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Absolutely. It's subtle, but very classy. Could make AD stand out from the crowd!

Just came across an interesting article on curvature continuity: it's a subtle, but very elegant, version of rounded corners. I think this would be a terrific addition tio AD's feature set (AI requires a $50 plugin to do the same), and I'd love to see this implemented into Designer, perhaps as options on the Curve and Rounded Rectangle tools. Cheers. The article: https://hackernoon.com/apples-icons-have-that-shape-for-a-very-good-reason-720d4e7c8a14#.eckdl9bhg The AI plugin: http://www.pixeology.com/Spiro/features.html

Thanks, Callum, and apologies for my perceived impatience. I added a thread to Feature Requests this morning.

I'd like the ability to draw an object over several artboards in AD, and when I export the doc to PDF have the object show up on all the pages that it touches. I haven't been able to find a way to do this in Designer. If I put a line on artboard 1, it won't print (ie. export to PDF) on artboard 2, and if I put the line on no artboard, it displays on screen properly, but doesn't show up in the PDF. The goal for me is to be able to produce sewing patterns which I can then sell online. For more info, see this thread. Thanks!

I take it the answer is "no". Guess I'll head over to Feature Requests, then.

My lady makes sewing patterns with Illustrator, and we'd like to bring her into the AD fold, but have run into a stumbling block. Here's what we're trying to do: Create multiple A4 size artboards and align them edge to edge both horizontally and vertically (ie. we create a sort of grid out of adjacent artboards). We then draw the full sewing pattern across the artboards, and export each artboard as a PDF for clients to print out at home and tape together to produce the full-size clothing pattern. In order to make this work, however, we need to be able to draw lines that will print on every artboard that the line goes over. So for example, a line from the top left artboard that continues onto the artboard just to the right should show up on both pages in the final PDFs. I haven't been able to find a way to do this in Designer. If we put the line on artboard 1, it won't print on artboard 2, and if we put the line on no artboard, it displays on screen properly, but doesn't show up in the PDF. Is there something I'm overlooking? Is there a way to print a single object over multiple artboards?

+1 on this. I just want to add a new node to the mesh warp, it isn't behaving the way I expect and I can't find any info on how warping works.

+1 on this. Absolutely essential for me.

The latest beta so far is running much much more smoothly for me! Niiiiiiice! I'll keep testing and let you know if there are any major slowdaowns remaining. Thanks for all your hard work, Affinity team!

That sounds great, Matt. I'll be fastening my seat belt for the next beta :D and will keep investigating. Thanks.

I'm having some performance issues with teh Refine Selection window. On some images, it takes so long to load the overlay that I give up. Perhaps on larger images only. I'll keep investigating.

Gents, thanks for your patience in responding to my rather frustrated post yesterday. I'll send the file that is giving me the lens blur issue.

Thanks for your kindness, MEB. As I posted above, marching ants at larger zoom levels bring AP to a crawl, and sometimes even seem to slow down other apps. Applying the lens blur filter causes AP to crash. The fact that nobody else seems to be bothered by the ants issue makes me wonder if there's something that could be specific to my machine or configuration that's causing the problem. I'll add more slowdown details as they arise.

So at this point AP is just excrutiatingly slow and buggy on my machine, and I can't justify paying for it. I love what you guys are doing, and I'll keep updating the app in hopes that at some point it starts becoming the uber-fast tool that others are claiming it to be. But for now, I have work to do, and AP is just slowing me down far too much.

I'm still getting some really quite severe performance issues. Everything from selection masks to zooming issues to even other apps slowing down noticeably at times. As most around here are raving about how fast AP is, I'm wondering if there's something wrong at my end. Any ideas?

No, I'm afraid not. I've gone up to 500%, and still seeing the performance hit. :(

UPDATE: Interestingly, the performance hit appears mainly when I zoom in. At zoom to fit, things run much more smoothly.

I'm having some pretty heavy performance hits when I have pixels selected (ie. the ants are marching). Everything works very nicely otherwise, but when I select pixels, performance becomes so slow and choppy that it becomes considerably faster to go to another app to get the job done. Of course, I'd prefer to stay in AP :) I'm on a late 2009 iMac (21.5", 3.06 Intel Core 2 Duo) running OS 10.10.2. If I can provide any other info, let me know!

+1. This is absolutely essential for print work.

No problem, though it's definitely a feature that I would find useful ;)

Just wondering if there's any way to preview what a slice will look like before I export it. I can't seem to find a way to do this, and I haven't found anything in the online help.

Ditto here. Layers > Deselect Layers is an option, but just clicking outside the selected object or outside the artboard with the Move tool is just so much easier. Command–D isn't working for me.

Thanks for the welcome, MEB. And thanks for producing such a great piece of software! I hadn't even considered it as a possibility, but I have to say that, when you stop and think about it, scaling bitmaps and text proportionally by default just makes perfect sense, and I think that's a great call on Affinity's part. I'm on the fence, though, about how natural the rest will be. Will my muscle memory learn to intuitively distinguish between objects that have and don't have natural aspect ratios? I imagine you've tested it out, and your answer is yes. In which case, I guess I'll just give it some more time and see if it all becomes intuitive. Still, I think an option to use the "traditional" constraining keys would be a plus.

I've just discovered that the key combinations change depending on whether you're scaling a bitmap or vector object. For example, holding down [shift] constrains proportions when scaling a vector object, but has no immediately apparent effect when scaling a bitmap layer. No wonder I find this frustrating! This has got to be a bug, right?