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Indeed you have. Checked it out right now and all seems to be displaying properly on both iPad and Mac versions. Many thanks!

If you're asking if the toolbar reset to default again, it didn't for me. Everything is fine right now although it was expected. It tends to reset only on major releases (1.7, 1.8, etc.)

No dice. I've already tried repllicating it but I have no idea what's the trigger. If I find something more concrete I'll make sure to upload it to the staff. I was more hoping that someone else was experiencing this. I don't want to risk more bugs by using the beta. Disregarding this issue, 1.8.1 is fine. It's just that this bug is such a slap in the face since it happens on SAVE and doesn't leave behind any recovery file.

There have been 3 crashes now. The last 2 were in the same file. I'm not sure about the first crash but I think I was working on something else. You think the file is corrupted or something like that? It might be worth to note that every time it crashed on document save it happened right after I did some artboard duplicating with a whole bunch of complex layers. Basically right after i beefed up the file size considerably. Maybe it's something to do with that.

It just happened again. Any feedback on this?

Alright, 1.8.1 is in my case a complete clusterflock of bugs and weirdness but this one definitely takes the cake. Costed me HOURS of work and happened twice in the past 2 days. Scenario: 1. Work on a file for while (hour or two). All good during production, no issues or hangups. 2. Remember you haven't saved in a while. 3. Press Cmd + S 4. Look at your desktop wallpaper for a while wondering wtf just happened. I have no clue whatsoever on what exactly caused the crash but I know something like this never happened in the last 3 years I've used Affinity products. If I can help in any way with this bug let me know. In the meantime I'll try to make a habit of destroying the save button regularly. The worst thing is it's right after I save the damn thing and there's no recovery option afterwards of any kind. All progress is just lost.

Another bug in the latest version of Designer. Pasting layer effects on other layers does paste the same effect but with double, or just completely jumbled up values. For example, one rectangle has a 30 px gaussian blur, pasting that same effect on a different rectangle yields a 60 px blur or a complete mess like 76.4 px or whatever. No idea how to consistently replicate this. Sometimes works properly. Most of the time it doesn't.

This + it'd be great if we could collapse all layers, like in Sketch for example where you just hold option/alt before tapping the arrow next to the layer in order to collapse all the sub-layers and groups inside the parent layer.

Sure but that's still the use case only if you can use Publisher. There's no reason why the bar can't be hidden until there's multiple pages introduced in the document via Publisher. There's also an option to rework the page selector thingy and move it somewhere else, next to the canvas slider for example, so it doesn't conflict with the hints bar. Basically the same way Adobe apps do it. I've already made a little feedback thread where I address the potentially poor UX of that whole bottom area. This actually works surprisingly well. Many thanks 👍

Anyone? I basically can't do icon design like this. EDIT: Changing the display method from OpenGL to Metal in performance preferences seems to solved the issue but I'm not sure why it was an issue at all in 1.8.1 or if this is a permanent fix since the grid went haywire seemingly on random and just stayed broken like that while I was on OpenGL. I'm guessing it might happen on Metal again?

Some minor suggestions that could make the app user experience a bit nicer in my opinion. Screenshot for reference: 1. Why is there no separation between the various bars here? It all blends together and makes it all look like a big space-wasting blob. Also, I think the scrubber sliders don't even need a background Having just the selection handles visible, and the background completely or partially transparent (like the ruler) shouldn't affect usability but you'd get a bit more visible canvas estate. 2. I'd love an option to use the tool belt as any other studio window in the app. Any screen bigger than a laptop leaves a giant unusable gap bellow the tools so undocking them and using them as a regular studio would be nice. In my case for eg. I could dock them below the navigator and they wouldn't even use that much space but they'd be as useful as they were. 2b. Pretty sure this was already requested but collapsible studio windows Adobe style would also be great. 3. I've already commented on a different thread about this but might as well mention it here again. Please make an option to disable the hints bar. It's a complete waste of space for anyone at least a bit experienced in the app's shortcuts. I don't remember the last time I looked at it seeking help but I regularly curse it for taking away my valuable screen estate when using my MacBook without an external monitor. Thanks for listening 👋

I don't know about Publisher but in Designer and Photo that entire bar is used only for hints and it's killing off a solid piece of screen estate on my laptop. When I hook it up to my 4K screen it's not a big deal but it's still completely useless to me and just plain ugly. Option to disable that whole bar would be perfect 🙌

Automatic grid just disappears whenever I zoom close enough to see the pixels subdivision. It's not document specific but it just started happening randomly on every existing document and every new one I make in Designer. Automatic grid in Photo works just fine though for now. I've tried making a custom grid and what not but subdivisions are just broken now. Don't show no matter what I try. Also, since it started happening for whatever reason it's really heavy on my MB Pro when I zoom in. Temperature skyrockets in seconds. Screen_Recording_2020-03-03_at_17_07_42.mov

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Yes! I'm very nit picky about my workspace and when an entire customized UI area gets reset for no apparent reason it's not fun. There can be exportable workspace setting, Adobe style workspace presets, or ideally, account based cloud synced workspace settings. Same goes for keyboard shortcuts and what not.

I've attached a screenshot on the issue that was present in 1.7, but wasn't removed in 1.8 so might as well ask what's up with this. Appears when the app is in fullscreen mode on MacOS. Nothing important, just visually annoying. 1. Was present in 1.7, why do the 3 buttons have a gradient background? 2. Also from 1.7, why does the title slide down diagonally? 3. This is a new one in 1.8, this gradient thing appears only when I hook up my MacBook to my external 4k display. Besides those 3 things I've noticed that the MacOS menu bar and the black Affinity bar don't come down in sync but actually the Affinity bar animation is faster than the MacOS bar. It's hard to explain this so bear with me. It's like in the animation they both have the same origin point but they both come down at the same time as 2 different bars independent of each other where they should be attached to each other and slide down as as a single piece of UI. Compare the Affinity menu bar to pretty much any other MacOS fullscreen app and you should see the difference. Any fixes for all this or is it all just on Serif' end?

Nah, I tried sending different file sizes with no results and I'm borderline OCD about updates of any kind so no issues there also. I'll prepare the music in case it starts working properly eventually

I've already tried having each of the app open while sending, having them closed, reinstalling them, having the iPad upside down while dancing la macarena in the background and yes, tried sending different sizes of Affinity files. Nothin'. Thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately my setup makes the cable connection method a lot slower than anything else. A bit of a workaround i figured out is to simply compress the file before sending to iPad. AirDrop the .zip, popup appears, save where you want, uncompress and that's it.

Hi there, I seem to have the same problem with AirDrop except I'm not receiving anything in any form when sending from my MacBook. All other file formats work as expected when being sent Mac->iPad. I have installed both Photo and Designer on iPad and no matter what scenario i create I'm not getting a file via AirDrop. Just the AirDrop audio queue. No popup, no automatic opening in an Affinity app, no automatic download to the Downloads folder, nothing. Sending from iPad to Mac works just fine though.

As the title says, how does one change the canvas (not artboard) color in Designer on iPad. It's light gray by default and it's not helpful. What am I missing?

Weird no one replied here. I'd really like this also. I copy stuff via the layers the panel all the time in Photoshop. Useful stuff

Didn't know that. I'm used to taping the R key in photoshop all the time and rotating the canvas with the mouse. I guess I gotta give a shot to the custom shortcuts thing then. Many thanks

Right, well that's a bummer. Stroke width tool, shape builder tool and Photoshop's rotate canvas tool are probably the most important things missing from Designer for me (and probably many others). Do you have any estimate when these tools might get implemented? It's already been 3 years since just the width tools has been mentioned heresooo.. yeah

I just bought the software and I see this topic is 3 years old. Any update about this feature? Kinda essential for me as an illustrator