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I would so love to see a freeform gradient tool in Designer - you are almost there where you can select the way points in the linear tool but to then be able to have them as a controllable spline would be awesome.

Is this something you will include into future updates?

hi i was hoping with the new v2 of the software that the capability to increase the tiny interface font size would be sorted - im running on a 4k monitor and its a struggle to read them - i have tried the windows 11 system font size increase but not all the fonts will increase in affinity applications - can you please add this to the development plan as i see others have been asking for it since 2018 i prefere to be able to do this within the settings of the app and not a system klunky work around.

hi i was hoping with the new v2 of the software that the capability to increase the tiny interface font size would be sorted - im running on a 4k monitor and its a struggle to read them - i have tried the windows 11 system font size increase but not all the fonts will increase in affinity applications - can you please add this to the development plan as i see others have been asking for it since 2018 i prefere to be able to do this within the settings of the app and not a system klunky work around.

Affinity designer is a great program to create amazing svg graphics. But I have to create complex help animations from svg-graphics. And I haven't found a good program for that yet. I wish myself an svg animations program from the affinity team.

Been trying to see if i could import a gradient swatch that i had custom made in the swatches panel into a gradient fill in the FX Layer Effect - i would love to see a drop down arrow selector that would then display the custom gradients from the swatches.

I forgot to add another problem with swatches not carrying over to another document via copy-n-paste... if your swatch is a SPOT color, the SPOT swatch is left behind. Try and re-make that swatch from your pasted object and you'll only create a CMYK swatch. Your SPOT color is gone for good.
This is a blinding oversight that should be treated as a bug fix rather than a missing feature.

@v_kyr Thank you for your solution - I had no idea you could actually phyiscally add the values there (I thought the list was the predefined values). What a great revelation. Thank you so much.
@>|< This solution was also brilliant. It turned out I did indeed have 144dpi selected and when I changed document to 72dpi it fixed the issue. THANK YOU.
@walt.farrell Thank you as well for your help. I was on mac / affinity designer. The 1x, 2x, 3x is designed with the idea that you create an original image and then for the next x value it doubles the size of original image. In HTML you have the ability to do that same - add an x value to original image. In short it basically means if a device that has 3 or 4 times more pixels than a standard display you can give them a 3x or 4x image and it will display the same phyiscal dimensions, without being pixelated. So typical retina screen would be 2x. But some phones are 3x and even 4x. Forgive me if you already knew this info.
Thank you everyone your help. Really appreciate it. This has been bugging me for months.

I would so love to see a freeform gradient tool in Designer - you are almost there where you can select the way points in the linear tool but to then be able to have them as a controllable spline would be awesome.

Is this something you will include into future updates?

I would so love to see a freeform gradient tool in Designer - you are almost there where you can select the way points in the linear tool but to then be able to have them as a controllable spline would be awesome.

Is this something you will include into future updates?

I was also looking for it. Creating an epub would be a most important feature for me.

yes please on a plugin for On1 into Affinity Photo 
 

I would so love to see a freeform gradient tool in Designer - you are almost there where you can select the way points in the linear tool but to then be able to have them as a controllable spline would be awesome.

Is this something you will include into future updates?

I would so love to see a freeform gradient tool in Designer - you are almost there where you can select the way points in the linear tool but to then be able to have them as a controllable spline would be awesome.

Is this something you will include into future updates?

I think it will come at some time (see the roadmap here. The call it 'Mesh fill tool').
You already can create something in that direction using multiple fills. It is not the same but worth a try:

 
Cheers,
d.

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The "Freeform Gradient tool" is a very cool tool added by Adobe in the last release. something like this in AD will be really great...

I would so love to see a freeform gradient tool in Designer - you are almost there where you can select the way points in the linear tool but to then be able to have them as a controllable spline would be awesome.

Is this something you will include into future updates?

I downloaded the PDF and it all seems fine to me?
It opens up straight away 
 

You're welcome. 
If you are selecting artboards then exporting, try with nothing selected and exporting. Unless I am misunderstanding that comment. 
If you would like, feel free to upload the AD file to dropbox or the like and send me a private message with the download link and I'll take a look.
Mike

Very nice work - I've had some glitchy problems with multipage PDF's in the past - luckily not for a while now, the first thing I'd try is make a white rectangle to the bleed requirements and place at on the base layer of each artboard (I know it's really frustrating that you can't view bleed in an dartboard doc, but maybe this will get sorted with next update) as in the past anything that has transparency will not bleed off the edge without this - the other thing I'd try would be to recreate a new document to your requirements and copy paste from the old doc - this has also worked for me in the past - also I've made the silly mistake of having items sitting above an artboard which seems to cause problems.
May be worth a try?

I love the cover, btw. Aside from nice "parts" of it, it's got nice depth to it.
I don't know how you got the PDF into the page order you have. The way AD works is first PDF page from the bottom of the Artboard stack, last page at the top of the stack. But I don't see anything apparent in the layer panel that would cause the problem...but I can only see a single artboard on screen too.
Mike

I suspect that PDF was created using the Export Persona. For a multi-page PDF one needs to use File->Export instead.

The first page of the PDF contains all the elements from every page, sans the form elements you added in Acrobat. Here's a screen shot of pulling that first page apart with other pages below it.

Without seeing the AD file, I would have no idea how it got into this state. Haven't seen this issue before, but it likely is going to be that the other artboards are nested into the first artboard or some such thing.
Mike