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Even though this comparison is original (I would say absurd), it is still possible - but only if it is done from the right perspective. There is a huge difference between buying a house by a complete layman (this is his first house), who is completely clueless about everything, or buying a house by a professional real estate agent, who, even during a few hours of inspection of the house, is able to check hundreds of technical details (such as a rotten roof, leaking windows, problems with groundwater, clogged sewage, etc.), but especially the inappropriate layout of the rooms, inappropriate amenities of the location, etc. Simply because I am a "professional", I should know what I want and what I absolutely need.

FX effects are not visible in the bounding box - their effect on the size of the object is only applied when creating an Artboard or when exporting. For example, this is Outer bevel or Emboss.

You mean make Artboards Pixel perfect? Move tool, select artboard in Layers panel, and see to values in Transform panel - all (position and size) must be whole pixel.

... alternatively, you have an fx on the circle that could also enlarge the object - for example Outer Glow or Outer Shadow.

However, in your request you mention the icon in APhoto, i.e. "Add Pixel Layer". So it is completely irrelevant what something is called in some other program. P.S. There is no problem in requesting the addition (or renaming) of the existing Add Pixel Layer icon to Add Layer you mentioned. However, since there are several layer types in Affinity, see the Layer menu, it will be quite confusing what is actually created after clicking on this icon.

By the way, if you noticed, I was responding to another user's post, not yours, so it doesn't matter what you said or didn't say.

Dragging a layer of any type to the Trash will delete that layer - that's to be expected, since the Trash can delete any type of layer. But what would you expect if you dragged a layer of another type (say a Shape, Text, or Image layer) onto the Add Pixel Layer icon? Should it duplicate the dragged layer and rasterize it (convert to pixel)? Or should it do nothing, since it's not a Pixel layer?

Given the difficulty of dragging a layer and hitting the tiny icon on the status bar of the Layers panel, pressing Del is actually more convenient 🙂

As far as I know, there is always a problem with objects "outside" artboards - they can't be outside, so they always move to some Artboards. Why do you have Zoom 500 as a Layer, and not as Artboards?

The problem is that these are the numbers for the "general" market - that is, all Linux users who only play games on it, web browsing, use an office suite, or do not buy any applications, etc. For Serif, however, the decisive market is specific DTP users who are willing to pay for professional applications. For Windows, the potential for Affinity buyers is clear given the size of the market. For macOS, although the market is significantly smaller, it is a traditional DTP platform, so the potential is also obvious. But for Linux, there is no tradition, and therefore no really market share figures, and for developers it is a pure gamble.

But you certainly can't expect Serif and similar private companies to solve this problem, meaning that they invest huge amounts of money into product development and then "hope" that this money will be returned to them.

Yes, you misunderstood me - I didn't write anywhere that the dimensions should be displayed. I clarified/added this in the previous post.

The Help explicitly states that the dimension (W, H) is "relative". It is therefore clear that this is the dimension of the selection, the size of which is defined relatively from the starting point - the beginning of the drag operation, and not the absolute dimension of the object/selection. In no way is this a bug, which has already been mentioned here many times. P.S. In addition to the size of the selection being created, it can also be a relative displacement. In any case, it is always a relative value, i.e. the displacement of the cursor relative to the starting point, not an absolute value of the object size. Perhaps the designation of the W and H values is not entirely correct and can be confusing, because users tend to think of the terms Width and Height as absolute dimensions of something. The names ΔX and ΔY would be more appropriate, as they more accurately correspond to the true nature of these values, i.e. the cursor displacement in the X or Y plane during the drag operation, as well as the D/distance and A/angle values, which are vector expressions of this displacement.

APublisher: ADesigner: APhoto:

Try read Tech Spec: https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/full-feature-list/

Why not organize your project into sepparated Artboards? https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/Artboards/artboards_about.html P.S. Alternatively, you can create a document in APublisher with several pages, and then work with it in ADesigner (although manipulating the pages is not very convenient).

Personally, I would like a solution similar to Windows configurable notifications - i.e. the message/information pops up for a moment, closes, but is still available in the notification history. P.S. Many applications can use this system notification service - so it's a shame that Affinity doesn't use it too.

It's interesting how opinions of Linux users differ. This could be another reason why Serif (and many others) are hesitant to port their products to Linux - there is no certainty that there would be enough "paid" interest in their products to make the intensive development and maintenance worthwhile.

It would make sense if, just as Pixel Persona with raster tools is available in ADesigner, APhoto had Vector Persona - where vector tools that are not commonly used in photo editing would be available. For example, Shape Tool, Path and Node Tool, and perhaps even the aforementioned Vector Crop Tool.

Using shortcuts is complicated for someone with a physical disability, and who works with a tablet, see the numerous threads with requests to add Undo/Redo to the Toolbar. And that Serif has ignored these legitimate requests and wishes of these users for a decade is truly sad.

And I think that's what the OP (and many others) repeatedly request - that the range of possible actions/commands that can be placed in the Toolbar be much richer - ideally all menu items (for example, the hundreds of times requested Undo/Redo), as most standard applications have. Just to demonstrate the possibility of setting commands to the Toolbar from the IDE (the Serif developers are certainly working on something similar, so this won't be a surprise to them). Below is a complete list of commands.

As far as I know, the Select Same selection can be limited by unchecking Edit All Layers (Layers panel), but this only works within Artboards.