Busenitz

90% of the business in the shop I work for is vehicle related. Roughly 60% of that work requires cutting on plotters. I absolutely support this feature and it has already been discussed here that if the option were to become available, we would dump support for other design packages. 

It is now 2020 and still NO RESPONSE FROM EITHER GRAPHTEC NOR AFFINITY?

This post was a long time ago but has there been any update on a Graphtec plugin for Designer? That would be amazing!

Thank you for your inquiry regarding Graphtec Studio and the Affinity Designer software.  Due to Adobe Illustrator's pervasiveness throughout the industry, our corporate office includes a plug-in for it.  For other software companies who wish to write drivers for Graphtec products, they may submit a request to our corporate office to receive a Software Development Kit.  The link is here:
http://www.graphteccorp.com/support/software/sdk/index.html

You may want to contact the Affinity software company to see if they are interested in developing drivers for Graphtec products and provide them with the link.  If they receive enough requests, they might be willing to write the drivers.

Best regards,

Neil Zdunkawicz
Graphtec America, Inc.
949-770-6010 
 
 
I may be the only one for now but here is my request for this to happen sometime in the near future.  I'd even be willing to donate to a kickstarter program if that would help.

Nope, I'm still not succeeding.  What settings are you using on Export?

You know that reminds me that I too have probably seen that behaviour, probably a bug. I shall have to pay attention to it and see if I can come up with a recipe for repeating it.

I switched from Windows and an older version of CorelDRAW 4 years ago.  Was thrilled to find AD, and was excited to hear that the app was going to be very similar to AI and CD.  However, 4 years later, I'm not finding it that compatible.  I do love AD, and it is the best vector app for Mac I've found.  But I can't call it comparable yet when it doesn't do basic contours (which most free apps do)  There are still many things I miss from my old CorelDRAW.  But I love my Mac, so here I am.  Trying to be patient for the other features, but I have been waiting for 4 years.

Wow!  Looking forward to using 1.9 but someone accidentally shrunk the Transparency Icon on the Swatches Panel.  At first, I thought it had been moved!!!  PLEASE could we have it bigger again?
 

Hopefully someone can help me as I'm starting to think I'm losing my mind.  I've been using AD / AP for years and have gotten into the habit of dragging an object from Finder into my project, then in the layers panel, dragging the object under and slightly over below a shape in the layers panel to do the equivalent of paste inside.  (that's so much easier!!)  Now all of a sudden, I have to have the object in my project, then cut, then paste inside the desired object.  What changed?  My settings?  An update???
 

If you have Affinity Photo, I would recommend trying some basic vector work in that app, and see how that SVG imports into Cricut Design Space.  Although Designer gives you many more vector options than Photo, I think you will have some of the same results as far as exporting / importing, to find your basic layering options.
I have a Silhouette Cameo, and have had sizing trouble with my AD SVGs importing into the Silhouette Studio Designer Edition software  (I've had some of the same with importing to other apps as well)  Using PDF as my export option, I have had better success.   Importing a AD created SVG definitely gives me the option to cut by color (if you color the pieces of each layer the same color) in my SSDE software.
Even though I have the Designer Edition and not just the basic Silhouette software, AD has become my "go to" software for designing my cuts.  (I do paper crafts, cards, wall vinyl, heat transfer, etc.)
I do realize that while CDS is similar, it is not identical to SSDE, but hope this helps some.

I’m on a Mac so DP isn’t an option.  However, most every other vector app (even free ones) has contour/offset. Which puzzles me even more- if this is “low hanging fruit” as it was described early on, why isn’t it even close after 4 years?

This would be less disappointing if we hadn't been told from the get-go that this is an easy feature to add, and if it wasn't a common feature among even the free graphic apps.  I know Affinity has added a lot of bells and whistles to the app, but I really really need the basics!!!
All said, AD is still the best Mac (non-Adobe subscription) software you can buy.  But I'm referring it with much less enthusiasm than I did four years ago.

I remember trying to figure out all the features & options of the first version of Photoshop Elements I installed on a Mac. Even though I had used half a dozen other graphics apps for years, I would have been lost without referring to the help & a bunch of 3rd party tutorials. That old version of PSE did not even have ½ the features of the current one, much less all those of the full version of PS.

I saw this in the Beta, excited to get it in the MAS version!!!   It will simplify my process a lot!!!
 

I would love to see a contour / offset option.  On some shapes you can make a smaller version of the same (see rectangle) for an offset outline, but for the letter R, and other shapes, making a scaled down version would not work.
(let me know if I am missing this option)

No, I think all we've identified there is that my autocorrect tried to stab me in the back
 

rachmac,
I would guess that Macro/Actions will be added to Designer sometime in the future seeing how it is already in Photo. I too think it would be a welcomed addition to Designer. Maybe version 2.0?
Hokusai

The most basic and important thing. We have the similar text structure for a lot of pages in our catalogue, repetitively. I cannot survive a day without find and replace.
 

A blend tool where you can blend objects together.  example could be I have a circle and I want to blend it to a square over any given amount of steps.  Illustrator has this ability which I use a lot.  Great tool for creating shading.  I'm assuming Designer doesn't have this ability as I have not found it.  If it does can someone please point me in the right direction.  Thanks.  Love this app.

Hi All,
Not sure if this was brought up before somewhere in this forum (Would be surprised it hadn't), but it would be great if there a way to place objects along a path. Sort of like the text-on-a-path tool, but - of course - other objects. Saw a You Tube video on this, where someone discovered a workaround, that to me appears to be an unintentional feature, but happens to be somewhat usable with limited successes. I've actually used it on several occasions with some success, but on many more it failed. Again, I don't think it was intended to be a feature, more like a happy accident. But would love to see this developed into a purposeful tool, as I imagine it would be welcomed by most designers including myself. (See video below).
 

Hello Support,
I'm a laser cutter and crypto artist and I make things like you can see in the attached image.   
I've purchased both Affinity Photo and Designer.
The three main functions I need in any Vector Software are:
Blending between Shapes e.g. from a Circle to a Square with ability to set number of steps in between  Shape Creation Tool as in AI (I see you have boolean operators but these are seriously cumbersome to use in comparison to AI's shape tool) Offset Path e.g. click a path, click offset path (I did a workaround of duplicating my stroke, then on one increasing the Stroke to 20pt then Expanding the stroke, then removing my original stroke/shape away from the new expanded stroke... a ridiculously long winded way of doing it) I've seen requests for these features going back to 2014, which is really quite worrying.  You use to have a roadmap but thats disappeared.
My question is this... are you still working on any of these features so many people have requested?It would be great to see them on a Roadmap...
Can we have some transparency on when these features will (or will not) be worked on?  
I've looked all through the forum for answers but found nothing (apologies if I've missed it) but fluffy answers like "coming soon", "any day now", or "it's in the roadmap"... clearly these don't cut it and date badly looking back at them (somebody wasn't being 100%)... straight forward, honest answers would go a really long way. 
Can you please bring the Roadmap back? (it's at least something)
Chiefmonkey

In Photoshop it is possible to give a the layer effect of the outer-shadow its own layer. So you can transform the shadow without transforming the object. I use this a lot, because the shadow tells a lot about the position of the object. I realy would like this possible in Affinity Designer as well!

I was just about to post this suggestion as well about the envelope warp and the warp filters in general. I use these features a lot with vector artwork. I see this post was posted well over a year ago though so I'm wondering if there are plans for any vector warping tools in Affinity Designer. I could only find the mesh warp tool for rasterdized images in Affinity Photo. While it's a nice tool, it  is really limited and doesn't really help with vector designing. Warping with text in particular is a HUGE part of designing, not just a mesh warps but preset warps like archs and bulging are extremley important as well so I'm wondering if  you guys/gals at Serif are working on anything like that!

Hi @TomFulery,
They are already on our roadmap. 
We are aware there's still some basic features missing but Affinity Designer is still also very recent. It's not possible to implement everything at once. Please bear with us while we work on it.

When will Affinity Designer get an object-distort tool, a perspective tool, a fisheye too or an inset/outset path tool? These are basic features for doing creative work, especially with display text (see attached jpg). 
 
As it is, if I need to do anything like this I have to use free open-source apps like Inkscape or NeoDraw (part of the NeoOffice suite), both of which are harder to use but do way more than Affinity Designer.