matt.baker

The white highlight on the transform tool does not follow the active pin position. See image below.

The fill and stroke numeric fields for a shape on the top tool bar are buggy. After entering a value and pressing the enter key they no longer allow the backspace, delete or arrow keys (text caret does not move) when re-entering values. The ones on the palettes work as expected. Bug was present in 1.5.0.24 as well.

I've just downloaded the latest Windows beta 1.5.0.25 (RC) and it's now fixed (the change history mentioned user variables in this release). Before, I didn't have the light grey row. Also, I agree, it definitely needs more features such as a way of creating global/document variables that can be referenced by all of the slices/exports. Thanks

Thanks bellyanalytical I tried clicking and double clicking below the name column, but not had any luck. Maybe it's because I'm using a beta release. Could someone from the Affinity team jump in with some official documentation on this feature please?

That makes sense. Thank you for explaining why it won't be added. I guess it's not too bad. I originally played around with the performance values then thought 'Crap. What were they originally set to?'. You're right Jon, it is a non modal window. Just assumed otherwise :)

On the export options for slices I see a 'User variables' section. How can I make use of this? Thanks

Are there any ways to add additional document information such as its revision and title? I would like to add this information when I export the it as a PDF with the automatic registration marks etc. At the moment the 'Include page information' just adds the file name and artboard name (example export https://goo.gl/fCyFCI). Alternatively, how do YOU manage the revisions of documents in the exported files? Thanks

Great! Thanks Chris

Any changes made in the preferences window are applied when the close button or cross in the top right is clicked. There are no ways (that I can see) to cancel changes made. Dialogs like this should (in my opinion) always have a way to cancel and not apply changes. Also, the changes made in the performance tab don't save after I close and reopen the software.

The UI colour sliders are still buggy in the user preferences. As soon as the UI gamma slider is adjusted, the top two sliders become unresponsive and only change to the new positions once UI gamma is changed again or the user preferences are closed and reopened. The UI gamma slider is also jumpy (lots of processing?) when moving.

To add to this, Office viewer reports the Horizontal resolution as 81.55 dpi and 81.64 dpi for the Vertical resolution. I would have expected these to be identical and match the Affinity document. EMF test.zip

Reference ecd0806d-bba2-4b80-965d-d313fd786cf7 File -> Export -> WMF tab Click More... Click close on the Export Settings dialog. Unhandled exception 0xE0434352

I'm unsure whether this is a bug with Affinity or a limitation with the EMF file format, but when exporting the attached document as an EMF extra white space is added to the right and bottom edges. I have verified the white space is present in 4 different applications (Microsoft Office, LabVIEW, Inkscape and an online converter to PNG) so I'm assuming they are correctly rendering EMFs. I've tried changing the resolution to 96 dpi instead of 72, but the same thing happens. It seems to be only certain paths/sizes. If the ascpect ratio of the original are 1:1 it works correctly, but if it's say 100x75, it's most noticeable. If I open the EMF in Affinity, it renders without the extra white space. If I open it using the Microsoft Office 2010 image viewer, it reports the size as 11x10px even though the Affinity document is 12x11px. A similar thing happens if the original image is larger. It's almost as though Affinity is exporting partial pixels (rounding error?). Inkscape has now decided not to render the EMFs (displays as a white document) so I'm unable to provide a screen shot of that case. Not permitted to upload an EMF, so here's a link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pin3a6wo7nesypv/Up%20arrow%20Affinity.emf?dl=1 More test files at 72dpi: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z2cajl6vf7mxj41/100x75.emf?dl=1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/hm6fu25nt6dxnji/100x100.emf?dl=1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/yiagm82oqj9332o/100x120.emf?dl=1 Up arrow.afdesign

Thanks Alfred. I spotted that as well after I posted :) It does work, but it still seems like a bug to me.

1. The blue colour node is hidden under the red node with no way to select it (that I know of). Suggestion: make end nodes delete-able and move-able (match Adobe's implementation). This would allow the gradient to be easily rearranged. I.e. If you want to change the final/end colour there is no easy way of doing that. With the Adobe implementation simply dragging the end node inwards past another node will swap the colour. Adobe's implementation: 2. Mentioned before elsewhere, but the reverse operation on the applied fill doesn't take effect until other fill parameters are modified after.

Thanks for the explanation and tip, Matt. That clears things up. I guess it kept the metadata for the two elements from the original document when I pasted them into a new document.

Why does Affinity insert unnecessary transforms when exporting as SVG? With the example document, the SVG export gives: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> <svg width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 12 11" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:space="preserve" style="fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:1.41421;"> <g transform="matrix(0.8,0,0,0.916667,-446.4,-374)"> <rect x="558" y="408" width="15" height="12" style="fill:rgb(235,235,235);"/> </g> <g transform="matrix(1,0,0,1,-561,-409)"> <path d="M567,411.501L569.499,416.499L564.501,416.499L567,411.501Z" style="fill:rgb(153,153,153);"/> </g> </svg> This can be simplified to: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> <svg width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 12 11" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:space="preserve" style="fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:1.41421;"> <rect x="0" y="0" width="12" height="11" style="fill:rgb(235,235,235);"/> <path d="M6,2.501L8.499,7.499L3.501,7.499L6,2.501Z" style="fill:rgb(153,153,153);"/> </svg> The original seems an overly complicated way of doing it.Up arrow.afdesign Up arrow Affinity.svg Up arrow Modified.svg

Bug: Gradient fill's reverse button doesn't take effect until the the type is changed. Same behavior in previous releases as well.

Feature request links for reference: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/23047-stroke-and-effect-selection-options/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/23043-shape-properties-dialog-on-creation/

At the moment the shape's selection hotspot is anywhere that the shape's bounding box intersects with its fill + stroke. https://vimeo.com/175279723 The blue overlay shows the currently implemented selection hotspot. Notice that any stroke area within the bounding box acts as a hotspot regardless whether it's fully transparent or not. Any area outside of the bounding box does not act as a selection hotspot. The 'effect' pixels have no hotspot regardless whether they are within the bounding box or not. What I would like is an easy to toggle option that allows me to independently include the stroke's or effects' area as a selection hotspot. Examples below: Again, the blue overlay represents the desired selection hotspot area. Notice that with the 'stroke only' and 'effects only' options, only areas with >0% transparency are selectable. The same would be true for the fill.

It would be nice to have the ability to specify a shape's properties (width + height as a minimum) on creation when single clicking on the canvas with the shape tool selected. This is similar to the Adobe applications. For example with the rectangle tool selected, single clicking on the canvas (without dragging) would pop up a dialog allowing me to specify the width and height, maybe an absolute position X and Y with the option for the reference point (centre, top left corner, left centre etc.) and a check box for a rounded rectangle with the corner radius. Adobe's (rather ugly) shape creation dialogs

Thanks for the information, Mark. 4. On reflection, I think I was exaggerating this. I did a comparison between Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Designer and they were virtually the same (if anything Affinity was better on my simple test file). I think the (forgotten the term) parallelised redraw area boxes made it more noticeable, just because it was different to Illustrator (no redraw until finished). I prefer Affinity though, as you can see where you are moving elements to in realtime. 6. Re-reading, that was a crap explanation. I'll try again :) https://vimeo.com/175279723 The video shows a rounded rectangle with a large stroke size (in comparison with the rectangle's size) and no fill. When I click/drag anywhere outside of the rectangle's bounding box it is not selected even if the cursor was above the displayed stroke (I wanted it to select). If do the same where the stroke intersects with the shape area (even with no fill), the shape becomes selected (as expected). If I apply some effects to the shape, these are also not selectable. In Illustrator it doesn't include the stroke width regardless of whether it was inside or outside of the shape's area (not what I wanted). However, if an effect is applied and I click/drag on any area that the effect paints over, the main object is selected/moved (exactly what I would like) In my opinion, it would be great to have two options to fine tune the selection modes: 'include stroke' checkbox and 'include layer effects' checkbox Where 'include stoke' is anywhere that the stoke has painted over regardless of the shape's area. So for dashed stokes it should miss anywhere that the opacity is 0%. What do you think? 7. Sorry, I completely missed that. So used to Adobe again. That does exactly what I wanted (cant think of any uses for just the clipboard dimensions and no data). 9. Here is a video that shows the problem: https://vimeo.com/175279722 I wonder if it's grid snapping related? If I resize the rectangle to 300 x 300 before expanding the stroke, it changes to 300.9 x 300.9 px after expanding the stroke.

Thanks Alfred

I’m impressed with Affinity Designer so far. Really looking forward to using it for UI designs. Things I like/love How intuitive it is Stroke pressure profile and stroke behind fill Snapping and guide helpers Corner tool UI on the whole. Tool glyphs with colour. Personas Customisation of the toolbars (flexible spaces). Feature suggestions Shape tool: precise size and shape specific option dialog when single clicked on canvas instead of having to manually draw the size. Similar to Adobe products. Auto panning when dragging objects, selection or anything where the mouse button held down when the cursor hits the edge of the view (e.g. zoomed in). Toolbar/palette button background or highlight for active tool could do with being more noticeable. Performance issues: opening the Space example document by Poked Studio was very slow at rendering when layers were switched off/on, moved etc. Maybe use some sort of cached low quality redraw initially? I know this is a complex drawing. Recommended system specs, although I guess this might rely on the Beta. Object dragging/selection hotspot with strokes: if the mouse cursor is above the stroke (inside, outside, centre) and the left mouse button is clicked, the object should be selected. At the moment it’s not very user friendly. New document based on the size of an image in the clipboard. Similar to Adobe products. Stroke width displayed in document units. (already an option) Imprecise stroke sizes when expanding stroke: A rectangle of 100 x 100 px with rounded corners of 10 px and with a stroke width of 1 px inside changes to 100.3 x 100.3 px when expanded. Slice tool: add right click export shortcut to the hovered over slice (similar functionality to the slices palette -> export for this slice). UI gamma: still faulty on the latest update. Slider become unmovable/unresponsive. Right side palettes: couldn’t see any way to shrink down to icons and have as flyouts. Again similar to Adobe products. Crash report 1: New document File -> Export Click More… Change mode to ‘Selection’ Click close Application crashes Edit Crash report 2: Drag all Studio palette items off of the right hand dock. Right hand dock should disappear. Drag brush palette back so that it docks. Shrink width to very small Application crashes