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Greetings! I just wanted to lead off with a thank you! This app is really shaping up! SOOO much better than being an Adobeslave! Anyway, I have noticed with the last few updates, an issue with selecting objects when text boxes are involved. They seem to take "priority" often not allowing any selection of objects behind them, sometimes even when the shape behind is directly clicked on. FYI.

further testing - the file is unsavible once a symbol is used. Attempting to save leads to a crash only if the "symbol" step is used.

Greetings, I am making a "half sheet" and using a symbol to replicate it on the bottom half of the page. After making the symbol, and then adjusting type, designer (latest beta) tends to crash. (3 times so far, last one was in an attempt to save the file)

just to let you know, i killed the preferences and the behavior continued. I replaced the application straight from a new download and the behavior continues. Must be some other place it stores settings?

Greetings! Photo and Designer have developed an interesting issue for me. When i leave my home network they refuse to open for an extended period of time and then give me a error (see attached) not being able to connect to a machine on my home network. They INSIST on connecting, and wont open at all until they do. Not sure why they insist on this computer, as i rarely use it in conjunction with photo. Help?

Interestingly, this issue is in designer and publisher, but NOT photo 🙂 (on iPad that is)

Greetings, This is a bug from the beginning of v2. When selecting a text, some fonts (not sure the commonality) will display their name in a chinese/japanese font. The font in the attached image is "a love of thunder". This is present in affinity designer on the ipad (latest beta). I use it the most. WIll check to see if its "universal" when i get time Thanks, i LOVE the way things are going with this app! Scott

Greetings! I just wanted to say, LOVE the direction designer is going on ipad now. Well done!

I have developed an interesting quirk with v2. At home, if i connect to another machine, while designer is running - and then go on the road with the laptop - any attempt to open or save documents (that were not attached in any way i can see to said other machines) takes forever as designer tries in vain to find the connected machine and wont let go for nearly 3 -4 minutes. Which really causes a workflow slowdown 🙂 Any ideas? So far it is only designer that does this to me (although i do use it the most) Thanks!

Greetings, When attempting to export an image “selection only” and it has a hsl filter in its group, it doesn’t save as selection only, but a shape the size of the art board instead. Rasterizing causes it to work correctly. FYI. This was the case in publisher as well as designer on iPad Pro iOS 16

Greetings. I used the warp tool on a group of text objects (works wonderfully). However, when printed, it appears as though some of the text is “through” the 2d plane (has bottom corner cut off- see below). this is on a MacBook Pro (m1 max). There is often some amount of “screen tearing” when moving/ zooming as well (a lot more than on an intel iMac). More so in photo I guess, might be I notice due to amount of usage. Anyway. FYI

The symptom that shows that it’s going to explode is the slightly disconnected triangle as seen circled below.

After some experimentation, it appears that where you hold your finger down for that second menu matters, as I have just gotten it to work properly. The issue happens when you tap and hold in between buttons.

If, in any affinity app (latest update) you three finger swipe while having an object selected - then hold down a finger in the middle of that menu you get an additional menu (as seen in attached). Any attempt to use it results in a app explosion in which everything dies. fyi

Greetings Affinity! Good job so far! Don't let the whiners get you down! Just a few things i've found in my playing with designer on ipad (ipadpro 12.9 3rd gen - ios 16) >When you swipe three fingers and get the new contextual menu (LOVE this idea) when you hold a finger down, and get the additional list - any click on that additional list leads to a app crash. >After adding all my fonts to v2 (thanks alot apple). i found a it strange, that when i select said added font, the "name" in the text menu on the side and at the top is incomprehensible - looks like Chinese writing. (used ios to try to translate - it came up with ??????) and now for the "gee, let me see how far i can go to break things" category > step 1, place/embed (on an ipad! wow!) a older affinity file of a vector pumpkin i drew for a project last year. >step 2, place a filled box underneath. >step 3 - decide to try a mesh distort on said embedded afdesign file. >>result - see attached 🙂 All in all great effort here guys! Just a few loose ends to tidy up and we are gold! Thanks all! Scott

Greetings! Happy Affinity Day! I do have a question, as i am diving into all the new stuff. What is the prescribed process of "upgrading" the ipad apps? (in a way that doesn't lose any previous work that is) I assume, if one deletes the version 1 app, its file directory will be deleted as well? Is it as simple as copying (if it lets me) all of the previous work from the v1 folder to the v2 folder? Or are there some hidden "gotchas"? Any thoughts?

Greetings, i am creating a small booklet in Publisher. My problem? When i print the pages double sided, the back side prints "upside down" - no matter what i try to do (short of rotating the back 180 degrees. Any idea as to why its doing this? Thanks for any help!

it appears that doing the reset (plus a restart) fixed it! Thanks

Greetings, I just updated my apps and have found a unusual issue. Every "window" affinity would usually pop up is instead hidden. My issue is in particular with the "fx" window, and when I try to export. When you initially click to export the image, the save dialog window is hidden for me until I use the "ap expose" gesture on my MacBook Pro (m1 max version). Same for "fx". It is only ever revealed just after I do the ap expose. There appears to be no other way to "find" them. This is happening in every Affinity app. Help?

May sound like a stupid question, but how (performance/memory wise), does leaving files open (the thumbnails when you first open the app) affect photos performance? I ask because for the first time I have experienced some performance issues, trying to figure out the cause (the iPad is not close to being full) thanks!

To get a better idea of what was aiming for - look at “quick menu” in procreate. Pretty good/simple approach to making shortcuts to things you normally have to hunt/peck for

Greetings! This has been an intermittent bug for me. when creating artboards and then "continually" saving them out as pings the export persona adds an extra pixel to their dimension. for instance, i created an artboard for a 1024x1024 web image. to straight export it saves as 1024x1024. to use the export persona is makes it 1025x1025 (with no way to adjust it) FYI

I LOVE a designer for iPad, but one of the biggest things I miss are “shortcut keys”. I know you can attach a “real keyboard”- but it’s often unwieldy. I don’t know why the software keyboard doesn’t have the command key either... but I was wondering - could there not be a system that essentially gives you quick access to predetermined operations with just a 2 or 3 finger touch? That would speed up things significantly for me. I kind of envision a preferences panel that allows you to perhaps custom set 3-5 often used operations that can then be accessed directly on the screen by say a long tap with three fingers, kind of like the “right click” approach?

Greetings! Something has changed recently concerning how art boards are printed. Previously, to do a two sided page in one document, I would make a page sized artboard for each side of the paper, arrange them closely together and the document would print correctly double sided. today I tried a older file that has worked with no issues in the past. However now it is telling the printer it is a 11x17 document instead of a 8.5x11 one. No amount of fiddling seems to rectify this. This was tried from an iPad Pro, with the 1.9.2 designer app. Print attempts from both the designer app, and saved as a pdf and printed using an Epson app. any ideas what’s changed?

upon further reflection, it might have been the small app "Magnet" i was using that caused the issue. It was also killing Notification Center. Since i've updated it though things are playing nice. So far...