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Maybe all these replies should convince you @serif that we need a permanent version of the reset-bounding-box feature The temporary one just doesn't cut it for most of the users. Thanks.

Yes, I can... but did you see PDF export options in Designer (compare it to Illustrator/Corel)? My shop accept bunch of different formats, but PDF that you got from Designer is really not useful in production (sometimes RIP, sometimes just hang in cue/rip process), I just got broken print (that cost money).
When is Corel/Adobe (pre CC) PDF - it's smooth sailing.
Like I said, fix the curve/expand stroke glitch, make program follow standards, and they are fine
Corel did it, and all GNU/Linux stuff did it... and PDF is open standard.

That is true. Affinity Designer is young product, but it's not made by standards, and because of that I personally can't use it.
My shop accept Affinity user files, but for now only for printing (first i need to export them as tiff or something).
Just this step (rasterizing) defeat the purpose of owning it, and I'm sorry about that because I generally like product.
It's advertising precision, but it's simply not there when you need it (or be in standard to work).

Amount of nodes is crazy, and any devices cutter have limited amount of memory for cutting, and go crazy with stuff like that.
Just try to send that in any kind of production and you have a really big problem.
Just drop everything else and fix foundations of program, adopt it to standards and you're going to have one awesome product.

What is that? 100%, 150%, etc?

Ok, I understand. Let the people at Serif celebrate today's release and then take a deep breath. And then we'll see with what they come up with 
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Thank you @Murfee and @Joachim_L. That really works in Publisher. For some reason I thought the export dialog is identical throughout the apps. For now I still use Designer to create PDF's. It would be nice if they've ported this feature to Designer too.

@TonyB Thanks for the informative reply.
 
If you do go down the multisampling route, you should be able to get pretty good quality anti-aliasing by using 8x multisampling (i.e. 64 samples per pixel) or higher.  The downside there would be potentially slower performance during image exporting, but if the user wants high-quality exports I think they'll be willing to wait a couple of seconds.  It would be nice to have that option, at least.

And just because I'm miffed, Illy's export is correct (as well as the other vector editors and even layout applications I use) and AD's is faulty. 
 
Sooner or later this issue will be addressed by Serif. 

I didn't mean to say that the geometry is of no concern to me in general, just that the geometry of the shapes looks fine, and that I am not concerned about it misbehaving.
 
The only thing I am concerned about is the seams between pieces of geometry.  If two pieces of geometry are exactly adjacent to each other, and when we rasterize the geometry we are able to see remnants of the background color showing through the seams, then I would say the program is misbehaving.

If the accuracy of the geometry of vector objects is of no concern to you, why even bother designing with vectors? Why not just rasterize everything?

The geometry isn't really the concern here.  The problem is the seam between one polygon and another.  Ai handles these sorts of seams quite nicely, while Designer does not, so in that sense, Ai is more accurate.

End of 2018 and the problem is still not solved. Not on MacOS not on iOS. Can't do any client work with this software with such kind of problem. What a shame.

I was creating and working with vectors in Adobe Fireworks (!!) and some Inkscape (free) and I found no trace of this problem before I switched to Affinity Designer. However I found more issues I never faced before in any vector software.
 
1) the stroke inside setting within a filled path leaves visible background fill color visible as a thin line on the outer edge of the stroke (or path, or object).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lm4roklhr6nezee/Affinity%20Designer%20stroke%20inside%20fill%20outline%20visible.PNG?dl=0
 
2) Another problem is Affinity D only because of nested/masking paths feature is possible within AD only. The thin white line (this one is always white no matter of the BG fill color or if the stroke even exists) is visible when child (nested) path is placed over the edge of the parent path so the child path is partially masked behind the edge of the parent path. The white edge is visible where child and parent paths are "touching" or crossing over each other. So this is a serious rendering problem - obviously not edge near edge related as this is path crossing / overlapping edge -  that affects the work and on large projects there are no easy or quick fixes for this as it becomes a designers nightmare.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tzm0958i0epq2gi/20170215%20Affinity%20Designer%20object%20borders%20visible.PNG?dl=0

I am experiencing this issue as well. This does not happen at all in Illustrator, so hopefully this can be fixed in AD as it's a serious annoyance for me right now.

Hey guys,
 
I was pointed here by MEB from another thread about this effect. Adobe Illustrator really has this figured out, see below for comparison.

I think Affinity should move in this direction too, even simple work becomes challenging if you have to deal with these hairline fractures. Every drawing needs a labor-intensive extra step to be production-ready (my current workaround is duplicating offending objects a few times, works well unless there is transparency involved), and once you add all the extra objects you lose ease of editing.

Below is what it looks like in Ai
 
  Of course, I have no idea how your anti-aliasing rasterization works, but my guess is you have to make some kind of a special case for edge overlap? Or maybe do rasterization on whole image instead of layer-per-layer basis? Or run some extra post-processing to make sure total alpha = 1 for every pixel?
 
Hope this gets some love in future versions!

+1 We need this.

Hi CCal,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
CCal, firstdefence,
My reply on the other thread (quoted above) is only applicable to objects that can be aligned to the axis of the pixel grid (vertical/horizontal). For diagonals (and circles/curves, non-geometric shapes etc) like the example posted by the OP only the coverage map (or other methods - overlapping the shapes a little bit, adding thin strokes with the same colour as the fill etc) can fix the white bleeding through the edges of the objects. So the method described by @firstdefence here (coverage map) is the easiest way to fix the issue in this case.

The attached image shows a simplified version of what I am trying to achieve. I believe this should be a very simple thing to do but after spending over 2 hours with affinity designer I am now at a complete loss.
My aim is simple, to keep the diagonal lines between the 2 curves and delete the excess, the result would be the lines in green. The shape on the right is the result of the divide option, this is not what I expected at all. It is not good enough to simply hide or mask the lines, (which is how I created the green shapes), as the file is to be sent to a laser engraver, this also means shapes cannot be expanded.
As I mentioned this is a simplified version of what I want to achieve and so it is not suitable to select individual nodes on the diagonal lines and drag them to the curves as there will be hundreds of them, it is also not suitable to add nodes where the lines overlap the curves and then delete the unwanted nodes.
In illustrator this would have taken seconds, select all, divide, and then delete unwanted nodes. Alternatively the diagonal lines could be converted to a compound shape and the circle used to delete unwanted areas using boolean operations. The boolean operations in AD do not work in any way that I would expect.
I have been using graphics software for over 20 years, in all that time I have never found anything as unintuitive as AD. I have been patient and tried and tried but in 4 years of ownership I have not been able to complete a single project with this software. There is no shape builder tool, no knife tool and no vector eraser, so many basic things are missing, many of which have been requested since 2014.
If anyone could enlighten me as to how this most basic of functions can be achieved I would be very grateful.

Will tools like a shape builder tool, symmetry tool, contour tool, 3-d perspective tool, and other time-cutting tools be implemented in Designer? Now that we have the world's attention, I think adding some new smart tools would help tremendously. 

Yes. At least if one is building more than the single example above.

Just want to bump this and say that adding a shape builder tool equivalent to Designer would mean complete independence from Adobe for me, which I desperately desire. Its literally the one reason I still use Illustrator. At this point, the lack of such makes my workflow unbearably slow in Designer.
 
Thanks for making an awesome product and working to make it better!
Andrew

Good day!
"Shape Builder Tool" – add this tool, as in Illustrator, it is not enough in the Affinity Designer program to create logos, icons ... working with Golden Ratio.
Implement this feature in the near future!
For Affinity Designer iPad / Affinity Designer Desktop

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we will not mention the other program .... but if there is one thing that they do and I miss in affinity designer , thats the shape builder tool. 
please, i am sure that im not the first one to ask for it. but it is almost essential for some of us.
keep doing the great work.
 

After recently moving to Designer from Illustrator, one of the main tools that I used when designing logos etc. was the shape builder tool. It was a major part of my workflow and I was disappointed to find that there is no equivalent in Designer. I know that there are tools that can create similar results such as the divide/combine features but none are as quick and efficient as the shape builder tool. I think a similar tool would be a fantastic addition to Designer as myself and many others would appreciate the feature, especially those coming from Illustrator. From my understanding it should be fairly simple to implement due to the existence of similar functions as mentioned previously - even if these options could be rolled into one handy tool that would be fantastic.