dpoulton

The thing that irks me a little bit is that Designer replaced DrawPlus which had tracing from about 2010 onwards. I am not a "power user" and to me Designer seemed a bit of a retrograde step compared to DrawPlus. That's why I went to CorelDraw. It was Corel's crippling of the lower end versions that got me back to Designer. Just for the hell of it I installed DrawPlus X8 in a Win10 VM yesterday. I was surprised to find that for my usage I could still do everything I needed in just the one package. I must reiterate that I have rather basic needs for a vector design package so the advantages I assume Designer must have over DrawPlus are lost on me.

True, but the fact that after seven years autotrace has not surfaced it certainly gives that impression. I installed my old version of CorelDraw (X8) to use its tracing. I find that after tracing I then start editing in CorelDraw as well. I now have more .cdr files than I do .afdesign!

A palette editor would be nice (unless there is one and I just haven't found it - it is late - I am tired)

I used trace quite a bit in DrawPlus and when it went EOL I bought ADe upon release (without looking into it too much as I had been using Serif products for years and it was discounted!). Anyway I personally felt at that time ADe was a retrograde step from DrawPlus and ended up getting CorelDraw. I have just tried the latest version of ADe to see if things have improved (hence sifting through the forum again) but sadly it seems that I may have quite a wait before I need to try again.

Uninstalled and reinstalled. No thumbnails. Tried everything on this previous thread including downloading a utility to clear the icon and thumbnail caches and still no luck. In the previous thread Mark Ingram stated that there is a CLI command to register the thumbnail provider and that he will hunt it down and post it, but I cannot find that post. I have discovered several other annoyances and it seems that I should have spent time with the beta rather than waiting for the finished release. It's a pity that DrawPlus is now "legacy" as it is still seems to be the better product (especially as it has the AutoTrace feature). I have read posts where it is pointed out that AD is not an exact replacement for DP and that it is not advertised as better than DP. Fair enough. There are also comments that those who need DrawPlus' features should continue to use it. That however raises the question as to why DrawPlus is being "shelved".... My fault, I got tempted by the low intro price when I should have waited for v2 or v3.

Hi, Thanks for the welcome. My system is Win10 Pro x64 Anniversary. My *.dpp files are stored in a "drawings" folder under the Windows "Pictures" folder (once upon a time this was "My Pictures"). My *.afdesign files are stored in a "designs" folder, also under the Windows "Pictures" folder. All these folders are set to display thumbnails, where available, rather than icons. When browsing the "drawings" folder I see... When browsing the "designs" folder I see... As can be seen from the "palettes" subfolder, thumbnails are switched on. I have tried rebooting as well as clearing out the thumbnail cache using CCleaner. Apart from re-installing, any other suggestions? Also, how do I get "undo" and "save" onto the toolbar?????

When using Windows Explorer in thumbnail view to view a folder of DrawPlus *.dpp files you are presented with a thumbnail of the actual drawing. With Affinity Designer (v1.5 Retail) *.afdesign files you are presented with identical application icons even if "save thumbnails with documents" is enabled in settings. Is it possible to view thumbnails of the documents and,if not, will this be introduced in a future update?