Wosven

And that's strange and can confuse, since the primary is supposed to be the first (visible, on top), and secondary is usually... behind. Using "foreground color" and "background color" would have been simpler that this... strange denomination.

Hi @Bad_Wolf ,
Do this means that she uses another way for counting or others symbols for numbers that you want to draw? I'd like to see an example if you've got one or the name of a font, or some examples from your project.

We can't know if i's on the roadmap, and sadly, like using the file's origin folder instead of the last one used by the app, there's a lot of issues that impead day to day work.
It's worst when you use less the apps, and forget about all the tricks and issues you need extra clicks to avoid, and with time, you realize you spend more time using tricks/extra clicks than really working and being efficient

And I'll add that spread PDF or printing is only usefull with rare and small documents, when the copy writer want to read and add corrections on paper where it's easier to find errors for him/her and for the layout operator to read (similar to screen rendering). But it's usefull (spreads) 1-2% times against 98-99% pages PDF in a year. When you export minimum 2-10 PDF a day, it's important.

+1000
At least, it should be save with the export settings, since we use them depending of intend.

We can't know if i's on the roadmap, and sadly, like using the file's origin folder instead of the last one used by the app, there's a lot of issues that impead day to day work.
It's worst when you use less the apps, and forget about all the tricks and issues you need extra clicks to avoid, and with time, you realize you spend more time using tricks/extra clicks than really working and being efficient

And I'll add that spread PDF or printing is only usefull with rare and small documents, when the copy writer want to read and add corrections on paper where it's easier to find errors for him/her and for the layout operator to read (similar to screen rendering). But it's usefull (spreads) 1-2% times against 98-99% pages PDF in a year. When you export minimum 2-10 PDF a day, it's important.

While I was art streaming last night I made this quickly for fun. Felt pretty happy with the art considering the short time put into it.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Ooev1k
 

More generally I guess there are multiple standards and house styles, and no "objective" rules. Each different style can have good reasons for using them. 
EDIT: One good point for just using the app-provided drop-cap feature with all its restrictions and doing the best that it can offer is if the publication will be available also digitally, since custom drop-cap creations normally degrade accessibility (e.g., reading or searchability of the text is disturbed by having the initial in a separate text frame, or parts of text in some other way detached or separated from the body text (even if just with forced line breaks and extra spaces or tab characters).

Sometimes, ID's files can be corrupted and bugged... the first reflex is to save as... and if it's not enough, we try export to IDML. This can take longer depending of the file. It's also possible opening the file or IDML with another ID version will correct the problem.
I didn't looked at the resulting IDML, but it's possible it's checking and deleting any data or propertie unused by the document, or causing trouble, as a repair mode.

Or that AP keep on using unwhole pixels when resizing, moving and cropping pixels.

Wosven,

Who thinks the readability is better? Do you have data establishing it as so? And what about design?

Designers at Random House agree with me.

See below from p. 42, Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike, 1989, Random House. This is a matter of art, not history.
 

Illustrator can export as PDF, but usually save in its own format, with the possibility to include a PDF preview. That's a big difference.
Affinity apps can't read the .ai format, since there's no documentation about it to read it properly, but if there's a PDF preview available, it'll use this to display the file.
 
PDF is a "final render display" of a file. That means it'll only export on specified area how the page should be, in vectors and raster data, locking everything in its final position. That's why it's perfect for print (exporting as PDF). Every superfluous data used by the app is deleted. Some app can open and modify PDF, butthey won't know anything important, only where each item (character, image...) is positioned, and offer to modify them. Some apps like Affinity ones, for example, try to deduce lines and paragraphs from a PDF page, when and where it's only successive informations about where each character is describe and positionned. That's why it's not always accurate.
We can compare this (Illustrator or another app's file) to an Excel table, with lot of columns with complex formulas processing each data you enter, to calculate and automatically input the results in some other cells.
PDF would be the simple text file resulting of displaying the final content of the columns. No way to understand or read the formulas, to modify some line and have the result updated.
Over time, new features were added to PDF, but those are limited and specific, and don't cover the extend of functionnalities of the different apps that can produce them, it's not its purpose.
When you create a file in APub/inDesign/QXPress, etc., the important features are text and object styles, their relations, the master pages, the colour palette to use, variables, etc.
Nothing that will be found  in a PDF. You can open a PDF in APub or another app and try to deduce them, but you'll only have part of the datas.

Hi,
I don't know if you've looked at the sample from Affinity: Menu Help > Welcome


 
You can download it and look at the properties of the document and of the spread, to define your own document.
For example, there are  3 pages by spread, delimited  by guides, and the second spread show an interesting way to use the internal pages we see when it's opened, since that's the part we always see unfolded. (like a center spread in a magazine with clips, where you don't mind writing where it folds).
With this, it should be easier to set up your document. Don't forget your first page will be the one at the end of the first spread, and the last page is the second one of this spread.
 
And be careful with the order of the pages. Depending of the content, you'll want to put important informations on the page visible when it's folded (contact informations, a map, adds, etc.), page 4 for Z-fold or 6 for trifold.

trifold.pdf
 
 

What we are missing without the original feature, is to colour easily bitmap B&W and greyscale images in (a) Pantone spot colour. Unless we use  vector, those above will be CMYK.

Bump! Again.
At least the apps should remember the last setting, or display in alphabetical order (All pages/Toutes les pages would be first).
 

@Wosven BRILJANT! I had the same issue as @edee, and now I finally can open EPS files with AD, due to the work around with Photopea and saving it to svg! Thank you

There are some related topics in Publisher's Feature Request Forum which contain this and other improvements for the pages panel.
You might want to add your vote there and bump them up this way, for instance:
 

That seems to work, to an extent.  In Windows, you can only assign a file extension to one app.  I'm finding in Win11Pro, that if the file type assignment for the .aftemplate extension is set for APhoto, and I go to create a new APub file from a template I've previously created in and saved from APub, that template will not be available in the template dialogue box in APub; and vice-a-versa for APhoto.  (haven't tried in ADesigner.)  This only wastes a lot of valuable time, archaic.  Why can't Serif create separate file extensions for the template files for each app?  Consider how much time is wasted x the number of Affinity users who use all three apps.  They can do better.  Very frustrating.

That can be text frame or other object.
ID include Paragraph text style and the option to "apply next p.style", and it's a big time saver when working on magazine, for example.
QXD include size, so you can later modify an Object style and have all those having this new height or with or both.
Usually, like for Text style, there's a "+" to the style's name when an object was modified and doesn't use anymore the "pure" style, so you can choose to erase the modifications.
And it would be usefull in AD too: imagine you use different styles for texture strokes and main shapes strokes… and realise those should be larger. Modifying the style would permit to choose the right width easily, instead of selecting all the stroke we want to modify before modifying the width.
 
Object styles is needed in Affinity apps. We would be able to check if it's at 100% or bigger or smaller, an usual problem we've got when applying a style with, for example 2 pts stroke, ending up to be 1.2 pt on another object.
Instead of needing assets for text frames or other objects, we could have  a palette of object styles for document.
For those used to modifiable object styles, it's difficult to work without them  😊
 

A test file (it opens with some errors, but objects and gradients are present!):
gradients.psd
 
You can also import the GRD file in the online Photopea, apply them to shapes and export to SVG or save as PSD:



 
You can either export as SVG or PSD from Photopea (if the SVG look wrong and like a simple fill, you can see in that there's a gradient):

 

You can test extensions like DarkReader, but it'll look strange

I'm not sure it's a good idea... like the others said, it would be a return to the past to have apps that hung the whole computer and needing to be used as in old Apple II mode: 1 app at a time, stop everything else.
Or I misunderstood.
But today, we need different apps running, checking and answering emails... work is multitasks.

But still you cannot see the inner margin. Something I would like to see in a future version.

Hi,
I have been designing new 'Nature' brushes in Affinity Photo so that I can create nature scenes, micro worlds and greeting card designs. Its only a 'rough'; needs a bit of work...
I have been using Affinity Photo for a while now - ever since Adobe decided that they were going to force their users to 'RENT' their software and that they are no longer interested in lowly individual designers, they are only interested in large corporate accounts.
So I switched to Affinity Photo/Designer. And I am SO GLAD that I did. They are awesome!
I also have been using CorelDraw and Corel Painter for many years (longer than I used Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign). I started using CorelDraw with version 5, and Painter when it was owned by Fractal Design, also version 5. I can remember opening CorelDraw when I first purchased it and just staring at all the tools and the blank page. Previously I had only used Word. I tried to type something. Nothing. So I closed it. I kept opening it up and just looking in awe at the tools, then finally I read some of the manual, checked out the Help files and figured it out. This started my interest in digital design. Later, I became a Graphic Designer and worked for nearly 20 years at Deutsche Bank doing cover design, Powerpoint template design, redrawing logos and maps, animation and so much more. There is a whole hidden industry of design, 'Presentation Design' and 'Presentation Specialist' jobs and you can get into this market if you use Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Its a great place to start your design career. Not only London, but all over the globe - Sydney, Australia, New York, Paris, Frankfurt... anywhere large corporations have a 'Presentations' department. Check out the job opportunities by typing 'Presentations Design' in Google. Create a portfolio. And if your portfolio is good, they will train you.
I usually use Painter to create my greetings cards and have hundreds of Painter brushes - gold, jewels, silver, glass, diamonds, pearls, satins and silk brushes, and, of course, hundreds of 'Nature' brushes. This is the first one I have done using Affinity Photo. It has taken me a long time to create all the brushes of stones, rocks, rock faces, trees, lichen, toadstools, twisted branches, moss, ferns and to adjust the brush settings just to begin painting with them.
Hope you like it...
Del

Hope you like it...