Heres Johnny

Well, I appreciate your help, but that's not what I'm looking for either - because using "Paste Style" would replace the Fill, the Stroke as well as the FX I might have on that object.

That's how I do it. But I have my custom palettes all set up and I don't want to create new palettes just to copy a color from one source to another. Especially when working with complex designs. It's slowing me down.

I love the fact that you added this feature in the 1.6 updates, but it just doesn't work as well as it should IMO. It's supposed to make things faster, but it hinders my workflow. Primarily the fact that I have to click the Arrange button first, then select whether objects should align to the first or last selected objects, and I can't use the align controls from outside the Arrange dropdown menu. Can't we make it a permanent setting that we can turn on/off with a toggle button (sort of like the Snapping options)? Or better yet - make it like Illustrator, where you double click the object you want to designate as the one others should align to. Please, Serif

An ability to save custom presets for the Guides Manager would be awesome

Like in Photoshop - render layer effects (like Outer Shadow) to a seperate raster/pixel layer.

Is it possible to copy gradients and paste them onto other objects? Or, i.e. copy a gradient from the Fill and paste it into the Stroke of the same object? Also - paste a new Fill color/style onto another object without affecting the existing Stroke (and vice versa).

Same here. Actually only logged in now to report this, but found this thread. Using the Divide operation on objects other than rectangles with sharp edges makes the divided objects distorted. Similar to what expanding curved strokes does - which I reported here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/49004-designer-expand-stroke-issue/ Some screenshots attached, in Outline mode to visualize it better. Two basic objects. Before and after.

Great

Awesome!

Thanks, MEB.

Thanks for your reply. Yes I know that, but this doesn't work when previewing blending modes via the dropdown menu in the Layers panel. Unless I click the dropdown and close it and then navigate it with the arrow keys on the keyboard while holding the spacebar. By the way, is there a keyboard shortcut for switching blending modes like in Adobe software?

I can easily rotate gradients when I'm creating them with the Gradient tool. However, when using a gradient fill on an object, I have to switch to the Gradient tool or rotate the entire object in order to set the gradient at a desired angle. I would love to have the ability to rotate gradients inside the gradient fill menu.

Affinity apps seem a bit inconsistent when it comes to hiding bounding boxes while tweaking stuff. It's slightly annoying that the bounding box isn't temporarily hidden when browsing layer blending modes.

+1 for CSS

+1

"Snap to object bounding boxes > Incl. bounding box mid points" is kind of like this, but it only applies to other objects. I wish an object could snap to its own mid point as well. Keep up the good work, Affinity!

This has probably been asked before (or announce by staff), but I can't seem to find any answers to my question. I apologize for possibly creating a duplicate post. Will the major updates (as in v2, v3, etc.) be free for existing customers?

Alright. Would be great if you guys added this to the roadmap at some point :)

Thanks for the quick reply. Is there an ETA on the final release date? Aka non-Beta version. Pardon my ignorance if this was announced before.

In Illustrator I could force an existing object to snap to the grid by selecting it and enabling "Align to pixel grid" in the Transform box. Is there currently a way to do the same in Affinity Designer? "Force pixel alignment" in the snap menu only seems to work for creating new objects, not automatically snapping existing nodes to their nearest grid lines.

Please add the ability to make the grid automatically invert its color, e.g. to light gray when working with dark objects, or to dark gray when working with light colored objects. Sometimes it's impossible to see the grid lines.

I created a rectangle with the Rectangle tool, and when this newly created rectangle was selected, I had the option in the top bar menu to select a corner type (and its radius). I don't get this option anymore after the rectangle is converted to curves. Then I can only use the Corner tool, but frankly the Corner Type menu bar is quite handy, so it'd be great to have it for objects converted to curves as well. Also please add rounded corners to other shapes than rectangles.

Ability to resize a text frame to its content. Like in InDesign. Example: http://www.thegraphicmac.com/fit-frames-to-content-easily-in-adobe-indesign/

I do lots of Web and UI design and normally use rectangles for measurements. In Illustrator I insert a rectangle, same width and height as the artboard or a smaller area I'm working in, then grab one of it sides and drag to its midpoint to cut it in half. Illustrator snaps to objects' midpoints so that I know I'm exactly at its half. Can we get the same for Designer? Currently I have to type "50%" into the transform window which in a larger project becomes a bit tedious.

Several tools in Affinity Designer have the ability to set certain values of a created object in percentages - even if the document's units are pixels. For example: radius in Donut and Pie tools, spread in the Heart tool, etc. It's important to me as a UI designer to have precise px values, and these tools would be perfect if I could enter these values in a desired unit (pixels in my case). I liked how Illustrator let me use pixels for character height as well.