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I'm in the same situation. I'm stuck trying to open a document with embedded images that I keep on iCloud. I haven't moved the file recently, however, it just stopped working since last time I opened it. I've tried the steps suggested in the thread to no avail.
If someone wants to take a look at the file, please send a DM or share a dropbox link here. I can't share the file publicly.
I'm running Designer 2.2 for MacOS. I've sent the file to a friend to open it on their M2 MacBook, but it's stuck loading there too.

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Here, the same annoying problems with incorrect alignment due to a rotated cycle selection box that uses more empty space than necessary. Please add a feature to permanently reset the "cycle selection box", not only temporary with the "." shortcut. +1

Thank you.

A big thank you for your help and your long answer! This works perfectly fine - unfortunately just for one picture, but its great anyways.
 
Is a "blur-beneath"-effect planned for Affinity (Designer/Photo) in the future?
 
Even if i can't use it in my webdesign (because i wanted to do slideshow, where a little part of the pictures is under the website menu) I learned a decent new function of Affinity Designer.
 
Thanks and have a nice day! :)

They are undoable, or they are not undoable?
Edit: To clarify: I think you mean they are not undoable. Deleting a Snapshot certainly cannot be undone, on my system. Once it's deleted it's gone forever. It feels like a warning about it not being undoable would be a good idea.

Thanks for tagging me. I can see that Gareth is currently investing in your other thread.

Hi @stokerg,

Thanks for getting in touch and for looking into the issue. I've uploaded the file.

hey, so I've been trying to open my affinity publisher file for days now. it keeps saying loading 1 document and never opens. it can be loading for nearly a day and still not open. it uses so much of the laptops RAM to try to open the file but never actually opens. I am using a MacBook Pro 2017 version. 

I've never used GIMP or Photoshop, so I don't know how common this feature is, but how about an option in the Edit drop-down (and also the right-click context menu) for Paste To Pointer. This would be useful in both Photo and Designer. The software I've always used it in was Corel PhotoImpact X3, and it has become a great convenience to me. Having the copied object attached to the pointer helps me when I'm zoomed in to an area where the original copied object is not located (saves having to zoom out to pick up object, move to the needed location, and then zoom in to paste precisely). It's also convenient having the object already attached to the pointer and, therefore, faster.

Hello!
I encountered the same issue. After a short test it looks like the data inside a symbol are not respected / stored by a snapshot- only position and scale of symbols are.
Let's say you are taking snapshots as milestones in a design process this can lead to huge problems.

Imagine:
designing a file using symbols You create a snapshot like "Open Data" to be able to roll back to this state to extract elements or tweak the design once again.  You now go through cleaning up the document: delete some stuff, rasterize data inside the symbols and so on Now you create a snapshot "Clean For Export" If you now want to restore the "Open Data" snapshot you are screwed because all contents of the symbols will be rasterized in this state of the document too.

I first recognized this issue in a file for an app screen design where I had 9 snapshots for different states- needless to say these are not very usable anymore since the symbols like the navbar and icons got edited in the older snapshot versions.

Are there plans to fix this behavior?
Thanks and
best regards,
Clemens


 

This is currently still an outstanding issue from what I can see, I'll bump the original report.

There are several related discussions, and at least two logged bugs, but I do not know their status:
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&q=Snapshot symbols&quick=1

Using a Curve as a path along which any brush-based tool can be stroked is not the same thing as AD's Vector Brush Tool.  For example, think how quickly and simply a two node Curve object can be made to closely match the catenary curve of a power line ruining the sky in a photograph, and then you just tell the Inpainting Brush Tool to use that Curve instead of your mouse/pen/finger movement.

There's very little use for paragraph justification without automatic hyphenation.

So basically they refuse to add this simple, essential feature to Designer in hopes that people will buy an entire new program just for that feature, and even then, the workflow sucks ass, because you gotta open an entirely different program each time you want to enable hyphenation for a new textbox. When they already have the code in place for hyphenation to work in Designer after being enabled in Publisher. Am I the only one that sees how insane that sounds? You literally need to prove you own another one of their programs to use a basic feature in the first program.
This kind of decisions are what steered me away from Adobe, because they ruined Illustrator AND set a subscription fee ontop of it. Pure corporate greed. Don't become Adobe, please.
And here's a heads up for you, Serif. No one will buy Publisher just because of that one feature. You have equal chances of putting people off your entire software suite as you are to make an additional software sale. Instead, try to make Publisher its own thing instead of "Designer with Hyphenation included, but not so designer-y". I'll give you an example - you already have pixel persona in Designer. So why would anyone buy Photo? Because it is its own thing, giving people raster options in depth. What you did with hyphenation would be like taking the brush tool away from the pixel persona in Designer. Would it make more people buy Photo? Probably not. Would it irritate the heck out of people? Surely.
Your approach will likely lead to more and more people pirating Publisher and not feeling bad about it because of your frankly stupid practices. Get your sh*t together please.

I need this! I already have publisher but I often use designer because it's more flexible using artboards, it's absurd that designer doesn't have it, I have to copy the text to publisher and bring it back to affinity designer, it's sad.

What am I supposed to do with this message: "Affinity Designer removed links to broken objects in your document".
It pops up every time I open my file now, how do I get rid of it?

Obviously. The trouble is that it wasn't intentional, and the app didn't help me find about it. I'd have expected this panel to let me spot said files, or open a relevant panel.
I searched the help for "object", "link", "file" and got nothing. I finally found the "Resource Manager" which showed no particular error. I removed some files and the error went away.
I learned about that manager along the way, so that's a win!

Good morning, afternoon, evening (pick you fav.)!
 
I'm working a —lot— with constraints.
It's an incredible time saver. But not always… :(
 
Lets say you've designed a complex element, using a lot of constraints, groups, subgroups, children, etc. All of this is perfectly working with constraints when you resize the element (wider or higher). But now, you need to change it's size for any of the many reasons that could exist. I really mean you have to —scale— up/down everything: texts, shapes, etc. At this moment, you —don't— want any of the constraints to apply. I've not found yet anything that would allow me to do this.
Didn't found a shortcut to temporarily deactivate constraints. Didn't found an button to reset/remove —all— constraints of an element and —all— it's children. --> My only workaround (and I hate it), was to duplicate the element, and manually destroy all the work done (delete all groups, children, clips, set everything to one single level), and then apply a default constraint to all. My work is composed of a —huge— amount of elements, and the time lost to do the above is killing me :( Am I missing something?
All the best

Anything yet? 

Hello,
 
I was working on wireframe project and the moment I group objects, the suddenly transform and move unexpectedly. The grouping bug is so annoying and I cannot constraint feature because I cannot group object. I have recorded my screen using Affinity Designer when this bug occurs. I have also highlighted the bug area with a dashed rectangle, so you could pay attention when the bug occurs. Please Help.
 
Thank you
grouping-bug.mp4

I agree it shouldn't be so clumsy. Why you can't just right click on any colour swatch and make global, spot or overprint is beyond me  
 

The problem is in the contact of two edges drawn with antialiasing, when there will always be some shining of the background. The solution is a non-zero line thickness to overlap the edges, which is a common technique used in other graphics programs.

Hi ac-13,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
One way to quickly remove the white here is using Blend Options - you can access them clicking the cog icon on the top right of the Layers panel. Set the left graph as shown on the screenshot below and you should get a clean result.

This is a short tutorial for Affinity Photo that shows you the steps for creating a frosted glass effect.
The finished effect created in Affinity Photo can be used and edited in Affinity Designer.
1. Deselect all layers.
2. Click the "Live Filters" icon in the Layers panel, and choose Gaussian Blur from the list. Move the slider so that the effect is visible.



3. Create a shape, it must be filled with color, it can be vector or raster. This shape will be the silhouette of the frosted glass.
4. In the Layers panel, drag the "shape" layer onto the "Gaussian Blur" layer icon so that a small vertical bar appears on the layer icon.

Thus, the shape will limit the effect, i.e. the shape will be a mask for the blur effect.
Tip: For the effect to work properly on the artboard in Affinity Designer, the artboard must have a background as a vector or raster non-transparent layer, or just apply color to the artboard. Also, the "Preserve Alpha" option must be enabled in the blur effect settings.
Example files: Blur.afdesign Blur_Artboard.afdesign

Video tutorial:

Blur.mp4  -