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Those, too. You can export to TIFF, or place TIFF files in your Affinity document, but Image layers are stored in the Affinity document as layers in its internal format, not as individual files.

@GarryP is right about having the stabilizer on. The triple circle @Ron P. mentioned showing the brush spacing can be enabled on Macs by holding down the CTRL & Option keys, & clicking multiple times before dragging the brush to toggle on-the-fly changes among the width/hardness, shape/spacing, & rotation options for the brush.

That does not help users that only own or routinely use Affinity Photo! Considering the size of some of these files & the limited disk space some users have * to deal with, it is absurd that there is not at least a warning before they are installed that they will not work in AP, nor is there any in-app way to delete them. *EDIT: Compounding the disk space issue, some AP users have installed the same vector brushes multiple times, thinking that something went wrong on the earlier tries.

That is my point. It is something that has come up in several other topics, including ones I have participated in that the staff have confirmed that there is no way for users to identify from the file itself if it contains vector or raster brushes. So unless the user knows from any documentation available for the file, which is not always provided, the only way to find out is to install the file, & even then, as has been mentioned in many different topics over the years, it is all too easy for many users to overlook in the successful message which kind was installed. So minimally, this is not very user friendly & does account for more than a little confusion for some users. Then of course, there is the confusion about installing vector brushes in Affinity Photo, no way provided in the app to remove them once installed, & no indication that they can't be used. Again, far from user friendly.

On my Mac, it is possible to add vector brushes to AP, & get the (not toast!) successful message, but of course those brushes are not available, nor is there any in-app way to remove them. So basically, AP should not permit one to even start downloading vector brushes, much less report success if they are imported.

Well, this is embarrassing! I just rechecked what happens when I dragged an afbrushes file into AD & the successful message does not go away until I press the OK button. It is not a "toast" message.

@carl123, can you tell what kind of brush file this Basic - 1.6.afbrushes one is?

OK, but what happens if an image the file contains is moved to a different location or deleted while the file is closed? How & when does the relative path to it get updated?

The point here is that a great many users do seem quite able to get used to how these tablets work, some within a short time of trying them out, & end up quite happy with what they offer, particularly on a cost vs. benefit ratio. If you could not get used to it that's understandable, but it does not mean that everybody else won't too.

It also does on my Mac running 10.15.7 Catalina.

Relative to what exactly? What if not all the items are always in an accessible file path? @GarryP raised this issue in several of the earlier posts.

If you mean the forum software, it is not something Serif/Affinity created, & there are several things about it that are not well-suited to discussing the Affinity apps.

Are you talking about something other than File > Save as package?

FWIW, I have a reasonably heavy duty, manually operated, lever type paper cutter. It works well for a small number of stacked sheets if they are carefully aligned, but with more than 8 or so pages of middle weight stock, the lower the pages in the stack get progressively wider due to the spring-loaded blade's tendency to move slightly farther from the shearing edge. So I would not want to make this a regular practice if keeping all the page at the same dimensions was important. Industrial type vertical shearing machines do not have this problem but I don't think that is what is being used here.

I know of not one person claiming that. How about a few examples to support your claim? BTW, no one can credibly claim what "experienced users" want, not in Affinity, Adobe, or any other app. Experiences, expectations, needs, wants & desires, workflows, etc. are far too diverse for any one person to speak for anyone other than themselves.

As do we all. But if we do not all have the same expectations that you do, that does not make us 'fanboys.'

One more thing to consider about Adobe's current pricing (& what subscribers can do about it): https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/05/20/adobe-hikes-creative-cloud-prices-with-a-rebrand-no-one-asked-for

Yes, that too, if you have not taken the time to export everything to other formats & tested that thoroughly. So in the time is money realm that is yet another thing to consider.

How sure are you about that? Consider how Adobe has raised subscription prices more than once & that means users either pony up & pay the higher prices or lose access to the apps they have been paying for, year after year. You also might want to Google "Adobe price abuse" & see what others have to say about that. As others have said, they only have charged for the upgrade (not update) from V1 to V2. As for when V3 will be offered, there is no indication that it will be "soon" -- nor do we know what if any upgrade offers there will be when they are. Of course, they are not forcing anyone to upgrade; in contrast the only way to even get updates to Adobe is to continue to pay for subscriptions.

Note that Image layers are a type of container layer. They are not TIFF files.

Or if you use Line Mode you can draw multiple 2 node straight lines without having to do anything to deselect any of them to draw the next one.

I have imported some myself. Most were OK but a few are problematic because, as best as I can describe it, it looks like some part of the brush nozzle texture (or possibly) sub brush?) was not completely within the brush stroke.

Please try what I asked for above: in your open Affinity app, go to File > Open Recent after closing the file. Do you see the file you just closed listed there?

What specifically do you see when you use File > Save? Are you certain you are looking in the correct folder for the saved file? If, after you close the file, you Go to File > Open Recent do you see the file listed? If so, what happens if you click on it there?

Where do you see these TIFFs in the Layers panel after opening the PDF? Note that layers may have names that include endings like "tiff" but that does not mean they are tiff files. Each layer there should have an icon to the left of the name. If you hover the pointer over the icon after a short delay a tooltip should pop up identifying the layer type.