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+1 on this. Why do pasteboards have to be (ugly) light gray? Really confusing on the eye since I got used to it being dark

But there is a way to adjust artboard gray level on Desktop, is there not?
Can we PLEASE have a darker background option for using artboards on the ipad?  I often design late at night and it really hurts the eyes to have the whole screen white (bright gray).
This is my number one request for Affinity iPad, please please please can this change

+1. It's a showstopper for me.

@MEB
 
Thank you and the team for the hard work you are putting in. I noticed that a lot of time is going into the iPad suite of Affinity apps. It is good for marketing and getting a larger market to be sustainable. I understand that. However, having started using Illustrator at 5, I find that I really miss this feature. As a graphic designer who does renderings in 2D for buildings, infographics and multiple Web and mobile UI designs, I find that with some object oriented thinking and symbols, I can deal with "select the same ____". But if I get a graphic design where the designer didn't think like me, then I am in trouble. I have to do a tedious "select and group", breaking the design work in the process.

Is there a work-around way to "select the same ____" that you might know of and share as we wait for this feature.
 
Please add this feature request to the Common Feature Requests. I think we will bother you less on this forum thread. I did not find it.

From the AD team response, I suspect that they initially botched up by not thinking a minute about this feature and decided on a data structure that makes this kind of automated selection impractical to code or horribly slow to run. Now they have either to recode vast portions of the program or set up a dual, redundant data structure to handle this (fast but memory-hungry).
Of course that's just speculation. But otherwise I don't see why after four years they still haven't implemented this obviously essential and much requested feature.

I also recently switched from Illustrator do AD and pretty much assumed that this is was possible. This thread started over 3 years ago and nothing has been implemented so far, so this topic doesn't seem to be very relevant to the developers. It is a big enough issue for me to switch back, which I really didn't want to do, but adding on to what people before me have said here: it is VERY essential!!!

Hi MEB,
I have been watching this thread since it started, because the lack of this particular feature is what is preventing me from switching from illustrator to Affinity.
 
I understand the small team issue, but we have been waiting for three years, and this is essential for people who import vector files that were created elsewhere, for example pdfs and just about any output file from GIS software. Exports always come with totally screwed up layers containing hundreds to thousands of objects, and being able to select objects by stroke and color is the only way. 
 
We are planning to get the Affinity suite for our entire department (staff and students), but we will not be able to switch from Adobe until such a feature is implemented. 

In a marketplace where you're up against "The Goliath" Adobe Illustrator I would've thought this would be great for boosting user acquisition. If people are looking to support the "David", AKA the more innovative, nimble guy AKA AD it should be made as easy as possible to transfer that existing work, right?
 
This seemingly minor feature is high impact enough that it makes me hesitant to drop Illustrator (despite having bought AD and enjoying many other great features). Please, please, please bump this up the priorities.

I'm a heavy illustrator user really willing to move to Affinity. Is this feature going to be implemented soon? It is really essential.

I need this feature too, badly.