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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  -

It has been years, I bought Affinity Designer for all three platforms, Mac, Windows and iPad hoping to see the background blur "Like Sketch" one day and still nothing. I wonder if they listen to their customers at all.
 
Going through the forum articles and it surprises me more the way they answer these requests, just apply FX, etc. this is so frustrating, I really believe I wasted my money and the time learning application, keep on going back to sketch for just one feature as a UX designer, I cannot do without background blur not they way they would have you believe, the background blur where you can still move your background and whatever part is under the rectangle, remains blurred.

the ability to drag out a transparent shape to blur underneath would be really useful. Creating mockups for user interfaces would be much easier.

Yes, it should be in both applications in the future :)

I would love a way to paste an object inside a group.  In the attached image, I want to paste the pink rectangle inside the group that contains three elements.  I know that there are ways to get the same effect, but I want to keep the file as small and editable as possible.

Could we please have a keypress to select the parent of the currently selected object?
 
This would allow for fast navigation within the Layers tree and adds a fine grained version of the Select All command, progressively expanding the current selection from a single object, up through the current group, layer, artboard, and document.
 
Thanks for your consideration.
 

It would be handy to be able to keystroke click back out to the next (parent)group of objects that housed a particular object inside its group. In other words if I've clicked an object inside a group, maybe 1 or two groups deep, if there was a way to select the parent group with a keystroke somehow would be great. I know you can find your way backwards to find the parent group in the layers panel but any shortcut to the parent group inside of groups would be very useful.

Is there a way to toggle a layers visibility via a shortcut key?

I would like to have a layer visibility toggle that toggles layer states between show and hide. In complex layer structures, this helps to see the effect of the current layer. It would help to have a hotkey for this, so I won't have to leave the canvas.
I also use Designer as a quick file viewer for large files that I link in. I then need to show/hide certain layers as way to compare and evaluate them. In that case two shortcuts for showing and hiding is not as efficient as a single toggle.
Others requested this in support topics, which is why I create this feature request.
 

But is there a way of directly selecting a group inside a group without double clicking the first group or without using the Layers panel?
I use nested groups in groups a lot since I need the elements to stay together and when I have to drill down through the groups one extra click can select something else and I have to do it all over again which is very frustrating.
The solution would be either to have a true isolation mode a la Illustrator or have a way to select a specific group with key combination. I would suggest something like this:
1. Cmd/Ctrl + Click to select and object inside the group.
2. Alt + Click the same object to select the first tier group of which the object is part of, then Alt + Click again to select the upper tier group and so on.
This should be also pretty useful for nested groups/objects inside other objects.
What do you think?

I would like to suggest the ability to make a selection of mulitple nodes while cycling through nodes on a curve using the keyboard shortcut (the default keyboard shortcuts are [ and ] keys on a US and UK layout).
I think the ability to select multiple nodes by holding down Shift while cycling would be a useful enhancement.
As an example, I have a leaf graphic that consists of an outer edge, an inner edge, and the inner branchings of the leaf in the middle. I would like to select the inner edge sandwiched between the two other sections, but since the graphic consist of many nodes, it's cumbersome to select them either manually or using the marquee and lasso tools. Selecting successive nodes using the keyboard while holding down Shift would be a fast way to accomplish this.

I have a demo file where the line width of a line appears to glitch out when its parent is scaled if the line is constrained to Max Fit. Undoing just the scaling action doesn't fix the line width. To fix it, undoing further appears to be necessary.
affinity bug.mov bug file.afdesign

When I deselect a curve in Designer, then it turns magenta and fades to its original color. Is it possible to disable this UI effect?

Has anybody here experienced that the guides in Publisher disappears? I have tried everything to make them appear but they only show up in the ruler as blue lines as in the screen shot below. It's quite frustrating, to say the least! I am on a MacBook Pro 15" from mid 2012.

What may also help:
Preferences > Tools > Tool Handle Size > Smallest

+1000!
If it's a separate curve – and your selection obviously contains 3 curves – then you can select it simply by selecting 1 node, then Select All. It will leave nodes on the other 2 curves unselected, even if the 3 curves are merged into one "Curves" object.

This works. It is a working solution, but its far from ideal. As others have said, hiding layers this way obscures which layers are visible and not in the Layers panel. I much prefer to show / hide the layers via the built-in show / hide function which updates the dot next to the layer to represent what state each layer is in, and preserves what opacity you have each layer set to.
The devs are so close now. They have a 'Hide layer' shortcut, and separately a 'Show layer' shortcut setting, but why are they not the same shortcut as a toggle? It should be the same shortcut setting - so you press it and it toggles the state between hide and show. That's how it is in PS and its far better that way. Reduces the amount of shortcuts you need to remember, and is easier to toggle quickly.
Please combine 'Hide' and 'Show' into a single toggling 'Hide/Show' layer shortcut. Please.
 

Bumping this post, since its really something that make a difference.

With the View Tool or Move Tool selected (not a brush tool), you can use the layer opacity shortcut keys to quickly hide/show selected layers.
Press 0 (zero) twice quickly to hide the selected layers (0% opacity)
Press 0 (zero) once to unhide them (100% opacity)
Credit: @Zox 
 

I would like to suggest the ability to make a selection of mulitple nodes while cycling through nodes on a curve using the keyboard shortcut (the default keyboard shortcuts are [ and ] keys on a US and UK layout).
I think the ability to select multiple nodes by holding down Shift while cycling would be a useful enhancement.
As an example, I have a leaf graphic that consists of an outer edge, an inner edge, and the inner branchings of the leaf in the middle. I would like to select the inner edge sandwiched between the two other sections, but since the graphic consist of many nodes, it's cumbersome to select them either manually or using the marquee and lasso tools. Selecting successive nodes using the keyboard while holding down Shift would be a fast way to accomplish this.