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Hey everyone!
I'm sorry, but after having bought the universal license and done some testing, I deleted V2 Designer, Publisher and Photo from my iPad.
Publisher would have been great to work on files due to using Designer and Photo tools via Studio link (I'm not even doing layout stuff!) and I'd have used Designer for its export persona if I don't need editing the file later on or port .svg to V1 (quite limited, but with knife and shape builder in V2 at least somewhat interesting).
In its current state, however, the suite is a massive downgrade from V1 and even with the knife tool, shape builder and the quick menu being great tools that do work wonders on workflow efficiency, it's still much slower and quite risky to work with:
- No V1 file compatibility
- Online activation required
as well as the following issues:
- Only starts up to my files section if there are files already
- Can't double tap layers to expand and collapse
- Button lower left has to be disabled each time when opening a file
- Bars left and right show last icon only by scrolling even though there is room for displaying them (iPad mini 5)
- Frequent crashes (about 5-7 times per hour) by just using the knife, boolean operations or the shape builder
- Shape outline sporadically creating blobs at start of vertex loop when shape was created by shape builder
- Grouping layers (very basic) takes two taps instead of one, yet I got massive UI for sorting layers (probably rarely needed in general; personally, I never need it)
- Couldn't find vector warp on iPad
I can't remember alpha or beta testing any software that included such a number of huge workflow impairing issues that were regressions from a previous version. And this is a release. Frequent crashes and missing V1 compatibility are the worst ones.
Sad. Not going for a refund, though. Hope it gets better (worthwhile). You did a great job with V1 after all.
Not really going to discuss here any further. For the time being, I'll keep using V1 and be productive.
Best wishes,
Shu
[EDIT:
Two months later, testing again, some issues are solved, others appeared. Current issues:
- No V1 file compatibility
- Online activation required
- Only starts up to my files section if there are files already
- Button lower left has to be disabled each time when opening a file (changed now, but should probably be a per app setting rather than per document)
- Bars left and right show last icon only by scrolling even though there is room for displaying them (iPad mini 5)
- There is a new feature, using a tool by swiping on an icon, yet I need to scroll on the tool bar to get to certain tools. How does that work out? Badly.
- 3D filter still only shows one light source when adding further ones.
- It's great that Designer now has Duplicate when touch & holding by accessing the quick menu, but getting rid of the small menu bar completely isn't optimal either, since when you only need copy or paste (or duplicate in Photo), you now have much more screen travel than before on a funcion that's used quite frequently, making it incredibly exhausting. I'd suggest reinstantiating the old menu, including duplicate for Designer and invoking the new one by other means (maybe touch & hold, then swipe up).]

Personally I can live with all the bugs, crashes and all the shortcomings of v2, and I think that StudioLink alone it makes a huge difference on the iPad. Makes every other software I know of kids’ toys. 
But some of the changes (on the iPad) are questionable. The replacing of ckeckboxes with dots that are sometimes hit or miss, especially combined with More Space, makes little sense to me, as do the lack of the trash icon, the extra-step required to group items, the vector-only functionality of the warp tool, the missing group thumbnails in Compact Mode etc.
Although most of the issues are already being acknowledged by the devs as being looked at, how long will the fixes going to take is anyone’s guess, I think. Some issues took years to be fixed in v1, others were ported to v2.
But then again, v2 is a huge improvement over the first. I can live with all the issues, there’s no turning back from studiolink for me. 

I was really looking forward Affinity V2. First bummer was the license model. I bought licenses for Photo, Designer and Publisher almost exactly one year ago for a special offer (around 75 EUR or so for the pack). Now, I would have to pay 119 EUR for the upgrade to V2? Seriously? I don't need the iPad or macOS versions. Why don't you offer a simple uprade for those customers who already bought a license? In more than 30 years I have NEVER EVER paid more for an upgrade than for the original license. Do I miss anything here? Don't get me wrong. 119 EUR is still a great price for the value. However, you usually get a DISCOUNT for upgrading an existing license.
Now, I've just learned that V2 does not offer an EXE. What? It took me hours to make Windows 10 look like Windows 7. I don't want anything that even reminds of an app or tablet design. And of course I prefer to have control over the installation path.
This is a double bummer. I could live with the strange license model. But I will not pay more for a probably inferior product. You've just lost a customer. This is sad, since I really wanted to stay with Affinity.

Fine. 
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vectornator-graphic-design/id1219074514
…and it’s free. 

Is vectorize raster graphic not included?

I don't care about the icons, I'll get used to them, but the lowered contrast (use of gray instead of white text in dialog boxes, removing colors from icons, below for example) is really silly bad, not good. Makes it harder, slower to use. Look at the join or order icons, the gray ones look so mushy.
"Miter" value box in 2.0 is better though, so bonus points for that.

Just downloaded Affinity 2.0 onto my 11” 2018 iPad Pro. Similar to the setting on the Retina Macs, iPadOS 16 allows iPad to change the screen Display Zoom. There are two settings: Default, and More Space—elements are a little smaller, and the screen acts like a higher resolution display.
In Affinity 2.0, if the iPad Display Zoom is set to “More Space”, edges of shapes and fonts are jagged instead of smooth. In other contexts I would say this looks like anti-aliasing isn’t working, but I don’t know enough about the technical pieces here to say that.
This bug doesn’t occur in Affinity Designer 1.x on iPad. I’ve also noticed this on Publisher
Steps to Reproduce:
In iPad Settings -> Display & Brightness -> Display Zoom. Change to “More Space”
 
Designer 2.x (More Space)

 
Designer 1.x (More Space)

 
Designer 2.x (Normal)

Separated mode is very important for Mac users. Being able to have document and tools separated is the philosophy at the basis of the whole Mac UI. Having documents confined into an application frame window feels very Windowsy, and removes the sense of freedom you get with document that can be positioned everywhere (including at the border of the screen).
I sincerely hope Separated mode will return soon.
Paolo
 

yo los prefiero con esos detalles en azul.
 

This portion reads clearer, imo, from the Layers panel. They grab attention in an appropriate way. Though somehow the icons read taller. That might be bothersome for some.
 

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Top toolbar is fine. The Persona icons are even fine, but they're not as easily recognizeable and might be subjective. I think just takes getting used to. They look more cohesive with each other though.

Main toolbar is the one that is less cohesive and has a lot going on. Most of the problems go away with monochromatic, but I prefer the color actually because there's more variance.

Contour & Corner Tool stand out like a sore thumb.

I think the new UI with one windows is a step back. Too complicated to work with 2 or three images. 

I use Capture One to import and manage RAW files, and select a few for retouch through Affinity... issue is, Capture One uses the .tif extension and Affinity uses .tiff - so I wind up with two files.  Is there a way to set Affinity to export as .tif instead?

Hey Matt you genius --- just noticed you've also fixed the multiple strokes issue ----- we can now have multiple strokes outside a vector container ACE

Been playing with the latest beta and discovered the new ability to drag and drop brushes into the sub brushes panel  Awesome!  seems to work a charm! I have some downloaded photoshop brushes installed and it works perfectly with them!  this will be a time saver for sure. One set of brushes can be combined in different ways so easily!
 
Checked out the new ability to drag palettes into the program  works a charm with affinity Palettes but it sure would be nice if Affinity apps could import Adobe palettes 

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. 

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
 
Fixes
Significant performance improvements Hopefully fixes issues related to performance degradation over time Fixed RGBA-32bit colour dodge Fixed Colour Wheel pointer rendering Fixed Linear Burn Added subtract blend mode in LAB Fixed export of PDF after Inpainting continuing to use old data Fixed application hang when using Noise slider in Layer Effects Added ability to drag and drop palette files into the application Added ability to drag brushes into sub-brushes list during brush editing Fixed Artboard constants when document dimensions change Fixed crash when using Corner tool

Hi BrianHermelijn,
Select all the objects (or group) you want to resize then use the lower bottom right corner handle (the one that's detached from the bounding box) to scale all the objects - including text frames. If you need to enlarge them to a specific size/width place a guide in the document as reference, then use snapping to help you resize the bounding box exactly to that guide. You can't use the Transform panel to set the dimensions directly because the text frames will reflow instead of being scaled.

Good evening,
 
while using vignette; vertical and horizontal lines appear on image.  when un-selected from layers lines go away.  i deleted layer, and recreated it with same results.  additionally, while exporting to jpg, a square (vert, horiz lines) grid is visible.  
 

I have produced a pdf version of the Affinity Photo manual that you can read without starting the program. It can be interesting to put it on your phone or tablet to read when you have some time to spare. Since the file is too big to upload here, I have put it on Dropbox for you to download. It is current for the last version of Affinity Photo. Comments welcomed. Here is the link:
 
https://dropbox.com/s/d3uxmmypdx9ruzw/Affinity%20Photo%20Manual.pdf?dl=0