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Now that's the spirit! :D Great to have you along for the ride, Tony. Really nice work on shutterstock too! B)

It would mean always having to sacrifice the space - for something which you turn on relatively infrequently... We always used to do this in all our old applications, and it looked ugly and was extremely rarely used (in the scheme of things). The Lock/Unlock functionality certainly does need a keyboard modifier adding though... perhaps this will be enough after we've added it? :)

Well, beta build 17344 (released a few minutes ago) has EPS export, so hopefully that will get you going :)

I'm pretty sure Ben is already looking into this one :)

Affinity products will be available to buy through the App Store, and also available to try from our site directly :) Gregg, we're planning on some really inspiring tutorials in the future - but these need writing, so they need the features to all be in place and working first! Unfortunately for beta-testers, it's a bit cart-before-the-horse in that respect! ;)

A preference to switch between the two sounds like a great idea - I'll see about adding it when I get chance :)

Hi Capeman, I agree completely! The Pencil Tool is far from finished at present - and both those things you mentioned are intended to be present in the finished product :) Cheers, Matt

Hi George, I think we'd never say never, but at the moment we require OS X Lion or greater (Lion has been around since July 2011) and as soon as Yosemite is released later this year it means we'll be supporting 4 major versions of the OS. Adding Snow Leopard support would not be trivial, but also not impossible so we will have to see how things pan out over time. If there is a huge call for this then we'll clearly try our best. Cheers, Matt

Hi Frank, Affinity Designer is not supposed to be a one-for-one replacement for DrawPlus. It doesn't have feature-parity, and it's not meant to. Affinity Designer has less in some areas, more in other areas, all the tools are polished and refined, the whole experience is slick and fast, and you can paint/erase/mask/adjust with pixel tools which is not possible in DrawPlus. Affinity Designer is the start of something incredibly special and we know we've got a lot of ideas to implement along the way. In short, 'Yes' I think I could draw your coin again in Affinity Designer, but 'No' it wouldn't be quite as fast because we don't have path text... yet. Cheers, Matt

Hi Capeman :) It's a completely valid observation you've made - and really the only reason that we don't do this is simply because a lot of professionals use tablets and it's actually pretty annoying/fairly tricky to try to double-click on the exact spot where you wanted to insert a node. If you make a node by accident (which I generally don't - but I appreciate we all use the app differently) then just hitting Cmd+Z to undo will sort things out properly. Cheers, Matt

I agree about the name, too - makes a lot more sense :)

Cool!!! Now all we need is for there to be a collection of mouse body-parts scattered around - then it will be a lot more like my cat :P

Hi James, I'd imagine your system would work just fine - I actually developed a fair amount of Affinity Designer on a Late-2008 MacBook Pro with a Core 2 Duo and I obviously tried to make sure that the performance was always at a pleasing level :) Let us know how you're getting on when you've had chance to play a bit more! Matt

Thanks, Chris! :) Nicely drawn - and a great example file that shows good use of clips, layers, hierarchy and naming :)

Now this is getting interesting! The wheels look awesome and I'm really liking some of the body details you've got penciled in :) Can't wait to see the finished article!

Aha! So somebody does read my emails! ;) Basically, I implemented the functionality, but we didn't have any UI ready yet - so there's a temporary workaround to get noise on your objects: Select your object, choose a colour. Now go to the 'opacity' slider on the Colour page and hold down Cmd + Alt, then drag the opacity slider up/down with Cmd+Alt held down - this will actually call the commands to adjust noise instead of opacity! :) It's only a very basic noise - it's just that with it being a property of colour, it means you can vary noise at each step on a gradient fill/transparency to achieve effects you can't in other programs. We'll add a noise filter/adjustment in the future, so don't worry if it doesn't do everything you want - but hopefully it'll be good enough :) We'll get the UI working before the next version! Cheers, Matt

Nice work! B) ...now where's the .afdesign file so we can all have a play? ;)

Hi Gregg, Hopefully you've just received an email to say that a new beta update is available - complete with a list of features that have been added/fixed :) Cheers, Matt

Great! Will be really excited to see how this develops! :D

Hmmm... I think I might've overlooked that one - I can add it in though, thanks for the suggestion :)

Affinity Designer includes the same stroke brushes you'd find in DrawPlus - the ones which 'drape' a texture along the vector line and make it stretch/repeat to the length of the curve you've drawn, and it also includes solid vector lines that can vary in width and opacity based on the pressure profile you can edit in the Line Page. It also has a few specifics that DrawPlus didn't, including different corner logic for the stroke brushes and the ability to input using mouse/tablet velocity instead of pressure if you want. It's also worth noting (as you haven't yet used Designer) that all of it happens live on the document while you're creating or editing your strokes - which looks pretty great! We don't include the 'spray' brushes from DrawPlus because we have a full pixel editor that you should use to achieve this effect. So, it depends which bit of DrawPlus you enjoyed - there's no vector spray brushes, but apart from that it should be an all-round improvement!

Hi Miguel! Another great idea - and one that's already on the roadmap to appear in Affinity Designer (although after initial launch) :)

Hi Miguel - it's just a one-button switch to get between the apps :)

Nice idea - I can definitely imagine using that :)

This will definitely appear in time - but not just yet... :)