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Hi omegaman, Hokusai,
You can already create and save clipping paths in Affinity Photo. They are preserved when you export the file as PSD.
To create a clipping path draw it with the Pen Tool then, from the Layers panel drag it over the thumbnail of the layer you want to clip until a blue vertical line appears. Currently it's not possible to convert a selection into a path.

Oh! You rock!  ^_^ 
Very well captured.
And so lifelike :)

Hi aubble,
Apply a larger stroke to the main shape, then go to menu Layer ▹ Expand Stroke. Finally go to Layer ▹ Geometry ▹ Divide, to create two individual shapes from each outline (which you can then apply their own stroke). 
 
Currently it's not possible to apply multiple Effects/Fills/Strokes per shape, but this will come soon. Also note that expanding the stroke will create some superfluous nodes. This will be also revised soon.

A_B_C,
In the Designer Beta released today (1.2.1.25787) you can also manage Presets clicking on the More button on the File ▹ Export dialog itself without going trough the Export Persona.

Hi A_B_C
If you change the slice export settings in the Export Persona, you can save them going to the menu on the right top of the Export Options tab and selecting Create Preset... Just give it a name and you're done. Next time you access the File ▹ Export dialog you can select that preset from the dropdown.

Hi Sudre Mudre,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
To uninstall Affinity's app just drag the app from the Applications folder to the Trash.
 
[EDIT] Leigh is typing way too fast....  :o

Here's a mix of feature requests and Sketch/Illustrator snags, I've tried not to mention anything you guys have already confirmed (But there might be a few in there)
 
Symbols & styles
Nestable - Symbol in a symbol with a shared style on a thingy in a symbol. In space. Searchable - Universal object and layer searching would cover this :) Clear organisation - sketch lacks a proper panel for organising symbols and styles. Styles and symbols should be group-able. Keynote and pages type style control - Sketch can be fussy with cmd+z, often you end up inadvertently breaking styles and text styles, changes once applied should be local until you click "Update". This also makes sketch-style text frame omission unnecessary. Inheritance from palette and symbols - if you change a global colour used in a style or symbol, it should affect all styles and symbols. The same should be true of styles inside symbols.  
Artboards
Artboard organisation - stacking by row and column with defineable margins, maybe a nice 'pack by order' method. Parenting - nesting artboards under others for export and organisation. For example, a web design with all of the desktop screens in an artboard group and the mobile in another. Esure pasting artwork respects selected artboard bounds. Toggle artboard boundary visibility. Move multiple selected artboards. Lock/unlock artwork by artboard. Show/hide artboard or artboard group Optional scale artwork when scaling board. Optional guides by artboard. Create slice from artboard. Create artboard from selection bounds Move artwork with board - Illustrator has an annoying bit of behaviour if you drag a board too close to a neighbor and velcro's an object from another artboard to the one you're currently moving, this is rubbish.  
General
CSS compliant filters - CSS filter allows hue rotations, saturation and a lot of advanced compositing effects, support has recently become very good. 9 slice scaling Placeholder image generation Option to copy colours as RGBA(0,0,0,0.1) or hex with leading hash, float, swift and objective C colours (Like skala colour) Guide multi selection, alignment and distribution Guide grid creation Snapshots in designer ;)  
I/O
Import and export text styles and symbols Export symbols to CSS file (With modern CSS3 feature support and vendor prefixes) Export Colour palettes and text styles to sass/less variables (Neat) Export path routing - Similar to sketch/adobe generator, putting /xxx in slice name creates a subdirectory and places the file in there ICNS & ICO generation

Hi javaporter,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
Go to the Character Panel and make sure you have the Language drop down set up correctly. The old style option should appear in the Typography Panel (Text ▹ Show Typography).

@Mediafuel,
 
1) Overall Lanczos is the best resampling option if you want to scale down your images since it's able to get a sharper result than Bicubic.
 
2) The progressive checkbox creates a jpeg that will render on screen ("fade in") while it's still being loaded by the browser. This helps to create the perception that the page is loading faster since the images are being immediately displayed as soon as the browser starts loading a webpage.
If this option is unchecked, the browser will render the image in blocks, one after another until it completes the image. 
Here's a demo displaying the differences between the two options.
NOTE: Apple Safari may have trouble displaying progressives jpeg's. If that's the case check the demo in Google Chrome.

Hi mistywindow,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
Go to the Crop Tool, then on the context toolbar right above the work area, change the Mode to Absolute Dimensions. Insert the values you wish, position the crop marquee where you want and click Apply on the context toolbar on the left.

Hi redline.wolfgang,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
Some users already requested support for DXF and/or DWG files.
We are considering adding support for these kind of files in the future.

Jens,
If you apply a filter or a FX the file will get rasterised too...

... not to mention the names George comes up with! Pure fun  ^_^

Hi gggggg,
Welcome to Affinity Forums.
Go to your Applications folder in Finder and drag the Affinity Designer trial app to the trash.

Noted! I'll check them out now :)
 
Thank you sir! more power :)

We're going to make it so that the layers panel has a mode which will automatically scroll and expand the tree to show the currently selected item, every time you select something (togglable on/off, obviously). Hopefully that should make it much easier to see what's going on. We could also look at making the highlighting a bit less subtle?
 
Hope that'll be okay? :)
Matt

Hi Yannik
Interesting project. I believe this is usually a little more difficult than it may look at first.
Looking forward to your progress  :)

Hi Paige,
What you're looking for are linked documents. Changes made to the originals are reflected on the documents that link to them. Currently we don't support this. But it's on our plans to implement it at some point.
 
Embedded documents are simply embedded in other documents and don't retain any connection with the original external file.

Pure vector illustration. Clear lines & perfect curves. Love ... Vector!
 

They are all in the Performance tab. To ensure the best visual quality, set the View quality to Bilinear, enable Dither Gradients and Use precise clipping.
Also when resampling images, make sure you pick the most adequate algorithm available: usually Bilinear for enlarging images (up-sampling) and Lanczos for reducing them (downsampling).

Hi rafaelartioli, 
Affinity Designer Beta has an option in the Preferences to copy items from Affinity Designer as SVG, but seems it doesn't work either :(
 
@joost,
Pixelmator does work with vectors too. They created a specific workspace for it called Vectormator: press shift+cmd+v to switch to it.

Talking about speeding up... See? Dave made my reply obsolete in 27 min... -_-

As it happens, I implemented this option yesterday, and it should be in the next beta. The choice is between:
<svg width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 40 40" <svg width=40px height=40px Hopefully one of those will satisfy all parties.

@Mediafuel,
 
1) Overall Lanczos is the best resampling option if you want to scale down your images since it's able to get a sharper result than Bicubic.
 
2) The progressive checkbox creates a jpeg that will render on screen ("fade in") while it's still being loaded by the browser. This helps to create the perception that the page is loading faster since the images are being immediately displayed as soon as the browser starts loading a webpage.
If this option is unchecked, the browser will render the image in blocks, one after another until it completes the image. 
Here's a demo displaying the differences between the two options.
NOTE: Apple Safari may have trouble displaying progressives jpeg's. If that's the case check the demo in Google Chrome.

I won't take this any further than this.
Hope you like it anyways.... Stephen Rea