DM1

It working well in beta.

You have to be kidding, right.

You have to be kidding, right.

You have to be kidding, right.

@DM1 Thanks that's a good explanation

This explanation may help.
 

Hi @Amageton_ welcome to the forums & apologies for the late reply,
The 'Default Save Location' setting is no longer available on iPad, as the saving behaviour was changed so when a document is first saved it will ask for a save location, this was so the apps better matched the Desktop apps saving behaviour.
The fact that this is still listed as an available option in the help notes is likely in error- so I'll raise this internally.

This explanation may help.
 

Apps: Photo and Publisher
Platforms: Windows and macOS
The measure tool which was added to Affinity Designer in V2 is now available in both Photo and Publisher. This is not included in the default set of tools when you first run up the app, but you will find it in the list if you go to View -> Customise Tools if you wish to add it to your available tools.

Hi All,
We're happy to make the second build of the 2.1 beta available today - 2.1.0.1709. This should now be available for you on auto update.
Here's some of the main changes in this build:
Guides
Had a lot of great feedback on guides - thank you. In this build we have:
Added Alt-Click to delete a guide Made Alt-Shift while dragging snap to delta. We had already made holding shift snap to ruler units from page origin. What this new option gives is if you have a guide placed at, say, 35.3mm from the page origin and you want to move it 10mm - you can now drag while holding Alt-Shift to snap to that difference. Of course this also works if you have alt or cmd dragged a duplicate of the guide If guides are currently set to not visible, then dragging out a new guide from ruler (or moving an existing guide from indicator on ruler) will automatically turn guide visibility on in all OSs Crop Tool
Enter as well as return now commits a crop Escape now resets the crop Brush Panel
Generally tightened panel up somewhat so less vertical space was being used. Brush names if you have chosen to show them are now justified to left Light UI should now hopefully look correct Modifying a brush using drag shortcuts (e.g. ctrl+alt+click drag left and right) keeps brush selection in panel (and shown as modified as appropriate). Raster mesh and perspective live filters in pixel persona
Now added correctly in Windows version so the live versions of these filters are available Have now added to pixel persona in the iPad version of Designer. You will have two new options under the + button in Layers panel where you can choose to add either of these live filter layers. Vector flood fill
New icon has been added for tool to distinguish between the raster flood fill tool in Affinity Photo When you are in tool you can now drag and drop swatches directly from the swatches panel into any area the fill tool recognises from your selection If you are in "In Between" mode the additional shapes / fills which are created are automatically added to your selection so if you subsequently change the fill of them again additional shapes are not created. Bitmap fills are now supported. This means you can pick a bitmap fill swatch from swatches to use as your fill colour (or drag and drop a bitmap fill swatch into the appropriate area). Few notes on this: Currently if the bitmap fill has transparency this will be added as an additional fill (in appearance panel), so can be added as a texture over an existing colour fill. It's a cool feature, but we probably need to add a modifier / option in context toolbar about whether you want that to do that vs. replace the fill altogether.  You will notice in the context toolbar some new options for min, max and stretch to fit. These options are only relevant for bitmap and gradient fills and determines how the gradient or bitmap are scaled within the new fill being created.  A nice thing to try is when you are in fill tool you can drag from assets into your active colour on the toolbar to automatically create a bitmap fill to use - as shown in the video below.   Texture Fills.mov  
Blend mode shortcuts
Erase bend mode now available to configure on macOS and iPad Ordering of blend mode list and default keys should now be consistent between operating systems Close All
Apply to all check box now been added to macOS dialog if you have currently open unsaved / modified documents.
Various bug fixes
Of course there are also various bug fixes - you can find the list of these on the second post in the fix list thread.
Thanks again for all your help.
Ash
 

Add to selection is just the same as right swipe for selecting multiple layers. It is just the toggle on off has a mind of its own, responsive to OFF but not to ON. It must be a bug in all V2 apps.

Thank you for the tips. I was too slow. Now it worked. I will fix it now and import again

Perfect, thank you - and for taking a moment to upload a visual; 'Much appreciated.

In the brush tool context menu change menu from none to pressure.

Ok thank you! 🙏🏻

Apps: All
Platforms: iPad
Having moved the geometry operations to the new drop down menu in V2, we lost the functionality of long pressing any of them to apply the operation as a compound (sorry!) This functionality is now back in 2.1.

Apps: All
Platforms: iPad
In the Navigator panel we have now made a double tap on canvas rotation value reset to 0 deg. While there are already quick buttons for different zoom levels available, we have also made double-tap on the zoom value to reset to 100%.

Apps: All
Platforms: iPad
iPad now has rulers - you can toggle them on from the View / Preview mode drop down. This is expected to have all the functionality of the desktop versions rulers, including:
Ability to add horizontal or vertical guides directly out from either of the rulers Drag to change the ruler / page origin. This can be done by dragging from where the horizontal and vertical rulers meet (where it shows document units). This will snap to other objects, guides, grid, etc (obeying your current snapping options). You can reset the origin by double tapping in the same place. It is expected that rulers are automatically hidden during any pan / zoom operation, and should also be toggled off with preview mode selected.

 

There is a hard to see icon next to mask icon in context menu (grey square with black circle in centre).Tap the faint icon on the right of that to convert the pen outline to selection. Then long press screen for quick menu and tap Duplicate select or use keyboard. You can check icon functions with small ? 

That's it!!! Thank you so much!!! I didn't even notice that icon there haha!
Thanks,
Mike

There is a hard to see icon next to mask icon in context menu (grey square with black circle in centre).Tap the faint icon on the right of that to convert the pen outline to selection. Then long press screen for quick menu and tap Duplicate select or use keyboard. You can check icon functions with small ? 

Hi - we have now included the PDF import options available on desktop in our iPad versions (in the 2.1 beta available from today). This includes ability to group text into frames. It would be great if you wanted to try it out in the beta and let us know what you think - you can sign up to the beta program here.
 
 

You do not convert a filter to a live filter. They are completely different filters instead. So before using the filter toggle the live filters switch so that you see the smaller list of live filters and then chose Unsharp mask filter.

You will have both the V2 app and somewhere later the V1 app. Keep looking. Or, to help, specifically look in the section "not on this iPad".

Rename was removed as it caused issues. (It only updated the Live Doc name, not the external file name).
Your only options are: 
1. to use three bar menu Save as to create a copy that you can name again or,
2. Save the LiveDoc externally (three bar menu/save). Close the live doc (this deletes the internal file so save first or lose your document). Open Files app, navigate to previously saved file, rename file. Open file again in Affinity (this creates a new icon and a new internal file.
Yes it’s a pain but until Affinity come up with a fix, it’s all we can do.🙁