johnnydfred

MikeTO, your Publisher manual is simply stellar. Thanks so much for what is clearly a huge effort. I'm a firm believer in PDF-format reference – and yours searches like a champ. Even an index. Cheers!

Just finishing a first review of this missing feature, and have to say that the 2.2 beta on Mac AND iPad work quite well. Yaaaaaaay! Congrats to the Serif teams responsible! And thank you! Truly. Settings for each level of units are configurable (app-level - user must set this up for each - Mac and iPad versions). I’d love to see this attribute be assignable at a file level (better still - user-definable), which would allow user to have a default assignation at app level, with the option to assign each file with it’s own accuracy and scale settings. In fact, I’ll have to check for that - files might hold these settings.

Glad to hear the voices for this feature/fix. I continue to see issues that limit my sizing issues in ADv2. My use is for very large page sizes - and relationally high accuracy requirements. Currently my use of millimeter units results in 0.1 mm accuracy - enough for current work. But many other scenarios (those mentioned by others are good examples) are limited by Affinity’s lack of decimal accuracy (semantically- precision). Hopefully some day this will be addressed. V2.1 is coming.

Exactly. Displaying what it actually is. There is a task flow that it required to be useful, and without feedback as to what user has entered - changed, corrected, or otherwise - the task flow fails.

That’s the problem Walt. The Transform panel doesn’t reflect the size that’s entered. It only rounds to one decimal point. Even bringing the entry panel up (gaming the system to think one is editing the number and then reveal the actual size) yields no accuracy.

Sorry Walt, but that’s insane. Having to create a scaled object just to have simple feedback as to any object’s size is asking the user to jump through hoops just to get what is already available, but not shown. Until there is SOMEPLACE where this kind of information is revealed, AD will be lacking. Every vector app on the planet provides this feature - because it is an elemental requirement to design. * Historically, Adobe Illustrator took over 8 years - 1994-2002 - to give users more than 2 decimals in their application: during which they were pounded for not having what Adlus’ Freehand app provided (5+ decimals!)

Latest post on this subject, after some v2 assessment of the conditions of the grid/dimensioning accuracy and app UI feedback of Affinity Designer on both Mac and iPad. It looks like Serif has addressed grid problems - Thank you! Grids on both platforms now agree with one another, and under Standard grid configurations, reflect the settings they are set to. One continuing incidence is that the settings under Standard are limited - and reach a point where input for grid size is not accepted. I couldn't find a threshold for this - it might have to do with resolution settings of the file. For dimensioning limitations, it seems at least objects consistently reflect the size they have been set to. On both platforms. This is great news as a previous error across platforms made iPad version use nearly impossible. Great work, Serif! So the layer size feedback is the last issue that needs to be fixed. And now this error extends to the Mac platform as well. Yah, it used to only occur on the iPad. But now a design doesn't reflect actual-sized layers ANYWHERE. I'll try to say this without repeating myself too much: **If a user cannot visually confirm a layer's actual size, beyond one tenth of a unit (one number to the right of the decimal point), the app will continue to be largely useless to most designers needing decimal accuracy feedback.** There is no work-around for this. Serif, please prioritize a fix.

I wish it was as simple as just not displaying the number entered. My repeated tests suggest that the actual object is changing its previously-defined, hundredths-and-smaller dimensions when an AD Mac file is opened in AD iPad. I'll test more on this, with the intent to publish a demonstration of this so the issue is better understood.

I am sure Serif is challenged with tending to many new user requests and reports, but I will continue to place focus on this critical bug in AD iPad. Please, Serif, put this defect on your backlog, as there are many designers who really need a fix. AD iPad is rather useless without reliable object units. 0.1 units accuracy doesn’t cut it. Redefining actual object sizes in files from AD Mac - just because AD iPad can’t handle 0.0001 unit definitions - doesn’t cut it.

I can’t get grid setting to hold, and in fact, when using Standard grid, and wishing to set a 100mm grid with 10 subdivisions, grid resets to an erroneous “21.7mm”. On save, this translates across to AD Mac (where it CAN be reset to any grid one’s heart desires!). Hope Affinity can get this bug fixed. Grids in AD iPad useless rn.

Really, I've bought into Affinity products as they released from the start. Given their frequent deals, over the years I've been more than ready to upgrade at cost. Before buying the whole new suite, I perused the individual product costs: Any one iPadOS product...$12 bucks. Twelve bucks!! How can anyone complain? Still, adding them up, the $99 for the six products (Individual. $40 x 3 for Mac, $12 x 3 for iPadOS) was a no-brainer! It's going to take me a while to peruse the v2 options, but judging from my first hour of use - holy cow, what a fine product (AD iPad).

Great update on all apps. And alas, you are right - still, still, still not fixed. Now with measure, AND area! And still no accuracy on AD2 iPad. AFFINITY, please get this fixed!!!!!

Glad someone else feels my similar pain. Squarebear, I don't think the iPad/HW is the issue. I run lots of software which - in explicit and implicit values - needs to be very accurate. As most of AD on iPad runs well, one must assume it makes use of some pretty deep dev. Processing power on this machine, in calculations and graphic processing is major. I'm hoping Serif will address this if it gains more attention. I've been using AD on iPad since 2017, and started voicing this deficiency only a year later. I can only hope they get to a fix some day soon.

Circling back on this subject with more of what I know to be true: 1. Callum's previous comment on rounding is partly true, but the reality is that settings in AD Mac are changed when edited in in AD iPad. This occurs after I tried changing the settings in AD Mac to "3 decimal places in mm, 4 in cm, and 5 in m." I then set an object to "680.65mm" in AD Mac, saved the file, and opened it in AD iPad. The object was rounded to "680.1" in the transform panel. And in checking the actual size of the object in AD Mac - the object's size had been changed as well. Definitively, this suggests that AD iPad can not handle anywhere near the accuracy of the Mac version, making it completely useless as a tool for work. Again, memories of Adobe Illustrator's long history which only in 2012 was corrected. 2. The issues I've had with grid in AD iPad is confirmed as well. No amount of fiddling with the Snap toggles, or resetting the grid in Standard mode, allows me to actually snap to the grid - or snap to a size - in AD iPad. Meaning, the grid that is presented and the snap system are not aligned. This may, or may not have to do with the roller deficiency. Code-wise, worth looking into. In all I'm at an impasse with AD iPad use. I truly love working in this app on the iPad - it is my preferred platform for this app - but I can't resolve the inaccuracy of file work, and results. If anyone can explain how I am mistaken, illogical, or just ignorant on this, I'm game to discuss. I'd love to be disproven, so I can get back to work on a great app on a great platform. Cheers, John

Thanks, Callum. Yes, I appreciate the fact that the iPad version at least preserves the object size. But because one cannot get UI feedback as to that accurate size, OR edit the actual size, the preservation feature cannot belay the bug. You see my point right? Hopefully this can be at the top of your iPad app defect list, as it renders the iPad version of Designer useless for many. I truly love the iPad version for work – hence my troubled soul! :-((

I’m reposting this to make current an issue with the iPad version of Designer. I originally posted in 2018 and again in 2019 about the lack of real decimal unit accuracy when compared to the desktop version. I work in Designer a lot and am limited in what I can do on the iPad (my preferred Designer platform!) because this feature continues to be absent: Decimal places in even small millimeter scales is possible in files created in the desktop Designer version. But move that file to the iPad, and while the placed units are correct, any attempt to view that accuracy (rounds to nearest whole number), or change the dimension to a decimal-level number - destroys the object’s dimensional accuracy. This really needs to be addressed by the dev team. There is no excuse that I can think of that would legitimize continued non-support of this basic-level (in many ways critical) feature. I’ll leave the forum members to weigh in on their experience, as well as hope for a response and plan from Serif.

You guys DO realize the pent-up demand for this product port, don’t you? COVID can’t be the source of every deliverable delay. At least satisfy your users with an delivery update. A sample screen. A video of a portion of the UI in action. I, like many, have been faithful customers for - now - YEARS. I’ve bought every one of your suite on 2 PLATFORMS. After 2 decades of Adobe products use, I walked walkway from them to join Serif and it’s drum beat. And there (obviously) are many, many like me. Show your loyal market your intentions. You owe them at least that much.

@segts, as my request for this is now years-long, I can only assume that Serif does not actually monitor these forums with any desire to respond, but rather maintain them only for users to interact. Guess there’s always hope.

This request is getting years-long in the tooth. Designer on Mac has had accurate numeric measurement for years. Why can’t it’s IOS version have the same!? Every project I start on a Mac can’t be touched on my iPad without losing control of its accuracy! 1.0625 on a Mac should be the same - editable and reflect-able as such - on IPadOS. please explain why this cannot be addressed.

Yep. ‘Cept for the fact that Affinity Designer and (as mentioned) Photo have very iPad-compatible, tablet interfaces that lend very well to productivity. And have been my go-to choice for years. Can’t wait for their Publisher effort to arrive on iPadOS. I’m looking forward to a PDF-creating, publishing workflow - without touching my Mac.

Actually I think Designer’s scale settings work quite well. What is sad is how it falls apart when one moves the file to iPad Designer: scale changes, no decimal feedback or accuracy. Yech. And for me - so terribly needed!

Update. Yeah thanks for the comraderie on this. Serif, if you are listening, moving to the iPad as my preferred platform is impossible if you don’t address this continued issue. When can we expect a response or estimate of when this can move to the top of your priority queue?

Wondering if everyone has issue with screen-sharing (multiwindow) support being absent? Could have sworn I was using this in previous (pre-1.8.3) versions. Serif, care to weigh in?

And - in fact, Walt - that is exactly what I was looking for! Don't know how I missed it. Thanks for the prompt solution.

So it would seem simple enough, but I can't find the option: Rather than the Pages Panel displaying as spreads, I wish for it to display as single pages. Anyone know the answer?