[Performance issues with click and move on RC2]

When click layers/groups, their position will auto shift, very sensitive.
When hold down CTRL key and click layers/groups, they will be auto duplicated, very sensitive.
Same situation happend on 1.6.5.135 but much more easy seeing these when working with big file(heavy filter/adjustment calculations) on 1.7.x/RC2.

5 Artboards with about 400+ layers in total, not including 10+ adjustment layers, 10+ layers effects(Gaussian/Shadows) and 11 symbols.
Render very slow when zooming & moving, click everything will have about 0.5 second delay,
restart AD will help for a short time so I guess it's a performance problem, may be this problem course the SENSITIVE shift/duplicate issues happen more easily.

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Windows10 64bit 1809
16G ram DDR3
Nvidia GTX970 Asus
Intel E3-1230v2
Sandisk 256G SSD

 

[Sub-layer constraints mapping to wrong place when moving parent layer]

Sub-layers with constraints setting will jump to unexpected place when moving parent layer.

affinity designer 1.7.0.367 (RC2)

windows 10 64bit 1809

16G ram DDR3
nvidia gtx970
intel E3-1230v2

ad-constraints-bug.afdesign

[Add denoise filter to a layer group which contains vector reactangle will crash affinity photo]

Add denoise filter to a layer group which contains vector reactangle will crash affinity photo without any notification.

affinity photo 1.7.0.367(RC2)

windows 10 64bit 1809
16G ram 2666MHz
nvidia gtx1060 6G
intel i7-8700

[[1.7.0.293] Number increase insanely]

On 4/18/2019 at 3:47 PM, Sean P said:

Hi WaveF,

What mouse and drivers are you using? It sounds as though its a bit too sensitive, are there any sensitivity settings you can adjust? I'm using a standard Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse and for me each 'click' of the mouse wheel is changing the stroke size by 1pt.

Edit: I also noticed you have 'Scale with object' enabled. There is a known issue with this that the values in the Stroke Panel and the Appearance panel don't reflect correctly after rescaling an object that uses this. If that is the case then using the mouse wheel on that slider can make it do strange things. If you untick 'Scale with object' does that correct the behaviour?

Can't reproduce this problem now, same Mouse and Driver using in AD 1.6.x for about 2 years is okay, only happend in 1.7.0.293.

[[1.7.0.293] Number increase insanely]

Number increase insanely when use mouse wheel change value on the input field, no matter scroll up or down, number going bigger...

[Affinity Designer for Windows - 1.6.5]

After watching Adobe MAX 2018 Keynote, when I see Real time blend mode preview on Photoshop, Multi-Point gradient on Illustrator, Smart responsive layout / plugin support / Voice interactions / lots of new features per month on Xd, and I turn around look at those features stay on roadmap for years, (sigh~), Good luck is the only word in my mind. If develop team doesn't focus on Designer right now, can't you just release some api for plugin developers? Anyway, I'll stay on Designer, for a while, hope to see some new things on it.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta - 1.6.5.123]

Embeded Document can not export with slice any more (win10 64bit 1.6.5.123), hopefully it's just a bug in 1.6.5.123 because it really SCREW UP all my exports!
Now when I need to export pages to my client, I have to rasterize Embedded Document ONE BY ONE in all Artboards!
Please roll back this function to eariler version, if that's a new behavior design for Embeded Document, you better fix Symbol's bug first(auto change to Group) and mention it in update log

[Symbol Unlink Bugs]

Symbols always have unlink bugs in many versions, I suggest use ‘Embedded Document' to do the same job, it's more stable than symbol and you can even switch states (artboards) from the parent canvas.

[solid clickable outline icon]

+1

This area even smaller in 1.6.0.86 beta

[AFANS Styles Demo for AffinityDesigner]

 

[Create metaball effect in AffinityDesigner]

 

[Cineware & AffinityDesigner]

 

 

 

[Affinity Designer & Photo - Perspective View Symbol]

 

Here's the tutorial for making perspective view in affinity photo and affinity designer.

 

 

[Affinity Photo & Cinema 4D - Panorama setup for drawing]

My new tutorial for quick setting before drawing on panorama image.

 

 

[Auto select "export area" when Export]

When I am working with multiple artboards or layers, sometimes I just want to export something I've selected for quick without change slices, "File - Export" will export everything by default, hopefully can auto select exporting area depends on active object, that really helps a lot.

[How do I relink attributes of symbols?]

Symbol is so unstable that always turn into Group automatically

[Export eps from ad that can be supported by Ciname 4D]

No idea why when I export .eps file from affinity designer, and import to Ciname 4D, the vector lines become mess, but it's ok when I am using Illustrator export the same shape.

[Tutorial - drawing a can with affinity designer]

This is my new tutorial for drawing a can with affinity designer v1.6.0.81, hope you enjot it~ 

 

My custom keyboard shortcut setting already provided at the begining of the video.

I use "Carnac" to diaplay the key I pressed, but sometimes it's not showing the "shift" key when I press.

 

 

[Force save as a new file if old version software can't open lastest format]

Force to save as kinda "filename_af1.6.afdesign" when saving the file with higher version of ad/ap, it's more safe for us when forgetting backup the source file manual.

"Force" means I shouldn't overwirte the old version file in the new version software, if I do that, there'll a warning dialog show up.

[Re-editable rounded chart with AffinityDesigner]

On 2017/8/8 at 2:51 AM, jer said:

Enjoyed your concept, thanks for preparing & posting this video. A couple of suggestions, primarily due to fuzzy screen trying to follow the vid on a laptop-size screen:

Couldn't see clearly the formula you entered to get the precise circle rendered - why not type it out as you did the 1-100 and 1-360 range example? I know it was 48*360/100 but it wasn't clearly visible and, because the entire formula was too long, the left end got pushed out of the field visible area too quickly.

Your use of the Fill tool for gradient was a bit too subtle to follow what you were doing. A greater color contrast might have helped to follow that part. I saw your mouse clicks but didn't see much of a gradient.

Similarly at the end when you set "Scale with Object" was okay, but what followed, the shadow adjustment was too subtle to follow. Where did a shadow originate? Something about clicking Symbol, what was that? That was your first reference in the vid to a symbol and it was not clearly explained IMHO.

Suggestions only.

 

Yes, I didn't pay attention on these detail, thanks for your suggestion, I'll make it better next time

[Re-editable rounded chart with AffinityDesigner]

Hey, I've made a quick&easy trick tutorial for making 2d-chart in AffinityDesigner, hope you like it

 

 

[Vector to Cinema 4D support]

.EPS exported from Affinity Designer can't be read by Cinema 4D, no idea why but it's possible be opened in AI, hope to improve this.

[Fireworks command - Send to AffinityDesigner]

I write this command because I need to make perspective distortion on text/shape on my work and I found that kind of warp tool has stay in AffinityDesigner roadmap since 2014!

So I think I can do this in Fireworks and transfer the selected objects back to AD by a keyboard shortcut for quick.

 

  How to Install?

 

- download and unzip the zip file below, you will get the "Send to AffinityDesigner.jsf" file.

 

- copy & paste the .jsf to Fireworks installation path under "\Configuration\Commands"

   the full path should be like this:

_{X:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Fireworks CS6\Configuration\Commands}

 

 

  How to Use?

 

- export eps from AD to Fw,

 

- make any changes in Fw that you can't do in AD,

 

- run "Send to AffinityDesigner" from Commands menu in Fw,

 

- now AD will auto load the vector/bitmap shapes from Fw without manual saving & opening,

 

- you can bind a keyboard shortcut for this command for extremely fast!

 

 

  Why not use Illustrator? I can copy & paste from both applications!

 

- Yes you can do that, I just write this for those fw users whom didn't buy ai.

 

Send to AffinityDesigner.zip

 

[export layout setting]

There're so many measure tools and plugins for ui design software, and I think measure is only for helping designer to tell programmer the size/gap/color... and that's the important & useless work for designer -- we already know the layout setting but we still have to measure just because 'they' don't know.

 

So I wish this feature in AffintiyDesigner:

- export kind of config file that stores all layout information,

- a plugin or extension to let xcode / android studio / ... to import this config file then the develop tool can auto generate basic layout

 

I don't know if exist this possible, but that's the thing I haven't seen this on other design tool and wish AD will has this feature, just an immature idea.

[Release api for developer to extend AD/AP]

Really hope official can release some simple api that allow us develop extensions for AD/AP, especially seeing sketch updates so quickly, hope to develop some free extension for affinity software for filling the gap.