vitaprimo

It is always nice to see my font used in real application :) http://planetadinosauru.cz/ 
 

That sucks, I got excited when I saw v2 earlier today, then I realized it only supports Catalina and up on s, — which I'll never downgrade to, I'm staying in the older macOS 'till my Macs die — so that leaves me with Windows Server RDS which isn't great, then activation which I saw coming when v1 suddenly could connect to your account and now this.
I'm out.
Thanks for sharing, though. <3

That sucks, I got excited when I saw v2 earlier today, then I realized it only supports Catalina and up on s, — which I'll never downgrade to, I'm staying in the older macOS 'till my Macs die — so that leaves me with Windows Server RDS which isn't great, then activation which I saw coming when v1 suddenly could connect to your account and now this.
I'm out.
Thanks for sharing, though. <3

Hey everyone!
I'm sorry, but after having bought the universal license and done some testing, I deleted V2 Designer, Publisher and Photo from my iPad.
Publisher would have been great to work on files due to using Designer and Photo tools via Studio link (I'm not even doing layout stuff!) and I'd have used Designer for its export persona if I don't need editing the file later on or port .svg to V1 (quite limited, but with knife and shape builder in V2 at least somewhat interesting).
In its current state, however, the suite is a massive downgrade from V1 and even with the knife tool, shape builder and the quick menu being great tools that do work wonders on workflow efficiency, it's still much slower and quite risky to work with:
- No V1 file compatibility
- Online activation required
as well as the following issues:
- Only starts up to my files section if there are files already
- Can't double tap layers to expand and collapse
- Button lower left has to be disabled each time when opening a file
- Bars left and right show last icon only by scrolling even though there is room for displaying them (iPad mini 5)
- Frequent crashes (about 5-7 times per hour) by just using the knife, boolean operations or the shape builder
- Shape outline sporadically creating blobs at start of vertex loop when shape was created by shape builder
- Grouping layers (very basic) takes two taps instead of one, yet I got massive UI for sorting layers (probably rarely needed in general; personally, I never need it)
- Couldn't find vector warp on iPad
I can't remember alpha or beta testing any software that included such a number of huge workflow impairing issues that were regressions from a previous version. And this is a release. Frequent crashes and missing V1 compatibility are the worst ones.
Sad. Not going for a refund, though. Hope it gets better (worthwhile). You did a great job with V1 after all.
Not really going to discuss here any further. For the time being, I'll keep using V1 and be productive.
Best wishes,
Shu
[EDIT:
Two months later, testing again, some issues are solved, others appeared. Current issues:
- No V1 file compatibility
- Online activation required
- Only starts up to my files section if there are files already
- Button lower left has to be disabled each time when opening a file (changed now, but should probably be a per app setting rather than per document)
- Bars left and right show last icon only by scrolling even though there is room for displaying them (iPad mini 5)
- There is a new feature, using a tool by swiping on an icon, yet I need to scroll on the tool bar to get to certain tools. How does that work out? Badly.
- 3D filter still only shows one light source when adding further ones.
- It's great that Designer now has Duplicate when touch & holding by accessing the quick menu, but getting rid of the small menu bar completely isn't optimal either, since when you only need copy or paste (or duplicate in Photo), you now have much more screen travel than before on a funcion that's used quite frequently, making it incredibly exhausting. I'd suggest reinstantiating the old menu, including duplicate for Designer and invoking the new one by other means (maybe touch & hold, then swipe up).]

So, no response, huh? That sucks, I asked years ago and got the same. I'm finishing reinstalling Illustrator and all the Adobe crap just now, it took forever and I don't know if it'll even run because it's too old now-I might have to reinstall High Sierra or search for OpenJDK or some hacking or emulation util on Homebrew.
I find it interesting though that Designer back when I got it was marketed right at Adobe Illustrator users, so much so that out of the box came prepared to import those files…not the other way around though, so now that I need to pass back and forth files I could-probably should-use SVG but both .afdesign and .ai files are more likely to maintain fidelity of the data, of those only .ai is supported by both tools--Serif might be inadvertently pushing the format. I don't know what's the hold up, the code seems to be already in Designer–take a look at the isometric tools:

I played a little with it and it turns it's even automated, they're kinda impressive; you just have to know how to use it which is not documented in the help. As some of you noted, it's in Photo too. What's up then? A patent maybe?
BTW, for  those doing basic grids, remember that individual nodes can be selected from many different objects at a time, then with the distribute tool they can be aligned so they match an opposite side.

I know it's not much but for the most basic things it might be able to help somebody. I'm attaching the file with history. Using the Constraints panel to constraint one shape into a box and then warping the box from its corner nodes. I haven't tried it but it might be worth the shot. Personally I stay away form the constraints because it's confusing and always brings unintended results when I group-resize things later. 😔
Good luck everyone! 🤓
grid-example.afdesign

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FWIW, QuickLook.qlgenerator isn't even really an app. It is a "qlgenerator" (Quick Look generator) used by the quicklookd.app (Quick Look daemon) to show previews of Affinity files when you press the spacebar in Finder. It is part of Designer, at path /Applications/Affinity Designer.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook, but aside from generating the Quick Look preview for the daemon, it can't open the file.
Maybe rebuilding the launch services database like in the article @v_kyr mentioned will fix this. If not, reinstalling Designer might.

Hi @vitaprimo,
Welcome to the forums. 
I'm afraid we cannot extract the embedded document. You can only edit in in a new tab, replace it or rasterise it. There is no option to "extract" the contents into the current document.  
Thanks,
Gabe. 

Got it, thanks. I hadn't noticed I could mask that way.
The bad is that it doesn't work with a group of objects and, if I consolidate the group color is added to the otherwise invisible spacers I'm using to center things out. So even though I learned new things *geekemoji* I'm still on square 1. I think I'll just use outline view as you pointed out. If Designer were as ubiquitous as [the annoyingly cumbersome] Illustrator, I'd sign myself up for a workshop or something in a heartbeat; I think I saw something on Pluralsight, though...not sure.
Anyway, thanks again—to both.

You have made quite a complex masking, it would be much simpler to use the gradient shape as a child to the lettering curve. This allows you to select the lettering curve from the workspace.
Modified See Added layer and child layer.afdesign
If you wanted to keep the design as you have done and still be able to select it, just use Outline View and click on the lettering curve.

Well, here’s a quick idea. Suppose you want to center the pink square on the canvas, while keeping the relative position of the blue rectangle to the square. Then you could clip the blue rectangle to the square in the Layers list (making it effectively disappear), center the square, and unclip the rectangle again. 


Center.mov