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Well that's highly disappointing. It's all the little things like this that keep me going back to Illustrator for new projects. Every time I give AD a chance, I end up getting annoyed and starting over in Illustrator. I really wanted to like this software, but I give up.

I'm not sure I understand the point of the decimal places setting then. Just so it visually looks cleaner? So I see '0' instead of having to look at the uglier actual number of, say, '0.783564'?

This is going to be tricky to explain - I hope this makes sense. I would expect that if I set the Decimal Places for Unit Types on points, for example, to 0, that my stroke width options would be limited to whole numbers when I use the slider to select a stroke width. What actually happens is that the slider is just displaying the nearest whole number to the actual stroke width. For example, I set my decimal limit to 0 in preferences, I drag the slider for stroke width to 1, and draw a rectangle. I would assume that the stroke of the rectangle is exactly 1 pt. This is NOT the case. If I switch the decimal limit to 6, I see that the actual stroke of my rectangle is something like 1.002345. This can also be clearly seen using the pixel grid. The stroke I thought was exactly 1 pixel is visibly wider than grid lines set to one pixel. I discovered this while trying to make a checkerboard pattern. I couldn't figure out why my rectangles, snapped to the grid, with stroke set to 0, seemed to have gaps. When I changed the decimal places to 6, I discovered the rectangles actually had strokes of 0.000238. So unless you type a whole number instead of using the slider, you can never be certain that your stroke is exactly what you want it to be. Even with 6 decimal places, sliding the slider to 1 could still actually be something like 1.00000039865. This is very problematic for pixel-perfect exports, and negates the entire purpose of the slider bar.

+1 I completely agree! This is by far my biggest hangup with the program, for the exact reasons others have already explained. It negates the time savings/purpose of using shortcuts if you have to stop and think about how it will behave depending on certain circumstances, and then look over to double-check you have the tool you intended.

Attached is a sample, with history, showing the extra colors. You can remove the stroke and 'create palette' and see that the colors drop to just 2. Add the stroke back, re-do 'create palette' and the colors jump back up to 68. After some more testing, it seems to happen to some, but not all, of shapes that were imported or copied in from AI. palette.afdesign

The 'Create Palette from Document' in the swatches menu does not work as expected. In a document with only one object with a solid fill and no stroke, it adds only the fill color used, and white. However, in a document with only one object with a solid fill and a solid white stroke, 'create palette from document' creates 68 swatch colors! I would expect it to only give me swatches for colors I have actually used in the document. It seems to be creating swatches for each of the colors that would be seen in anti-aliased view (like Pixel Drawing Mode), even though it does not do this for objects without a stroke.

Thanks for the response. I didn't have my sound on at the time, so I can't tell you if it was 'clanging,' but I know what you mean. I was alt+tabbing around and trying to get it to come back in focus, but I couldn't. I was also trying to see if the dialog was stuck underneath the main window, but I couldn't find it/focus it. I couldn't minimize/maximize or resize the app, and the affinity design instance in the taskbar was un-clickable. However, Task Manager did NOT show it as unresponsive. I haven't had an issue with it since. I'm wondering if maybe it didn't like how fast/soon I clicked Open after closing the previous document (it was taking a second to close and I clicked Open while it was still closing) Thanks!

I have been using it all morning - Loving it so far! I've run into some of the same issues others have reported, but I didn't see anyone having this issue yet: I opened a document using the 'Open...' menu, realized it was the wrong document and closed it. I went back to File --> Open..., but this time a dialogue box flashed on the screen, then abruptly disappeared. Affinity was completely non-responsive and I had to force-close the app. Worse, upon re-opening the program, all of the customizations I had made to the interface/toolbars/brushes/etc were gone. I'm wondering if Designer only saves any user changes to the UI on program close, or if something happened to my preference files because I force closed it?