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My font and shape renders are pixilated, they look terrible. Also, with the shape selected as shown in this attachment, the colour wheel is not picking the correct colour. My shape is yellow while the picker has selected a green colour. Please investigate and hopefully correct

Sad to hear that. Why wouldn't they also introduce it to designer as well? or do you mean they will introduce it after release of publisher? I am not certain what you meant but thank you Meb as always.

Is it possible to flow text between two text frames? If yes how if no then we really need one. Thanks!

Hey rawalanche, You know I discovered the press down Control+Spacebar and drag feature by accident in Affinity Designer, (It only works using Control to the right of the space bar in my case, maybe it's a bug!). This feature is so useful because I just hold the spacebar to pan and add Control to zoom in and out, I can't imagine not having it. That being said, I have also found Snapping while smooth zoom noticeably annoying. I wish there was a toggle to enable or disable it (would be nice if both Control keys worked). I have a friend who loves it, I just don't get her but well. Anyway I have been forced to work in higher zoom level than normal just to avoid the nuance. I second you in this request.

Hehe, you are an expert in AD, you know your stuff. I on the other hand I'm a newbie, a progressive newbie perhaps. Again it was nice learning the workaround, it will come in handy for non complex vectors like exporting logos for 3D animation but for complex vectors like maps, I will still need to use Ai. This workaround is just not applicable for shapes with hundreds of thousands of nodes because you have to correct intersections manually. Newbie today, expert tomorrow. I have every intention of becoming an expert AD user. Fingers crossed

It is a cool workaround, notice it only creates nodes at the centre which now allows you to manually cut and join the paths to achieve the look you were going for. I think it's always nice to know a workaround in case you get stuck When I began using AD, I used Alt drag just like in Ai and it works! I think I watched a power duplicate tutorial in Vimeo which is where I learnt about ctrl J. Come to think of it, it's like paste in place for Ai, and why does Ai paste in a random location by default? SMH. This is how making a copy should always behave. I love the feature

These days they also support full versions of the normal software we use everyday! The other day I saw they have the full version of Inkscape, the opensource vector software. I don't know how good an idea it is to port the full versions of AD or AP to the Windows store because there are many users still using other versions of Windows.

Thanks A_B_C for the links. They are an eye opener. It concerns me that these are known issues going back to 2014/2015. If this AD roadmap link is anything to go by, these features are not even in the pipeline! I am wishing the developers all the very best because I am rooting for Affinity/Serif. I will continue to use AD and just keep learning in the meantime. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/10410-common-feature-requests-index/

Ooh my! I just tried that and it works! What is the rationale for the different results? Do you think there is a reason for this different outcome?

...when you don't switch the upper nodes, but the upper and bottom right node. then copy and select both and divide... I am sorry but I don't quite understand what you meant to say here, kindly explain or illustrate if it's not too much to ask

Thank you everyone for the replies. I really really appreciate them. I have updated my initial post with more attachments including an original Affinity file to clearly illustrate exactly what I was trying to achieve. I have taken my time to attempt every single suggestion posted here and I feel sad to realize that Affinity does not have a way to realize what I was trying to achieve. Fingers crossed, I hope this will change soon. @dutchshader I have tried the duplicate and divide way, it doesn't create 2 triangles automatically which is what I expected. However, it does create two nodes at the point intersection which means you can manually move, break curve and join the node accordingly. I am quite excited to learn this. It will come in handy at some point in the future I'm sure.

AD does not have that. It is a frustrating feature to lack.

Hey, I have used AD for less than a month and I have absolutely fallen in love with it. It is so well thought out and implemented, I am already a customer and I wish for it to stay this way. That being said, I am honestly let down by how limited the Boolean operations are. I realise this is a pretty new software and it might not have all the features I had in Ai but I expect that the features that are implemented are well implemented. For instance, if you have a shape that is intersecting with itself, there is no way to subdivide it into individual shapes resulting from those intersections. I have attached two shapes to better demonstrate this. In Ai, if you use ADD on such shapes, it gets subdivided into different shapes. This is so useful for exporting complex shapes to 3D software for extruding like maps. 3D software don't work with intersecting paths from the same shape. I wish the divide operation was able to sub-cut these kinds of shapes. Is it something that is in the pipeline? because as a matter of fact AD is quite weak in secondary vector manipulations. After you have converted a shape into curves, there goes your power more so in stroke mode. Cutting them, joining them and everything in between is quite a hustle. Hopefully all this changes soon because I genuinely love AD. Thanks! ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... UPDATE First of all, I am overwhelmed by the honest concern and genuine replies. Makes me love AD all the more, just knowing there are people willing to help whenever you need assistance. What a community! So thank you a million to everyone for taking your time to reply;) I have decided to update this post to make it a little clearer what exactly I wanted to know. Here I have attached three more files. The reason I posted this here is because I needed to know if there is a way to remove all intersecting paths in AD. In Ai, you select the shape you want to remove the intersections and just hit the ADD or DIVIDE Boolean operation. From my own research and the feedback I have received here, it is impossible to do that. I guess I have to keep using AI, :rolleyes: I can only hope this makes the question a little clear. Divide operation test.afdesign

Thanks Meb, I will absolutely change it.

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It is there already. Go to text, spelling, deselect "Check spelling while typing". And that's all

Hey Liakos, Turns out you can do that if you know the catch! "if i could choose other integers than just 15deg or rotating to the decimal point or having to type it.," Here is how; Select shape you want to ratate In the context menu bar, define the point from where it should rotate (Pivot) by selecting show rotating centre and moving it to the appropriate position. Make a duplicate of the shape you wish repeatedly transform or rotate in our case, please note you kinda have to use control/command J to duplicate as opposed to copy and paste;) Select the duplicate copy and hold down the shift key, rotate to say 15 degrees. In the transform panel you will notice the rotation menu has changed to the angle you have rotated. Change this angle to the specific angle you wish to and hit enter. Use control/command J to repeat the transform. That should do the the trick! Alternatively, rotate to 15 degrees and group those objects, make a copy and rotate to zero then finally to 10 degrees. There you have it. I hope this helps and keep going!

Hey Zwuckel, it's one of those nuisance you face when migrating from Adobe illustrator. You just have to get used to the idea of adjusting your work flow a bit. I am pretty disappointed to loose that feature but I discovered that if you have snapping enabled and then use ctrl/Cmd key instead of alt as you drag, you get all manner of snapping as you duplicate.

Hey Meb, safoster71, The ability to align points for me is so crucial as a logo designer and without it I might have to change my approach to logo design and I am not sure I can. @MEB I have tried the suggestion you have given above but it only seems to align points to points on other objects, in AI, I can select any number of points on any number of objects and align them to the left, right, top, bottom or even centre. If I select 2 points and align them to the left, the point on the right moves to the same x axis position as the one on the left and so on. When using strokes, you can generate rather sophisticated drafts very fast, with amazing results! I honestly hope this is a feature that can be added, I have already invested in Affinity designer, I am really hoping to stay here