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Thanks MattP finally I feel at home on Win10 as I did (and again loved) on the Mac version of Designer. Big relief! Also thanks for sorting out: fonts searching + supporting copy / paste from Windows Character Map app (charmap.exe). BIG help (timewaste to search for special chars). It seems very stable and I do know of the rollback issue on docs 1.6 to 1.5 but I will take my chances on this version for now :-) ONLY big up now is to get a simpler "version updater" built in :-) It could be in both the Beta version and the Official release. Just a simple subMenu option under Help would do the trick (Check for updates > Do you want to update now?) Thanks again!!

It seems I am getting close to the bug; as in: I have around 100 text snippets on the Canvas and without selecting them just by turning off "Check spelling while you type" it eased up some CPU / GPU. As in "less sirup". I am on version 1.5.3.69 and I would really appreciate if Affinity included a software updater in the program itself (like Adobe and others have). Hope this is helpful; but I guess I am more into text snippets than perhaps others and therefor was lead to believe that the problem was related to gradients?

Ps. difficult to share the work as it is a tad sensitive in matters of it being owned by a company. :-)

Thanks for the tip guys! Seems it is "better" now when I put the undo levels down to 128 (from the default range). Lovely that the support is so good on this forum. Makes me feel I have done the step to Affinity from Adobe worth it :-) Thanks!! Will continue on the sketch and see if it solved it. I noticed yday that the RAM was set default to 16GBs but in Win on all apps only 5GBs was in use; so it should be plenty of room for the undo steps; which in themselves should not choke the app right? (Bug?) I also dont see an update button for the program; do I have to reinstall on each new version? Thanks!

Hi! Did the move from Adobe apprx a year ago on my Macs and love it. However: Now I am on Windows on a brand new Corsair One NVIDIA GTX1080 machine with 16GBs Ram, SSD etc and doing some mockups in Designer just turns slower and slower the more layers I add. I have some layers with gradients and suspect that they bring the whole app down. Now it is so slow that grouping (CTRL+G) uses 3 seconds to do the task. On my older Macbook Pro 2015 it runs as smooth as butter. What can be wrong? I am not turning back to Macs for the time being.

I agree that the logic on marquee´ing could be better. It works for me as is; but only for the straight line tool. If that is used then you won´t have a problem with add / subtract and the "move" (all the current selections). However if you make a new line, select add and use "freehand" (I use Astropad Studio on my iPad Pro for making quick selections) then you get the "move" problem if you add inside another "selection that is added". If you however add to something new and "draw into" the current selection you are fine. The "move all" should only be available with a custom key held in (like cmd or alt etc). It should not be on by default.

Ugh! Sorry guys solved it by using my eyes under File - New From Clipboard

Hi, As a life long user of Adobe I have a plan to convert all my knowledge to Affinity but sometimes struggle with the new logics (way to do the same in Affinity).. In Adobe whatever I have "in my clipboard" on my Mac when opening a new Adobe Photoshop document match that clipboard image size. So If I for example capture a square 500x500 with apple+shift+control+4 into clipboard and open Photoshop and select "New doc" the suggested canvas = 500x500. How can I do the same in Affinity? As in quickly set the canvas to the clipboard image I paste into Af Photo.

I just tried to go to Export persona and turn on "ignore fill / filter effect" on SVG and it now looks ok. Is this the way to go for best "WYSIWYG" vector export results?

Hi! I have actually tried to stop using Adobe for good. Being an ex-tobacco lover I gave it a "cold turkey" cure by just uninstalling and quiting my Adobe subscriptions. Mostly it has been a great journey and also good for my creativity since obviously new tools forces you to think outside of usual paths of designing. However: I have some issues exporting my work as it gives mixed results: 1. PDFs usually struggle with gradients where the PDF keeps textual work as vector but converts my "gradient vectors as bitmap" (which is a no go if I make for example a logo) 2. SVGs are "better" but here I see that the curvature of for example a "water drop" (regular shape selected in Affinity Designer) are converted in a way that the "curves" are no longer "smooth" This leaves me to use EPS which seems to be useless in results.. Any tip for me on how to achieve a full vector export? Worst case I will have to just go for a large DPI for prints but I really would prefer to be able to get good vector exports in PDF. Illustrator and other tools did this fine (as I recall).. Thanks!

Thanks! And yes Crow I agree.

Hi! I have Fontexplorer installed where I have a font with some graphical glyphs in it. The glyphs have a character code / glyph id and unicode. How can I insert these types of graphics into Affinity? I struggle to find a way to insert font chars based on a "code".. I would optimally as a long time Adobe user see a way to "show glyphs" of fonts and insert them "that way" (like in Illustrator). Thanks for any help!

Hi! I have fallen in love with AF Designer. Wonderful to get some new energies as a graphical designer after 20+ Adobe / Quark years. Question: When I select an object it shows its selection with a blue line around the object (for scaling purposes etc). However when you right click and choose > Layer Effects this line blocks my view when I for example fine tune "shadows" and other effects. Now I have to adjust, click away from the object, see the difference and click back. Isn´t there a better way to do this? So you can "preview the changes live" and still "know that this object are selected" ? Question 2: Aligning of 2 objects relative to each other. I have a square and another rectangle. I want to adjust the rectangle relative to the square as a master. In Illustrator I can choose the "master" of two or to use the "canvas" as a master. I struggle to understand how this is working in AF Designer. I see sometimes I align to the canvas and sometimes to the "larger object". Any help on understanding this is highly valued. Keep up the great work!

Hope this isn´t answered allready. Tried to read previous posts but they all talk about crop etc. What is the "way" to adjust the canvas size in A Designer? As I am used to with Illustrator "Edit Artboard" feature? Thanks!