JohaWeber

Any updates on this on? Behaviour on 1.8.x still the same...

I recently created a file with the latest beta version of affinity designer (1.8.0.486) and got the same error dialogue when trying to reopen it a day later... ("The file includes features from a later version of Affinity Designer")

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Hey there! So I upgraded my beta version from 1.7.3.x to 1.8.0.486 and tried to open a file - first I got the usual "Open non-Beta-document" dialogue - although this file was created with a beta version of Affinity Designer. After hitting either "Continue" or "Make Copy" I get an error dialogue (see attachements). Other documents which were created previously with the same 1.7.3.x beta version of AD open just fine in 1.8.0.486-b. Greetings, Joe

Hey there, just realized, that when closing a document that has modifications that are not saved yet, the given "Document is about to close, ..." pop up does not highlight/select the "Yes"-button first and therefore can not quickly be confirmed with the enter/return-key. Even worse, I am accustomed to quickly hit the tabulator key once to highlight the "No"-button and then the return-/enter-key to close documents I don't need anymore. All other software I can think of behaves this way - why doesn't Affinity? This often resulted in unwanted selection of the "Yes"-button and therefore the resulting in a wrong action. What do you think? Anyone else thinks this way? Greetings, Joe

When locking a selected layer via "Ctrl + L" and pressing the shortcut one more time the layer does not get unlocked but *looking to history panel* seems to get locked again. Doesn't matter if the layer was unlocked before the locking procedure or locked and selected via the layers panel. Perhaps I got this wrong - but in earlier versions of AD the lock shortcut had a toggle functionality rather than a action funtionality, didn't it?

When importing a png or jpeg file and therefore a new document with a locked "Background" (Pixel) layer gets created (document dimensions = original import file dimensions). This locked background layer gets selected when clicking on it to draw a selection rectangle to select multiple unlocked layers (pixel, shapes, curves). When clicking outside of the document bounds to span the selection rectangle, the locked background layer does NOT get selected. When unlocking this background layer, putting it in a group and lock it instead - it works as expected: The locked background layer never gets selected. No matter if the selection rectangle is started inside or outside the document bounds/dimensions.

I'm an absolute precision fanatic. And I would expect this from a programm which even lets me zoom into my artwork by 125000000% to be absolute precise. And I would expect it even more if this is a software which lets me use geometric shapes for artwork construction (where "construction" is a better term than "creation"). A software that is based on computations for everything (isn't that the nature of computer programs/software?) should give me absolute precision in my work if I need it... 1+ for @Aammppaa for requesting snap to tangents.

What I think: The constraints function/panel is not enough to use it as a proper UI design tool or to become a proper design tool. What every UI tool lacks is IMO either a proper HTML(Structure)/CSS(Style)/JS(Animation) export, the "truly responsive"-part or a "multiple states in structure and style for a single UI-element"-part. I could live with at least two of the stated features. I will not add invision studio to my toolset if either they only provide it on a monthly/yearly subscription base or they only provide the tool to mac users. As far as I know none of the statements were made yet - but who knows what a big corporation thinks inside... I wanted to move away from adobe because of the subscription model and couldn't/can't use sketch as a windows user. If they don't get the color workflow for spot colors a lot more easier and keep the professional print production options/features (overprint! spot-color-duotone!) on this level, I don't know why I even should wait for Affinity Publisher to be released. So what's their strategy? In general I think (but hope not) it will turn into the same as GIMP but as a paid product: A quick and easy step into the industry which will be followed by a turn to Adobe for pro users. I also think it would be best to focus on providing a perfect featureset for ADesigner, APhoto and APublisher nearly the same as Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign which then would suit Illustrators, Photographers and DTP-Pros and create a standalone UI app which just integrates in the Affinity universe. Without compatibility for plugins created by users/companies both Affinity Suite and inVision Studio will not succeed the way Sketch or Adobe does. It's the same with every "closed-for-plugins" tool: Looks great, works fine - until you get to the point were the idea is in your head, was approved by your team/client and you're not able to realize it because of the limitations of the tool itself. So you move on to the next one or back where you came from because you can't write your plugin or buy a plugin which brings your idea to life in a breeze - yes sure, nearly everthing a plugin in the graphic-design area does can be achieved without it, but only with a high application of time (which is money). And most projects only have a limited amount of hours on their table.

@Wiredframe Nice idea! The tiny areas drive me insane - one of the reasons why I'm not using the constraints panel/function as much as I would like to! @Aammppaa YES YES YES! Absolutely on your side! Especially for the tiny icons in the right bottom corner...

Because (as you stated) I keep everything which was on the copied artboard. And although performance of Affinity Designer is pretty decent, copying roughly about 1000 Elements with the artboard breaks my computer (I7 3970x, GTX 980 TI, 64GB Ram). Also, when creating a screendesign, I like to roughly sketch out the main areas with a 100px/1 division based grid and then proceed with a 8px/2 Division grid. On all artboards. One more thing: Sometimes when copying an artboard in whole via CTRL + J and try to drag the duplicated artboard around, SOME elements (both locked and unlocked) get stuck on the wrong artboard. Ending up having two messy artboards. Also, when dragging and duplicating (holding ALT while dragging) often it's barely usable as the view is lagging really bad and sometimes crashes Affinity Designer. (see above: "breaks my computer"). EDIT: Yes moderators, I will create seperate bug-reports for the bugs stated above as soon as I can get some more spare time.

Same for me - looking forward to the bugfix! Wouldn't it be nice to have an option in the "grid and axis manager" so set a grid for all artboards? It only would need a button which overwrites all artboards with the same grid settings. Found it pretty tedious on a screendesign-job to always set the grid to fit the first created art board. It always resets the grid for new artboards to an ominous default...

Any updates on an overprint preview? Didn't manage to locate a menue item or button to push in Affinity Designer yet...

Expected Behaviour: The number in the "export-slices" button gets updated when de- or relesectin a slice to be exported with the checkbox next to it. Actual Behaviour: The corresponding number shown in the lower right "export slices"-button does not get updated and stays at the number of slices selected when opening the document. Reopening the document then updates the number.