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Let's remember well what it says on The Affinity and Canva Pledge page.

This is a pretty brutal discussion. And the company is silent. This is quite telling.

Ask Canva.

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I couldn't find a list of new features / changes / patches in this version anywhere.

The .af* files would have to contain the text in open form. Perhaps this could be a suggestion for developers to add an option to applications to "Save indexable text with the file", after which the application would traverse all text fields and other specified text and save it to a file.

It would be nice to be able to set both absolute and relative paths.

User variables in Export Persona have significant limitations in that they cannot be made more visibility types. Programmers call this feature Variable Scope. Export Persona could have user variables that are visible within: rule, document, application. For example, a variable visible within a document would be defined only once and its value would be used in all instances within the document. Changing the value of a variable in one place would be reflected in all instances of that variable within the document. Similarly, a global application variable (a variable within an application) would be visible and the same for all occurrences of that variable within all documents of that application. Introducing these types of variables would save a lot of work.

It would be good to improve the work with Export presets. Setting up Export presets is quite unintuitive. The area for entering parameters is small. Just click on the wrong element and some of the options are unavailable. Important functions are difficult to access or missing altogether. One way to make working with Export presets easier would be to create a separate Export presets management window similar to the New Document window (Ctrl+N). The new Export Presets window should have an area for preset management (reordering, hiding, renaming, grouping, marking favorite presets) and a large area for setting preset parameters.

In Export Persona, the list of variables for Path components is missing variables for width and height in pixels (they are entered in #p format). It may not be necessary to create a new variable, but it would be better to modify the existing Width and Height variables to recognize the dimensions entered in pixels.

The truth is that working with Export presets is quite unintuitive. For example, there is no easy way to organize presets. A separate window for working with presets would be ideal, where you could reorder, hide, group and rename presets, change their settings and create new presets. This is similar to how it works when defining a new document.

I didn't copy the variable. I created the user variables 200p and 500p with values 200 and 500 in the first step. I assumed that both variables would appear in the other definitions. That is, the variable will not be local, but will be visible within the preset. If the user variable is not visible in the whole preset, it is meaningless.

It is repeatedly shown that the way of setting the page orientation is not intuitive. Users are looking for orientation settings on the right side of the window.