thegary

On the top options bar you should see AUTO SELECT . Make sure this is enabled to double click on items within the group. Hope this helps. Gary

I have requested this before and i have seen that many other have. I used DESIGNER more than the other 2 pieces of software. I work in the MOVIE INDUSTRY as a graphic designer/animator. Most of the signage and graphics we make for movie are in DESIGNER and thats how they go to sign shops for signs, picture vehicle wraps and so on. The art is designed in designer and if any distressing or affects to be added to the designs, then i use PHOTO. When EVERY piece of art goes about we need to send a LAYOUT SHEET with sizes, angles, dimensions and material information so that SIGN SHOP and Film Production Designer know what being made. I used to do this in Illustrator / Cadtools. Cadtools enable you to select a line or point and pull out a dimension, automatically adding the number measurement and putting them on a separate layer to the art. This is a incredibly fast way to layout this out and has a quickly understood presentation. Designer added the measuring tool / area and scale tool. All very helpful and work well. Can you please add to this toolset. Adding the ability as mentioned above to have pull out dimensions and having it move to its on layer. It also acts as a PROOFING of sizes of art. When pulling out dimensions you are seeing it visually and helps confirm sizes are correct before sending for final output. At the moment we have to add a line, add arrow, scale stroke, move and snap to edge of object, duplicate 2 more times and then type the number of the measurement in. This is very time consuming. Without the proofing as mentioned above. If you interested seeing the art, i can send it to you. I cannot post here based on NDA's that i have signed. But i am sure you understand what i mean by this. I know that ILLUSTRATOR does this through the CADTOOLS plugin, and COREL also does this natively . Please consider for future upgrade. I have stopped using the other software after years of converting everything through the AFFINITY products. Would be great to have this feature. Thank you for considering Gary

I have been asking for this option for a while. Since PHOTO was heavily focused on this update. Perhaps then can add some of these tools to DESIGNER that have been endlessly requested. HOTDOOR CADTOOLS for Illustrator is fantastic. We need this tool set for DESIGNER. Gary

@zcim thank you for the post . Good to know. I was able to fix the lagging , with the memory being lowered below 22GB. Had it to about 19 if i remember correctly. This was on my old system. I built a new one and with the latest AFFINITY software i have not seen any laggings. I will keep you suggestion in mind should it return. Thanks Gary

@Alfred I have..doesn't work... It went from updating in real time to having to close app. something is wrong. G

The latest update. 2.5.3 exe files for windows. Any font i install, now requires AFFINITY apps to be closed and reopened. This is different from 2.4 and older that appeared immediately in the AFFINITY apps. Gary

fonts are installed into the windows directory. in FONTS Fonts no longer update in all three affinity programs without a reboot. Fonts are installed for ALL USERS. This is how i have always installed them. My process hasn't changed, affinity has. Gary

no font manager.. Never used one. But with 2.5 it stopped upated the font list when installed. Reboot needed. Something changed in the program. Not in windows. Gary

This is also happening with the EXE version in Windows 11. older versions would see the newly installed font right away. I now have to restart the program. Rather annoying. Anyway this can be fixed? Gary

Thank you...very good to Know. Gary

Is it possible to make that when you select a mask, your color are automatically set to black and white. These are the color used a good deal of the time while painting on masks. Having to change them everytime wastes time in a day. This is what PHOTOSHOP does and would be a good workflow item to add to also help migrating users over to AFFINITY software. Gary

The measure tool you added is great, but can you add some more functions. The ability to keep the measurements on screen and build on there own layer? The ability to make the text size increase/decrease The ability to change the stroke width with arrow. This would help tons in sending out drawing and artwork with measurements on them. Gary

PC not Mac. The menu drop spacing has changed. Gary

web based help isn't much good if you for some reason don't have internet. INTERNET DOWN, NO ACCESS FOR OUTAGE, and so on. Help should should be local and web for the newest. It can then be updated for each release. Gary