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  1. chirpy
    I guess you haven’t been on Twitter? Or Reddit? Or YouTube? After the announcement.
  2. chirpy
    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.
  3. chirpy
    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.
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    Same here. I would pay A LOT of money for someone to buy Freehand back from Adobe and re-release it. Fireworks, as well.
  5. chirpy
    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.
  6. chirpy
    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?
  7. chirpy
    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.
  8. chirpy
    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.
  9. chirpy
    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?
  10. chirpy
    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.
  11. chirpy
    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.
  12. chirpy
    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.
  13. chirpy
    Thanks!
  14. chirpy
    Expanding strokes of smaller size does not keep the same shape as the stroke.
  15. chirpy
    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.
  16. chirpy
    If that's true, that is a huge issue. You can zoom in to like 1,000,000% in Designer and draw stuff. No matter what the size of a stroke is, you should be able to draw it in place and then expand it and have it look exactly the same. If I have to keep enlarging and then reducing all of my stroke objects I am going to go insane. Particularly if they are clipped inside other objects.
  17. chirpy
    Attaching Designer file strokes.afdesign
  18. chirpy
    PS. I should also mention that this same thing occurs when exporting the document to PDF or EPS without expanding the strokes! This is not good!
  19. chirpy
    Hey all, After drawing some strokes in Designer, I sometimes need to expand them for editing. Sometimes when I do this I get weird results. I am attaching a screenshot. The stroked path is perfectly smooth, but when I expand it Designer makes a weird angle at the place where the smooth curve should be. Anyone know how this can be fixed, or is it a bug?
  20. chirpy
    I much prefer the v1 export dialog box. The icons at the top made everything clear and easy to see. I now have to hunt for what I want, like in Photoshop, which is not what I want. Also kind of baffling why the items in the dropdown are not listed in alphabetical order and just kind of tossed in there?
  21. chirpy
    I will say that you (and everyone else) should stop using EPS files. They are an old format that should be retired. If you need to place something other than a native Affinity file, you should make a PDF and place that instead of EPS. I know EPS will never go away, as there are too many of those files floating around "out there", but nowadays nothing should be saved as EPS to give to someone else unless they are unable to use any other format.
  22. chirpy
    I have had this issue, as well. None of the Affinity apps will print correctly directly from the app itself. I have to export as a PDF first and then they print fine. Kind of frustrating.
  23. chirpy
    InDesign’s links panel (which is also like Illustrator’s) is nothing like the FH Find & Replace. The links panel can only replace placed items within the ID doc and nothing else. The F&R panel could change literally anything in the FH doc.
  24. chirpy
    Macromedia Freehand was (and still is) the best vector app that has ever existed. There is one feature alone in that app that was better than anything I’ve ever seen in any other app. It was the Graphics Find & replace panel. Apparently, no one else ever used it but me, because no one is submitting feature requests for it to Adobe. You could use it to find anything in your Freehand doc and replace it with anything else. It was amazing. I will never forgive Adobe for buying Macromedia and killing that app. I have to use Adobe software at work, but I will never again install their apps on my home computer. I also cannot ever get used to having more than one arrow tool. It seems so dumb. The one arrow selection tool was able to do everything that multiple arrow selection tools do in all these other apps. I also share in the frustration of the UI elements, especially the new poorly drawn icons compared to V1. The UI was fine in V1. What we needed were things like a blend tool. Hopefully, those other things that have already been requested before will be added in a future free update and not 5 years from now.
  25. chirpy
    Made these candy corn stickers in Affinity Designer that I sent out to family and friends for Halloween. 🎃 https://www.cricketbow.com/products/korny-kandy-stickers
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