Alfred

Which Affinity product are you using, and on what OS? What is the file format of the clipart that you want to insert?

Sorry, Ken, I should have been more explicit! They're the rightmost 'Align Horizontally' and 'Align Vertically' buttons on the Arrange flyout.

For item 8 (stroke width displayed in document units) you can choose 'Preferences...' and then clear the 'Show Lines in points' checkbox on the User Interface pane.

Thanks for the link. :)

What was the rationale behind this change? :unsure:

That's only because 1 × 1 = 1, of course! ;)

It isn't perhaps as intuitive as it might be, Ken, but it can be done! You need to explicitly select the 'Space Horizontally' and/or 'Space Vertically' buttons to enable the corresponding 'distribute' options.

Try the Corner Tool. Cornered!.afdesign

It's "pilot error", Avi. The JPEG format (originally devised for photographs) doesn't support transparency, so you'll always get white in the exported image.

Does the attached file get anywhere close to what you're trying to achieve, Tony? To centre the logo horizontally, I used the flyout which is accessed via one of the icons on the top toolbar: I'm not sure why you were unable to set the text colour to the picked colour. The Fill and Stroke colours on the Swatches and Colour panels in Affinity Designer seem to work in a similar fashion to the Fill and Line colours on the corresponding Studio tabs in PagePlus. forum incorrect colour (modified).afdesign

I'm running into the same confusion in the beta version of Affinity Designer on Windows. I expect Ctrl-drag to give me a duplicate of the selected object, but I don't expect Alt-drag to do so.

Curiously, that button is also available with the Node Tool when a predefined shape (Triangle, Diamond, etc) is selected in the drawing, but it disappears as soon as you convert to curves, and the displayed rotation centre disappears along with it.

Thanks, Sean. I understood that those fonts needed to be shared with you; I just thought they were better not shared publicly!

The fonts made by Gluk are in the public domain, but the Shelley Script fonts are commercial fonts which should therefore not be shared publicly.

Not here yet, apparently! :(

I'm seeing the same here, Dominique. If I choose the Vector Brush Tool, set the controller to 'None' on the Context toolbar and draw a line, nothing happens when I go into the Brush Editor and change the controller to 'Pressure'. If I set the controller to 'Pressure' before drawing the line, I can change it to 'None' (and back again) at any time. The flyout with the attributes becomes wider (stretching out to the left) when I choose the dash style, so if I hold the mouse button down over the right-hand side of the 'Dash Line' button the flyout jumps back and forth because the 'Texture Line' button is under the cursor when the flyout resizes. I don't have a problem if I just click without staying in the 'mouse down' state.

Log in to the Mac App Store with the Apple ID that you used to purchase the product. The app will be listed there for you to download and install: you don't need a licence number.

Go to the View menu and choose 'Studio > Reset Studio'.

I don't think we can do it in a single movement, Eduardo, but if you make a curve where the end node is close to the start node you can hold down the Ctrl key (at least, that's the modifier on Windows) and drag the end node until it snaps to the start node.

This has always been one of my greatest frustrations in DrawPlus. You can only see the nodes on a line or a shape when the Node Tool is selected, and you can't move a guide when in that mode. I can understand the rationale behind placing limitations on the movement of guides, but I think we should be able to move them with the Node Tool as well as the Move Tool.

Thanks. The Edit menu is exactly where I would have expected to find it, so I don't know why I didn't see it there (unless I had switched to the Export Persona by mistake, in which case the shortness of the menu should have been a bit of a clue).

Will older versions ever be able to open files saved from newer versions? In particular, when 2.x is released will it be possible to open its files in 1.x?

+1

The beta version will expire once the release version is available. We've been told that the price of the Windows release version will be the same as for the OS X version: about 40 GBP, or 50 USD/EUR, without any subscription fees. There should be a discount for registered users of DrawPlus X8 switching to Affinity Designer; there may also be a reduced price for the week of the launch, as there was with the OS X version.

Glad you got there, Ken, but ... ... that's a bit of a strange one! As you imply, it only seems to be a problem if the other object is underneath rather than on top. On a quick test here, a starting value of less than 95% doesn't allow the new 100% setting to stick: it just goes up in small steps (e.g. 90, 91, 93).