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Don't forget the Graphics Find & Replace Panel in Freehand. It's still better than anything I've seen in any app since then.

@NathanC I exported the doc as a PDF and they appear, but what is the line weight of Affinity's crop marks? They look very thin on the PDF... Like not even .25 pt line thickness thin.

Sure. Attached. The gray box is where a flat pixel image appears. I cannot show the actual image for copyright reasons. 11x14-Affinity-File.afphoto

It is large format paper and printer. There is plenty of room. Why would I do those things when I don't want to do those things? It should print with crop marks if that is an option within the app.

No, I am using a large format printer that has plenty of area for the full size document I am printing. The crop marks should have shown up if they actually printed.

Hello, I was trying to print an Affinity Photo file and selected the option to print crop marks only (deselected registration marks, etc), but when my document prints it does not have any crop marks on it. Is this a bug? Using Photo version 2.6.2 on Mac OS 15.4.1.

While I might think that some people would have in issue with the top buttons (maybe), I definitely disagree with a dropdown not being alphabetically organized. That's how UI's work. That's how dropdown form menus are organized on websites. Mixing things up just because "someone" thinks that people will use certain formats more than others doesn't make any sense whatsoever. If we're going by that logic, for Affinity Photo (a photo editing app), why does EPS (or even PDF) come before HDR? HDR is a photo format. EPS is a vector format used for logos and artwork and I'm guessing maybe 1% of people using Photo will ever export a file as an EPS. That is not logical. They shouldn't even come before PSD, if that is the case, because I've had to send clients PSD files from Photo far more than EPS or PDFs. Whereas in Affinity Designer I've had to send EPS files more than TIFFs. Just put things in alphabetical order and it will be easier for everyone. I have been using V2 of all the Affinity apps since they were released and it still takes me a long time to figure out where an export option is in that dropdown. That means something is wrong with the UI.

I am hoping that for the next version of Affinity apps they revert to the much better layout for File > Export than it is in version 2.x. V2 seems so unorganized. Even the dropdown menu is not in alphabetical order for some reason. Makes it take longer than it should to find what I want to do. The file format buttons along the top in V1 were much better.

It would still be nice if Affinity created a Roadmap so that users know what features are coming next. Is there a particular reason the company doesn’t want to do that? It has been almost 5 years since the original post. The last round of updates, particularly to Designer, was pretty small. Users have been requesting vector trace for a long time and there has been no word on this feature being added. It’s not something that I would use, but it seems like one of the most requested features by Designer users. Additionally, vector brushes, which I most definitely would use. Adding a search feature to the Brushes panel was a rather odd addition to me and kind of useless, whereas vector brushes would be most welcome. An internal road map must exist for the purpose of keeping things on track. The features being added do not seem to be earth shattering enough to be closely guarded secrets, so why not make them public and put your user base at ease?

It’s pretty disappointing they haven’t added vector brushes yet, either. People have been asking for these two features four a long time. Designer is the flagship product and it seems like the features it’s been getting lately are pretty minor.

When?

The preview issue. But, does it matter if they are both taking this long to fix? Sequoia has been out for a while now. Plenty of time to address these things with a quick 2.5.6 fix and not have to wait for a 2.6 app update.

Any idea when (timeframe) this is going to be fixed? It has now been well over a month.

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.