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Didn't know about this, handy ...but the colour gets exported with the artwork so still not perfect. I'm picky, I know 🙂

Another option would be to marked whole layer(s) as non-exportable (or non-printable) so one does not have to switch on off anything. As I said, there are multiple ways to do but as someone who'd spent over 20 years working in Adobe, I miss some things I've trained myself. This is one of those things 🙂

Sure, let's say I'm working on the logo at the top, all looks good and then I need to get the same updated logo in negative version, meaning it will go on a dark background (website footer for example). I'd drag it down, hit the shortcut (if there was), make the colour changes, export. Job done. Switch back to white. I know there are many ways to do it, add some colour underneath, then remove before export or some other ways folks do it but this is how I work. The option is already there in the application, it would be nice to have a shortcut to switch back and forth faster. That's all.

I do it all the time when working on logo designs, checking positive and negative versions. Or any designs with white text, like signage etc. In Illustrator you just hit Shift/Cmd D and check the artwork on transparent, hit again back to white. I'd love to have that in Designer

I know I can change it in Document panel but constant change back and forth is not an optimal when you working fast. A nice key shortcut will be ideal, to switch between white an transparent background, I mean. Please, and thank you!

I've asked for that feature while we're were still around v.1.7 I think. If we can just get the exact copy of Indesign it would be perfect. Hold alt to get the hand tool, let go to get back to the text cursor.

I had a quick test of the data merge. It does work similar to the competition, with few exceptions - skip blank lines. But the UI for the function is so bad. There's one panel to load the csv files, then another panel for fields in completely separate section - "Fields" with all document statistics? No indication if the field is already placed on a page, nor how many times. The layout tool is a nice idea but nowhere in a help file does it say how to use it. I accidentally spotted a screenshot with layer panel showing that repeated text boxes need to be dragged inside/ under the data merge layer. Also if you select the grid with arrow, no options are visible - you have to pick data merge tool and select your grid again. I hope this is just a v.1 for this and it will be improved in future versions.

Has this been resolved? I can't still assign separate keyboard shortcuts to num pad or regular numbers in the latest 1.8.1 version

And no footnotes, data merge, hand tool while inside text frame, table splitting between pages, no way to sample & paste text styles, import multi-page PDF in one go, and so on.... I guess we'll have to wait for version 2 and give it a try again.

I know but it doesn't stay in % so you never know what's your scale ratio is.

Just like the "other" app has both, mm and %'s

It would work if there was a way to see % in the W or H boxes, it only shows actual sizes in units (mm, inch, etc.)

It does not work with imported vector files, unfortunately.

1-bit image is opened in Photo as RGB, not even greyscale. 1-bit image placed into Apub file exported is converted to RGB as well.

Fair play to you for still working after stuff like that. Mighty man!