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Ooooooh so it's only an option when an object has already been selected AND you press alt. That's annoying, especially for the iPad version. At least I can help myself on the Mac now by selecting everything first (CMD+A) and then alt+dragging...

Thanks a lot. Still, my initial request stands: I want a dedicated lasso tool for general selection too (preferably with options like objects, nodes and both.

I use the Pencil tool a lot for note-taking and stuff and I just want to grab my stuff quickly and move it around - the rectangle creates too much collateral damage when moving stuff. A real flow killer.

Hi Huelo,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
If you select the Node Tool and go to the context toolbar Action section, there's an icon - Smooth Curve (third icon) - that may help a little in some situations, but it doesn't do/clean as much as you'd expect. This has been requested quite a few times and we hope to implement it later in a future version.

I hadn't realised the need for this until yesterday. Then it really struck home. It would make a huge difference to be able to smooth rough curves. Took me about 2 hours to do what I needed. I just wanted a rough but incredibly detailed image to smooth out a bit and have far fewer points. Tried the smoth gizmo on the context bar, but it only did about a third of the job, still had to do a lot of fiddling.

Please can we have something more powerful and in particulat more progressive... rough, smoother, very smooth...Keeping the overall shape, but losing the sharp edges and point density as it goes.

It would be handy if Designer had the functionality to set row height and gutter height, specifically to create an 8pt grid system. Currently there is only one gutter size setting for both columns and rows. Figma does quite a nice job of this. 
Thanks

It would be handy if Designer had the functionality to set row height and gutter height, specifically to create an 8pt grid system. Currently there is only one gutter size setting for both columns and rows. Figma does quite a nice job of this. 
Thanks

Hello,
I have made a search, colud not found if this was already addressed.
If it is possible, it would be great to have an option to set different values for Columns Gutter and Rows Gutter.

Hi All,
Well, it’s been a pretty crazy week since the launch of V2!
This has been a real labour of love for us over the last year or so, and I can’t even begin to describe how hard the development team have worked on it. Not only getting the V2 apps launched, but also of course finally bringing Publisher to iPad. 
With this being our first paid-for upgrade there has understandably been a lot of feedback / questions around future updates and our pricing policies. I thought it was worth addressing / clarifying our position on some of these personally...
Updates to V2 moving forward
Buying V2 not only gets you all the new features you have seen, but we have various updates planned – including many more new features and improvements – which you will get for free. This will continue until such a time that V3 is released. We’re not sure exactly when V3 will be, but I can confirm we are not going to move to anything as regular as an annual upgrade cycle as has been speculated.
It’s worth saying too that V2 does include many under-the-hood changes to our underlying technology, and we have also been investing in several new areas of research recently. Some of these haven’t manifested themselves into new features yet, but overall V2 does give us a better platform to develop on moving forward and I’m sure you will be pleased with the updates V2 will receive.
Updates to V1 moving forward
While we did say on the FAQ that V1 would no longer receive any updates, I want to clarify that was about new feature updates. We will be updating V1 to fix any critical problems caused by operating system updates in the future. So if the next version of macOS breaks V1 we will endeavour to fix it. There will be a point in time when continuing to maintain V1 in this way will not be tenable, but certainly for the foreseeable future we will continue to patch. In fact, we have an update to V1 queued up for release very shortly with some fixes for Ventura and issues caused by a recent Windows security / quality update. 
We will update our FAQ shortly to make that clearer for everyone.
Offer period
In case you didn’t see, I’m pleased to confirm we have decided to run this initial launch offer until 14th December to give everyone the best chance possible to get it if they wish / have a decent amount of time to trial it. 
Upgrade pricing
It’s been really hard to see some of the comments about us not looking after our existing customers – we’re pretty devasted that anyone feels like that to be honest. But the fact is we felt our hands were tied somewhat with being able to offer upgrade pricing in a fair way. The main reason for this was App Store customers (which make up around 35% of our userbase). The problems with that are two-fold: firstly, we didn’t have a way from within V1 to validate an App Store purchase receipt to reliably ensure customers who were entitled to an upgrade could get one; and secondly, we could not find a good way for people to get that discount via the App Store. Us pushing upgrade customers to go exclusively via our own site (including customers who were previously acquired via the app stores) may also have put us in violation of App Store Ts & Cs which we were obviously concerned about.
I’m not saying that these issues were completely insurmountable, but any solutions we came up with would be messy, and most importantly could have resulted in some bona fide V1 customers struggling to get validated and claim their discount. We certainly don’t have the support resource here if we ended up needing to manually validate tens of thousands of receipts for example.
The only option we felt was safe to move forward with was a general launch offer, which would guarantee that every V1 customer could get the discount, whether they purchased directly through us or the App Stores. We knew a side effect of that would mean some new customers would end up receiving that same discount – but we felt that was a better option than V1 customers missing out. It’s also worth saying that while there has been some good press about V2, all our main marketing has been via email and through social media to our followers. In other words, we felt ok about it because we knew the vast majority of people who would find out about it or take advantage of the offer would be existing customers. I would be surprised if over the offer period customers upgrading from V1 didn’t make up more than 90% of our sales.
Overall I do believe us giving a 40% discount, along with the addition of the new Universal Licence of course, is offering fantastic value for money for those who want to upgrade. 
However, taking on board some of the feedback there is something extra we can do – we will offer a new free bundle of content exclusively for V1 customers upgrading to V2 as an extra thank you for your support. I’ve seen this suggested by a number of customers and it’s a great idea as it does remove the App Store conflict entirely. 
We’ll need a little time to put something together, but all customers who previously registered or purchased V1 and have since upgraded to V2 will receive a voucher code for this via email as soon as we can.
A comment on no subscription
I do want to say that some of the points above are exactly the reason why software companies move to subscription. Whatever you do with upgrade pricing, you still have the issue of customers who bought the previous version 3 months ago vs. those who have had it 2+ years. Offering perpetual licences also gives the additional overhead of needing to maintain the previous version longer than you would if everyone was on subscription / generally always on the latest version.
We are a small team so some of these complications are not ideal — all we really want to do is focus on developing our latest codebase, push out regular updates and continue with our mission to make great creative software accessible to everyone. 
But it does need to be funded somehow. We know you love our no-subscription model, but there also needs to be a level of appreciation that the alternative is having paid-for upgrades from time to time. That unfortunately comes with its own problems.
All of that said, I have to say we have been blown away with the response to V2 - around 3 times as many people have upgraded in the last week than we expected - and we really can't thank you enough for the support you have shown. More than anything the success of this upgrade puts us in a great place to continue investing heavily in development which is ultimately what it's all about, and we’re super excited to crack on with some great updates coming next year!
All the best,
Ash
This is a duplicate post of a thread that is now locked and moved to the questions forum

I guess a reward for existing users would have been a nice gesture, but really, at the price they're offering for 3 solid apps, this never entered my mind. It's amazing value imo, especially when you consider the alternative, it doesn't compare. There's a lot to be happy about, amazing apps, great price, no subscription, no requirement to upgrade, that's enough reward for me.

I think that's exactly what people are missing.
Affinity is a one-time purchase. Like a car. That doesn't mean that you get feature upgrades for your whole life. It means you can use what you've bought without paying anything extra. You can always use the features of v1 which you own without any limits. You don't have to pay for it. You do not have to upgrade. It is your application.
And I think Serifs pricing policy is very fair. Others (e.g. CaptureOne, Luminar) request a full upgrade every time they've changed a button. Serif did improve their apps over time without any upgrade for the user.
Now there is a new development...Serif positioned it as a new version and provides everyone a substantial discount. I think that is totally fine and worth it.
If you are happy with v1, stay with it! If you think v2 is not worth the upgrade, than leave it. Purchase it if you think it is worth the money. And so long...stay with v1.
I've instantly purchased v2 universal license witch I think is amazing...(besides owning 4 Affinity v1 products)

I guess a reward for existing users would have been a nice gesture, but really, at the price they're offering for 3 solid apps, this never entered my mind. It's amazing value imo, especially when you consider the alternative, it doesn't compare. There's a lot to be happy about, amazing apps, great price, no subscription, no requirement to upgrade, that's enough reward for me.

I guess a reward for existing users would have been a nice gesture, but really, at the price they're offering for 3 solid apps, this never entered my mind. It's amazing value imo, especially when you consider the alternative, it doesn't compare. There's a lot to be happy about, amazing apps, great price, no subscription, no requirement to upgrade, that's enough reward for me.

Seriously? The Affinity apps are so cheap, worth 10x more, no subscription.. if you paid way back, it´s defiantly time to do it again! Do you think it´s free to develop these programs?

Well, you can get a 40% discount right now, right? It is fair price for an upgrade. The only thing is that the discount is not privileged only to existing users but it is for everybody (including newcomers). I actually do not care if I am the only who gets the discount or everybody gets it  Or am I missing something?

Sorry for the thread dredge but I'm just encountering this issue after buying a Frankentoon brush set. Is there any change on this issue? A little disappointing.

So why they are called vector brush?

I'd like to contrast the Affinity user community with the (McNeel Associates) Rhinoceros user community. (Rhino is a highly functional 3D CAD program where a new commercial license costs about US$1000.)  Rhino has a fully open development process, with preview releases through the lengthy development process between major releases.  Rhino generally does not issue formal minor releases, and only the major releases are supported.  During the development process there is a lot of discussion of desired features, experimental features come and go, feedback and bug reporting, and so forth.  That is common with the Affinity experience.
What you do not get in the Rhino forums is people wailing about how their particular wishlist feature is absolutely essential, that McNeel Associates must be stupid for not doing things exactly the way they want and in exactly the order desired, bitching and moaning about how "We been waiting years, decades, centuries, millenia for this. Why can't you give it to me right now?!?!"  You also do not get people flaming about how "this software is an overpriced pile of shit", despite Rhino customers paying 10X what Affinity customers pay for a license.  You also do not get people screaming their heads off because a feature tentatively proposed for year+quarter didn't make it (due to unexpected difficulty or insufficient resources) and you especially do not get people bitching because some feature they didn't want got delivered earlier than some feature they did want.
I'd just like to point at a recent Affinity forum thread title "Is Affinity Designer even developed anymore?"  This is just such a petty, petulant, short-sighted, peevish jab at Serif.  And all too typical of too many forum members. 

Had same issue, that setting solved it, yay!
 
BUT, it took me a while to find this forum with the answer. I'm sure you guys are busy enough, but maybe a dialog box when opening Ps files with text asking which way the user wants to import text (bitmap/text).
 
Thanks and loving the software :)