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Waking up to a fresh AD beta is always a great start of the day! I have a question which has probably been asked and answered numerous times but I couldn't for the life of me find an answer for myself. So I want to backup my AD settings and maybe share those with a fellow designer. This would come especially handy when syncing settings between different machines. I'm talking about custom tools and toolbar settings, panel arrangements, snapping options, etc. Is there a way to export those or if not where are they stored on disk? Thanks! Also... How about when having the "shift" key pressed for example the corner tool constrains pixel values to whole pixels? Other than that... We're using Affinity as a full time replacement for Illustrator now. I sort of miss some things once in a while, but then I remind myself that from now on it can only get better. Cheers!

Hey MattP! Thanks for your reply man. Another thing - would it be possible that in the feature we'll be able to turn grid / guides on and off on selected views rather than globally. For smaller, zoomed-out canvases having the grid and guides is not necessary if the purpose of the view is mainly to 'preview' how stuff works. So basically having grid and guides only on the view I'm using for the actual drawing for example and switching those off everywhere else.

Seeing that a new beta that includes the corner tool is live, literally gave me nerd-chills. I've been playing around with the tool for 2 days now and gotta say that with a few improvements, this tool in itself is going to convert me to a hardcore Affinity Designer evangelist. What I like to see: Corner tool displays rounding values Corner tool allows for the rounding anchor points to snap to the pixel grid (that might be my severe OCD though so feel free to ignore it completely) Corner tool allows for 'rounding cloning' - imagine a perfect square. I use the rounding tool on the top left edge and then as I hover each of the other corners it presumes that I want to apply the same rounding. Incredibly useful when working with symmetrical shapes. Corner tool allows for 'rounding presets' - let's say I apply particular rounding to different shapes. Those need to be always the same. The corner tool offers a functionality that allows me to select a 'rounding preset' and apply it to a particular corner without me trying to match the values manually. Let's even take that a step further... imagine if as I modify a rounding preset it modifies all it's instances throughout the document... even thinking about this causes me to hyperventilate. :D Trust me I have a ton of awesome stuff in my head but I think the above is going to make the corner tool the absolute best in the industry. Another thing I should mention - I'd like affinity designer to 'remember' my workflow layout for specific files and auto-arrange that for me as open my projects. Right now my workflow works something like this - > http://i.imgur.com/yy1gXJ4.jpg. So I have a retina view on my Macbook, this is where I spent most of my time. On my 27inch I have 100% non-retina view, zoomed-in non-retina view and an outline view. I use these for quickly glancing if everything aligns well to the pixel grid as well as to audit how things would look like on regular displays. This is priceless! It takes the quest for pixel perfection to a whole new level and if Affinity could somehow remember those project-specific layouts it would be a tremendous feature! Huge amounts of gratitude and respect towards all the devs and designers working on the app! You got me seriously hooked. Also I should say that I'm working in a 35+ people startup and the last few days I got a lot of people interested in Affinity, without even trying. Even non-designers think certain features are rather cool. Keep up the good work!

My first post here! Downloaded the trial of Affinity Designer and instantly got the startup I work in get me a license. I've been looking to get out of Illustrator + Astute Graphics plugins for a long, long time now. I am a UI / UX designer so I find myself drawing icons of all kinds and sizes all the time so I gotta say - the custom shapes, pixel snapping feature + multiple views is simply a dream workflow! Yeah the app crashes here and there but hey - it's always like that with betas. I'm not even remotely frustrated with it. I am looking forward for the corner rounding feature showcased in Affinity Review. Any chance this is coming to the beta channel any time soon? I'm have to start drawing a new icon-set and I really want to start this with Affinity Designer. I'd love to give you guys more detailed feedback, where should I do that so that I don't 'pollute' the forum?