Robert Cailliau

OK about vocabulary... 🙂
BUT:  I cannot find in either Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo any setting such that documents are opened in separate windows instead of tabs.
I also know I can drag the documents by their tabs out and into separate windows, but that is just an irritation that upsets me every time.
(Just for the record, and at the risk of getting flames, but I hope you guys will enjoy this:  I have been using GUI windowing systems since 1981, Macs since 1984, and I also happen to know Alan Kay very well, who invented overlapping windows at Xerox PARC in the late 1970s. And I positively HATE tabs.  Never use them, never want them.  Ever. 😎 )

Hi, I may have reported this earlier, but I want to export as .jpeg, not .jpg.  However, when I type .jpeg I get this:

 
Why is it "forbidden" ?  The "e" in jpeg stands for "expert", and the earlier Windows extensions being limited to three characters, the experts were left out…  I want them back. (the answer "rename the file in the Finder" is not acceptable).

Hi,
How can I set the default font for text objects?
Whenever I make a new piece of text, the font defaults to Arial.  I want to set the default font to a different one.
I could not find a preference setting, but I may have verlooked something.https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/5-affinity-on-desktop-questions-mac-and-windows/&do=add#

JDW has a point.
I've reported a number of "bugs":   "a rose, by any other name, smells as sweet", so call them what you will (some bugs/features/workarounds/… usually stink.)  But they do not get corrected in a new version or an update.  I do not need new features:  they came in avalanches in Illustrator but never the desired ones.  I'm much happier with Designer than with Illustrator, and happy with Photo, except for that missing white point tool.
For Designer I have reported, without reasonable response, that
on a machine with two screens, a new document appears first on the second screen (where obviously I do not want it) documents do not always open in the same location and view as when they were closed the interface colours now do use my preferred highlight, but the text on the selection is not the inverse (I get white on light yellow…) the tab order in the transform panel is wrong and I just now found that adding a style from a selection does not work if the stroke colour is pure black (rgb 0,0,0) but it does work if it is even just very slightly different (e.g. rgb 0,1,0).  That is a BUG.
I will report those issues again on the corresponding forums and feature request lists.
As to the white point request:  I fully support JDW.  It's not about "photoshop on the cheap".  I do realise that professional users will rarely or perhaps never use this tool.  However, I'm using Affinity Photo mostly for touching up scans of documents, and in those cases almost always the first thing I want to do is to get rid of the light greyish background, turning it into simple flat white (not the Australian coffee).
I'll be happy with a "macro" if it does exactly that.  But I get the impression from the responses that there is no easy workaround at all, and that some even find the question annoying.  This is not a place for a flame-war.  We are here to collaborate to find working solutions.
If there is no white point tool available and there is no simple workaround, then we should simply admit that, put in a strong request in the feature requests list.  Not waffle around.
I'll go and do that now.

And same here:  this is a tool I use(d) a lot in Photoshop.  It's not perfect and it's not "professional", but it is so effective and efficient:  you scan a document or make a photo, the want to print it and the quickest way to get rid of the greyish parts is to use the white picker.  Saves a lot of ink.

Well, yes, and I tried that but could not make it work!  However, now, after a re-installation, it does work!

No, it only works when the centre of rotation of the combined shapes happens to coincide with one of the nine points.
:(
It should not be too difficult to add a tenth point, which is the centre of rotation, wherever the user has put it.
Until this is fixed, what I shall do is to first draw a large circle, then design the shape such that the desired point of rotation coincides with the circle's centre and the shape is entirely inside the circle.
There are two things to fix:
 
(1) improve the transform panel to add the "tenth point"
 
(2) make the centre of rotation one of the points that other shapes can snap to.

Wow.  Thanks all!
 
(3) RC-R:  double clicking to switch from text to move is great.  I did not know.
(5) it would be easier to snap a corner to another corner or point.
 
A_B_C: no, that does not work for me either.  It does in the Transform panel.  And that raises another interface ergonomics point: a selected field in Transform is surrounded by a thin dark blue outline that is almost imperceptible.  I have great difficulty seeing it. The colours of the interface should be settable.  Again I refer to Cinema 4D, where all these things are customisable.  I do understand that some graphic designers sit in dark rooms all day, but I'm using AD for technical drawings and am in a normally lit room.  I would have stayed with Illustrator if it were not that Sierra broke CS6 and I firmly refuse to pay a subscription.
And I tried again but on my machine too clicking on field labels does not work: no blue outline, no nothing and starting to type does not work.
This must be a bug that is similar to the one by which the toolbars disappear when going to separated mode.  I absolutely hate single window (and full screen even more) but I can't have multiple document windows (not on my machine at least) because when I switch to separated mode the tool bars disappear (when I first installed Designer, in Mavericks, this feature did work).
 
v_kyr:  if the flow for you is XYWH, for me it is not.  There are quite a few behaviours that seem to be linked to some settings file being screwed up.  I'll try to reinstall completely this weekend and see what that does.
 
v_kyr & RC_R:  thanks for the arrows tip: that works indeed.  If it is in the tutorials or the manual, then I'm sorry for having raised it. The increment also changes from coarse to fine with the option key.  Good!
 
That leaves (4), (5), (6), (7) and (9).
 
I'll report on a re-install next week.