WhiteX

Yes, we need this Affinity... nondestructive workflow can work with a "crop to selection" functionality too. I don't see any problems with that. Just implement this feature please

Exactly @Lionel Seidman, what concerns us is more the exported result, not how it looks in the editor (it would be good, that it looked nice there too, without transparent seams). Please pick up this issue, and try to come up with a solution.

Awesome v1.8 is out, but the problem is still present.  Please fix this.

+1 This would save a lot of time when creating complex shapes!
I can live with the existing tools too, but when we need to divide a shape into multiple different shapes, using something similar as mentioned above, would be really helpful. Alternately, using lines as dividers would also help. Right now you can make boolean operations only using shapes, not with shapes + lines (or curves without closed ends). This would be a big steps towards the perfect shape building tool.

This still seems slow to me (in Affinity Publisher 1.8.2). Compared to how this forum scrolls for example (and anything else actually), the pages / spreads studio scrolls way too slow. Looks like it scrolls only one line at a time, disregarding the global scroll settings.

Does anyone know a way to make the background gray levels within Affinity  Designer for iPad  consistent, so it looks the same even when you create a new artboard?
Right now, the gray gets a lot lighter when I add a new artboard to my document and I cannot seem to find a way to make it darker. 
I’ve attached a short recording of my screen to illustrate the problem.
Thanks for any help! 
 
Also, Affinity Designer doesn’t remember my settings within the App when I close and open it again.
I normally have to turn on snapping every single time I lunch the app, it’s become a small annoyance.
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But there is a way to adjust artboard gray level on Desktop, is there not?
Can we PLEASE have a darker background option for using artboards on the ipad?  I often design late at night and it really hurts the eyes to have the whole screen white (bright gray).
This is my number one request for Affinity iPad, please please please can this change

I can confirm. This works much better now with 1.8, even on very small scale objects too. Good job Serif!

I'm sorry to have to use other software for the UI projects I'm developing because I feel very comfortable with Affinity Designer. However, since I have to share the product with a work team, I am forced to use software designed to the sharing of resources, the description, and the management of feedback.

H there,
 
I wish we could rename the artboards when doubling click over its name direct from the canvas instead depending on the layer panel to do so... It would be much more intuitive!
Reminous

Just ran into this the other day. VERY frustrating.
Considering the crazy math that must drive this app, the ability to scale dynamic corners proportionally seems easy to implement by comparison.
PLEASE FIX!

I think that it's less "kids acting like spoiled brats" and more like the parents knowing that their kids are capable of so much, yet disappointed when they refuse to grow up and be great.

Hey! I'm coming from the future and just wanted to inform that it's 2025 and warping text is not yet possible on AD. I wouldn't be worried about it though, because devs told us it's on their roadmap. I was planning to comment on 2015, but couldn't due to the limits of my timemachine, something to do with vectors...

I created a LOT of artwork, brochures, logos, posters etc. for a huge global healthcare company 20 years ago, especially in 2002. I could pick software freely unless I had to continue on previous work made in fx Illustrator. I used a lot of software, mostly Illustrator and CorelDRAW, but preferred CorelDRAW. Whatever I did it just was more fun and my workflow much faster in CorelDRAW. I certainly didn't suffer from a lack of features back then.
20 years later somebody claims they are "building world leading professional creative apps" and we are having this discussion because they are not there yet and 20 years ago I would have said the same about Affinity Designer 1.7. It makes me laugh. Serif is still trying to sell as many copies they can, did you experience their aggressive sales people before the Affinity line? Flies on the phone. "Create jaw dropping blah blah". Pile it high, sell them cheap. But they really should find and accept their niche - and it certainly is NOT in the advanced vector illustration business. 
Tone down the rhetoric, Serif marketing, attract a segment you can actually fully serve. Save the big words for when you have the pro features in the products. Or focus on young artists with iPads making brush based artwork. Or, lets face it, small companies, people with a limited budget etc. It is great for them to have a cheap alternative. But it is not "world leading".
I am a curious guy who purchased and tried a lot of software (and did a lot of mansplaining to my wife who did not see the need), also every open source alternative there is. I like and prefer the user interface in the Affinity line, and I make a lot of doodles in it during brainstorm sessions. But the next step is always to launch Illustrator. So for now I call it Affinity Doodle.

Version 1.8 has been released today which includes Document Merge.

I work on a ~50 page illustrated book, and I often need to change different objects at once on all pages, but it's not possible to select objects from different pages / spreads. This feature would be very useful. Wasn't this asked yet? (Except in this thread).

@microjez
Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums
To all readers of this thread,
The ability to insert a number of pages of one publisher document into another publisher document is being worked on actively at the moment, and will appear in a beta when it is ready for customer beta appraisal. It requires quite a lot of programming to achieve what would be desired with respect to text styles, master pages, index links, text flow etc, as you have seen from the participants of this and other threads.
 

Hi. Used Affinity Publisher v1.7.1 to prepare multiple afpub documents. I seek to use a limited number of pages from one afpub document within a separate afpub document. I see no way to copy/paste pages or to drag pages between afpub documents. Prefer to copy/page afpub pages rather than each textbox frame / component.
Is it possible to use pages from one afpub document in a separate afpub document?

I’ll check tomorrow but I’m pretty sure drag and drop is in InDesign. Maybe not a bug but it is pretty defective to have no way to incorporate numerous pages from one doc to another. 

Is there a way to select objects across multiple pages?

Just a little thing really but  - currently, as soon as artboards are cloned they appear in the layers panel under the same name, and it's difficult to know which is which without clicking around the place. Of course they will eventually get proper names, but it would be lovely if they just named themselves Artboard 1, Artboard 2 etc when cloned.
 
That is all. 

Hi WhiteX,

So glad that did the trick! I've edited the title to help anyone else who may see this! Thanks for letting me know.  

Thanks @Sean P, apparently the repair tool did the trick. I'll just run it if the problem will re-appear. Thanks for the other tips too. (If you could mark the topic as solved, that would be a big help to others, I'm unable to edit the title of the topic.)
Thanks again!

You can create a single document page, and create a text frame on it (with columns if you want), and then paste all of your text into it.
The text will overflow, and you'll see two red icons on the lower right side of the frame. If you shift-click on the red triangle icon Publisher will duplicate your page as many times as needed to handle all the text.

@Ben Thank you for the thought-out response. It gives us a better understanding of the implications.
 
So you’re saying that permanently resetting the bounding box of a dynamic shape will convert it to curves. That might indeed be a issue, but it also might not make a difference. That is also the outcome of @lenogre’s
suggestion. So for example we might ⌥+click the “Reset Bounding Box” option and what it does is convert the shape to curves, reset the bounding box, and show the Assistant informing “the shape was converted to curves”.

The second, better alternative, is to make “Reset Bounding Box” a button toggle. So we press it once and the button gets inset in the interface, and from then on it’ll always use the alternative box model until we click it again. I don’t think anyone would have a problem with this — it doesn’t really need to be permanent, it just needs to be done so we don’t have to keep toggling the option (current behaviour).