoshop had it in the times I was using it... Very useful for making precise selections!

Hi brunzenstein, welcome to the Affinity forums! The metro map is quite simple to design. Just draw curves (use the Pen tool) for the tube lines (snapping to grid may help to keep the curves straight). Then set the stroke width so that the line is thick enough. The rest is basic shapes (ellipses, rounded rectangles, artistic texts). See the attached example. If you have experience from Illustrator or any other vector drawing tool, you should be good to go. If you still feel like stuck, I'd recommend to watch some of the great Affinity Designer tutorials here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/10815-in-house-affinity-designer-video-tutorials/ Good luck! ;) metro.afdesign

Hi Matt, thanks for reply. Unfortunately, no, the steps you suggest did not work for me. Despite what option is chosen before selecting CMYK/8, it seems it always gets assigned, instead of being converted to. I attach an RGB/8 document. Would you try my procedure..? After the "conversion" to CMYK/8, all the colors will change significantly. I also attach the two screenshots as I see it on my side - original RGB/8 and then "coverted" document to CMYK/8 with distorted colors. === Additional note: I just found out that if I rasterize the images before converting (thus flattening the adjustment layers), the resulting colors are much better, in fact unchanged. Somehow, it seems more like a bug with adjustment layers conversion... RGB2CMYK.afdesign

Hi all, I'm facing a problem in current beta (1.5.2 beta 3) when I need to convert a RGB/8 document to CMYK/8. When I change the colour format to CMYK/8, the "Assign"/"Convert" switches become disabled (screenshot attached). After hitting OK, the document has CMYK/8 assigned, rather than being converted to it. The colors go bad after this, of course. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug? I'm quite sure it was doable in previous versions... Thanks for any help!