mondze

Yes.
Select the Node Tool (A) Select the node you want to be the end point Select Break Curve from the Node tool context menu Select Close Curve from the Node tool context menu.  

And how would ppl receive a feature like the new Ai freedom gradient tool? 
I honestly never was a fan of gradient meshes cause I never ever needed them to do my illustrations at all, and when I used them all looked a bit artificial compared to my own techniques to achive this without a mesh, and  cause I'm used to work things more "freehand", but maybe if I'd try something nicely created but the Serif guys I'd change my mind, who knows... I looked into this video, and really was not very impressed or at least not as much as the ones presenting it as "awesome". Maybe some users like it?
 
 
 

Maybe it should be on by default.

Sometimes (like 98% of the time) moving Artboards around creates floating point pixel values in their position and dimensions.
This always results in rendering errors (white gaps, wrong export sizes, distortions). The problem has not been addressed since Artboards got introduced.
There's no benefit to having sub-pixel accuracy when moving Artboards around on an infinite canvas. It only creates problems.

I have recently shifted from Adobe to Affinity. Most of my work is related to Designer, I use Photo occasionally. I’m very satisfied with it overall. I can do pretty much everything on Affinity which I could do on Adobe. But I have noticed that there are some very basic tools which are missing in Affinity apps. Here, I’m making a list of those tools. My request to Affinity decision makers & developer team is that, please include these tools in Affinity 2.0 as designers are desperately waiting see these in Affinity (Most of them are just related to Designer but some are missing in Photo too):
 
Freeform Gradients Gradient Mesh Tool Vector/Pattern Fill Shape Builder Tool Live Tracing Perspective Distort/Free Transform RTL Languages Support Blend Shapes Inefficient Boolean Operations 3D Text Tool Simplify Curves Live Mesh Warp Filter

Hi TJuhl,

This is an issue we're aware of and is with development to be fixed

I'll get your comments passed over.

"Free vector perspective" and "Free vector extrusion" is a MUST for many professional users.
Without this function, the program can only be used by artists.
I work as a technical illustrator and would be happy to bury CorelDraw and Illustrator.
Just like Affinity Photo has replaced Photoshop.
But unfortunately this is NOT possible without these functions.
I'm looking forward to future updates and uninstall the actual designer demo again...  : - (((

Any ETA on non destructive free transform, perspective and warp tools like those found illustrator/Photoshop?
 
 

I finally got it working,  I used this page to install .NET in a 64 bit environment.
Even though Affinity Designer displays it is unusable, it is not stable and crashes and the display glitches out. 
Guess i'll just need to keep my windows box a bit longer.
How to get 64 bit NET to install under wine:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/783211/cant-install-dotnet45-with-winetricks-on-ubuntu-14-04

Oh i forgot something.
Not only a gradient that apply along the stroke ,but also that across the stroke.
Same as Illustrator CC.
 
I need really "to across the stroke" for some projects.

Since updating to 1.8 I've been having problems with the add/subtract geometry options. Sometimes it adds a lot more nodes in areas that weren't even overlapping and at other times when adding shapes some nodes get lost entirely and gives weird results. Needless to say this is a bit frustrating when building vector shapes.
I've a attached screenshots of a few examples that have cropped up over the last few days when trying to add geometry. You can see shapes changing and seemingly pointless node changes.

Hey! I'm coming from the future and just wanted to inform that it's 2025 and warping text is not yet possible on AD. I wouldn't be worried about it though, because devs told us it's on their roadmap. I was planning to comment on 2015, but couldn't due to the limits of my timemachine, something to do with vectors...

Beta Affinity Designer Errors - 1.8.1.595
Four quick bugs found in this version:
1. You can enter negative values in the margin and bleed fields!
This should not be possible.
2. Failures to convert objects to curves not repaired. and proving or subtracting simple shapes.
3. No visibility of bleed in artboards - for several years!
4. Unable to scale the Corner Tool.




STROKE1.afpub

I discovered by chance that errors occur in "destructive" and "non-destructive" Boolean operations.
Here is an example of "non-destructive" Boolean operations:

boolean_operations.afdesign

this bug can be easily found in windows version 1.8.0.585, and also found in mac version 1.8.1, hope this bug will be fix soon, now I can not draw icon in designer unless uninstall 1.8.x on both os.

Welcome to the forum studio martin :)
 
Try the following:
 
1. Select the Lines and go to Layer > Expand stroke
2. Select the Lines and Star shape and go to Layer > Geometry > Divide 
3. Select the Star shape and go to Layer > Geometry > Divide to break the object apart
 
We do have plans to add a Knife tool in the future tho to make this easier :)
 
Hope this helps!

First, Affinity Designer is beautiful and extremely efficient tool. I like it!
 
 
I am doing design and artwork for front panels / operating panels of electric devices and machines. The drawings are available in DXF and / or DWG from Autocad (trademark). What would really speed up my workflow is the option to *import* DXF or DWG files. 
 
Considering that these files can carry very complex information it would be sufficient to be able import only a single layer file or a single layer of such a file. This contains all mechanical data so I can be sure that the artwork will match the target device.
 
 
Adobe Illustrator has this feature.
 
Export of DXF / DWG files is actually not required for this kind of work.
 
 
 

Don't hold your breath for this fix @debraspicher. This issue was reported over 2 years ago and there's no sign of it being even considered let alone fixed. All I've heard since I reported it is a message like this from the moderators saying that it's a known issue and that it's been passed on to the dev team. 
 

You need to make sure your Artboards and objects are located at integer coordinates on the pixel grid, and have integer pixel sizes.
You may need to go to Preferences and increase the number of decimal places that Designer displays for pixel units to make sure you can see any decimal places.
You'll probably also want to make sure you have Snapping enabled, and Snap to grid enabled, and also Move by Whole Pixels turned off.

We have everything on Linux. Only a proper graphic solution is missing.
Please give us Affinity Designer for Linux.

Thanks. I've had another look and something does not seem to be right. Pixel layers do not seem to honour "overprint black" for some reason. Logged with our developers. 

Hello, GabrielM,
but it's not about effects to the layer or rasterized or not at all, it's about preserving the color under the shadow effect. So, since the shadow is pure black (0,0,0,100) and I set black to overprint when exporting to PDF, the color under the shadow must be preserved. These are definitely bugs in the affinity products. The same effects in QuarkXpress or InDesign get the underlying color when output to PDF! Why not Affinity? There is no error in the PDF output!

One of the most basic tools in any vector drawing application. I just installed version 1.7.3 of Deigner and STILL can not find a tool to distort a group of vector objects!

Hello Support,
I'm a laser cutter and crypto artist and I make things like you can see in the attached image.   
I've purchased both Affinity Photo and Designer.
The three main functions I need in any Vector Software are:
Blending between Shapes e.g. from a Circle to a Square with ability to set number of steps in between  Shape Creation Tool as in AI (I see you have boolean operators but these are seriously cumbersome to use in comparison to AI's shape tool) Offset Path e.g. click a path, click offset path (I did a workaround of duplicating my stroke, then on one increasing the Stroke to 20pt then Expanding the stroke, then removing my original stroke/shape away from the new expanded stroke... a ridiculously long winded way of doing it) I've seen requests for these features going back to 2014, which is really quite worrying.  You use to have a roadmap but thats disappeared.
My question is this... are you still working on any of these features so many people have requested?It would be great to see them on a Roadmap...
Can we have some transparency on when these features will (or will not) be worked on?  
I've looked all through the forum for answers but found nothing (apologies if I've missed it) but fluffy answers like "coming soon", "any day now", or "it's in the roadmap"... clearly these don't cut it and date badly looking back at them (somebody wasn't being 100%)... straight forward, honest answers would go a really long way. 
Can you please bring the Roadmap back? (it's at least something)
Chiefmonkey

I use a trick, on Affinity Photo place the vector and applied perspective and paste on Designer. Its preserve the modification and I can edit the perspective.