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Totally acceptable at this time because I can always edit and change sheer in the transform window. This would be something to add to a future update.

Please see the attached file to see additional problems I'm having with divide/add operations. I am assuming that there is a limit to the number of nodes that are allowed to be divided and added to prevent memory issues? Is this a correct statement? My workaround is to perform divide and add operation on one letter at a time but this is a slow process. Operation Errors.afdesign

When creating stokes, it looks like it defaults to black stroke color even though a different color was used previously and is shown in the selection window. Please see attached. Wouldn't the desired objective be for it to default to the last stroke color that was used?

Any plans on a RC3 this week or are you going to just focus on getting the update done for the App Store?

Not sure if this is just a beta issue or just my issue but the latest beta doesn't seem to remember latest open files when you try to open recent.

Thank you for your inquiry regarding Graphtec Studio and the Affinity Designer software. Due to Adobe Illustrator's pervasiveness throughout the industry, our corporate office includes a plug-in for it. For other software companies who wish to write drivers for Graphtec products, they may submit a request to our corporate office to receive a Software Development Kit. The link is here: http://www.graphteccorp.com/support/software/sdk/index.html You may want to contact the Affinity software company to see if they are interested in developing drivers for Graphtec products and provide them with the link. If they receive enough requests, they might be willing to write the drivers. Best regards, Neil Zdunkawicz Graphtec America, Inc. 949-770-6010 I may be the only one for now but here is my request for this to happen sometime in the near future. I'd even be willing to donate to a kickstarter program if that would help.

You must have disabled it. I did the same thing one time. From Menu Bar, click on View, Studio and then make sure that Layers is selected.

I did notice it listed in the improvements/fixes section but yet it isn't working in this beta 1.1.2.23562. That is why I was wondering if you were able to fix it for the next beta or RC.

Was anyone from the Affinity Labs able to reproduce the Division Operation error and if so, would that be something that will be fixed for the RC. It is something that I use all the time and I had to revert back to prior beta because it is broken in this one.

I agree with headwrong. Division operation is not working. Two rectangles drawn at 90 degree angles. Select both rectangles and divide. Grab small square in the middle and move it. It is still same size as original vertical rectangle and was not divided. See Attached. I'm not sure that I would push this to Apple Store the way that it is. SimpleCross.afdesign

Awesome! Didn't realize it was already there. You guys are good!

Is there a shortcut key or command that will allow me to click on an object and have Affinity Designer jump to, highlight and expand the layer to which the object resides?

Open up the attached file. Click on Divide in operations. Objects do not get divided as they did in previous version and if you next click on add, they are not joined. Sometimes nodes get added and AD leaves many nodes behind not adding all nodes together. Also, adding/Union Nodes takes a long time and sometimes results in a crash. Untitled.afdesign

I'm having issues with this current Beta with creating an offset path. First issue: type some text using art text tool and click on Convert to Curves. Even though Move tool is selected, you have to click on move tool again in order for fill and stroke options will show up in context toolbar. This behavior was not needed in previous beta. When trying to expand the text and use divide and add operations, I am getting frequent crashes and objects don't always get added together. Previous beta didn't have the same issues.

Just recreate it. Those are easy fonts to use. If you use vector magic to turn it into a vector, you can import it and do what you want. or import your jpg on a layer and create a new layer. KW font is Copperplate Commercial font is Athelas

I feel dumb now. Didn't realize that deselecting the pixel view mode would turn on vector view. Thanks for you help.

I just discovered that I can hold the command key and press the pixel view icon and it will switch between pixel and vector view. Good enough for me but still strange that there isn't a vector view icon since there is a vector view mode. Maybe I'll just start using command Y to switch my mode from now on. :-)

Well that was simple. I do use the switches on the toolbar a lot to switch to the outline view to make sure I can see how my cut lines will look. Is there a way to add vector view to the group?

I am using a Late 2008 MacBook Pro, OS X 10.10.2 and latest beta of AD. I keep getting pixelation when editing my documents. If I save, close, and reopen the document, the pixelation goes away for a while and then it just starts showing up again. Is this an issue with my laptop/video card? Changing video modes doesn't seem to help.

I can't get my sheers to snap to 15 degree incraments like you can when you rotate an object by holding down the shift key. I thought sheering had this capability at one point. What am I doing wrong?

I noticed that when Ai exports to SVG, it saves the document size as points regardless of how you have defined your document size settings. When AD exports it saves the document size as pixels. When I import my designs into my cutting software (SignCut) it is interpreted as points and not pixels, therefore rendering the image larger then the original. I was curious as to what the industry standard is and if there is some way that I can change this by a user preference. SVG edit.txt

I don't think that Affinity Designer will ever be able to be used to cut directly from it because many cutters use different language specifications. I have a Graphtec cutter and it uses its own GPGL(Graphtec Plotter Graphics Language). Other cutters use HPGL Language (Hewlett Packard Graphics Language). I don't think that serif needs to worry about that kind of stuff or else they are going to have to include elements such as registration marks, weeding lines, contour cutting, cut by color and cut by layer. Sound's like they have enough on their plate already. They just need to be able to allow third party plug-ins to work or make sure that EPS/SVG exports are fully supported with the cutter software. Most every sign business that I know of uses either Adobe Illustrator or Corel and then they have their own cutting software that works with those files in the form of a plug-in. The biggest thing is that most cutting software is only supported under Windows. Yes, there are a few exceptions to that but the main reason is that there really isn't any good vector software for the Mac until now. Affinity Designer isn't just good, its great! And it has most everything that you need for the vinyl/cnc industries. With that being said, I'm happy to use either Graphtec's software or something like SignCut Pro on the Mac along with Affinity Designer. I just don't have the programming skills to make a plug-in and I certainly don't know enough about color pallets and EPS/SVG compatibility rules to figure out why my exports from AD aren't importing with the accuracy that I need. Until then, All I can do is wait and trust that someone with a higher pay grade then me will figure this out ;-)

On second thought. I like BAKE the best. ;)

Since the name of your program is Affinity Designer, maybe you could have another name that is in direct parallel and synonymous with the word affinity. Like bond, engage, tie, tie-in, union, unite, link, marriage, or connect. Just a thought.

Please keep me posted. I'm not having the best of luck with SignCut or Graphtec Studio. I'd like to know if the files import colors properly and if there are any other issues that you find (Especially with text with open letters). I know that layers aren't preserved so there is no way of using Affinity and importing layers into the cutting software. Most cutting programs only import a few different file types and until I can find something that works 100% (like a plug-in would), my options are limited.