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Installed fine for me (a couple of minutes) - did notice that the version number (during install) was 1.6.5. <- missing final digits 112. Thanks for fixing the artboard printing bug.

Does your line have a pressure profile applied? AD will not currently allow a pressure curve and dashes, and unfortunately there is no warning about this, the dashes simply don't work! If it isn't this, perhaps you can attach your file, so we can take a look.

This 'bug' is on both / all platforms, and is I suspect "by design". I hope it doesn't just get ignored as a result since, as you can see in the above discussion, it really would be a superior feature if it worked a little differently!

@firstdefence You certainly win the award for perseverance Agree that macros would be welcome in AD. But I really believe that a small tweak to the design of Power Duplicate would make it genuinely quick, powerful, and intuitive.

@firstdefence Works(ish) until you have more duplicates that double back on themselves. Try a complete circle of shapes rotating 15 degrees each. No longer a trivial task to sort them out.

But with the system as it currently exists we can not create any linear arrays with rotation, and I know which of those two operations I need more frequently! Secondly, the ratio feature is currently far less useful than it should be as it can only apply a ratio, not a step change… Draw a 500px square Duplicate Resize in the W transform box as -=50 Power Duplicate I would anticipate the series to go: 500, 450, 400, 350, 300 etc But the current result is: 500, 450, 405, 364.5, 328.1 etc Affinity is interpreting the resize as a ratio (a reduction of 10%) when I asked for a fixed change. If I'd wanted a 10% reduction I'd have resized with W*=0.9 I'd love the team to revisit Power Duplicate and make it more intuitive and more versatile.

Ah! I finally understand why Power Duplicate behaves as it does, however… The help file does not mention local (or global) coordinates This seems like a very odd design choice! Can you suggest an efficient method, using Power Duplicate (or other tools in Affinity) to create a horizontal row of (45) squares, equally spaced, each rotated 8° from the last?

Also look at Compound Shapes which allow easy adjustment of combined objects. Or use your group as a mask on the pixel layer (rather than nesting the pixel layer inside the group).

But you can change the colour of an artboard?! Perhaps I misunderstood the request?

Your solution seems fine, but I believe you could have don exactly the same within Photo since it has an ellipse tool, boolean compounds and dashed strokes.

Daub Essential contains a bunch of pencils… https://gumroad.com/l/IXbWp Or an earlier free version here…

Photo has a node tool on the flyout from the pen tool.

+1 from me. It should pop out as its own window / panel (as the Effects do if you want to see all the parameters).

Playing with the brush engine in Photo & Designer and found that Hue / Saturation / Luminance Jitter work differently from other apps… In Affinity the jitter is applied per dab. Compare with Photoshop (and others?) where the jitter is applied per stroke. In my limited experience per stroke is more useful in digital painting for creating subtle variation between painted strokes. Could Affinity have the option to choose how the jitter is applied? Thanks for your consideration.

Looks nice so far. Regular updates please

According to this post it should be added to Photo in the 1.7 update, due later this year.

@firstdefence There is no need to export with a background colour, it can be transparent. Affinity 4 Parallel Strokes Brush.afdesign

@smth A couple of options… 1. Use the Outline Layer Effect. Or 2. Use symbols Make a symbol from the Group Add duplicate of the Symbol aligned with the original. De-Sync the symbol and add a Stroke to the original. Re-Sync the symbol, and changes will propagate.

A quicker method… Ctrl+Click the layer icon to make a selection from the layer. Then click New Mask at the bottom of the Layers Panel. That's it!

And in AD too!

Try Radial / Linear transparency to fade the edges of a shape. Works well in certain situations, especially where the shape is close to circular / elliptical or has a straight edge. You can Group an object (even a single object) multiple times and add different transparencies to each group to achieve some complex results. See attached file. Affinity Grouped Transparency.afdesign

I wish this would be fixed too. In the mean time I've tried to train myself to remove the duplicate by hitting Delete rather than Undo.

Not an answer to your question, but I have always worked the other way around when I like where I am, but want to compare with where I was… Copy the object. Go back through history to earlier state. Paste object. Compare the two. Alternatively: look into Snapshots https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=/DesignAids/snapshot.html?title=Using snapshots Make a snapshot of where you are now. Go back in History to find earlier state. Copy object in its earlier state. Restore the Snapshot. Paste the object. Or even… Make snapshot of now. Go back in History. Make a snapshot of then. Toggle at will between the two! Hope one of these helps with your workflow.

To be honest it isn't something I need to do often. I have no objection to your proposed feature, it is certainly more elegant than my workaround, however there are are numerous UI improvements that I would request before this one! For example… Being able to use the numeric keypad as shortcuts distinct from the standard numerals. Show / Hide the rotation center via keypress or better yet a mouse shortcut. The ability to search the existing keyboard shortcuts by key or action.