tom.s

Oh god, another super basic feature that's missing. I've been trying to blur the edges of this mask for ages and it wasn't getting any more blurred. What even is the point in the blur brush if it can't blur anymore than like 4 pixels?!

+1 for another missing feature that was on the roadmap at one time but who knows.

+1 For this feature, I had someone send me an AI for a job and I can't see the background, found it it's a gradient mesh. I really thought that Affinity was going to be a replacement for Adobe, but using after my Adobe licence ran out, I'm disappointed to see so many features missing. For this I'm unable to use it in a professional workplace. I hope Affinity get's there, but it isn't there yet. Time to renew my Adobe licence.

I too think it would be an amazing addition to Designer to have a shape builder tool. I really feel like Affinity Designer is lagging behind when it comes to the pen/shape tools. Software like Illustrator and even Figma is a head when it comes to things like even being able to copy and paste nodes. I would say, I've been using Designer more now my Adobe has ran out and I'm surprised by how many fundamental features it is actually lacking.

3 years on, is this functionality in the software now? I can't seem to find it.

Looking to do this and came across a few posts saying you can't do it. Like what?! For real?! That seems so bad to me. It's simple UX stuff.

Exporting to PDF is getting the font completely wrong. The only way around it is to convert the font to curves before hand which I don't want to do. I've tried doing the same document with InDesign and I have absolute no issues. See attached for demonstration.