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Blend tool (object blending) has been requested since 2015. It's a crucial part of doing parametric / creative work. Any chance to put in onto priority / pipe?
Thanks

Hi @Aammppaa, it has not been implemented yet. There is a way to achieve what you want by using compounds, the attached was just some artistic text and a rounded rectangle that had no fill. I created the compound by selecting both layers then clicked Intersect while holding the opt/alt key. Select the compound layer and add your outlines in the Appearance Panel, the text remains editable.
There are a few problems in the release version with the booleans, letters A, L & M are affected but it depends on your font. I am using the latest Mac beta 1.8.2.1and it is working well. I believe that it has also been fixed in the latest Windows beta.

I would like Sreif to bring back "real" vector brush from DrawPlus to Affinity.
Affinity's vector brush is actually a raster brush stroke with a curve, pseudo vector brush.
Why this has been changed when Affinity was developed?

Radeon 6800XT looks like it finally have the score it should have.
 

As a workaround, the "Pinning" can be used for the Ruby for now.

https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/pinning.html


Screen Recording 2022-10-23 at 12.39.21.60 PM.mp4

Hi folks,
I thought I'd give you a quick progress update and let you see some of things we've been working on at Serif Labs.  We now have a scripting core that we're reasonably happy with and have put together a little test area where we can run Javascript code, so I thought I'd show you some of that. Things to note:
This is all VERY early, like pre-pre-pre-alpha. The JS API is extremely fluid and is constantly changing. This is not how the Affinity suite will run scripts and plugins; it is just a sandbox window for internal testing. There is still a huge amount of work to be done. I can't provide any timescales for when scripting will be publicly released, for Beta or Retail. Constructive feedback is welcomed, but I won't be able to answer all questions - see previous points. I'm not claiming any of these examples are particularly useful on their own; they're just to demonstrate some basic scripting functionality. Re Javascript async - yes, we support it, I've just not recorded anything yet. The sleep calls are there for screen-recording purposes only. Here are some demos as low-res gifs. If you want to take a closer look, movs are attached.
Create a Mandelbrot image

Some dodgy physics

Insert a dragon curve

"Emojification" (translation?) of text

Create a grid of colours
 
Select and hide based on hue

Replay a document's edit history

mandelbrot.mov
balls.mov
dragon.mov
grid.mov
hue.mov
replay.mov
emoji.mov

I think the locked icon should be little more distinctive, I mean more prominent.
How about making it "bolder" abound 1px or so and in more high contrast color.
The unlocked icon is ok to be left as is.
 

I think the locked icon should be little more distinctive, I mean more prominent.
How about making it "bolder" abound 1px or so and in more high contrast color.
The unlocked icon is ok to be left as is.
 

Below is the list of all new features and improvements included in the 2.1 beta. This new functionality is in addition to the many bug fixes and stability improvements in this version (currently 2.1.0.1790).
Depending on how the beta goes / how many issues there are to fix it's possible some more items will be added to this list before 2.1 is officially released - follow this topic if you want to be notified if that happens.

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).
Features and improvements affecting all platforms
Balanced dashed lines and other stroke improvements (new in build 1730) Running headers in Affinity Publisher (new in build 1730) Show special characters added to Designer and Photo (added to iPad too in 1730) Adjusted Mask Behaviour (new in build 1730) Auto-select options in move tool (new in build 1713/1714) Square bracket stroke width adjustment expanded functionality Blend mode keyboard shortcuts Alt / Option - drag to duplicate in Layers panel Alt / Option click to expand / collapse all in Layers panel Crop tool improvements Auto clean added to paint mixer brush Paste inside picture frame Vector Flood Fill Guides improvements Vector warp nodes now obey snapping Brush panel improvements Raster perspective and mesh warp live filters added to Designer Search bar added to your add-ons (new in build 1713/1714) Analytics Windows and macOS features and improvements
WebP and JPEG XL now available in batch export (new in build 1736) Migrate retail version content and settings to beta version (new in build 1730) Cross references available in Affinity Publisher (this has now been pushed back to 2.2 as announced here) "Close All" added to File menu Asset panel reordering improvements Rename... added to Layer menu & tab behaviour Mask to below... added to Layer menu Measure tool now available in Photo and Publisher Place tool now available in Affinity Photo Drag / Drop bitmap fill to colour and swatch panel Zoom tool context options in Develop persona iPad features and improvements
New left swipe options on iPad layers panel (new in build 1736) Redesigned edit menu (new in build 1730) Some file management changes to iPad (new in build 1730) Style picker added to iPad apps (new in build 1713/1714) Drop down menus with checkable options no longer auto close New keyboard shortcut options added Reset rotation in navigator with double tap Pencil double tap option to open quick menu Long press geometry operation to create compound Tapping warp group thumbnail now selects node tool PDF options now exposed when opening Modifiers now available for Select Object Hide Layer type icon now available Main view rulers added  
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 2.1 beta builds to try for yourself.

Try turning off this.
設定アプリ>一般>キーボード>ハードウェアキーボード>ライブ変換

For sure is that VectorStyler can already do it. So the math can't be that complex.

I just looked up the math of an ellipse (hey, it's been over 40 years since my last geometry lessons!) on mathopenref.com/ellipsefoci.html and mathopenref.com/ellipsetangent.html
So what we need here is to construct "helper tangents" for each object. That's easy with a circle, needs a bit more math with an ellipse to find its focus points: 
F = √(j^2 − n^2)
See also the source code of the ellipsetangent.html page on how the interactive JS applet works. (I'm no JS programmer so don't ask me…)
When you have your tangents, you only have to turn on appropriate object and node snapping options.
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Alternatively, keep in mind that you can zoom in as close as more than whopping 300000000 % (!) and you'll still see the curves to align them so that they touch. Set the blend modes to Multiply to see when they overlap. Use the Transform Origin snapping to object geometry to align multiple ellipses. In the end you can add an invisible shape with nodes at the ellipses centres and at the touching points, so that you don't have to search for them again:

Or alternatively, get VectorStyler:

That would be exactly one of those cases what I have bought VS for (while it was on sale last month).
Then just copy the shapes back to Affinity. Works fine.

Would be nice if you could add the collision detection / the common tangents option for the snapping.
So snapping non-polygon objects will be easier.

The far too littered and cumbersome undo history it's one of the most annoying things with Affinity Publisher, that makes me not want to use it, as long as I have access to other software.
Is this any change to this in version 2?

Tell me about it! It drives me nuts! And no, it works the same way in version 2. At least they could give us an option in the settings to disable this stupid thing. Not sure why the developers are so hardheaded!?

This should now be fixed in the latest update which we pushed last night (2.0.3) - you can get that from the App Store now...

If you are on iPad, bring the artwork to Vectornator with a PDF or SVG, then export it to the Adobe CC Cloud as an AI using its CC Cloud integration.
Though the artwork might be changed more or less depending on how you designed.

Sorry for the delayed reply. Issue logged. 

The color is off on PSD export preview of the CMYK doc.

Totally agree that this behavior should be removed.
Or at least Serif should give us an option to remove it.
 

When I am adjusting the layout, there are often times I need to see the layout without the selection boxes... this is fine until I need to make a few comparisons. I use the Undo/Redo actions for a before and after comparison but I can't because for some reason it was thought to be a good idea to include De/Selections into the Undo History. This makes it so if I Undo, and then select something, I've lost all my history I may have wanted to keep.

Can you remove this "feature" from the product. It's not great and makes me want to go back to Adobe pretty quickly out of frustration.

But even if the font exists on both systems, and has the same name so it's recognized, it can have different characteristics (kerning, letter heights, and various others) that can throw off the layout. We've seen that before, I think, with fonts that Windows and Mac have in "common".
If you're sharing with sharing with someone else, Packaging prevents problems.

Typo, right? Auto-correct going crazy, maybe? 😃