reminous

The issue "Export Persona hang in Open and Save Panel Process when Exporting Slices" (REF: AFD-5921) has been fixed by the developers in internal build &quot2.1.0.1781&quot.
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.

Good news ! Serif team is aware of this bug and are now able to reproduce it.
So they can start investigating it !! Finally !
I've got this information from here :
 

I've tested it in the 2.1.0.1709 and the bug is still there... I don't know, I'm starting to think that that is gonna be there for a while! So, I'm using the workaround while the bug persists: finish my design, export one artboards using the file/export option, then making my following export using the Export Persona. It sucks, but it's much better than come back to Adobe environment.

There is a work around:

Before using the Export Persona, export one artboard using File/Export. After that, Export Persona will work as intended! You can export anywhere (Dropbox and Google Drive  included).
Before I do that, I had to use Affinity Photo to export my work properly.
I hope it works for you guys too.

Hi there!
I find myself using 'Lock Children' all the time... I wish we had a way to do a shortcut for out of that so I don't need to rely finding on top panel.
By the way, this feature cannot be found in any menu also, which pretty unusual. I guess that should at least be placed somewhere in the Layers panel no?

H there,
 
I wish we could rename the artboards when doubling click over its name direct from the canvas instead depending on the layer panel to do so... It would be much more intuitive!
Reminous

Hi there,
That is hapening because the Artboard is not positioned in whole  y and x pixels, but there is an easy fix. Just folow these steps if you have more than one Artboard:
Method 1 (harder, but good for documents with two or three Artboards)
Select the Artboard number one (that is the one the top of your layer panel) Open Transform panel (View>Studio>Transform): you will noticed that its position is X=0 and Y=0 right? (if its not you're not selecting the Artboard on the top of your laer panel) - The step above is ONLY for verification: what you want is make sure the other Artboards are also with X and Y positions with WHOLE pixels. To do that select the second Artboard and force the X and Y values to whole values (you'll notice that these positions have broken values, so delete the dots and the value after that Done - you can export without that anoying white border Method 2 (faster, good for multiple Artboards)
Select all Artboards Select Align Select Align Horizontally, then enter a whole value into the field (do the same for the Align Vertically if needed) Done - all your Artboards are now positioned into whole pixes   I hope that helps,

H there,
 
I wish we could rename the artboards when doubling click over its name direct from the canvas instead depending on the layer panel to do so... It would be much more intuitive!
Reminous

H there,
 
I wish we could rename the artboards when doubling click over its name direct from the canvas instead depending on the layer panel to do so... It would be much more intuitive!
Reminous

+1

If you're on Mac:
As long as the checkbox is visible, it can be toggled via very simple AppleScript, provided the main window is not in "separated mode" and there are no panels or other windows floating above:
tell application "System Events" tell process "Affinity Designer" try click checkbox "Lock Children" of window 1 end try end tell end tell Other scenarios with floating windows and panels will get more complex in order to target the main "window n", but it's not impossible.
Coincidentally I had to figure out something similar earlier today for switching the waveform view mode in Izotope RX 8 audio editor. It was a p.i.t.a. because they also use nonstandard UI elements but eventually I made it work.
An AppleScript can be executed e.g. via Keyboard Maestro, or within a Service made in Automator with a shortcut in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services.
I haven't found an easy way to access it via AppleScript yet. The "»" pseudo button appears to be invisible to System Events. (Very, very bad UI design, Serif! Ever heard of accessibility?!)
It should be possible to access it via executing a click at a position relative to the window bounds. But there are several variables, for instance I'm often keeping the Toolbar disabled, enabling it only when needed. So the calculation would be slightly complex for my modest scripting skills…

Hi there!
I find myself using 'Lock Children' all the time... I wish we had a way to do a shortcut for out of that so I don't need to rely finding on top panel.
By the way, this feature cannot be found in any menu also, which pretty unusual. I guess that should at least be placed somewhere in the Layers panel no?

Hi there!
I find myself using 'Lock Children' all the time... I wish we had a way to do a shortcut for out of that so I don't need to rely finding on top panel.
By the way, this feature cannot be found in any menu also, which pretty unusual. I guess that should at least be placed somewhere in the Layers panel no?

Hi @reminous,
in one of the recent beta versions Serif introduced the 'My Account' feature. Currently it only alows to sync content that was bought or delivered as a free give away in the Affinity store. But there also have been indications that this will be developed further and could eventually become some kind of Affinity cloud to share all kinds of content (assets, colour palettes, etc.).
Cheers,
d.

Hi there,
I'd love to be able to integrate the Assets Panel with my DropBox and/or Google Drive, so I could have it sync across devices and apps. Today, I have to manually sync it to storage assets for different clients/projects. With a cloud system we could also share assets with other team members or the Affinity Community. 
I hope the AF team consider something like that in the future versions.
Cheers,
Reminous

Hi there,
Linking objects it's a common feature in some other layer based softwares and I don't use it very much... however, sometimes this is the only way to achieve what we want. 
It's different from grouping objects because sometimes you might want to move/scale to elements together from different layer for example. I know we can do it by selecting objects manually, but it's kind of annoying repeating this process every time... so, I'd love to just see a chain icon somewhere in the layer panel to make life a bit easier.
Reminous.

Hi there,
According to your screenshot you are in Wire Frame view mode. Just click on the button to deactivate it.

Hi @reminous,
you are not alone with this request. A little longer discussion on this over at the APub forum. Since I posted there and do support this request I thought it might be of interest to bring the topics together 🙂
 
d.

Hi there,
Linking objects it's a common feature in some other layer based softwares and I don't use it very much... however, sometimes this is the only way to achieve what we want. 
It's different from grouping objects because sometimes you might want to move/scale to elements together from different layer for example. I know we can do it by selecting objects manually, but it's kind of annoying repeating this process every time... so, I'd love to just see a chain icon somewhere in the layer panel to make life a bit easier.
Reminous.

H there,
 
I wish we could rename the artboards when doubling click over its name direct from the canvas instead depending on the layer panel to do so... It would be much more intuitive!
Reminous

H there,
 
I wish we could rename the artboards when doubling click over its name direct from the canvas instead depending on the layer panel to do so... It would be much more intuitive!
Reminous

Hi there,
You can actually achieve that today using two different methods:
1) Create your design using objects and artistic text, then group them and apply constraints (View/Studio/Constraints). Then set the text to not scale, you might want to constraint the left and top position as well. I bet that this would be de most common method since you're doing UX and the constraints were actually build with that in mind.
2) You could simple create your design with frame text instead artistic text... Then you just select your objects (group it if you want) and scale the whole think without worrying because the text frame will expand/stretch but the text will remain the same. If you want to scale the text, you can do it by using the second marker on the corner.
I did two quick videos to illustrate it better. I hope it solves your problem!

method 1.mov method 2.mov

H there,
 
I wish we could rename the artboards when doubling click over its name direct from the canvas instead depending on the layer panel to do so... It would be much more intuitive!
Reminous

H there,
 
I wish we could rename the artboards when doubling click over its name direct from the canvas instead depending on the layer panel to do so... It would be much more intuitive!
Reminous

Hi there,
Linking objects it's a common feature in some other layer based softwares and I don't use it very much... however, sometimes this is the only way to achieve what we want. 
It's different from grouping objects because sometimes you might want to move/scale to elements together from different layer for example. I know we can do it by selecting objects manually, but it's kind of annoying repeating this process every time... so, I'd love to just see a chain icon somewhere in the layer panel to make life a bit easier.
Reminous.