alsarraf

v1.6 has been released, and still no support for Arabic !!!

I know that I can do that, but I have a file with tens of artboards and selecting the name of each artboard individually is annoying.

Add an option in the Context Toolbar for the Move Tool that makes the tool selects artboards instead of its layers.
This will dramatically save time and efforts for anyone who want to rearrange tens of artboards.

Your case is efficient for selecting all artboards, but its not for selecting multiple artboards, because their order usually is not the same as that of layers in the layers palette, and finding the artboard in the layers palette to select it is much harder than selecting its name in the workspace.

You can draw the shapes in AD but you need a real font app for creating working font. Like Glyphs of FontLab.

Hello There!
I work with a graphic designer from Dubai on designing numerous graphic designs that are related to marketing. The program i was recommending to him was Affinity because of its simplicity, support and the one time purchase fee. My designer wanted to incorporate Arabic letters in the design and he downloaded a font off of the web in the form of OTF. For those of you that aren't familiar with the Arabic alphabet that the writing starts from right to left instead of the opposite. After trial and error and spending hours trying to figure out if the software supports the alphabet we came out with a conclusion: Affinity designer doesn't support Arabic/Farsi/Urdu alphabets. However, the program supports symbolic calligraphy which means the letters were treated like symbols rather than an actual font. I have a special request from the developers to update their software and make it compatible with the Arabic/Farsi/Urdu languages just like in Adobe Illustrator. I was and still (sorta) an Adobe user, but i much rather use Affinity because of it's functionality and one time purchase fee instead of the monthly subscription trap that Adobe offers. 
Thank you so much and i hope my voice reaches to the developers because i am representing millions and millions of Arabic speaking people that comes from Arabic speaking countries that would like to have an alternative to Adobe software with the same great power house. 

Hello,
 
Could you in a future make an iPhone / iPad preview App, that would enable the designer to preview selected art-board on the actual device?
 
Regards

Would be cool to have button like Convert Embedded document to Layer ^) 

It seems that the developers of Affinity Photo do not have any plan to support RTL languages any time soon.
I recommend using Pixelmator Pro as an alternative for Affinity Photo, as it supports RTL.
It's really amazing, and a one-time payment app as well.

v1.6 has been released, and still no support for Arabic !!!

add a link between objects, such that moving one object will move the others.
It is available a powerful feature.

Sometimes, it is annoying to use groups.
because grouping the layers makes reaching a specific layer harder. You have either to keep clicking on group to reach the wanted layer or expanding many layers, in the layers panel, to reach wanted layer.
 
Linking objects together, like Photoshop, makes reaching layers faster, makes working with them better and make you a more powerful user.
I use this feature a lot in Photoshop. I'm sure that if a power designer begin using it, he will love it!

As i’ve Mentioned in another post, RTL is the only thing stoping me from making the full jump to affinity software on Mac.
Please try and make it a priority as it makes using affinity software for projects outside the English speaking world (where myself and many other users currently live) very difficult.

hold down the "option" key, then drag a layer, in the layers panel, to duplicate that layer.

I used to make designs for social networks, but it is difficult to do that in the current designing softwares because each website and application requires different size for the design, and I did not see any software that includes presets for social networks.
 
For example, Facebook requires 1200x630px and 1200x717px for shared and highlighted images, respectively, twitter requires 440x220px for images, Youtube requires 2560x1440px for cover image, etc.
 
I will be awesome if I launched Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo and found "Social Networks" document type and presets for common websites and applications.
 
I believe that implementing this feature is very easy.
 
The attached image shows all required sizes for social networks.
 

@alsarraf,
Yes, you can but you have to use the Export Persona / slices to do it. That's why I pointed out the videos.
By default Affinity creates a slice automatically for each artboard you have. If you set the background of the document to transparent it will affect all artboards, then in the Layers panel in Export Persona you can disable specific objects (in your case the background of you icons) so it doesn't get exported with the icon.
 
Take a look at the sample file below. Instead of icons I placed a white letter on each artboard with a grey rectangle below, set the document background to transparent (affects all artboards) and disabled/hide the grey rectangle in the Layers panel in Export Persona so it doesn't get exported with the letters. Now if you go to the Slices panel in the Export Persona and click Export Slices, all slices (one from each artboard) will be exported simulatenously without the grey background rectangle.
 
export_persona_sample.afdesign

Hi alsarraf,
These options are available from the Area dropdown in the Export dialog.
 

Click (and hold) a checkbox for a layer, then move the cursor arrow down/up to hide/show multiple layers.
This feature is available in Photoshop, and it is Awesome!
 
 
Update:
option+click the checkbox of a layer to hide all layers except the that layer.

Click (and hold) a checkbox for a layer, then move the cursor arrow down/up to hide/show multiple layers.
This feature is available in Photoshop, and it is Awesome!
 
 
Update:
option+click the checkbox of a layer to hide all layers except the that layer.

For that matter, this would be great in Affinity Designer too.

If there is .. it would be awesome! 

+100000

option+click an arrow near a layer to expand/collapse all sublayers.
This is very common feature in Mac apps. Everybody can test it in Finder.
It is really powerful !

Click (and hold) a checkbox for a layer, then move the cursor arrow down/up to hide/show multiple layers.
This feature is available in Photoshop, and it is Awesome!
 
 
Update:
option+click the checkbox of a layer to hide all layers except the that layer.

hold down the "option" key, then drag a layer, in the layers panel, to duplicate that layer.