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I purposely asked this question to spark a discussion

If the icons were placed on the main toolbar in all 3 programs then it would be possible to change the page layout and Artboard in Designer if any, and the page layout in APhoto. These icons here would not just be limited to Publisher and Person in Publisher. On your advice, I would have to create additional spreads in Publisher with the new file, it takes unnecessary time. As I wrote, I often have pages of different sizes in the document, and they are not usually A4 or A3, but completely different.

For comparison. CorelDraw and Publisher toolbars. In CorelDraw there are 56 icons and in Publisher with the same width of the screen there are 44 icons In CorelDraw, the 3 rows of icons and the main menu take up as much space on the screen as the 2 rows and main menus in Publisher. In CorelDraw, I can set up as many rows of icons (and icons for all functions) as I want. So I set it up so that the 2nd row is the whole time the program is running and the 3rd row changes depending on the selected tool - just like in Affinity. So in CorelDraw I have the ability to change the layout of the page always, regardless of the moment and the tool used. That's what I would like to have in Affinity as well Probably the icons are too big in Affinity, they could be smaller, but from what I can see, there will never be a possibility to change the size of the interface elements (at least not for the next 8 years).

I design ads, so in one document I often have several pages with different layouts, horizontal or vertical, and in addition different sizes. Let's say I have 3 vertical pages, I want to add a fourth horizontal page. If I add, it will also be vertical. Then I have to go to Document Setup and click on the horizontal layout icon. If I had these icons on the main bar, it would only take me one click.

During my daily work, I often need to change some pages to a layout, e.g. from portrait to landscape. So these icons would instantly change the layout of the page without going to the Document Setup button and then clicking on the appropriate icon.

Because these icons would be close to the Document Setup button or they can just be on the main icon bar.

I'm letting you go. Unfortunately, this is my fantasy. I wish that was the case. This would be very quick access to the page layout. The clicked icon (vertical and horizontal layout) would apply to the selected page or pages. You can dream.

I wonder where the page layout icons have gone?

The longer I work in the latest Beta Affinity, the more nervous I get. I'm talking about the Auto-select drop-down list. It needs to be moved elsewhere. Working with text is the worst. If I have the text icon selected and I'm writing text on the screen, the list of fonts is on the left side of the screen. It's always been like this and it's convenient. However, if I select the text with the arrow and want to select a different font, the font list moves 5cm on the screen, and I automatically click on the Auto-select list, which suddenly shows up where the font list was a moment ago. Please Serif - change it. This is very annoying. Has anyone from Serif tried to work on your programs? Do you just design these programs? Only for whom?

What is disturbing is that this error has been going on since November 2022 and only applies to version 2. Version 1 worked fine. It is impossible to work normally with this error. I was hoping this would be fixed in the latest Beta version.

Yes Sir. I've been using CorelDraw to create fonts since the 90's. 30 years are slowly passing by. I think Serif technically could do it, but 1000 years?

And this is where some shortcut key should be provided, I was thinking of spacebar but spacebar is taken. By pressing a shortcut key, while pressing this key, you can move the selected object without clicking on it directly.

Do the same in Affinity 1 - no problem here.

The purple frame is the Bleed border set to 2mm, the gray frame is the document border. In the project there is only a black bitmap at the bottom of the project and text. Side 1 and Side 2 is 90x50mm, Bleed 2mm.

Is it possible to have the Auto-select drop-down list placed somewhere else in the context bar, e.g. at the end of the context bar. In the beta version of Affinity 2.1, this drop-down list item has been added on the left side of the screen (maybe it's better to replace it with icons - it would be faster access) and the entire bar jumps by the width of this list when working on a project. For example, we draw a rectangle, a context bar is displayed regarding the rectangle, and if I click on the arrow icon, all elements of the bar move to the right. Working with text is the worst. When selecting the text icon, the font list is at the edge of the screen - OK, but clicking on the arrow icon moves the font list to the right, so the rest of the bar also moves. This causes unnecessary movement at the top of the screen as you work. However, Affinity 1 and Affinity 2.0 work better. There is no movement of the context bar when selecting, for example, rectangle - arrow, text - arrow. I am not saying that there is no Auto-select drop-down list, but that it is in a different place (possibly icons). Nagrywanie 2023-03-05 232208 A2.1.mp4 Nagrywanie 2023-03-05 232325. A1mp4.mp4

In Publiher 2 and Beta 2.1 on Windows, there is a very thick gray line around the document right from the start. If you zoom out of the document, this line gets thicker. When zoomed out more, the view gives the impression that a rectangle with a thicker gray border is placed in the project. In Publisher 1, the gray border around the document is always 1px thick regardless of the view magnification - very good. In Publisher 2, this has unfortunately been broken. Please Serif fix it. In the video you can see the difference in the quality of this rim. If you can't see it, please compare the difference on your programs. Nagrywanie 2023-03-05 213254 obwódka.mp4

It just occurred to me, could the Managing Director sometime look at his Affinity programs in addition to the iPad Pro from the perspective of a Windows Surface Pro tablet?

In Affinity 2.0 and in the new Beta 2.1 releases, this was also not fixed. Version 1 works very well, I checked, but I can't work in version 1.0 anymore because I already created too many files in version 2.0. Somehow, there was such a big bug in the creation of text objects in version 2, and none of the creators of Serif noticed it. We've been reporting this bug to Serif since November last year. You really can't work with text objects like that. I work on a daily basis in a company using this program and I still have problems with selecting other objects next to or below the texts. I know there are workarounds. CTRL, ALT and others, but why? The program should work without any workarounds, version 1 proves it. SERIF, please, fix this BUG as soon as possible in the next Beta, because this will go on for the next six months. It's now been 5 months since the 2.0 release with this bug. Is it such a huge technical difficulty? Incorrigible? Do I have to pay extra for a bug fix? All right. Enter your account number - I'll transfer the money. Nagrywanie 2023-03-05 151922.mp4

My suggestion is that: Add a Text Frame panel to Designer and Persona Designer and you don't need to do anything in Vector Flood Fill. In this panel, you can then change or remove the text frame fill created with the Vector Flood Fill tool.

Back to the matter of filling the text frame with the Vector Flood tool. You can tint a text frame by dragging the Vector Flood tool, but you cannot change its color or remove the frame color. I don't know if this is a bug or intended behavior. Nagrywanie 2023-03-04 141853.mp4

In the latest Beta version of Affinity, you cannot populate an object with a bitmap saved in the Assets panel. You can use vector graphics, but there is no reaction with bitmap graphics, the filling changes to white. Nagrywanie 2023-03-04 131451.mp4

Yes. I confirm. In the new Windows11 Affinity Beta, you cannot use the Vector Flood Fill tool by dragging from the Assets panel to the fill icon in the tool panel to fill graphics. As you move an Assets object, the Vector Flood tool's fill icon automatically changes to a Stroke fill and color icon. So the Vector Flood Fill tool automatically turns off. Mistake. Nagrywanie 2023-03-04 123529 - Trim.mp4

Yes. In this Beta version, it is not possible to fill e.g. a protocol with a Bitmap fill by dragging a bitmap from Assets to the fill icon in the tool panel and color panel. This works with vector graphics in the Assets panel, but not bitmaps, and I believe it worked in an earlier Beta version.

Yes. Works with vector brushes. But is it possible to make ALT work with Pixel brushes too?

I don't know. Windows 11, beta 2.1.0.1714 in Publisher Persona Photo - brush selection with ALT doesn't work to leave size when selecting another brush.