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VTracer is the best so far among free ones.
https://www.visioncortex.org/vtracer/

Confirmed that it's fixed in 2.5
Thank you.

Hope It will be available in the V2 life cycle...

@Pedro Dias please add "phonetics" tag to this topic.

Phonetics(Ruby) is necessary in Asian languages such as Chinese but just Japanese.

Even html has it.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ruby

I use visual builders to design a web page directly.
Using graphic design apps just for wireframing and materials.

Such as WebFlow or Framer.
https://webflow.com/
https://www.framer.com/

Also there're tools to export Figma to HTML.
https://www.animaapp.com/
https://www.builder.io/


Additionally there're PSD to HTML converters out there if you google it.

I too have requested this before.
This is must have feature in image editiong apps.

UPDATE!
Photopea has updated the resources! Now you can just drop the Affinity Photo file DIRECTLY!
Drag and drop your file and that's it!
CleanShot 2022-03-31 at 15.10.44.mp4

I use visual builders to design a web page directly.
Using graphic design apps just for wireframing and materials.

Such as WebFlow or Framer.
https://webflow.com/
https://www.framer.com/

Also there're tools to export Figma to HTML.
https://www.animaapp.com/
https://www.builder.io/


Additionally there're PSD to HTML converters out there if you google it.

Honestly I feel no one is using a graphic design app to export HTML among web designers.
We use specialized apps for that.

Excellent - thanks for confirming 👊

The font Mandu mentioned is shown in 2.5.2 beta.

The font Mandu mentioned is shown in 2.5.2 beta.

@FarThing Would it be possible to try the font in the 2.5.2 beta to see if the same thing happens. If not, feel free to send me the font via DM and I can give it try to see if the issue has been fixed.

Not shown on my side either.
Win 11 23H2 & MSIX installer.

Hi All,
We have just made a new build available of a 2.5.0 beta live - version 2.5.0.2463 - This was created to address improve the new features announced in this post. This build is considered a potential release candidate RC1 but is realistically unlikely to be with a few more fixes before release.
The fix list for this build is here
It includes changes to the Expand Stroke that should produce better results for this function.

Embedded font support for PDF editing would be very welcome, of course, but that is wildly off topic for a thread about variable fonts.

Variable fonts
Apps: Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher
Platforms: All
You're now able to use variable fonts in all Affinity apps, providing a plethora of new typographic design possibilities.
As well as providing predefined font styles, such as light, bold and condensed, variable fonts give you fine control of specific design aspects known as axes of variation, or just axes for short.
To try out variable fonts in Affinity, apply one to some text and then:
- On desktop, click the Font Variations button on the context toolbar (or on the Character Panel).
- On iPad, tap the arrow to the right of Bold/Italic/Underline/Strikethrough on the Text Panel and then tap Variations.
Variation settings on desktop.

 
 
Variation settings on iPad.

 
You'll see settings for each axis that the font designer has made individually adjustable.

Axis' slider being dragged.
Many variable fonts allow you to adjust their width and weight axes, and possibly italic, optical size and slant. These five axes are common enough that they're defined by the OpenType specification.
All manner of other axes may also be adjustable, such as:
- the height of ascenders and depth of descenders to better fit your chosen line spacing.
- the stem terminals, to choose between straight and swelling.
- the width of counters, which are enclosed and partially enclosed spaces within glyphs.
For examples of other possible axes, check out the axis definitions that are available for variable fonts at Google Fonts.
You may see fewer axes in Affinity than are mentioned by a font provider's marketing. For example, Google Fonts lists 13 axes for Roboto Flex and Affinity exposes five of them. This is because we respect font designers' ability to specify that an axis should be hidden. This is part of the OpenType specification and means that software isn't meant to provide an interface for such axes.
Why would a designer do this? Well, a variable font might adjust an axis internally based on your choices for other axes that you can directly adjust. For example, observe how counter widths change when the weight axis is adjusted in the animation above.

Variable fonts and PDFs
PDF doesn't support variable fonts. So, when you export a PDF of an Affinity document that uses a variable font, we create a static instance of the font with fixed settings.
We've taken steps to ensure static instances of fonts are well named. You should find this minimises the need to identify the original variable fonts if you later import or place the resulting PDFs.

Apps: Designer
Platforms: macOS, Windows and iPad
Affinity Designer now includes a new width tool which is available by default alongside the pencil tool in your toolbar:

The Line Width Tool gives you an on-document way of editing the pressure profile of any curve. For example the curve below has 3 pressure points (5 including the start and end pressure). While in the Line Width tool the position of those points are shown along the curve, and you have the ability to drag to change the width and position of them. 
You can also click to add a new pressure point, or double click to remove any pressure point on a curve.

There are various modifiers available which you can see in the status bar:
Shift + Drag - allows you to modify the width at any point without adjusting it's position
Cmd (Mac) / Ctrl (Win) + Click - manually enter the width required at the chosen point
Ctrl (Mac) / Ctrl (Win) + Drag - move the point position without adjusting the width
Double click - remove pressure point
Additionally you will find some other options in the context toolbar when using this tool:

Adjust Line Weight - if this is turned on then should you drag the width of any point to be greater than the current line width (i.e. greater than 100% pressure) the line width will be increased to allow you to drag the width unrestricted. If it is turned off then the maximum width you can drag to is 100% of the set line width.
Allow point reordering - This option allows to you to specify whether you want to allow the tool to drag one point past another along the curve, effectively swapping their order, or not.
Snap to curve nodes - This will show any nodes on the curve as small white dots and will snap any pressure points to those nodes
Snap to widths on same curve - this will snap the width at any pressure point on a curve to other widths which already exist on that curve. This only applies when holding shift (i.e. you are adjusting the width without altering the point position).
Snap to curve geometry - this will snap the width to the geometry of any selected curves (again if you are holding shift). 

Apps: All
Platforms: macOS and Windows
As has been requested numerous times we have now converted the typography dialog from a pop-up dialog into a panel so you can now easily dock it / keep it available should you wish. 
This is available both fro the Window menu (note: this is currently at the bottom of the panel listing, but will be changed to be a sub menu from the Text panel options next week), and also from the typography button in the context toolbar  when you have text selected.
 

Hi All,
Below is the list of all new feature and improvements which are included in the 2.5 beta (bug fix list is available here).
To learn more about these features please click on the link to go to each feature's dedicated post. To give feedback or report bugs against any of these features please reply to that same post (also check out bug reporting and feedback tips).
Variable Fonts  Line Width Tool Pencil Tool Improvements QR Code Object "Default preset" for grid Typography Dialog turned into a Panel Other Improvements Getting the 2.5 beta
If you have not enrolled into the beta program yet and would like to take part, you can do so here. This will immediately give you access to the latest 2.5 beta builds to try for yourself.
If you are already enrolled in the beta program you have two options:
1. If you still have the 2.4 beta installed, you can now run up those beta versions and you will be prompted to update them to the 2.4 beta.
2. If you have uninstalled the 2.4 beta, you will need to go back to Your Account -> Downloads and product keys and find your previous order for the Affinity Beta Software Program, and you can download the 2.5 beta from there.
Thanks,
Ash

We expect to start 2.5.0 beta during April.

There are genuinely no plans for us to remove the availability of our apps to purchase as a perpetual licence. I will say it is possible in the future there may be an optional way to have them via a Canva subscription plan (which could also include other integrations with Canva / cloud services which you would not get with the perpetual version). But it’s very early days and there isn't a firm plan on that.
I honestly think you'll all be pleased with the outcome of this. With the additional financial backing we have no pressure at all to release a V3 anytime soon, so can be 100% focused on ploughing all our efforts into free V2 updates for the foreseeable future - and we've got some great updates in the works. 
Realise this announcement has come as a surprise and I understand the feeling of uncertainty which is brings, but I do think it's all very positive for the company and our customers. 

Not in development yet?

This is my impression from the result of super scaling a very low-res image.
So AI/DL/ML tools are lucrative.
Feel free to comment. additions/revises are welcome.
Great
Gigagixel AI (commercial, Mac/Win)
Upscayl (free, Mac/Win/Linux)
Pixelcut (freemium, Online & iOS)
Replicate (freemium, Online)
Nero AI (freemium, Online)

Good
ON1 Resize AI (commercial, Mac/Win)
Upscale.media (free, Online & iOS/Android)
LetsEnhance (freemium, Online)
Remini (commercial, Online & iOS/Android)

Mediocre
Photoshop, PS Elements (commercial, Mac/Win/iOS)
Luminar Neo (commercial, Mac/Win)
PhotoZoom Pro (commercial, Mac/Win)
Paintshop Pro (commercial, Win)
AI. Image Enlarger (freemium, Online& Mac/iOS/Android) 
Bigjpg (freemium, Online & Mac/Win/iOS/Android)
 

Haven't tried Pixelmator,