sflomenb

+1, would definitely want this.

+1 for this feature.

Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Improvements, fixes
Requirements: Purchased Mac Affinity Designer [from Mac App Store]
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
This beta is an iteration of the current App Store release and should be used in preference to the App Store release, if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
 
Fixes/Improvements:
Improved pixel painting smoothing. Any pixel-based painting tools should now have better smoothing by default. Fix for combo boxes causing crashes for certain users on High Sierra. Fix for exporting JPEG automatically choosing to export clips as paths which is a poor default and causes confusion. Fix for text objects being created outside the hierarchy of the artboard they were supposed to be created in. Fix for rotated text bounding boxes being incorrect and for disappearing text following Power-Duplicate. Fixed sporadic hanging when opening many image files at once. Fixed crashing bug when exporting certain large PSDs. Fixed a number of UI memory leaks. Added special case PSD import code for “SketchClub” PSD files (they should fix this!). Fixed PSD export of Fill layers. Fixed UI labels on macOS versions prior to Mavericks. SVG import can now handle gradients with missing x1 or y1 values. Assorted PDF export improvements. Localisation improvements. Paste and file-drop of PDF format files will now honour the DPI, as per File->Place. Fix for marching ants not showing on a rotated canvas. Miscellaneous other fixes and tweaks.

+1, would definitely want this.

+1 for this feature.

Hi sflomenb
 
This might be a little confusing but the measurement tool is not a separate tool on the toolbar to find. If you select an object, move the cursor outside of the object area the press cmd, you will see measurement lines appears display different distances from other objects and boundaries. Depending on where you place the cursor depends on which object or boundary it measure to
 
Cheers

Petar_MK,
 
Affinity Designer is not a desktop publishing application - multiple pages are not currently supported.
 
Once we have have finished Affinity Publisher (desktop publishing app), we will probably enable multiple pages in Designer.
 
Hope this helps,
 
Andy.

Hi,
 how can I add new page(s) to the document if I didn't checked "Create artboard" when I started a new one?

Hi Sflomenb,
 
Welcome to the Forums :)
 
This is a known issue which has been logged with our developers to be fixed in the future :)
 
C

Icon Fonts are a brilliant way to manage scalable art for the new flat world of web and app design and quickly becoming more popular: http://fontawesome.io  https://icomoon.io  http://fontello.com 
 
Request:   Font Designer Persona   - Affinity Designer is well positioned to provide THE ultimate on designer tool.  
 
The first step is to enable exporting of slices to SVG. This could be followed by more enhancements up to and including generation of font files (or json) and supporting CSS. With the ubiquity of icon fonts, font editing is not just for font designers any more. 
 
Creating a page with a grid of slices for each character in the font would be great and remove the tedious steps of creating slices around hundreds of icons. Have a look at http://www.glyphsapp.com and cover a few high value holes. 
 
I have only just begun my own research and experimentation on this topic. I going ahead with creating most of my app artwork as an icon font but I cannot use AD until SVG slice export is available. 
 
I hope others will agree.