MrMattSim

Definitely buy Affinity!
Both products have their strengths, and inevitably each with have features not present in the other. The only thing that I truly miss when working with Affinity is Inkscape's AMAZING node editing. For example:
Insert = add new nodes at midpoints of all selected nodes Ctrl + click node = cycle thru node types ! = Invert node selection. Grow or shrink node selection; spatially or along path. Sculpt selected nodes based on distance from drag point. (ie, elastic distortion)  Node hovering along with any transform shortcut-keys (eg: scale or rotate) will perform the transform using the hovered node as the base point! (Although, this is a larger problem in general about Affinity's lack of nudge controls for scale and rotate) Nowadays, I always work in Affinity by default. But if i've got precision node editing to do, i've got to decide if it's worth the effort to pop-out into Inkscape. Also, maybe it's just my install, but the Affinity node editing doesn't seem to work as advertised (specifically thinking of ctrl+drag curve out from node).
Anyway, like I said, buy Affinity; you'll end up loving both and dreaming of a collab.

Today was my first time using Linked PNG images. Upon updating the linked PNGs (about 200 of them),  every single one has an incorrection insertion point (beyond the limits of the frame, no less; which requires additional steps of Layer navigating and panning away from the frame... every. single. time.).
For years, I have been very happy with Affinity products, but didn't have an opportunity to use external resources until now. I'm very disappointed. This feature should not have been released until it was rock-solid. It's the kind of bug that burns you only after you've already invested a huge amount of time on the assumption that it works.
I will be abandoning Publisher until this is resolved to my satisfaction, and recommending the same for all my clients. It appears to have been an issue in various forms for almost a year, now, which is unacceptable. 
 

I'm seeing this, too, with PNG files. I recently moved to a new hard drive, so all my files had to be relinked. However, upon Updating them, they are all resizing to their original size, and not the transformed size, making my document effectively unusable.

Hi,
 
Apologies for the late reply!
 
It should be the case if you export a singular artboard that the viewbox is basically the same as the artboards rect. This functionality exists so that if multiple artboards are exported each will need its own rect writing out, the viewbox is then set to the document size.
 
I see where you are coming from and agree that an option to remove the artboards rect if it is the only exported artboard would make sense, i'll get an improvement logged for the developers consideration.
 
Thanks

I'm making a set of icons in SVG format, and have them all on their own artboard in 1 document.
Exporting an artboard to SVG (with no border or fill) includes a <rect> tag named like the artboard. I'd expect the artboard to just set the width/height & viewbox properties of the export, not to have its own rect path.
Maybe this could be just a checkbox in the export options?

Lock Children is a pain at the moment.
On my modest screen (1920px by 1280px) the toggle is often off the edge, so I have to first click the toolbar extender, and then the toggle itself. All of which takes me away from the canvas and task at hand.
A keypress would help greatly. Either a modifier key. It couldn't be Alt as thet ignores snapping pretty much everywhere with every tool, so something else… I'd even accept the rather odd Left and Right mouse button! Or an assignable shortcut. A toolbar button that I could place on the main toolbar, so that it is always visible and in the same place would be great. Perhaps put the toggle in the Transform Panel since that is usually visible? This is inline with accessing the Transform Center by clicking twice on the Anchor Point Selector.

What do the fine folks at Serif recommend as an alternative to Acrobat?  i.e.: Basic PDF manipulation: Merge/Extract/Export

Just in case somebody was looking for Windows font management software - outstanding, free, auto-activating fonts, working with Affinity:
 
nexus font manager from http://www.xiles.net/
 
cant imagine working without it.

Hi calerius,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
You can quickly generate slices for any layer (or group/object) in the Layers Panel in Export Persona. You just have to select them and press the Create Slice button on the bottom right on the same panel. Affinity will generate the slices for all layers selected automatically for you.

I would like to add that .emf/.wmf export is critical for some workflows. I regularly create .wmf files to import into to other software becasue that's the only format that the other software will take. So it's not about what's best, it's about the limits of other programs.

We do have prototyping already working behind-the-scenes in the current Designer, but it is disabled while we work through and flesh it out. Hopefully 1.6 will enable this functionality :)

There won't be a rock-solid import. Such a thing won't even be possible, because PagePlus is a mature application with many features that Publisher v1 won't support. However, PagePlus itself will continue working after Publisher comes out, so your documents won't be obsolete or unusable in PagePlus. You'll also be able to export documents as PDF and import them to Publisher.