chirpy

I guess you haven’t been on Twitter? Or Reddit? Or YouTube? After the announcement.

I think you might be in the minority of Canva users, though. Most people don't want to even do research about the software they use. They tend to go for things that are "hyped up" that they've heard about.

I disagree. Canva is "easy" for people who know nothing about prepress, slicing and exporting for web formats, cmyk vs rgb, using a pen tool, masking, etc. Those people would need to learn all that stuff to use Affinity apps, as they are not easy to use. People aren't going to spend the time needed to do that. If they are included as part of the Canva subscription, they may download them just to see what they're about, but will most likely never open them again after that. The whole point of Canva is that it can do things relatively quickly even if someone doesn't really know what they're doing.

Same here. I would pay A LOT of money for someone to buy Freehand back from Adobe and re-release it. Fireworks, as well.

I’m trying to find an answer to this and can’t seem to, but I would hope there is one. I am using Designer 2.x on my iPad Pro and when I select a shape tool, such as the circle, and draw some circles, then click the selection arrow tool to move some things around. The shape tool automatically switches back to the square instead of staying on the circle (or whatever shape I had selected). How can I stop it from reverting like that? I want it to remain on the shape I was drawing with. In my Settings I already have “Synchonize Tools Between Documents” checked. Although, I wouldn’t think that has anything to do with this anyway. Additionally, how can I make the pen tool keep the settings I was using to draw with on the iPad? Thank you.

I just made a post a couple days ago. I had no idea this thread already existed, but I recently got a brand new MacBook and the startup time on Affinity apps is SLOWER than on my 5 year old iMac. What gives?

I just got a new 14" M3 MacBook Pro with 35GB of memory and all of the Affinity 2.x apps launch much slower than they did on my 5 year old Intel iMac. These are brand new installs of the software on a brand new MacBook Pro. Why are they taking so long to start up? I don't have a ton of fonts installed. Actually there are fewer fonts right now than I had on my iMac. Once they are launched they run fine, but they just launch way slower.

Then it should not be under the overall Snapping button on iPad either and should be a separate option. That is confusing when options under a main option do not turn off when a main option that controls it is turned off.

On iPad in Affinity Designer 2, even when I have the main Snapping button toggled off, if the Force Pixel Alignment toggle is on it will snap to pixels when trying to move objects on the canvas. I have to go into the Snapping Options and manually uncheck the Force Pixel Alignment toggle and only then will it stop snapping to pixels. I would think that toggling Snapping on or off should disable ALL of the options under Snapping?

That depends. If I am designing several flyers/ads, I would want to do those in Publisher for some text/master page features. Plus, I sometimes have to make tables on documents for clients. Instead of having to make individual files, it would be nice to be able to save exported PDFs with the names instead of having to name them manually every time I export.

Thanks for the replies. If I export pages as individual images or PDFs, will it keep the name of the section with the exported file? That's what I'd really like it to do. Behave just like artboards. If I was just looking to make books (Chapter 9, 10, etc) I wouldn't name my pages in such a way that it would interfere like that. But would be nice to have the feature.

It would be great to have the ability to name pages instead of just having them viewed as 1, 2, 3, etc. For example, naming the page “Cover” or “Back Cover” or “Article about Rome” or whatever. We are allowed to name artboards in Designer, but not pages in Publisher. I also hate that InDesign doesn’t let you name pages, either.

Thanks!

Expanding strokes of smaller size does not keep the same shape as the stroke.

I’ve created a thread here. Not sure where else to report bugs other than maybe this forum section, so I’m posting this here in hopes the Affinity team will see this and fix the issues.