hankscorpio

You still can. Export to Pdf and make plates from that. Thats a pretty standard workflow.
Colour seps for the programme is essential though. Id prefer to know that its all setup correctly before making pdf 

Paragraph Fills and Rules.
Decorations describes something else, like ornate settings.

Paragraph Fills and Rules.
Decorations describes something else, like ornate settings.

I dont know what rip you are using. But if your goal is to get away from adobe then i really cant help as im not familiar with a non pdf workflow or non pdf centric workflows. 
I do know creating postscript etc is stripping the file of goodness like live transparencies and icc colour profiles 
 

Yes, like in AD. I was mistaken that the Resource Manager also displayed the scaled percentage...but that was in something else.
And both have the same issue when trying to get a resized image back to its original size using the transform panel if going by a pixel dimension resize.
If I have an image that is 800x535 px that has 180dpi written into it when placed at 100% size, resize it and try using the transform panel to resize it back to that dimension using the pixel dimensions that is displayed, it is much smaller.
Having the percentage an image is scaled available and being able to modify the current size based upon that percentage is a definitely a should have feature.
Mike

Look into Power Duplicate.
https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/duplicate.html
 

@kimtorch
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There are plans to add scripting to the Affinity range, but few details have been released yet.