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I'll chip in 20$

i'll throw $5 into that hat

Ok it seems that there are no incentives to get you to finally get this feature in, so I would like to know if making a donation of $20,000 would help change your mind and actually introduce this ability in the software stack. I understand that this is not that much money compared to to your regular expenses, but please accept my offer to show a genuine need for this. 
Just to get a little bit of a background, I have tried several several CAD programs, unfortunately they are all horrible applications, and honestly I would not be surprised if they were built all off of the same engine, because they behave exactly the same, are extremely clunky and the performance on every single one of them is horrible. (I have a 24core xeon Mac Pro with 128GB of RAM and 2 extremely high end video cards... so this is not because of my hardware, I assure you) I enjoy the affinity program and the tools it offers, but I need to be able to export my technical drawings with their dimensional information and I cannot at the moment.
To say that this is a necessary feature is an understatement, I actually NEED this to run my business and the workarounds to get this done are laughable and very cost inefficient.\
Please, at least say if you rally are going to release this and if its anytime soon, I really want to use this program.

The new Affinity designer for iPad looks and feels awesome.
I would love to see a similar version of the Designer on Windows 10 which uses the full potential of the Windows 10 touch functionalities. A direct copy of the iPad UI could be awesome. 

Without DXF export AD is useless to my company. Talk about stumbling at the final hurdle...

OK, I'm very aware that maybe most of the designers and users of the awesome Affinity Designer are not into scientific posters, books or documents, but I'm a mathematician and I love the app myself, as much as I understand and use it. :)
 
Hence, I got a small, but important feature request: a plugin/native support which would allow one to use the power of "local" LaTeX typesetting for symbols, fonts and other scientific notations.
 
I am aware I could use the great LaTeXiT + drag & drop, but still, I envision my workflow as follows:
 
When I have a complicated figure to draw, I fire up Affinity Designer and I draw, but for annotations and everything font or math symbol related, I'm not quite covered. I have installed some versions of the native LaTeX fonts (CMU) to use system-wide, but some are missing and still doesn't feel the same. So for symbols, equations etc. I would like to be able to input a LaTeX formula (delimited by the well-known dollar-signs) and Affinity would typeset it locally, using the fonts included in the LaTeX distribution installed on my Mac.
 
What do you think? Honestly, I think that such a feature would be useful for all kinds of technical drawers, although they may use CAD-style apps. But you'll never know when you need a formula on your piece of art, right? :)
 
Moreover, in perspective, I'm sure this would provide immensely useful for the future Publisher app, with inter-operability.
 
Thank you for the support and the awesome apps!

To paraphrase a dead U.S. president, you can be all things to some of the people & some things to all of the people, but you cannot be all things to all of the people.  ;)

When team will multiple twenty times Serif can be consider video app, but now is not make sense for me. At this time they make 5-6 applications simultanously (Designer for Mac and Windows, Photo for Mac and Windows and Affinity Publisher probably for two platforms two). In my humble opinion will be better for Serif make tree outstandind app for DTP, raster and vector design to make difference. On another way we will have to wait few times longer for improvment. At this stage of Affinity evolution after 5-10 years can be a reall alternative from versions AD/AP/APu 3 or 4. Stability, new funcionality and design will make difference.
 
At this stage on page Quark I found info about professional recommended application to work with QuarkXPress is Photoshop and Affinity Photo what was very nice supprice for me.