MattP

Excellent work! Lots of texture and detail and I really like your colour palette too! I think that Cruella de Ville is a good challenge - like you say, that fur coat will be... err... 'interesting' to try to draw! :)

Hi possiblerobot (great name!) I can't see your file - the process to attach things is a bit crazy on this forum (imho) that you have to browse for your file, tell it to upload it then tell it to add into your post! First things I will say to check are... Do you have a blend mode that's unsupported, a layer effect, or some kind of transparency on the item in question? They're usually good reasons that things can't go out as vectors to some formats. The other thing I'd suggest is, it's always a good idea to try out the latest beta version (available in the first thread in the beta forums here) as that contains many fixes that aren't in the Mac App Store version yet. Thanks in advance, Matt

Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher benefit heavily from having more cores available - whether they're physical or hardware-imlpemented virtual. If I was going to buy a new iMac I'd personally choose my upgrades in the following order: processor, then memory, then storage, then graphics... but that's just me. I know that we bought the Mid-2011 iMacs when they came out and paid extra to get the i7 processors that felt extravagant at the time, but they're now over 3.5 years old and are still stunningly quick and a joy to use - we have a few i5 versions too and they are showing their age a little in comparison (but still very good, to be perfectly honest!) Hope that helps a little - and looking forward to seeing your work when you get settled in! :) Matt

Yes, I fear that a very grumpy, paranoid and storage-deprived cat may have set up the forum defaults for us - we'll get all the wrinkles ironed out over time - sorry! :S

Hi Hokusai, I'm a little confused still - could you just show me a quick example/screenshot/mockup of what you would like to happen? :) Thanks! Matt

It's not broken... it's just not implemented! :) I think this is one for Andy Tang - I'll let him know!

Hi wlasoen, There have been a lot of EPS-export-related changes made in the current beta version of Affinity Designer. It would be a good idea to check out whether this still exhibits the same problem that you're seeing. If so, we can definitely look at fixing that, but it would definitely be worthwhile you taking a look at the beta version first as there is a very good chance that it is already fixed :) Thanks, Matt

This would work just fine with the architecture, but I think it's going to have to be a 'one day' thing - because it would rely on some of the other components we need in order to make multi-page/multi-artboard and canvas rotation work - so it would be after those things.

The Transparency Tool acts on an object, not a fill or a stroke - it makes the object act as a composite for the purposes of adjusting the overall transparency. If it was possible to edit both the fill and stroke transparency separately it would be very awkward to make the object just fade out without seeing the semi-transparent stroke and fill interacting with each other and making a slightly less transparent area. Hope that makes some sense? :) Matt

Hi Ronny, you should now find that you have 200MB rather than 20MB available :)

Yeah, that's a nice idea! :) I added split view 'just because I could' and didn't really think anyone would be impressed - turns out it's actually quite useful! :)

I agree... right now I'm just having to hit Close, then Open again! :(

Hi Ronny, If you don't mind sending it to support@seriflabs.com I can grab it from there :) I'll ask to see if anything can be done about these restrictive upload limits - a few people are running into it now... Thanks, Matt

You can happily import EPS, SVG, PDF, Illustrator and Freehand MX files which are all common vector formats :)

I think that normally I would just work with the Gradient Tool on-document - that way I can zoom in when I need more precision and also the nodes 'mean something' to me because they're affecting the colour directly underneath where I can see them in the tool. We used to allow the panel to be resized, but then it made all the other colour models look ugly :( There's no reason we can't reconsider though?...

Thanks for this report JRMeyer, I know that there are a few issues surrounding the Divide operation and I will try to look at this as soon as possible. I'm genuinely very sorry for any inconvenience it causes in the meantime - I'll certainly try to devote some time to sorting it out soon. Thanks again, Matt

Are you serious that this is your first work in Designer?!? OH MY GOD! That's just terrific! :D I'm SO excited about seeing your future drawings - can't wait!!!! :D

Haha! Very cute and very fun! Really nice first work!!! :)

It's joining the closest ends together of all the open curves in the selection... in the future, I would want to be able to select the end nodes I was interested in and just join those together. Hope that makes some sense? :) Matt

Nice work! The plastic of the button itself is amazing! :)

Thank you so much for all of this Gary - I really do appreciate the effort you've put into this (and sorry about the time there, too - go to bed!) We've actually got a Yosemite 10.10.2 machine here and have tried that with/without restricted user earlier and couldn't get that to go wrong either... It's very interesting what you've mentioned about the success through Export Persona - very weird indeed... I'll have a think...

Gary, we've just had a try with a restricted user and can't get this to go wrong... Can I ask you to try a couple of things: - What happens if you export PSD instead? - How about if you make a slice in the Export Persona and export it from the slices panel, then export it again from the slices panel - does that still crash? - Finally, does running 'repair permissions' on your disk fix things by any chance? (Repair Disk Permissions is in the First Aid section in Disk Utility) Thanks! Matt

Okay, that's really useful to us, thanks Gary - I'll try to get the team to have a look at it and get back to you if we've got any more queries. It's very useful to know that you're not an admin user - I suspect this has a lot to do with it, maybe?

Why, thank you, I do try... <tips hat> :P

Just to make things worse, here's my video from a while back...