AK21

Hello!
I am not able to save a document I’ve opened from iCloud Drive back to it. As you can see in the attached video, when pressing Save in the document view it doesn’t update in iCloud Drive and the [M] badge also stays active.
I did the following steps:
Open Affinity Designer Selected Open in the home view Selected an .afdesign file from the Affinity Designer folder in my iCloud Drive Opened the newly imported file (in Live Docs) and made some edits (changed font and a new artboard) Pressed the Document menu button (☰) and selected Save The Saving overlay appears shortly After the saving is done neither the existing file is updated nor a new one appears in my iCloud Drive folder I am running Affinity Designer for iPad v2.0.1.2 on iPadOS 16.1
Screen Recording.mov

Hello!
I am not able to save a document I’ve opened from iCloud Drive back to it. As you can see in the attached video, when pressing Save in the document view it doesn’t update in iCloud Drive and the [M] badge also stays active.
I did the following steps:
Open Affinity Designer Selected Open in the home view Selected an .afdesign file from the Affinity Designer folder in my iCloud Drive Opened the newly imported file (in Live Docs) and made some edits (changed font and a new artboard) Pressed the Document menu button (☰) and selected Save The Saving overlay appears shortly After the saving is done neither the existing file is updated nor a new one appears in my iCloud Drive folder I am running Affinity Designer for iPad v2.0.1.2 on iPadOS 16.1
Screen Recording.mov

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You can use the grid: View > Show Grid and View > Grid and Axis Manager - it has isometric grid presets. You can also the isometric panel View > Studio > Isometric to arrange the text to an isometric plane.
 

Depends on your workflow! And more options are always better.  You may want to use Affinity Photo and Designer side by side or always show a reference image without overlapping the UI.

How do I solve the problem with having the same icon on the Affinity Designer and the Affinity Photo on the iCloud when I use my iPad Air 3 (the same visual problem regarding the icons while looking in the iCloud folder on my iPhone 7)? I have three Affinity folders on iCloud Drive, but both the Designer and the Photo folders have the icon of the Affinity Photo.
When I'm looking from my MBP, there are three different icon (Designer, Photo and Publisher), but looking at the same folder from my iPad Designer and Photo got the same Photo icon on their folders and Publisher got its own correct icon on its folder.
 

Now as iPadOS 13 supports font management it would be nice to also support this. But please don‘t remove the old option to add fonts, as the user system wide font adding is only supported via other apps.
Next to the user font support all Affinity Apps should support the default system fonts (SF Pro, …). This would allow us to use the new SF Symbols in the app and create better app design drafts.

That's a complete show stopper for me. Can you please be more detailed, when referencing will be available. In the meanwhile I have to stick with MS word, as I#m using a lot of figures I refere within the text. Also numbering the figures based on the sections would be nice.
In the example below the bold text shows the reference and the italic text where it links to. So when you click on the 1 of "section 1" it whill refere you to "Section 1: some blabla".
When you click on "Figure 1-1" it will jump to "Figure 1-1: A nice graph". The numbering is done automatically. So if I delete "---graph--- Figure 1-1: A nice graph" then it should update "Figure 1-2: Another nice graph in section 1" to be "Figure 1-1: Another nice graph in section 1".
Example:
Section 1: some blabla
see Figure 1-1 below:
---- graph ---
Figure 1-1: A nice graph in section 1
---- graph ---
Figure 1-2: Another nice graph in section 1
Section 2. some more blabla
see Figure 1-1 in section 1 and Figure 2-1 below:
---- graph ----
Figure 2-1: another nice graph

Now as iPadOS 13 supports font management it would be nice to also support this. But please don‘t remove the old option to add fonts, as the user system wide font adding is only supported via other apps.
Next to the user font support all Affinity Apps should support the default system fonts (SF Pro, …). This would allow us to use the new SF Symbols in the app and create better app design drafts.

Awesome, thanks for mentioning that @Mithferion!
I didn't know that it works like this! I thought you can only select all nodes of all shapes ⌘+A (or ctrl+A).
Clarification of others:
Select a node of the shape you want to select and press ⌘+A (or ctrl+A on Windows) to select all nodes only of this shape.
 
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What a in depth feedback @JET_Affinity. Though it doesn't directly correspond to my points I hope Affinity is reading and listening. 
Good idea, better than selecting all connected nodes on a path after deleting the first one (my suggestion).

maybe I'm missing it, but is there an option to open a JPEG, or bitmap image
and trace,or convert it to a vector file for further editing? If not there should be one, it would be a great option. even if it had only a few modes like black and white, and 5 color
it would make me convince me to convert from adobe illustrator

When I drag-and-drop JPG files into Affinity Designer 1.7.2, it seems that they are linked and not embedded. When the Designer file is saved, closed and then the original JPG files were removed (or moved), re-opening the Desginer file shows a "missing resources" dialog. Clicking "Resource Manager" on this prompt shows a Resource Manager that can be used to re-place the missing image.
 
However this Resource Manager dialog can't seem to be invoked from elsewhere in Designer, unless of course by making a linked image missing.
 
 

Dear Dev-Team,
can you please bring the Resource Manager from Publisher to the Photo and Designer as well? At least for the Designer it would be a nice feature not to save large images within the .afdesign file.
In the case you have to work with images/source files from other sources it would make things easier to update them in the progress.
Thanks. 

Thanks for the video. At least now I know the difference. 
Though I think this could be much more clarified with better labelling.
I still think "opening" a file should sync changes automatically back to (and also get changes from) the "Files" app. That would make a true difference and a faster workflow.

Depends on your workflow! And more options are always better.  You may want to use Affinity Photo and Designer side by side or always show a reference image without overlapping the UI.

Hi AK21,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
With the layer selected, tap the ellipsis icon on the top left of the interface and select Duplicate.

Hey everyone!
It would be much faster if double tap on a layer would let you rename it.
Best wishes,
Shu

Undo/Redo buttons should be on by default.