Hokusai

It might also be worthwhile to try to ask others here how you might solve the problems that you are having. You might mention the OS that you are using and the computer specs, etc as that will help to pin down what might be causing the problem. In addition the wonderful support staff here, there are tons of really useful users who will go out of their way to help to sove problems that others are having. Also, Jaffa offers some words of wisdom and I agree with him 100%!
Best regards,
Hokusai

It might also be worthwhile to try to ask others here how you might solve the problems that you are having. You might mention the OS that you are using and the computer specs, etc as that will help to pin down what might be causing the problem. In addition the wonderful support staff here, there are tons of really useful users who will go out of their way to help to sove problems that others are having. Also, Jaffa offers some words of wisdom and I agree with him 100%!
Best regards,
Hokusai

I don't know if this is possible or not. I have always found the Distribute "horizontally" and "vertically" useful but there are times when I would like to be able to distribute things in a circular pattern. Sometimes I have a bunch of straight lines or rectangular boxes and I want them to be distributed in a circular pattern (normally around a circular centre but not always). Now I have to do it manually and it is time consuming. If it is a few shapes then it isn't such a big deal to do it manually but if it is many boxes, then it is a pain. It would be great if I could choose the centre shape and then have boxes or lines to be distributed around the centre shape evenly. 

I think you could control it with two diameters, one width and two distances, as shown in the - very crudely drawn - attached image, where:
* The size of the blue dashed circles is controlled by the two red arrows;
* The middle convex/concave width is controlled with the orange arrow;
* The distances between the circles is controlled by the green arrows.
This would come in handy for all kinds of things, not just eggs: Cams; map pins; belts; chain links; superhero masks; ears; and probably many other things. I'm sure that people more creative than me could come up with better uses.
It's not particularly important to me personally, I just thought it might be useful.

I don't know if this is possible or not. I have always found the Distribute "horizontally" and "vertically" useful but there are times when I would like to be able to distribute things in a circular pattern. Sometimes I have a bunch of straight lines or rectangular boxes and I want them to be distributed in a circular pattern (normally around a circular centre but not always). Now I have to do it manually and it is time consuming. If it is a few shapes then it isn't such a big deal to do it manually but if it is many boxes, then it is a pain. It would be great if I could choose the centre shape and then have boxes or lines to be distributed around the centre shape evenly. 

Great suggestion, one that I too think would be very useful!

...in the meantime, how about the ability to assign a shortcut for the "edit all layers" feature to quickly toggle it on and off? Currently it's kinda hidden at the bottom left corner of the layers panel. Until there's a working isolation feature or a "lock everything other than what's selected" ability that would suffice.
Sorry team, I'm gonna keep harping on this until there's a workable solution that enables working on complex files a little easier. :-) 

Fonthill,
This has been requested before by several different members. While the raster brushes and fills are great, vector ones would be even more useful for me. I would imagine that this will be added sometime in the future but just when is anybody's guess. 

Hokusai

oliiix,
You might want to rethink your post. Its wording is a little strong and it doesn't come across very well.

oliiix,
You might want to rethink your post. Its wording is a little strong and it doesn't come across very well.

As a printer, I prefer when customers don't impose documents. Just saying. 

Uwe367,
No worries, I hope that you are able to accomplish what you want with it. The Duplicate feature is very powerful, here is a link to a slightly older but still very useful video about it: 
Best regards,
Hokusai

Uwe367,
When I need to do these kinds of things, I use the "Duplicate" (command J, on Mac) to do it. You might have to move the first copied one 15 degrees but then after that you can use duplicate and it will copy the shape and then paste it around in 15 degree increments. I hope that makes sense. 
Best regards,
Hokusai

Uwe367,
When I need to do these kinds of things, I use the "Duplicate" (command J, on Mac) to do it. You might have to move the first copied one 15 degrees but then after that you can use duplicate and it will copy the shape and then paste it around in 15 degree increments. I hope that makes sense. 
Best regards,
Hokusai

Jesse,
My post was in response to the post that I read, after that I found your post that preceded it further up the chain and I do see that we both have similar opinions about Adobe. If you only read your second post that point isn't clear (but it is in the first post). I'm not sure why I didn't see your first post but nevertheless I should have seen it. Sorry that you think I'm defensive. I'm not defensive and from what I read here most people who post here are pretty laidback and helpful. In fact most of the people that I interact with here are really nice and helpful. Some are funny and sarcastic but still enjoyable and many are incredibly knowledgeable. 
I'm still interested in hearing about all those companies that you were talking about that have a higher level of transparency than Serif does. I've never seen a company that was as upfront about what they are doing and where they are going with their development as Serif has been. I think it is refreshing and it is surprising to hear anyone claim that Serif is falling short in that regard. As far as customer service goes, from my experiences with Serif over the past 4 years their customer service has been stellar. I lived many years in Japan which has hands down the best customer service on the planet and I would say that Serif's customer service is very Japanese like. To me, Serif's customer service and the developers and other employees who post here on these forums do a remarkable job helping people, listening to complaints, requests (which I can imagine gets annoying after a time), and questions. I'm sure that they even type messages with a smile on their faces. Can you give me an example of where they fall short with their customer service? 
I can understand your point about how Serif markets its software but I disagree. Not all professionals use Adobe's software so saying something is for professionals doesn't mean that something is a replacement for Adobe's stuff. I use Designer the most but I still use Illustrator from time to time. So to me Designer isn't a substitute for Illustrator, it is an alternative to it. I think that many people are like that. Serif is making and supporting its own software and they have their own philosophy on how things should work. Is it for professionals? I think so and it seems that many other professionals do too. Is it for everyone? Only each user can decide. You brought up the issue of comparing it to Adobe so that is why I commented on it. This is a discussion so I would think it is acceptable. You said that I proved your point but to me it wasn't proved at all so if you wouldn't mind going ahead and making a better case for it I'm looking forward to reading it. 
Of course I'm all for improving Designer. I do my best to make suggestions and give feedback in a manner that is civil without being demanding and rude. I too came to Designer from Illustrator and I am willing to put up with a few small inconveniences caused by a lack of a feature or two because I think Designer is headed in the right direction. I like the choices that the developers have made and I trust that they are taking the program in the direction that is best. I wish you the best of luck with learning Designer and I hope that you are successful in your artistic or other graphics related pursuits. 
Best regards,
Hokusai

You don't have to use Microsoft Word.
There are free alternatives to it and just as good: LibreOffice, OpenOffice and many more.
In fact, affinity can read paragraph and character styles form one of these programs. So that's an extra bonus.
I don't think Affinity will ever want to go in that direction. But hey, who knows.

rubs,
I too hope that Designer continues to evolve in a positive way and I think it will seeing how dedicated the developers are and how passionate the users are about making it better by making requests, suggestions and bug reports. 
Hokusai

Jesse,
My post was in response to the post that I read, after that I found your post that preceded it further up the chain and I do see that we both have similar opinions about Adobe. If you only read your second post that point isn't clear (but it is in the first post). I'm not sure why I didn't see your first post but nevertheless I should have seen it. Sorry that you think I'm defensive. I'm not defensive and from what I read here most people who post here are pretty laidback and helpful. In fact most of the people that I interact with here are really nice and helpful. Some are funny and sarcastic but still enjoyable and many are incredibly knowledgeable. 
I'm still interested in hearing about all those companies that you were talking about that have a higher level of transparency than Serif does. I've never seen a company that was as upfront about what they are doing and where they are going with their development as Serif has been. I think it is refreshing and it is surprising to hear anyone claim that Serif is falling short in that regard. As far as customer service goes, from my experiences with Serif over the past 4 years their customer service has been stellar. I lived many years in Japan which has hands down the best customer service on the planet and I would say that Serif's customer service is very Japanese like. To me, Serif's customer service and the developers and other employees who post here on these forums do a remarkable job helping people, listening to complaints, requests (which I can imagine gets annoying after a time), and questions. I'm sure that they even type messages with a smile on their faces. Can you give me an example of where they fall short with their customer service? 
I can understand your point about how Serif markets its software but I disagree. Not all professionals use Adobe's software so saying something is for professionals doesn't mean that something is a replacement for Adobe's stuff. I use Designer the most but I still use Illustrator from time to time. So to me Designer isn't a substitute for Illustrator, it is an alternative to it. I think that many people are like that. Serif is making and supporting its own software and they have their own philosophy on how things should work. Is it for professionals? I think so and it seems that many other professionals do too. Is it for everyone? Only each user can decide. You brought up the issue of comparing it to Adobe so that is why I commented on it. This is a discussion so I would think it is acceptable. You said that I proved your point but to me it wasn't proved at all so if you wouldn't mind going ahead and making a better case for it I'm looking forward to reading it. 
Of course I'm all for improving Designer. I do my best to make suggestions and give feedback in a manner that is civil without being demanding and rude. I too came to Designer from Illustrator and I am willing to put up with a few small inconveniences caused by a lack of a feature or two because I think Designer is headed in the right direction. I like the choices that the developers have made and I trust that they are taking the program in the direction that is best. I wish you the best of luck with learning Designer and I hope that you are successful in your artistic or other graphics related pursuits. 
Best regards,
Hokusai

Hokusai,
Affinity Designer is now my main UX design tool, and I use it very heavily on a daily basis since the first Windows beta. I think it has one of the best UIs around and certainly the best workflow for my tasks. As a professional UX tester, I tend to take bugs quite seriously. I keep a record of all AD issues I know of, and I also use this forum mainly to report and discuss them, helping the team wherever possible.
As for the platforms, most problems I know of seem to be common to PCs and Macs. All things about artboards, symbols, grouping, compounds, constraints, export persona, adjustments, etc. seem to reside in the main code AFAIK. But I also know there are performance problems and some other issues that are specific to the Windows version.
Anyway, AD is still my main and tool and will continue to be, hopefully for a long time. I hope it evolves in a positive way. This obviously includes keeping the platform as stable and bug-free as possible.

Jesse,
I see that you are rather new here so welcome to the forums, Sorry, I'm going to have to disagree with you on pretty much all of your points. I don't run into very many bugs using Designer. I would say Designer is similar to or even better than Illustrator in the number of critical bugs. Sure Designer hasn't quite caught up to the number of features that Illustrator has but who in the world would ever expect a relatively new app (coming up on 4 years) to have the same feature set as a program that has been on the market for 30 years?
Also I'm curious as to who at Adobe do you talk to on their forums that is so transparent? I've never seen any transparency from Adobe with the exception of the transparency that they showed when they forced everyone on to a subscription model. The greed showed quite clearly through all the transparency. Adobe rarely, if ever, tells its users what it is planning to do. In fact they often suddenly drop support for programs with almost no notice. Not exactly the model for transparency. I'm curious to hear examples of other companies that are as up front about what they are planning to add to their software as Serif is. I can imagine that most people who have been here a while will tell you that the developers and other employees of Serif do a fantastic job interacting with the users here on the forum. You won't find anything like it on any other company's website. 
Has Serif ever marketed their programs as direct replacements for Adobe's? I haven't seen it but maybe they do? If they have, could you please give some examples to support your statement? 
Best regards,
Hokusai

Jesse,
I see that you are rather new here so welcome to the forums, Sorry, I'm going to have to disagree with you on pretty much all of your points. I don't run into very many bugs using Designer. I would say Designer is similar to or even better than Illustrator in the number of critical bugs. Sure Designer hasn't quite caught up to the number of features that Illustrator has but who in the world would ever expect a relatively new app (coming up on 4 years) to have the same feature set as a program that has been on the market for 30 years?
Also I'm curious as to who at Adobe do you talk to on their forums that is so transparent? I've never seen any transparency from Adobe with the exception of the transparency that they showed when they forced everyone on to a subscription model. The greed showed quite clearly through all the transparency. Adobe rarely, if ever, tells its users what it is planning to do. In fact they often suddenly drop support for programs with almost no notice. Not exactly the model for transparency. I'm curious to hear examples of other companies that are as up front about what they are planning to add to their software as Serif is. I can imagine that most people who have been here a while will tell you that the developers and other employees of Serif do a fantastic job interacting with the users here on the forum. You won't find anything like it on any other company's website. 
Has Serif ever marketed their programs as direct replacements for Adobe's? I haven't seen it but maybe they do? If they have, could you please give some examples to support your statement? 
Best regards,
Hokusai

You could use text autoflow, for starters.
Create a text frame right on your first layout page and place it according to the intended type area Paste your text inside this frame Then Shift + click the text flow handle at the bottom right of the text frame. Holding down Shift while clicking the handle is essential for invoking text autoflow! Publisher will create as many new pages as required for your text and place the text frames accordingly. Frame creation will even respect facing pages. Hope that helps for the time being … 
Alex

Autoflow.mov

When you buy all three it makes the Adobe subscription disappear! That is truly a wonderful prize. 

No one has suggested that you need to spend any time arguing. Simply present your suggestions, one per thread, backed up (if you can be bothered) by the rationale behind each suggestion, and leave it to the rest of us to argue their merits/demerits.

When you buy all three it makes the Adobe subscription disappear! That is truly a wonderful prize.