[Questions on Canva acquiring Affinity]

1 hour ago, 2Dgameartguru said:

You really don't get it, do you? This is the difference between a company that cares for the artists and creatives and a company that just pretends to do so. Hearing it from a news post in a social media group or getting an email from Serif would have made a huge difference. The responses on the Facebook groups I moderate are very clear and apart from a handful of users, the majority are angry with the way this was handled. The speech on YouTube is a prime example of how not to do it. Those are hollow words that are contradicted by his body language from the start... 

 

Sounds more like a "Goodbye" message rather than an optimistic one or rather like a ransom video of a kidnapped victim that tries to assure the family that everything is OK so please send the ransom money.

He looks more disappointed than us by this "joint operation".  

[Set selection box]

On 3/10/2024 at 5:59 PM, Maxdanger said:

Not sure if best to post here or create a new bug report on the release forum, but I've noticed two issues with the set selection command:

1. The shortcut "CMD + ." exits full screen mode when nothing is selected (or when the set selection option is not available on a selected group/layer).
2. I am unable to set selection on a group of grouped curves. In the video, I have already set the child groups' default selection box, but I've also tested without having set their selection boxes, and the behaviour is still the same.

Below video shows both issues in action on release build 2.4.0 on MacOS. Not been able to test on Windows or iPad yet.

 

 

I can confirm the same behavior on Windows as well. Weirdly, we cannot set the Selection Box to groups since we can cycle through the Selection Box.

Is this an intended behavior or a bug? It would be great if this is a bug indeed because this means it can be fixed since I've been waiting for this feature for a long time and I mostly need it for groups and not specific objects.

[Alignment Options greyed out in Affinity Designer 1.8.1]

Using AD v2.2 which still has the same nonsense behavior. It makes no UX sense to have an option grayed out until you press another button, in this case an alignment button.

Also, the Apply/Cancel is very counter-intuitive from a user experience to see it in a drop-down menu. This should either be a modal with Apply/Cancel or an alignment options panel without these action buttons.

At least give us the options to change this behavior, but I can't imagine why anyone would be happy with the current workflow.

[Affinity Designer V2 getting really slow and laggy after some time]

I'm sure it's not placebo but the 2.1 version works much better now. I can use the app much longer before lagging and even when it starts lagging is not that bad as it used to be. Also, lowering the Undo limit makes the app work smooth for a longer time. I am now using a 50 Undo limit and I'm happy with the performance so far. Hopefully, v2.2 will get even more performance tweaks.

[Affinity Designer V2 getting really slow and laggy after some time]

Has anyone tried the latest Beta or have any news on this issue? For me I have to close AD v2 every 10 minutes or so because it becomes unusable just as other people also pointed out... just selecting/unselecting a simple shape on in a simple document takes seconds after using it for more than 10-15 minutes then ultimately becomes so laggy that I can barely close the app. And the interesting thing is that the AD process sticks around in Task Manager so I need to either kill the process or wait a few minutes before I'm able to open it again. This process really creates a lot of frustration and screws up my work flow. This was happening as well in v1 but there I could work about 1-2 hours before I've started noticing any slow down.

I really hope they'll be able to solve this soon because I can't go back to v1 since the files are not compatible anymore.

Specs: Ryzen 7 3800X, 32GB RAM, RTX 2700S, Windows 11.

[Where are all the export settings from the desktop app in AD?]

@DM1The fanboyism on this forum is mind-blowing! I haven't come here to argue with people and I don't understand why comment at all if there's no value in your comment. There's already such a feature request several years old, but again, Serif knows what's better for the user just like when they removed the delete button from the v2 app and were forced to bring back by the pressure of the users.

@Paul Mudditt I'm using AD to work on UI so the export dialog is useless to me when I have hundreds of artboards which some need to be exported in several dimensions. Maybe most iPad users would use the export persona more often if it would be on par with the desktop version. I don't think I'm requesting something impossible here. 

[Where are all the export settings from the desktop app in AD?]

10 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Tap on the Designer icon (top left) to display the Persona menu.

My friend… I appreciate you reply but have you actual read my post? I know where the bloody Export persona is. The problem is that the bloody Export persona on the iPad is a piss in the ocean compared to the desktop app and I don’t understand why since the iPad is more than capable of handling this.

And when I do have the custom export settings from the desktop app, I get this notice in the Export persona on the iPad “*This slice has additional custom export options est on it, editing will remove these custom options”. So yeah, am I missing something here?

 

[Where are all the export settings from the desktop app in AD?]

I’m trying to jump from my desktop AD v2 to the iPad version and while most of the functionality is there, I’m missing a crucial part which is the advanced export settings in the Export Persona. Is there a way to activate those on the iPad as well? Also, why are they missing in the first place? I was hoping this would not be a problem in v2 but I was wrong. Does anyone know anything about this matter? Thanks!

UPDATE

The problem is that the bloody Export persona on the iPad is a piss in the ocean compared to the desktop app and I don’t understand why since the iPad is more than capable of handling this. You can’t even set a custom size for the image you’re exporting which is nuts!

And when I do have the custom export settings from the desktop app, I get this notice in the Export persona on the iPad “*This slice has additional custom export options est on it, editing will remove these custom options”. So yeah, am I missing something here?

[Reset Bounding Box]

+3 this! Come one Serif, this has been asked for such a long time.

[Remove De/Select objects from Undo History]

On 12/17/2022 at 12:33 PM, Andreas1974 said:

The far too littered and cumbersome undo history it's one of the most annoying things with Affinity Publisher, that makes me not want to use it, as long as I have access to other software.

Is this any change to this in version 2?

Tell me about it! It drives me nuts! And no, it works the same way in version 2. At least they could give us an option in the settings to disable this stupid thing. Not sure why the developers are so hardheaded!?

[Color Swatches Panel - renaming global color does not update name in listview]

I can confirm this and is driving me nuts! A temporary fix is to switch the color palette to a different one and then switch back to the one you're using.

Hope it gets fixed in the next update!

[Export only selected slices]

On 10/6/2022 at 11:22 AM, Ideagonal said:

If I understand this issue, maybe this is useful: on Macos you can select multiple or all slices in the Slices panel, then if you check or uncheck any one of them, all the selected are checked or unchecked accordingly. Don't know about Windows.

It works the same in Windows but you didn't seem to understand the issue here or the requested feature. Please read again the first post and my comments above.

[Paste FX does not retain settings.]

Any new on this issue? It's 2022, February and we still have the same problem in the latest AD 1.10.4.1198 and it's really annoying!

[Retroism Icon Pack]

On 1/24/2022 at 12:49 PM, BarKeegan said:

Nice icons and palette

Thank you for the kind words  

[Retroism Icon Pack]

Hey guys, here's my latest Affinity Designer masterpiece! Took me a few month to get all the icons done, but in the end, the result was worth it. What's this all about, you may ask?

It is a minimalist icon pack designed in a retro style that works perfectly on your Windows taskbar or Dock. As you can see from the preview, the main idea is to use generic icons for various app categories without using specific app logos or icons (with some exceptions like the Browsers, Adobe Suite, Affinity Apps and Microsoft Office). Instead, the icons illustrate the actual purpose of the app using familiar design elements. For example, if you're a content creator, you will find different creative icons for your video or music editing apps. The same goes for gaming, where you have a bunch of icons for your gaming platforms to choose from. 

The icon pack currently includes the following app categories: Internet Browsers, File Managers, Audio Players, Video Players, DJ-ing Apps, Email Apps, Adobe Suite, Affinity Suite, Microsoft Office, Painting Apps, Vector Apps, 3D Apps, Video Editors, Music Production Apps, Code Editors, IM Apps, Gaming Platforms, Torrent Apps, Image Viewers, Calendar Apps, FTP Clients, Archiving Apps, Notes-ToDo Apps, Book Readers, Trading Apps, and Windows System Apps (Task Manager, Terminal, Calculator, Notepad, Settings).

You can download a demo of the icon pack on deviantArt or get the full version on gumroad. 

Enjoy  

[Line thickness bug.]

On 9/7/2021 at 10:09 AM, Sean P said:

Hi muchitto,

Thanks for letting us know - this is something we do have logged and only occurs when using the Apple Pencil to select the value. Essentially the Pencil is causing the wrong input dialog to pop up (the one without the unit selector below your value). Using your finger should display the correct one with the units and allow you to input the value correctly. I will get your comments passed and get the issue bumped with development.

This issue is still here. Any updates on this one? When I’m drawing I try to avoid smudging the screen as much as possible which is why I’m using the pencil to enter values and for some reason which is beyond me, this problem still persists.

[Enable physical keyboard “delete” key to delete selected objects]

11 hours ago, otmaxhai said:

Beside the missing of a delete shortcut, spacebar+drag to navigate the artboard is also an important shortcut that never made it to the ipad version. These two omissions are stopping me from using the ipad version.

Sometimes I wonder these obvious omissions are intentional by the dev team to weaken the ipad version tho.

Same here... panning with the spacebar is also a must for a keyboard work flow. And I know what you mean about the iPad version... it took them a long time to even add some basic keyboard shortcuts. 

[Enable physical keyboard “delete” key to delete selected objects]

Could someone explain why this is still missing from the shortcuts options? Is it complicated to bind the Delete key on the keyboard to the delete an object function?

Any explanation would be great, otherwise this is just absurd! The iPad OS becomes more and more powerful with each update and I like using my iPad at home with a keyboard and I can’t understand why some app developers are so stubborn to ignore this fact and why they keep pushing towards only to the touch controls.

[Designer on iPad needs more work ....]

On 12/4/2020 at 12:32 AM, konstantnnn said:

I mean guys one bug where “check spelling” turns itself on all the time can’t be fixed in more than ONE YEAR. 

This one is driving me crazy! Here we are, like 3 month later and this shit still can't be disabled by default! How many people do their spelling check in the editing app?? Let me answer that for you: ZERO!

Another thing that drives me nuts: being able to set the rounded corners radius of a rounded rectangle numerically. This is very important in UI design where there are no guessing games and everything has to be pixel perfect. I would like to continue my UI design work at home on my iPad but it is a really terrible workflow. It might me great for illustrators but not for UI designers. It would be great if the iPad could support a proper arrow mouse cursor and have an option to toggle between the desktop or the mobile UI in Affinity Designer. And since you already have the desktop app working on the M1 Macs, this might be possible.

[Arranging windows - tile horizontally, etc.]

+1000 This would be a huge help in my work flow as a UI designer and I'm sure I'm not the only one using multiple files open at the same time on a big display.

[Auto-close pencil lines]

1 hour ago, Macmonkey said:

I must admit adobe kinda knocked it out the park with the mobile version of illustrator. I love the way all the most common functions appear beneath the selected items. It makes it so much easier than rooting around in various panels and sub panels, and yes of course auto closing lines, why would you not  
I think this was Adobe saying ‘we see what you are doing Serif’ and we raise you  I look forward to seeing how the guys at serif respond. A little healthy competition is good for everyone.

Yes, yes and yes... Adobe has raised the bar with the Illustrator for the iPad. I'm really curios to see how Serif will respond. The iPad version of Designer has been pretty stale in the last year or so.

[Copy > Paste Fx Causes Rescaling of Drop Shadows]

Hopefully they fix this on the next update. I honestly thought this was a feature, one which made no sense and drove me crazy!

[Auto-close pencil lines]

5 minutes ago, Bianca Esteban said:

Honestly, I don’t even think the devs read these forums. People have been complaining about not having this function for years and no one seems to give a crap. It’s very disappointing. Affinity, in many ways, works better for me than Illustrator, but in other ways, it’s just too unwieldy for an efficient tool.

I couldn't have said it better myself! I keep trying to only use AD as my main vector tool but there are still a lot of basic things like proper stroke width tool and others than makes me keep jumping to Illustrator again and again.

It's like they keep adding these useless features and ignore basic functions of a productive vector tool.

How can professionals do the switch when their workflow suffers and time is wasted using all kinds of workarounds to get things done?

[Switch between Artistic & Frame text]

31 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Serif staff generally do not comment on feature requests, Cristian. They read them, and use them for planning purposes, but unless they have a question about something someone has said, or have an announcement to make, they usually do not post here.

Thanks for the info, Walt! Hopefully they will read and take into consideration some of our requests.

[Switch between Artistic & Frame text]

Any feedback from the serif team would be awesome! I use this feature all the time in Illustrator and Photoshop so it would be very useful to get it in AD as well.