Aammppaa

These rotate options are indeed the options to rotate the entire document. So it is working as intended. It would be helpful if they were renamed Rotate Document Right etc. and I question why this is included on the context menu, but that is how it is in Designer and Photo too. In Affinity every object has its own rotation handle (on a little stalk at the top of the object) which you can drag with the mouse. You can also hover just outside the corner handles to rotate. There are various modifiers that affect the rotation described in the status bar. You can type in the transform panel. You can use the rotation icons in the toolbar. https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=/ObjectControl/rotateShear.html?title=Rotating and shearing objects Hope this helps.

Good suggestions! Some of this functionality is already here, but I am unclear on the recommended workflow, and it seems very under powered! For simple tasks you can copy any object, and then paste its styling, or just its effects (from the edit menu) For more complex tasks, you can set up fill / stroke / font / inset / fx etc for a text frame and then create a Style, which can be applied to other frames (or any type of object). But… There is no way to update styles! Unlike Text Styles (where I can redefine the attributes and they will update all styled text), regular styles can't be changed once created… which IMHO makes them pretty useless! There is no granularity to styles - it is all or nothing. With Text Styles I can create both a Paragraph Style and a Character Style and apply both to a single piece of text. With Master Pages I can apply multiple Masters to each page of my document (allowing me to break my design down into smaller simpler chunks). With Styles I'd like to be able to create multiple Styles (for Drop Shadows, 3D effect, blur etc) and then stack them as needed onto my objects. This way I can easily create a uniform look, with flexibility as one object might be 3D + Blurred, while another is Blurred + Shadow. Applying a Style to a linked frame requires selecting every frame by hand, which is not practical beyond a handful of linked frames. +1 for the ability to apply a Style across all linked frames with a single click. Auto-flow will honor the styling of the original text frame, but… The styling is not linked, so changes are not propagated. This requires you to have all the styling set up before auto-flowing the text (which is a terrible workflow).

@MickRose there is also a more powerful way… rather than detaching the symbol, de-sync the symbol. This allows some attributes to be editable, while leaving all others in sync with the master page. See…

Confirmed as a really annoying bug!

This is merely something I discovered myself. I assume it is where the app will go in future development. For now it works, but is neither very user friendly, nor stable, as there are a fair few bugs connected with symbols. Still, I find it of interest that the functionality that many are asking for is essentially all there under the hood.

Already possible… 3 Pages. Apply one Master. Inset different image and text in to each page. Rearrange text and image frames on Master. All pages update to new layout. How? Unlock the Master layer on each page. Toggle sync in the Symbols panel. Sync off when working on Pages. Sync on when working on the Master. Alphabet.afpub

Short answer: Until Affinity tell us what is going to be in version 1, nobody can tell you. Longer answer: much of what you require is already there, some is likely to be added in time for version 1.0, some (perhaps all) will be added in later updates.

I agree the lable is misleading. Are you saying that the label already says balance text on Mac?

I think that quite a few of the things that you mention are already there, or are likely to come, as they exist in other Affinity products. For example... Turn on the layers panel in view > studio > layers to see the hierarchy of all objects in the document. In the layers panel you can also toggle edit all layers, bottom left corner, to limit the ability to select objects on the page. Personally I don't get on with this option most of the time, but you may love it? Double clicking on a text box will switch to the text tool, which makes selecting text easier, without mistakenly moving the text frame. Snapshots exist in Designer, so may well come to Publisher. From memory Assets are already in Publisher, view > studio > assets. As are symbols.

Are you talking about the Affinity Publisher Beta?

I'll just leave this here…

Possibly my favourite of yours. Lovely organic texture.

Sounds like you've clicked the edit wrap shape button in the toolbar, next to the main text wrap button. The ghost shape you are seeing is the actual wrap border that the real shape is using. Interesting features that would easily allow you to have text wrap some parts of an image and overlap other areas. I am sure there are other uses too.

A layer is just a folder for containing other objects. Mostly used to organise your document as it gets more complex.

Looks like this might be OS related. I am on Windows… Seems like a bug to me.

The keyboard shortcuts work fine for me. They don't appear on the Layer menu, but are correctly displayed on the right click context menu.

You are misunderstanding what Balance Text is designed to do. It balances the length of the text within each column, regardless of the width of each column or the number of columns. In the GIF I have some text, add a 2nd column, initially with Balance Columns enabled, so the text is always roughly the same length on each side. In the second half of the animation, I turn off Balance Columns, so the text is mostly in the left hand column. It does not balance the width of the columns themselves.

@dominik Only within a specific post. For example if you were considering replying to the OP but saw a little message "Aammppaa is typing" you might consider holding off for a few minutes to see whether I wrote anything worth reading! @walt.farrell Yes but it only tells you once they have posted rather than while they are writing. It isn't really a serious suggestion, just an acknowledgement that it is frustrating when posts clash and you get two excellent but identical answers.

This forum really needs to tell you that someone else is typing!

Click on the Name of the Artboard to select it. You can select multiple Artboards by holding Shift. Drag within the blue bounding rectangle to move all selected Artboards.

I do end up with quite a lot of spurious 'v's in my documents Having first pressed Esc, v will toggle between selection tool and text tool as originally described.

OMG this had me baffled for an hour yesterday!

1. The text tool does seem to act slightly differently from other tools in Affinity, (where a second click begins a new object). The first click starts some text, a second click stops /deselects the text, a third click starts the next text. 2. Pressing v will take you to the select tool. A second press will return you to which ever tool you were using previously. 3. Right click to select stroke color was taken from Xara when Corel bought them out. I agree it is a great feature. It has been requested a couple of times before, and at one point there was tentative approval from the devs.

Awesome stuff. My 3 year old was entranced, as am I.