jyamad

Dear Affinity Team,
 
First of all congratulation on Affinity Photo and Designer. I absolutely love both programs. You guys are doing an amazing job, thanks for that!
 
I agree with the post above, and I have the same request. In Designer, when you want to align objects, it would be extremely useful to be able to select one of the objects as a fixed reference that does not move while other objects align to the reference.
 
I would love to be able to use Designer to prepare figures for scientific publications, but without this feature it is difficult. I imagine you guys are very busy, but it would be a big plus to have this feature implemented. With this feature, I would be happy to use exclusively Designer, but without it, I still have to rely on alternatives.
 
Thanks a lot, keep up the good work and greetings from Beijing. 

Hi guys,
 
I have recently switched my whole research group from using AI to using Affinity Designer. However, the thing that every single user heavily complained about, and that really limits the utility of AffinityDesigner for us, is the lack of an option to select a key or reference object that stays put during alignment and distribution operations.
 
This is very crucial for the preparation of scientific data plots where one really cannot have the data points shifting around when aligning them to their labels. It would also be very helpful for preparing multi-paneled figure etc.
 
Also, while at it, a 'select same color/stroke/fill/...' feature would be great, and the eyedropper tool could use some attention (eg. for text and vector objects)
 
Please make these available, and I will promise, that there will be a landslide of scientists moving away from their current overpriced rental software to using Affinity Designer
 
Thanks
 
Lars

I love it if there was a way to script affinity products.
 
JavaScript or Lua or anything really.  Ideally all features would be scriptable so I could use Affinity to generate stuff or build actions or load/export a bunch of files. I don't need personally need a UI to get started though I'm sure some folks would love an Actions palette
 
 

Yes people are requesting API/Scripting... they will not touch Affinity designer with out it. I attempted to suggest Affinity designer to some motion designer colleagues and the answer was w/o API/Scripting support they will not use Affinity Designer. 
It isn't worth their time otherwise. Love what you guys have done so far and I want to see Affinity Designer grow just as much as you guys. 

A Transform each would be excellent. Similar to AI function, giving options in scale, rotation, skew, etc.