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Ok. Thanks for the info. I really hope that you will fix this very annoying issue as soon as possible because it's very weird. Regards.

Hi Affinity support team. A simply question, about a situation is going on for many many months. I use both Windows and Macs Why, especially on Mac, Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher takes SO LONG, SO LONG to start? On my MacBook Pro 16 top specs it takes 22/25 seconds to execute the first run of your software? 25 seconds...absurd time! And this happens if I'm or I'm not connected to Internet. The internet connection doesn't affect the load time. On windows is much much quicker. Why on Mac is to TERRIBLY SLOW? it's absurd. Please let me know if there's a way to speed up the run process of your apps on my Mac. Thanks. Marco

Hi Affinity support team. A simply question, about a situation is going on for many many months. I use both Windows and Macs Why, especially on Mac, Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher takes SO LONG, SO LONG to start? On my MacBook Pro 16 top specs it takes 22/25 seconds to execute the first run of your software? 25 seconds...absurd time! And this happens if I'm or I'm not connected to Internet. The internet connection doesn't affect the load time. On windows is much much quicker. Why on Mac is to TERRIBLY SLOW? it's absurd. Please let me know if there's a way to speed up the run process of your apps on my Mac. Thanks. Marco

I checked but I can't find these 1.8.5 updates in the App Store on Mac (Catalina)

I checked but I can't find these 1.8.5 updates in the App Store on Mac (Catalina)

Thank you so much!!!

Hello Affinity Team! Although I echo some of the complaints of many users here, about the so long delay of new long awaited features, I THINK IT'S ALSO FAIR AND APPROPRIATE to point out what amazing things you have done for the whole artist community in the last 3 years! It's right that we PRETEND from Affinity that they put their hands on a so long awaited to-do list, I think they MUST do it. But it's also true that thanks to the Affinity' guys we were able to have a very very good tool set for 2D stuff, and at a VERY VERY LOW PRICE!!! And also we were able to get the (I call it) "amazing duo" and the iPad: Affinity Photo and Designer for iOS!!! And...last but not least, thanks to Affinity we were able to get rid of subscription software (Adobe and others)!!! These products were really a GAME CHANGER for the entire artist community!! I think we must not forget this. I'am an Affinity customer for a long time, since the wonderful Serif Drawplus X5!! They have always done very very good software. So, c'mon Affinity Team, nails the throttle. Improve Designer and Photo and give us again other happy days Thanks!

Hello Affinity team! All your product are very very good, and also the iPad side is very promising, but honestly I agree with many other members here. The roadmap was posted in 2014! 4 years waiting for distort tool and many other old requests! Maybe you're biting way more than you can chew. Also you should really put more effort in improving the overall stability of Photo and Designer on iPad. These tool on iPad are are still too unstable for a seriously professional work. And consider that I use a 12.9 2017 iPad Pro, so I should have no problem with the specs. And also it's absurd that still a simple copy/paste between Photo and Designer on iPad doesn't work! This is very annoying... Thanks. I stay tuned.

OK Michail, Thanks for the info.

Hello Affinity Team! Some minutes ago I have just download and installed the new Publisher Beta on my desktop (WIndows 10 Pro 64bit, i7-7700K, 32Gb Ram DDR4 3000Mhz, Nvidia Gtx 1080 Ti overclocked). All seems to be fine but when I try to switch to vector or photo persona I get these messages : "Vector Persona: A compatible version of Affinity Designer is required" "Photo Persona: A compatible version of Affinity Photo is required" I've got the latest 1.6.5.123 version both for Designer and Photo. What I have to do? Am I missing something ? Regards. Marco (mkdm)

Hello Affinity Team! Some minutes ago I have just download and installed the new Publisher Beta on my desktop (WIndows 10 Pro 64bit, i7-7700K, 32Gb Ram DDR4 3000Mhz, Nvidia Gtx 1080 Ti overclocked). All seems to be fine but when I try to switch to vector or photo persona I get these messages : "Vector Persona: A compatible version of Affinity Designer is required" "Photo Persona: A compatible version of Affinity Photo is required" I've got the latest 1.6.5.123 version both for Designer and Photo. What I have to do? Am I missing something ? Regards. Marco (mkdm)

Ok. I'm going to post on Bugs on Ipad. I hoe they will repair soon this issue because it's very critical. Regards.

...Any help regarding "Copy/Paste"...? Thanks.

Simply "bitmap" objects. For example, you can easily try this very simple test: 1) Create a simple Circle with the Ellipse tool in Designer 2) Rasterize it, so in this way it become a pixel objet 3) Copy the object into the clipboard with the "Clipboard - Copy" 4) Try to Paste into Affinty Photo. NO WAY!! 5) try to Paste into any other bitmap Apps like Procreate. NO WAY!!!

I'm sorry R C-R but what you're saying is not completely correct. In fact for example I already can copy/past "bitmap" things from Procreate to Affinity Photo and Designer or to any other bitmap App. You can try on your own if you want. But actually it seems that is impossibile to do the same things between Designer and Photo (and all other things I've said in my previous message that involves the two apps). Regards. Marco (mkdm)

Thanks RC-R for your reply anyway. But...I already know all these matters regarding iOS 11 sandbox... I really appreciate if, when they can, Affinity Team help me for this issue. What I'm asking is simply easily Copy/Paste things form two products of the same family: Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo (back and forth), and simply copy/paste "bitmap" things from Affinity Designer to/from other bitmap apps like Procreate or Artstudio Pro or any other. I would be very grateful is someone told me how to: 1) Copy/Paste vector and bitmap things back and forth between Affinity Designer and Photo 2) Copy/Paste raster (bitmap) things back and forth among Affinity Designer and any other bitmap Apps (Procreate and so on) I already know that Affinity Designer and Photo have the ability to "export" but this operation is absolutely not comparable to a simple copy/paste command. I hope that someone help me for this because my workflow heavily leverages on the content sharing among different graphic apps. Thanks to all of you who will answer me Marco (mkdm)

Hello Affinity team and thank you so much! Amazing mobile version of your flagship Designer for desktop! Clearily this is the very first official version so it's normal to have some issue or some part that doens't work as excepetd. Actually, after use it for about 4 hours today, I have found some important issue (or missing feature) for me. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong but it seems that there's a serious missing feature: Copy/Paste between Affinity Designer and other apps like Procreate and also Affinity Photo! I've tried many times with both vector objects and rasterized objects. If I use the command "Clipboard Copy" I'm not able to Paste the copied thing nowhere. Neither in Procreate nor in Affinity Designer. Ad this happens both with vector or rasterized things. How this can be possible? How can I easily share things between Affinity Designer and other graphic apps? This is a very important feature for me because in my workflow I work both with Vector things and Raster things using Procreate and Affinity tools. I expected at least that the Copy/Paste command would work between Affinity Photo and Designer but I didn't find a way to make it work. It seems that Affinity Designer (and Photo) doesn't support multitasking on iOS (splitted screen) and has no drag and drop functionality. That's all for the moment. If you have some advice to make these things work please let me know soon. Regards. Marco (mkdm)

Congratulations!!!! You were one of the best "surprise" of the last two years (2016-17)!! I'm your customer since Serif Drawplus x5 and I always loved your Apps. I hope that soon you will release also Designer for iPad Pro! Thanks. Marco (mkdm)

Thanks for the info. You : "...Affinity Designer for iPad is currently in development..." Great news!!!

Thanks a lot you too!

Thanks a lot! Is there any "Expand Stroke" command available in Affinity Photo for ipad ? You said : "... Affinity Designer for iPad..." So...is there any chance to see "Affinity Designer" soon on iPad Pro too ? That would be a HUGE improvement for productivity on iPad Pro!!

Hi everyone! While I'm searching for a good workflow to manage a full "back and forth" import/export of vector gfx via Pdf with Affinity Photo and Autodesk Graphic (on my iPad Pro 12.9 2th gen) I'm wandering if there is a tools inside Affinity Photo for setting "curve stroke" like the Desktop counterpart. I didn't find anything about that on Photo for iPad. I really need that tool!

Hello Affinity team! I'm working on Affinity Photo on a brand new iPad Pro 12.9 and it seems really a great porting from PC/Mac to iOS, but form me it still misses some very important features, that I hope you will implement soon : 1) First of all : BRUSH CURSOR HOVERING. This is a fundamental feature for me. I need at least to see the brush shape outline while I draw, like I can do with a setting in Procreate 2) Support for multitasking side-by-side windows in iOS 11 with drag and drop 3) When transforming objects/layers, the chance to see and position/snap the "Rotation centre" in order perform rotation around a pivot point Thanks a lot and have a nice day. Marco (mkdm) P.S. Are you planning to do also a porting of Designer for iOS ?

Hello MEB and thanks a lot for your prompt reply. I understand your point of view and I can even understand that Affinity is a new line of products. No problem. They are very good products. But I think that you should listen to your customers that like me have a long time experience with vector graphics and CG in general and that have to deal daily with many little or big problems in their job. You said that "...are already on Affinity Designer's roadmap.." Ok. That's good, but this situation lasts for a long time and no new "vector" feature where added. Please consider that the tools I mentioned in my previous post and that are presents in DrawPlus, are not only very useful but essential in many aspects of my daily job, and I'm still forced to copy/paste/export PDF, read again into Designer, doing these things back and forth many times and all my workflow is very slowed down. I thank you again for your response and for all your efforts in doing Affinity even better but I hope that you will include soon this missing features too important for my daily job, because actually I'm forced to use many different external tools that slowdown my workflow, and my workflow is my daily match... Thanks and have a nice day. Marco (mkdm)

Hi Affinity team and good morning. First of all I wish to thank you for working on this new long awaited update! Thanks. I bought more than two years ago both Photo and Designer and globally I can say that I'm really satisfied with them. Both are great software in many aspects with very good workflow that I daily use for my job. I'm a software developer and I often leverage on Photo and Designer to create mock-up and UI for Android Apps and I also use them daily, integrated into my whole 2d and also 3D pipeline. Yes, in fact Designer is perfect when coupled to a 3D Nurbs software that I daily use, Moi3D, that is very powerful for creating also 2D vector graphics. In this way I can combine the precision and the power of a Nurbs CAD with the versatility and the graphic capabilities of both Designer and Photo. So, I repeat, I'm globally very satisfied with your software. But, with said, I also must say that as a long time satisfied DrawPlus user, there are still TOO many features and important tools that are missing in Designer, and that I'm asking for a long time on this channel I'm referring to some features that really makes the difference in my daily job. I hope that, along with bug fixes, you will include these long time missing features in the next official version of Affinity Designer, that I loved and used a lot in DrawPlus X8. I mean, please include this missing features : 1) Tracing images 2) Knife tool : awfully useful !! It allow a superfast workflow. In designer we have to use Combine, Subtract end so on but it's not the same tings and the DrawPlus's way is times faster. 3) Freeform Paint Tool : awfully useful !! It's much more advanced of the Vector Brush Tolls in Designer because it can handle separately the stroke and the fill. 4) Erase tool : awfully useful !! 5) Flood Fill toll : awfully useful !! Why did you drop it in Designer ? This tool is very useful especially when importing tracing or other vector files created with other software. 6) Envelope, Perspective : awfully useful !! 7) SHAPE BUILDER TOOL : awfully useful !! Please include it into Designer. Again...it's not the same thing of using Combine, Subtract end so on. 8) Mesh Fill Tools : awfully useful !! 9) Last but not least....MESH WARP TOOL (in vector mode) : Please add this very missing features. I hope that you will take into great consideration these requests and I wish you all the best for you wok and your life in general Regards. Marco (mkdm)