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We should have a way to measure the length of curves. The current measurement tools work great but they are limited, I sometimes need to measure curves that must match with a different shape curve but with the same length, forcing me to walk both curves until I see if they match or not. This process can get very slow the more complex the curve gets. It would be great to know the length of a curve just by clicking on it.

So, Designer is now able to import and export DWG's. That's great, that's fantastic. As fantastic is the measure tool. Brilliant. But it would be groundbreaking if you can add dimension to the drawing!!! You’ll have all the architecture-related people who are going to use Designer! You are near there!!! Please please please add this, and vector patterns..😁😅

Hello,
one wanted to ask whether real vector brushes are planned for Affinity Designer 2.x. Still looking for a way to use real vector brushes for a project. I know the function of Illustrator, but I miss the function in Affinity Designer.

This may seem trivial, but it drivest me nuts. When I go to save or export in Affinity Photo, the default save folder seems to be the one I last saved a file to, not the folder that the file I am working on was loaded from. This often results in having to dig through my folder hierarchy for the right one, or worse, accidentally saving to the wrong folder and needing to search for it later. If I save a file and then do an export, once again I need to go searching for the correct folder. Is there a preference that can change this?  It seems to me that most software doesn’t work this way - files get saved to the folder from which they were opened.

Please stop the Info panel x/y pixel coordinates updating when the mouse is dragged outside of image area. It's annoying to see this constantly updating when the Info panel is open. It is completely unnecessary to see the coordinates when the mouse is located outside of the image display.

Are we going to see the ability to convert a selection into a path in the near future?

In another thread in Questions, I have been discussing with others how to write a macro that will resize an image so that the longest side is a fixed value. For example, if I resize a 4000x3000 image to maximum of 800, it will give a 800x600 image. For a portrait image, the image will become 600X800.
After many iterations, I came up with a set of macros included here in a macro library: Resize to fixed max size.afmacros, which is attached here.
This includes five macros:
Resize to 640 max
Resize to 800 max
Resize to 1280 max
Resize to 1600 max
Resize to variable max side
The first four will resize any image to the designated maximum size. The last one includes a parameter which allows you to partly-specify the target size. The default target size is 2000px, but for any other value (up to a maximum of 4000, use the pop-up to adjust. The value of the parameter is the desired maximum size divided by 4000. A convenient way of specifying the final maximum edge size is to enter a fraction. If your target is (say) 800px then, in the parameter box (not the slider), enter 800/4000. If your target is 3200, enter 3200/4000.
I have given technical details of the macro in subsequent messages in this thread.
 
EDIT:
This is a revised version of the macros (as of 2nd November 2018). For details of the changes, see the item below which gives the macro details). The changes were in response to a user who found that if he cropped the image first, the macro did not work.
 
Resize to fixed maximum size.afmacros

I can confirm that this is easily replicated on Windows 10.
I also noticed that the colour change done this way is not registered in the History Panel.

I can confirm this behavior. Also tried this in the current Beta versions, and it's still there.

If Master A is Letter, Portrait, Facing and Master B Legal, Landscape, Single, and I choose to edit both at the same time with Document Setup, the attributes shown will be for whichever I selected in the list first rather than showing a mixed state value.
If I don't change any values and click OK then nothing will happen. I'd have thought the master I selected second would be changed to match the master I selected first. If I do change the values then the second master or both will be changed depending on what I change them to.
Also, I know this has been reported before and it's not really a bug but it's confusing: Facing pages is a checkbox under Pages in New Document, a checkbox under Model in Document Setup, and a segmented control under Dimensions in Spread Properties. Three different tabs and two designs for the same control.

Hi there,
 
i often need to convert pixel selections into a vector path. I know that Photoshop has the function. 
So im wondering, how i can do that in Affinity? 
 
At the moment i need to make a pixel selection with the tool to free the object or 
i draw a path manually around the object. What i need to do, is to create a pixel selection 
an convert it to a vector path... 
 
Ist this possible? If not, is there a workaround for this? 
 
thank you for a answer 
Licorne
 
 

Hi, can we get these two improvements:
Em- and En-space for the first line indent? Improvement on footnote relative (%) ruler width. For example, let say the ruler width is 40 mm and the text frame width is 120 mm. If we change the 40 mm with 30% in the box, the ruler width will become 12 mm instead of 36 mm because it is calculated from the ruler instead of the text frame width. Please, correct this "bug". The relative value of 30% (in this case) must stay in the box so, when we resize the width of the text frame -- the ruler has to be resized, too.

There's been a longstanding request in the Publisher v1 forum to add GREP into Text styles. I was excited to see the announcement about v2 but saddened to see this didn't make it in. Since the feature isn't there (yet? ) and since those v1 forums are being archived, I'm bringing the request into this new forum to keep it alive.
For a specific kind of technical document I work with, there are dozens of types of replacements that need to happen on the text in new docs, within one text style. Having the GREP expressions in the style definition makes all of these replacements happen in one click of applying a style, rather than a laborious effort to do them individually.
I understand that this isn't a mainstream feature, but it's so, so helpful to those that need it. Since the engine is already in the software, it seems like it shouldn't be a huge deal to be able to attach GREP search/replace expressions into a text style. I could be wrong, of course, as I'm not a developer. But I (and many others) would very much appreciate this coming in a new update.
 

Hello there, 
Find here my palettes that I have been using for 4 years for Affinity Designer and others. 😊
3M Film (PRO) 3M Film (PRO).afpalette : 223 colors (Art Design / Texture / Fabric) 3M Scothcal (PRO) 3M Scotchcal Series (PRO).afpalette : 578 colors (Art Design / Texture / Fabric) Blueprint Blueprint.afpalette : 10 colors, 1 gradients (Industrial Design) Bootstrap 4 Bootstrap 4.afpalette : 16 colors (WebDesign / UI Design) Brands Brands.afpalette : 75 colors from brands like Affinity, Apple, Google, Microsoft... (WebDesign / Logo Design) British Standard (PRO) British Standard (PRO).afpalette : 363 colors (Art Design / Texture / Fabric) Bulma.IO Bulma.io.afpalette : 18 colors (WebDesign / UI Design) Camo BME FR Camo BME FR.afpalette : 10 colors, 4 gradients (Map Design / Camo / Texture) FlatUI default FlatUI default.afpalette : 20 colors (WebDesign / UI Design) FlatUI 2 Japan FlatUI 2 Japan.afpalette : 19 colors (WebDesign / UI Design) Foundation Foundation.afpalette : 10 colors (WebDesign / UI Design) French Army (PRO) French Army.afpalette : 123 colors (Art Design / Texture / Fabric) GroundworkCss.IO Groundworkcss.io.afpalette : 22 colors (WebDesign / UI Design) Human body Bones Human Body Bones.afpalette : 6 colors (Art Design / Texture) Human body Hairs Human Body Hairs.afpalette : 75 colors (Art Design / Texture) Human body Intimity Human Body Intimity.afpalette : 25 colors (Art Design / Texture) Human body Skins Human Body Skins.afpalette : 26 colors (Art Design / Texture) Kube Kube.afpalette : 21 colors (WebDesign / UI Design) L'Oreal Skins L'Oreal Skins.afpalette : 66 colors (Art Design / Texture) Maps Elements - Fills Maps Elements - Fills.afpalette : 19 colors (Map Design / WebDesign / UI Design) Maps Elements - Gradients Maps Elements - Gradients.afpalette : 26 gradients (Map Design / WebDesign / UI Design) MaterialUI Material-ui.afpalette : 19 colors (WebDesign / UI Design) Old Colors (PRO) Old Colors.afpalette : 71 colors (Art Design / Texture / Fabric) RAL Colors Classic (PRO) RAL Colors.afpalette : 216 colors from RAL Classic (Art Design / Texture / Fabric) RAL Effect (PRO) RAL Effect (PRO).afpalette : 490 colors (Art Design / Texture / Fabric) RAL Plastic P1 (PRO) RAL Plastic P1.afpalette : 98 colors (Art Design / Texture / Fabric) RAL Plastic P2 (PRO) RAL Plastic P2.afpalette : 200 colors (Art Design / Texture / Fabric) SemanticUI Semantic-UI.afpalette : 15 colors (WebDesign / UI Design) SpectreCSS Spectre.css.afpalette : 7 colors (WebDesign / UI Design) UIKit Uikit.com.afpalette : 12 colors (WebDesign / UI Design)  
UPDATE 2023-11-21 03:00 :
Blueprint Blueprint.afpalette : 10 colors, 1 gradients (Industrial Design) FlatUI default FlatUI default.afpalette : 20 colors (WebDesign / UI Design) French Army (PRO) French Army.afpalette : 123 colors (Art Design / Texture / Fabric) Camo BME FR Camo BME FR.afpalette : 10 colors, 4 gradients (Map Design / Camo / Texture) L'Oreal Skins L'Oreal Skins.afpalette : 66 colors (Art Design / Texture) RAL Plastic P1 (PRO) RAL Plastic P1.afpalette : 98 colors (Art Design / Texture / Fabric) RAL Plastic P2 (PRO) RAL Plastic P2.afpalette : 200 colors (Art Design / Texture / Fabric) UPDATE 2023-11-21 13:45 :
3M Film (PRO) 3M Film (PRO).afpalette : 223 colors (Art Design / Texture / Fabric) 3M Scothcal (PRO) 3M Scotchcal Series (PRO).afpalette : 578 colors (Art Design / Texture / Fabric) British Standard (PRO) British Standard (PRO).afpalette : 363 colors (Art Design / Texture / Fabric) RAL Effect (PRO) RAL Effect (PRO).afpalette : 490 colors (Art Design / Texture / Fabric)
  Bootstrap 4.afpalette Brands.afpalette Bulma.io.afpalette Foundation.afpalette Groundworkcss.io.afpalette Human Body Hairs.afpalette Human Body Intimity.afpalette Human Body Skins.afpalette Human Body Bones.afpalette Kube.afpalette Material-ui.afpalette Semantic-UI.afpalette Spectre.css.afpalette Uikit.com.afpalette Maps Elements - Fills.afpalette Maps Elements - Gradients.afpalette

Title is pretty self-explanatory. Macros would be overall more useful if keybinds were possible.

Currently it is not possible to adjust the word kerning on a line per line basis. It is only possible to apply it on a whole paragraph by selecting a justified text block and adjusting the settings in the paragraph section of the style panel. This task is common in editorial design work, when you want fine control on a text block.
InDesign supports this kind of control.
Keep up the good work!

I would like to suggest some things which could be beneficial added to affinity publisher: 
 
- QR code generator
- watermarking
 

For me , it is essential to have an easy way to insert dimension lines (traits de cote, in French),
this is very easy in Corel Draw for instance (and I am sure a standard feature in anything dealing with architecture),
typically, you select 2 points, the distance (at the appropriate scale, this point being easy in Affinity) appears,
but then is inserted as a (2 pointed arrow) line in the document (usually , you can choose the distance between
the dimension line and the measured line for readability)
this is really something which would make my decision to buy the full suite

Hi dear Affinity Developer Team,
Now in Designer v2 when you do 'Convert to Curves', Move Tool is being changed to Node Tool automatically.
Earlier in v1 there was no such behaviour.

I do a huge amount of 'Converting to Curves' daily (without further purpose of editing nodes) and this constant switching to Node Tool hurts me workflow significantly. 
Is it possible to bring keeping selected Move Tool after 'Convert to Curves' back?
Or at least can you please make an according control/switch in Settings for turning off this 'changing to Node Tool' behaviour after 'Convert to Curves'?
Sincerely
Vitalii

Adjustment layers can be inserted in the layer menu. A dialog with the settings opens. Presets for the settings can be saved at the top right of the dialog. The presets can only be assigned via the settings panel. It would be much easier in the workflow to reload a saved preset in the adjustment layers dialog box. Please add a load preset next to the save preset. This opens the same menu that is also available in the adjustments. Yours
Erdi12

@Ash This has been asked now for so many years over and over again. I really don't understand, why this small small extra is not there yet:
when updating / checking beta / changing the computer / reinstalling a clean version of Affinity Suite, I have to set up everything over and over again:
presets for panel spaces / layouts toolbar settings app settings in general I understand, there are priorities and other extras your team is working on. But this is not an extra, it is a basic thing. Other applications let you at least get into the library of the MacOS and reposition their app's files to get the prefs working elsewhere. With Affinity even this does not work.

I am a supporter and big advocate for Affinity. Left my Adobe world behind years ago. In the beginning I understood you have more important features to build. But the frustration about this small small thing is growing. And I am wasting once again my time if I want to test Beta as I need to set up the whole app-trio again. I really do not get, why one can not export the preferences of the settings and import them withing the same 1.x and 2.x -system at least.

This is an old need, since the publisher beta version was released, almost 5 years ago, with 10 pages of comments here on the forum, how long will the affinity team ignore users on this issue?

I created this new topic so that the other one does not continue to be forgotten, since it is in the feedback archives of version 1, but it remains a necessity in version 2.
 
 

Version 1.8 of OpenType was released in 2016, it included Variable fonts. The feature is mature and widely used nowadays. 
It would be great to have support for variable fonts. 

Hi,
Could I please request that a hex value box be added to the swatches panel like you have done with the colour wheel. Currently if I want to grab the hex value of a swatch (which is quite often) I have to select the swatch > go to the colour menu (which defaults to the edit view - which is annoying) > Then I have to select colour wheel from top right menu.
It is a very verbose way to grab hex value. Can we just add it to the swatches panel.
Thank you.

Hi, this is my first topic here. After updating to version 2.2.1, programs start hundred times slower than before. Launched programs also work much slower. This is a huge problem for me. Can I go back to version 2.2.0?