WaveF

Game over, if Affinity become a "Canva" desktop version, I'd return to Adobe without a second thought...

Using scripts, you can add new features to Affinity, like the ones shown here: https://github.com/AbdullahAlfaraj/Auto-Photoshop-StableDiffusion-Plugin. For example, Stable Diffusion can separate parts of an image, such as the "sky/background/objects", as seen here: https://github.com/continue-revolution/sd-webui-segment-anything. So, when the Affinity team makes their scripting API available, communities will be able to create similar extensions.

Documentation and all the rest that goes with it is very important upon the release of the product. 
However, there is value in including this functionality early in the beta cycles of the product(s). Even if the scripting is not ready and missing a lot of functionality. It doesn't have to be part of major point releases until it's actually release worthy.
Those of us who would love to experiment with it early would send an invaluable feedback to the devs, which in my opinion is as important as the release itself. And those who love living on the edge would start using it early in live projects and learn what works what what doesn't.

I hope that this will make it into version 2 by September of this year.

I need an 'Opacity' option to set the step value of opacity (for example, 10% or -10%). It would be great if the official could add this option. Does anyone also need this feature? 😁

I need an 'Opacity' option to set the step value of opacity (for example, 10% or -10%). It would be great if the official could add this option. Does anyone also need this feature? 😁

I need an 'Opacity' option to set the step value of opacity (for example, 10% or -10%). It would be great if the official could add this option. Does anyone also need this feature? 😁

I need an 'Opacity' option to set the step value of opacity (for example, 10% or -10%). It would be great if the official could add this option. Does anyone also need this feature? 😁

I need an 'Opacity' option to set the step value of opacity (for example, 10% or -10%). It would be great if the official could add this option. Does anyone also need this feature? 😁

I need an 'Opacity' option to set the step value of opacity (for example, 10% or -10%). It would be great if the official could add this option. Does anyone also need this feature? 😁

Hi folks,
I thought I'd give you a quick progress update and let you see some of things we've been working on at Serif Labs.  We now have a scripting core that we're reasonably happy with and have put together a little test area where we can run Javascript code, so I thought I'd show you some of that. Things to note:
This is all VERY early, like pre-pre-pre-alpha. The JS API is extremely fluid and is constantly changing. This is not how the Affinity suite will run scripts and plugins; it is just a sandbox window for internal testing. There is still a huge amount of work to be done. I can't provide any timescales for when scripting will be publicly released, for Beta or Retail. Constructive feedback is welcomed, but I won't be able to answer all questions - see previous points. I'm not claiming any of these examples are particularly useful on their own; they're just to demonstrate some basic scripting functionality. Re Javascript async - yes, we support it, I've just not recorded anything yet. The sleep calls are there for screen-recording purposes only. Here are some demos as low-res gifs. If you want to take a closer look, movs are attached.
Create a Mandelbrot image

Some dodgy physics

Insert a dragon curve

"Emojification" (translation?) of text

Create a grid of colours
 
Select and hide based on hue

Replay a document's edit history

mandelbrot.mov
balls.mov
dragon.mov
grid.mov
hue.mov
replay.mov
emoji.mov

Symbol is so unstable that always turn into Group automatically

I am also using Linked Document, same problem with Embedding document, I am not sure if these are the same issues with the post you provide, at lease it did not crash the  app on @madPXL 's computer. Thank you for giving me a hint that I can send screenshots to @NathanC, when I'm home.

I think that if Affinity supports extension development, it can solve all of these requirements and problems, and make Affinity even more capable. 😘

I've found these 2 interesting icons when customizing toolbar, have no idea what they are used for.
Same command will be found from the Layer menu -> Geometry, maybe someone can tell...

My pleasure

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
 

I am using a M1 series MacBook Pro now and do not have a PC for the test, try to remove "adPathConfigFile.cfg" under Fireworks installation folder, and run the command again, It will ask you to choose Designer.exe, then you can choose AD 2.0 executable file to see if this works.

Try to run Fireworks as administrator (Right click .exe and choose run as Administrator)

Hi @WaveF
We are aware of this issue and it has been passed over to the devs for further investigation.

Embedded/Linked document's Artboard and Layers switch option is not mapping the correct target.
Screen record attached.
adv2-bug-report_sm.mp4

Thank you so much for the reply!

Here is a GIF of Remove Inner Curves...

The 4 curves are a single object.
The fully enclosed curve is removed. The overlapping curves are added together. The separate curve is left untouched. There is a similar command Fill Holes that works with filled shapes.

Same situation but you can customize toolbar by click and drag the lower area as shown below, it works fine.

Embedded/Linked document's Artboard and Layers switch option is not mapping the correct target.
Screen record attached.
adv2-bug-report_sm.mp4