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Dear all: I found a solution! Or so I think. 
Just choose English—or any collection you may have created in Font Book—using that drop menu located at the Character panel, as shown in the graphic.
You can also see that there is a new collection on that menu: I added a Test Collection with a bunch of fonts in Font Book, and shows perfectly in that menu.
Hope this helps!
Cesar Alsina
 

Dear all: I found a solution! Or so I think. 
Just choose English—or any collection you may have created in Font Book—using that drop menu located at the Character panel, as shown in the graphic.
You can also see that there is a new collection on that menu: I added a Test Collection with a bunch of fonts in Font Book, and shows perfectly in that menu.
Hope this helps!
Cesar Alsina
 

Since this subject comes up often I am writing a definitive statement.
Fireworks (layered) PNG files
There is no such thing as "layered PNG".  The PNG standard does not define a way to store layers, and only deals with flattened images.
Fireworks saves out additional layer data to PNG files in a proprietary format using a private tag. A definition for this proprietary data has never been made public.  A PNG saved by Fireworks can still be used as a flattened image by any application that can handle PNG files.  These applications will handle the standard data and ignore the proprietary Fireworks data.
Affinity handles standard PNG files.  But, it cannot import or export the layer data using the Fireworks method.
There is no expectation that we will ever be able to handle Fireworks layer data in PNG files.
We acknowledge that being able to support Fireworks PNG files would be of great benefit to users of Affinity.  If a public definition of the data format becomes available, we will be able to address the issue.
 
Layered TIFF files
There is no such thing as "layered TIFF".  The TIFF standard only handles flattened images as part of the publicly described tags.
TIFF does allow for companies to register additional tags for their own use. Adobe registered two private TIFF tags that enable them to embed layer data in a TIFF.  These tags are an extension and are not part of the central TIFF standard.  These tags are used to embed PSD layer data into a TIFF, in addition to the standard flattened image.
Since Affinity has a PSD importer, we are able to import the layer data from a TIFF if it has these tags.  However, since this is handled by our PSD importer it is subject to the same limitations as importing a standard PSD into Affinity.  We make clear that while we aim to provide the best third party support for PSD, we can never replicate 100% the way Photoshop handles and displays a PSD file.  Photoshop has its own approach to applying alpha/transparency, vector masks and vector strokes, layer effects and gradients.  This means that while we can offer importing of editable elements of a PSD file, the result will not be a one-to-one pixel reproduction of what you see in Photoshop.
We have registered our own TIFF tags for embedding Affinity layer data in a TIFF, in similar fashion to PSD layer data. This is intended for use with DAMs that use TIFF as their interchange format.  When saving a TIFF file, if your document has multiple layers you will be given the option of including Affinity layer data.  This will preserve the editable elements of a multi-layer document.  This obviously comes at a cost of increased file size.  Our TIFF tags will use our proprietary data format and as such can only be used by Affinity applications.
At this time we have no plans to save TIFF files with the PSD format layer data.  PSD layer data held in a TIFF file will be imported and converted to the Affinity format.

It works for me, totally. The mechanics are almost identical. I placed permanently the Character panel as top of my left panel group since I started using Affinity apps years ago, so both Font menus are just pixels away. 
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That works great for the Character panel but unfortunately the dropdown font list in the context toolbar does not have an option to show Font Book collections so it would be nice if it did.
BTW, I have learned that at least on previous versions of the Affinity apps, if you name a Font Book collection "Favorites" Affinity confuses it with its own "Favorites" list with the result that the Character panel dropdown is one off -- whatever you select there shows the next collection's items instead of its own. 
To get around this, just name the Font Book collection to anything else. I went with "FB Favorites" which avoids this problem.

Instant gratification!
Be well.

Thanks Alsina.... that works great! I'll start choosing fonts from the Character Panel instead of the context toolbar.
Thank you again!

Dear all: I found a solution! Or so I think. 
Just choose English—or any collection you may have created in Font Book—using that drop menu located at the Character panel, as shown in the graphic.
You can also see that there is a new collection on that menu: I added a Test Collection with a bunch of fonts in Font Book, and shows perfectly in that menu.
Hope this helps!
Cesar Alsina
 

Mesh Warp/Distort Tools are on the Designer Roadmap but we have no ETA for when they'll be available. When we have more information, we'll let everyone know :)

I just found this tutorial which is really helpfull to put text into perspective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv3szSbyu80
 
Ooops this is Affinity Photo.... also usefull but not for this question. 

You can also double-click on the top middle or side middle frame handles.
 
Each gives a slightly different result.

Double-click the middle frame handle along the bottom of the text frame.

Thanks Allan.
 
In the past, for many years, using Photoshop as external editor for Aperture (which you can choose using the procedure you describe above), my workflow was this:
 
I open my raw file while in Aperture—after some editing in Aperture—with my assigned keyboard shortcut, which would make Aperture to create a .psd (Photoshop) file and trigger the system to open it in Photoshop. Once the image opened in Photoshop I would do my thing and I would just use the Save command whenever I wanted, as many times I need during the course of editing. The file would be saved, no questions asked by the app. The file would be updated and preview in Aperture would reflect so.
 
That is not possible in Affinity Photo. This is what happens:
I open my raw file while in Aperture—after some editing in Aperture—with my assigned keyboard shortcut, which would make Aperture to create a .psd (Photoshop) file and trigger the system to open it in Affinity Photo. Once the image opens in Affinity Photo, I do my thing (AWESOME TOOLS AND STUFF IN AFFINITY PHOTO!), hit the Save command and Affinity brings up a system window showing you the last folder you save a file at, not he origin folder of the file you're working on. That is already bad. Additionally, this system window will allow you to save a copy of your file as a .adphoto file, NOT a .psd file, which is a fatal disaster for the workflow. Not other option is offered on that system window/panel.
 
So, I need to use a different procedure in order to save the file I'm working on. I use the Export command (again, my mistake, I said Save As in the original post above, is Export, sorry about that.), which allows me to select the file format in an Affinity pop-up panel, I choose .PSD manually, hit the Export button, and then I am presented with a system window that allows my to search the file's origin folder—as said above, Affinity won't show you the origin folder as Photoshop does—which is terrible. Once I find the right folder, I then hit Save and the systems alerts me that "xxxx.psd already exists. Do you want to replace it?".
 
As I do save several times during the curse of editing a file, this is really killing the joy of working on Affinity Photo.
 
I really hope I explained myself clearly. And many, many thanks for your time.

Hi Cesar, it does not appear the media browser allows you too look elsewhere besides the default Aperture/iPhoto/Pictures or dragging in a folder.
 
Regarding your workflow, I have already made a few posts on this forum for those wanting to Keep Aperture for managing their pictures but edit in Affinity Photo
 
Not sure why your choosing save as rather than just save. 
 
 In Aperture in the menu bar go to Aperture - Preferences - Export - External Photo Editor and choose Affinity Photo and choose your file format and colour space, once done and inside Aperture you can right click on a picture and tell it edit with Affinity Photo (I take it from you post you already know how to do this) Once inside Affinity photo and you make you edit and you press save it will save back to Aperture for you.  
 
Out of interest what is the .PDS file? that sounds like a Power Director Video file. 
 
 
 
Allan

Hi Cesar, have you seen these threads? Maybe there are some answers to your questions … or at least you will see that you’re not alone …  :(
 
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/6341-media-browser-not-displaying-all-libraries/
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/9750-media-browser/
 
I am sorry, but there seem to be still some problems with the Media Browser. Have you tried to put an Alias of your external library into the Pictures folder? Does that make any difference? 
 
Alex

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