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  1. 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.
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. chirpy
    Thanks!
  7. chirpy
    Expanding strokes of smaller size does not keep the same shape as the stroke.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. chirpy
    Attaching Designer file strokes.afdesign
  11. 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!
  12. 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?
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    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?
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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
  19. chirpy
    Yes, this synchronize defaults feature does not work for me for the Pen tool.
  20. chirpy
    I think the bottom line is that Serif could work some things out better with styles. They seem very powerful, but can also be a bit confusing. This is a decent video with someone working through them:
  21. chirpy
    Thanks for the reply. That’s very odd. Wonder why they wouldn’t fix that? Printing from a PDF every time isn’t very ideal.
  22. chirpy
    I am having an issue printing on my laser printer from Affinity Publisher where it does not print a solid black. When I print from InDesign with the exact same color percentages I get a nice solid black from my laser printer. Does anyone know what would be causing this issue? I attached a file with 4 swatches all with different black specifications and none of them print as a solid black from AP. black-colors.afpub
  23. chirpy
    Has anyone noticed issues with the Edit Text Styles panel? I see text cut off in the left column for "Color &" and "Position &". Same thing in Affinity Designer. Also, I sometimes change some settings in a style in Publisher and the text on the page with the style applied to it won't update. I see this happen more often when changing settings in the Decorations section when trying to apply paragraph rules and they just don't show up.
  24. chirpy
    Rather than explaining these, can someone please post a file with some styles set up? It would really help.
  25. chirpy
    I would like to add some items that would make them easier to use. Select multiple layers and then right-click to select Link Layers from the context popup menu. It is kind of an odd process to have to link multiple layers that already exist right now. A checkbox for linking position relative to other linked layers.
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