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As I'm no real tech guy, I can only dream of things being solved eventually. What I thought is just any indication that there might be something open. I mean on the iPad I'm always connected via iCloud, on the Mac as well, so shouldn't it be possbile to exchange some token between apps and icloud just like iMessage would update a status? Just some warning message that says "caution, a file with the same ID is opened on another system". Doesn't necessary have to lock stuff, just a red light if you will, that alerts you or something. The thing is, that I believe way more people might be affected by iPad/macOS than Mac/Mac or Mac/Win or Win/Win. But maybe I'm wrong there. Ijust feel that chances someone gets Publisher with the package for both iPad and Mac is (sadly) still higher than more people working on Afinity files (at least I'm the only one I know). And more than once I just noticed how you often don't close Affinity documents on the iPad as to me it's a lesser clear indication that the file is still opened, when you get back to that overview grid. Maybe that's because for instance on an Adobe app you also have the same overview grid for closed files, in Procreate also and I guess in many other apps as well. Just Affinity leaves them open. I mean I've trained myself to actively close Affinity-documents more, but as soon as I need to do that, I can figure out myself that enough people out there might make the same mistakes.

Hi, I recently got more and more into the workflow of the Affinity suite and just L*O*V*E it. And I say this as someone who for 20 years worked with Adobe and still also appreciates their stuff. One of Affinity‘s main selling points really is having the same fully fletched Publisher-app available on the iPad pro and therefore being able to work on the most complex projects on the Mac and iPad simlultaneously and I don‘t believe Adobe-users can even imagine what this feels like. So my feature request might already be taken away in this thread‘s subject, but here I‘ll write it in longform: More than once I‘ve started a project on the Mac, later opened it on the iPad and you know with a zillion things and projects going on and Affinity‘s way how to handle open documents (when you hit the back button on the iPad, the project still remains open) it at least for me easily happens that I open the same doc on two devices and later find out I created two differing versions. When this happens, this of course is superbad and the only thing it would need is like a prompt when opening a file that this is already opened elsewhere. I can imagine this ain‘t supereasy to solve, Adobe does it with these .idlk-files which has their own pros and cons, but I can‘t imagine that within the Apple/Mac/iPad workflow at least there might be some good solutions with continuity or iCloud or anything. Would totally appreciate it (or maybe I‘ve overseen something?) and I guess this might have happened to many people making use of the iPad‘s apps at least. Thanks and cheers, Valentin

Thank you so much! That was exactly what I was looking for and yeah, finding it now makes me feel truly blind indeed.

Hello, when select many objects in Publisher, I always have to 100% include them within the marquee tool's lasso to select them. Maybe I'm just blind (at least I do hope so) but is there a way to switch to a mode that includes just every objcet my lasso touches like in other applications? When working on layouts, selecting stuff is just one of the main things to do and this behaving like this is quite annyoing although I understand there are situations where you don't wanna select everything but very specific stuff. Still I do hope there's some switch I missed; thanks;

Hello, when Apple announced Pencil hover, I knew for me thats an actual game changer. I have a Wacom cintiq and while I abandoned it after getting an iPad Pro, the ability to know where my brush is before I start drawing always kept me from feeling like I was actually working on something, but made it more like scribbling to find out. where it goes while in process. However, when I first worked with vectors in Designer, I loved how much effort Serif put into that app but immediately felt like this wouldn‘t make so much sense unless I can see where my path is gonna be placed before I hit the screen. Unlike scribling with a pixel pen, paths are a very clean thing to draw where its pretty tedious to reajust everything all the time after placing a point. So Pencil Hover would be the perfect thing for the pen tool and maybe there aren‘t enough M2 iPad Pro‘s out there to justify the effort, but I do pray its on your list as it would switch Designer from an app I here and then open to quickly adjust random things to an app I‘d actually love to dig in. This feature seems to be not an easy one to implement as other companies also can‘t seem to make this work (yet) but if you‘d be the first, I‘d raise a beer!

Hi, I'm an infographic designer who did this for years with the Illustrator/Indesign-combo. Please, please, please do something for graphs, infographics, piecharts for Affinity Designer/publisher. I know, there is a basic piechart-builder, but that only works with one segment and would only allow very simple graphics. I do work in magazine production and do infographics for print and web on a daily basis and always have to rely on illustrator's tools which are OK but always seem like they haven't been overhauled for decades. Of course this woul have to go along with data (csv) import and stuff but if done right, you could really reach a niche that doesn't get so much support despite infotainment being among the rising stars in media.So pretty please, hear my prayers. In editorial design, having the ability to work in Publisher, jump into the designer-persona to create an infographic and jump back to publisher for the layout parts would be an amazing workflow. As copy-pasting contents between Illustrator and Indesign doesn't work so well, you still have to save Illustrator-files to then import them into Indesign. Its completely bonkers! I know this has been a request for many with V1, so I'm back to fight the fight! Infographics for everyone!

I don't get why this would be in Photo first. I always liked the idea of Serif using Designer as a tool to create designs and Photo to edit photos. Patterns are a tool for illustration, hence better fitted for Designer. I never liked having to use Photoshop to design stuff so it would be nice to draw a more clear line here instead of releasing designtools in photo. Buuuut I can also understand that Designer would demand for vector-patterns which might be more complex than the pixel only-brushes in Photo. Still its sort of an odd roadmap and I'm waiting for patterns in Designer for years now.

Oooooh my new two favorite users, come here for a covid-safe-virtual-hug; getting rid of this feels like another great feature of 1.9; @Serif: this feature is also weird, as I like to zoom to the cursor with command-Space and I guess it's understood how easy you would accidentally rotate the canvas a bit, everytime you'll do that. so iiii don't know, even if you can uncheck it, I just wouldn't have it checked by default and let users check it if they need

Yes, I'm in the same boat; my biggest problem is, that it can't be changed (or can it?) In some App, command-mousewheel is zoom, in others its hand-tool-sort of movement. But its never rotation of the canvas and its waaay too prominent for that. On a tablet, this is a crucial move as it becomes prettyimportant to rotate the canvas, when you hold the device in your hand and draw with an apple pencil. But on a computer its mor like "OMG what just happened" Still just dropped a 5* review on the app store for designer as its just such a wonderful thing and even little annoyances like this ain't change anything about that. But @serif please just let us deactivate this functionallity somehow, it really feels like a slap everytime my whole workspace rotates around. I understand it might be a question of geting used to, but I'm working with too many things parallel and theres just a big difference in accidentally moving the workspace on a x/y axis (hand-tool-ish) and rotating it. Theres one thing where I slightly disagree with @chrisiophe : mapping it on 2 mousebuttons would'nt work with the Apple Mouse which might be a "Meh!" for many users, but still I believe the audience of Affinity Mac-users using this device might be big enough to not exclude them. Buuuut there might be nough other ways to handle this.

I've been among the very first buyers of AD when it initially released a long time ago yet always had to go back to illustrator when trying to really get into it as there was always something that demanded me to workaround a habit that just was in my veins. I understand that you can't just copy everthing from a competitor's product in order to really stand out, but there just are some things, like a layer panel, the position of a tools palette, artboards, that can please mean very fundamental demands for how an application works or just feel like the most intuitive way to get to a solution. When I once upon a time requested here, that the pen-tool should be adjustable while drawing by hitting the spacebar to reajust a path on the fly, someone of the mods answered in a way like this wouldn't be necessary and is just a very individual request. Still they added it ever since and for me it's like one major thing that would keep me from drawing anything inside AD as its way more precise and faster than drawing a wrong shape and correct it later. Same thing is the case here. The lack of the isolation mode is a much bigger deal to me. The abiilty to click through nested and overlapping elements is nice, but far from a solution. You don't have to call it isolation mode, but it's not even something that only illustrator does. You can find it in Cinema 4D as well and why shouldn't you? It opens the possibility to really focus working on a detail, be quicker with selection or generally see how an element would look like a separate object on the fly. There are many reasons that make such a mode kinda crucial and it somehow hurts to see how great AD has grown especially with 1.8.1, yet still I couldn't just work as fluid as in other applications due to details like this one. Again — I do understand that you don't wanna be some (nicer looking) AI clone. But especially on smaller screens (like the iPad) this would help so much. So I really just can fall on my knees and pray for this implementation at some point.

never lose hope

So after owning Affinity Designer for years now, I once again thought I'd give it a try to see if I can grow into that workflow to ditch Illustrator at least for my private stuff. And so far it's very promising. I started creating an isometric city with all kinds of bells and whistles but after there's a growing amount ofthings going on, I'm afraid it hurts more and more to work without the ability of isolating a layer or a group in a way that makes sense. And no, Alt-clicking the layer makes no sense. That might be nice for demonstrating something, but not for working on it. I do understand that creating an illustration software and then 90% of the time receive the feedback of doing something like the competition does it might be frustrating, but it's not like Illustrator invented isolation modes. I've seen this in all kinds of applications; Photoshop has something similar going on with Smart Objects and Cinema 4D also lets you just blend out everything to focus on your detail. And that's what it's about. It's totally worthless when everything jumps back at you as soon as you click anywhere on screen. That's not isolating something but a brief moment of spotlighting. Can also be nice to quickly check if there's anything inside a group that doesn't belong there, but isolating things is just as crucial to me (and looking at this thread to others as well) as it is to press space to move around. So please, please, please Serif put this on the list. As I noticed the past days, you already implemented so damn much I wanted to see, some of which I even requested here and some of which seemingly weren't as crucial to you but made a big deal for me, like the ability to hit Space while drawing bezier-points to readjust the position of the point on the fly (thank you I love you ) and this is a way bigger gamechanger and especially a partypooper if you're in the middle of a project, finding out more and more how important this is to you.

I'm also raising my hand and beg you guys to include that option! When I did an Illustrator course years ago, one of the very first things I learned was how important it was to be able to select paths only by paths. It's important because so many times you would have something covering a path and you just don't wanna fiddle around finding out where you are allowed to click on. In Illustrator this allows a more focused way to work with paths. It needs you to get used to it as it's less convinient for a more casual approach, but it lets you work more precise. BUT in Affinity Designer there's at least a quite OK workaround this issue: switch to wireframe-view lets you work with all paths equally. I'd still love Serif to include the additional option to just select paths by clicking on the paths as it's really weird to go back to how it works now, once you're used to it. It's like it's totally cool that Serif included moving your pen-tool in the process of drawing by pressing space which is something they tried to argue wouldn't be necessary when people asked for it and now that it's there it's just a lifesaver once you got used to it.

Hello, maybe I haven't digged myself enough through the tutorials yet, but I'm missing a feature to move a selection by 1 or 10 pixels into (maybe) the for main directions. Procreate has solved this quite elegantly and intuitive and another app (forgot which but I'm sure I saw it somewhere) just had some cursor-buttons at some place on the GUI.

Hello, I really, really love Designer from the second I saw its announcement but having issues with one of the main functions: drawing vectors. I'm using a 1st Gen iPad Pro 12,9", newest iOS. Maybe it's a performance issue but: 1. Whenever I draw with the pen tool I really have problems placing points for my path. For instance I draw some structure like hair on a character, I place one point at one position and place the next point which then wouldn't react. It feels like when close to another point, chances are higher, that nothing would happen, but it also feels like there might be additionally some kind of lag going on. Like after some attempts of pushing wit the Apple Pencil at that position, it would at some random event finally place the point. 2. this behavior adds to the second issue: My path get's seemingly randomly closed. Like I'm drawing my shape and while drawing the path point by point it would finish drawing the path at some point and create a new path at another point. So it would look like a path, but consisting of more than one separate paths. These things happen on a completely blank layer, so I don't really think it has to do with performance as Designer generally seems to run very (surprisingly) good on this iPad Pro. But I will reboot, relaunch and try around a bit more, maybe I can fix something by that. It's a bit sad as I was so curious about a finally good path-drawing app on the iPad Pro and now I'm way more impressed about how useful the Pixel-persona is to me; Procreate start's sobbing. Anyone else had any of these issues? cheers, val