Frank Jonen

The new marching ants selection makes me nauseous. Can't use it.
 

Export your current image to the same colour space and depth as your target image is Add a LUT layer to your current document.  Click 'Infer LUT' Select the image you just exported [OK] Select your target image [OK]  
You should be closer now than you were before.

Not having the opacity as part of the colour picker seems like a bug. We're in a layer context here where all colours are described as RGBA, so having the picker only be RGB seems kind of odd. Maybe a checkbox to lock the opacity like we have in the live filters would be a good solution, so we'd have a choice. There are valid reasons for both but neither apply 100% of the time.
It would also eliminate the need to switch back and forth to Designer for the convenience of the opacity tool.
 
Edit: Yes it's indeed a bug. When you bring up the Colour panel you can pick the colours normally. RGB + opacity for each stop of the gradient. It appears the colour pickers used in the toolbar and top tool bar are different from the normal one.

Hi,
I was wondering is Affinity has a roadmap or is considering VFX as a target?
I currently work as a TD in Pixomondo, for the matte painter department the tool of choice is Photoshop, however, Affinity is pretty close to all the tools needed for this task and could take all the VFX industry because it has some nice advantages over Photoshop, but it needs a little more work in:
Complete OCIO support, currently there are some limitations.
Consider LINUX, this is a big deal because, most of VFX work is done in LINUX and there is not a replacement for PS. With a good tool in LINUX we could move 100% from windows.
Create an API in python to allow an easy integration with the rest of the pipeline.
I hope you can consider how big Affinity could become if it can take down PS for the VFX industry.
Cheers,

Yeah the canvas rotation bug doesn't ever seem to get fixed. It's highly annoying that on a normal working setup you're crippled with step-rotation. Why it doesn't have a key combo that you can hold while dragging to rotate is beyond me.

Yes it does. It's also quite annoying to go into a destructive step just to mask a layer. Dragging a layer into the layer mask slot and use the luminance information to mask it would be much better.

I read a lot and I think the new 1.7 is not going anywhere close to what many users express here.
Just a list of things people want:
1. Convert Black/White to mask. In PS its easy, take any black white image and use it as mask. Thats what an alpha channel looks like anyway. Not so in AFP. This should be a one click action.
2. Merge Layers. In AFP you need to convert layers first to pixel than merge.. that is annoying. We need an option to make that work in one step.
3. Transform areas of the image. It cost so much time that, each time you want to transform a selection you need to copy it first to another layer, then fiddle around with transparency and get the transform to the area it should work. Please make things easier.
4. Brush Scale. Brackets, may be the keys for US users, but people have different keyboards in other countries. Each time I need to change that to , . for 20 tools. Thats annoying. Also we need a better workflow to adjust the brush size on Windows. This simple is essential!
5. Remember filter settings. Each time I use a filter again, I have to input the values against.. balls... thats so super annoying. You ain't know how many times I do that per day. And where are the actions still missing to build own actions?
6. File close.. each time I close an image, AFP ask me to save it.. no mater what I do it will be still open and I need to close it again. 
These are the most annoying things that need care. I could write a longer list, but I done it quite some times here... so please give us things we really need, not another app for iOS, Android.. and other fancy unprofessional stuff. ;-)

When you work with teams, it's now increasingly through cloud services. In addition to the already suggested Markdown, an option to map JSON data to text styles and tables would be a welcome addition that'd save us from round-tripping through parsers. A pulled update would just require a refresh in Publisher. It'd be quite helpful for magazine workflows (i.e. manage each issue's articles in a database, then export for layout), data-based brochures (e.g. annual reports) and similar often tedious tasks. 
Adobe is selling you some behemoth apps that don't work right to get the editorial workflow managed but they're so great that that people who should be using them keep using other apps and copy/paste into the Adobe apps, creating a mess for versioning.
Quark has Quark Author which is quite overwhelming and not exactly enjoyable to use.
Having a way to IDGAF import serialised data would open it up wide for a variety of use cases. Write together in Jira, Cockpit or custom tools (that the users already know and are comfortable in), export sections to JSON and have that work right away in Publisher would be a great advantage. It's a rather clean format for structured data and easy to manually fix should an exporter have the hiccups. 

This bug has never been addressed, but with Publisher being, well… for desktop publishing, now would be a good time to do so.
Since the beginning placing PDFs didn't work right. The formatting was broken and fonts were incorrectly replaced (Times should be replaced with Times New Roman, not Arial).
As a reference on how it should work, look at Pages, Keynote, Preview, InDesign, Quark XPress…
 
EDIT:
Right now the only way we have in the Affinity suite is to rasterise each page of the document to our output device. For offset printing that would be the point where outlines are lasered on film. We're now talking about several 1200dpi CMYK files. 

It seems as though Affinity Publisher does not support importing markdown files for text import. Can this be a feature when the software is released out of beta?
 
Thank you =)

Goes for all apps but mainly Designer.
Right now we have a split mode that's — to be polite — of limited use. Zoom, rotation… all of that does not happen. It's merely a checking method on how your pixels may eventually look and if you have stray vectors. That's it.
It'd be so much more useful to have a way of seeing a document at various zoom levels without having to use tabs or the freakazoid view mode. One side of the split would be the document at display scale while the other would be zoomed in to work on a detailed part more easily while always seeing it in context.

Goes for all apps but mainly Designer.
Right now we have a split mode that's — to be polite — of limited use. Zoom, rotation… all of that does not happen. It's merely a checking method on how your pixels may eventually look and if you have stray vectors. That's it.
It'd be so much more useful to have a way of seeing a document at various zoom levels without having to use tabs or the freakazoid view mode. One side of the split would be the document at display scale while the other would be zoomed in to work on a detailed part more easily while always seeing it in context.

I had another mis-print today because the symbol instances constantly get out of whack. A "force update instances" would cure this ailment. 
Right now the instances are recognised as symbols in the layer stack. Yet quite often after updating a symbol, it carries through some instances, not all. Sometimes just two instances and then it stops. It's a very necessary addition and I'm honestly quite surprised it isn't there already.

Not aware of any posts. I've wanted to post this a few months ago but never got around to it.

Hi Frank!
I'll get this passed on to development, as I couldn't find any previous mention of this! If you are aware of other threads of this being reported then please do link me to them! 
Thanks!

You have no idea for how long I wanted these sorts of snapping features.
The only app ever offering extensive snapping so far was ViaCAD with the downside that almost everything was line vector based. 
 
1.7 is going to be one awesome release.
 
 

You have no idea for how long I wanted these sorts of snapping features.
The only app ever offering extensive snapping so far was ViaCAD with the downside that almost everything was line vector based. 
 
1.7 is going to be one awesome release.
 
 

A percentage slider would be one way to do it, the logical midpoint would be another. I reckon logical would be best as a default as it keeps the curve shape unaltered.
 
I wonder whether it'd be even possible to "ride a point" on the curve and once you let go, that's where it gets placed. Back in the Illustrator days I used a path to cut where I wanted a node, then joined the points again because adding points always messed with the shape.
 
Maybe even expand that idea to a panel with multiple tools?
Auto-Add Node to place one at the logical midpoint. Adjust Position for the sliders Free Position for the riders of the lost node Relocate Node to move a node on the path and recalculate the control points to match it again. …and so on.
 
For example FontLab Studio has this thing where you can take away nodes and it keeps the curve shape intact until you take away too many. I think Glyphs has it too, but I haven't tried all of it's features during my trial period.
 
 

You have no idea for how long I wanted these sorts of snapping features.
The only app ever offering extensive snapping so far was ViaCAD with the downside that almost everything was line vector based. 
 
1.7 is going to be one awesome release.
 
 

A percentage slider would be one way to do it, the logical midpoint would be another. I reckon logical would be best as a default as it keeps the curve shape unaltered.
 
I wonder whether it'd be even possible to "ride a point" on the curve and once you let go, that's where it gets placed. Back in the Illustrator days I used a path to cut where I wanted a node, then joined the points again because adding points always messed with the shape.
 
Maybe even expand that idea to a panel with multiple tools?
Auto-Add Node to place one at the logical midpoint. Adjust Position for the sliders Free Position for the riders of the lost node Relocate Node to move a node on the path and recalculate the control points to match it again. …and so on.
 
For example FontLab Studio has this thing where you can take away nodes and it keeps the curve shape intact until you take away too many. I think Glyphs has it too, but I haven't tried all of it's features during my trial period.
 
 

Also an interesting way of keying. Right on the vector scope with bezier shapes.
 
 

Today I went through Affinity Designer scouring for pre-press tools, there were none. No separations, no channel view. Only the workaround to freeze all layers in Affinity Photo and export each CMYK+ channel separately. Bit of a surprise. But since there's nothing there, here's what I wished were there. That and a decent printing dialogue. For the print simulation, I used to recommend Substance Designer (setup) + Marmoset Toolbag (presentation) for a while now. Not anymore though because I always end up doing the work.  -_-
 
 
Scope: A new persona for all apps to address basic pre-press that are currently unaddressed.
 
Views: Toggle between several views for dedicated control options on each task. Some views can be combined to get a better idea about the end result. Noted with [separate] when one stands alone.
Overprint Check View
Show realistic rendering of how the overprint will look based on selected profiles for ink, printer (optional, based on PPD) and paper. Tools: Range Selector: Like a mix of UPoint + drag and move, for fixing and optimising ink trapping (live dilate/erode on vector and bitmaps). Coverage meter: Show where the ink coverage exceeds or meets 100% with a heat map overlay. A range selector then can be used to lower the ink as: lower total, lower c/m/y/k/+. Buttons could  be used to control that: e.g.: [c] [m] [y] [k] for working on magenta and yellow at the same time. Output Image: Render the simulation output of a whole document to an image (or PDF for multi-page) Font Trapper: Local overrides on font trappings that didn't turn out as planned in the style and colour settings.
  Print Simulation
A simple simulation for base paper types and the ability to create custom ones (folder with absorption values, reflectance and a texture image for example) would be great to give clients a feel for it before someone has to spend money. Tools: Moveable light source: (useful for checking special inks, embossing/debossing, foil stamping and UV coats) Review light: Choose between a set of standard review lights (e.g. Just Normlicht LED proofstation) to judge the print under various lighting conditions and help avoid ambiguous colour situations (like that dress). Output Image: Render the simulation output of a whole document to an image (or PDF for multi-page)
  Separation View [separate]
View all separations in a gallery view with an option to overlay them to check whether they can be optimised further or whether they work as planned (how is the yellow faring with the black? Did the overprints turn out as desired in the OC view? Are all special ink channels present correctly?) Tools: Drag overlay: Drag a sheet onto another to see their interaction in the printing context. Print separations: Print dialog allowing output of separations on a standard laser printer. This allows for a final manual check and also is of sufficient quality for a lot of silk screen printers out there. Export to PDF: Save all/active/selected artboards/pages in separations to a multipage PDF ready for lightjet ripping

You have no idea for how long I wanted these sorts of snapping features.
The only app ever offering extensive snapping so far was ViaCAD with the downside that almost everything was line vector based. 
 
1.7 is going to be one awesome release.
 
 

You have no idea for how long I wanted these sorts of snapping features.
The only app ever offering extensive snapping so far was ViaCAD with the downside that almost everything was line vector based. 
 
1.7 is going to be one awesome release.
 
 

You have no idea for how long I wanted these sorts of snapping features.
The only app ever offering extensive snapping so far was ViaCAD with the downside that almost everything was line vector based. 
 
1.7 is going to be one awesome release.