RM10

Hi, Thanks for the suggestions. I got the work done.
Meanwhile I found another option to add to the list: PDFSAM.

Glad you got it worked out for your purposes RM10. I've been able to push limits and do some interesting and unexpected things with Designer, but bending an image isn't one of them! For a text logo, I would approach it the same as you did, recreating the letters and rotating each letter to follow the curve. I've never had to do it, so gave it a try using the text logo of a large local company, placing the jpg logo image on a page in Designer and recreating it using the Pen tool to outline it with individually placed nodes and tweaking the nodes. This logo is a bit more difficult to 'bend' since the letters are connected (I love challenges), but with a bit of quick node manipulation, it's close. Not perfect and can use more tweaking to smooth the corners of some letters, but you get the idea.
Top image is original jpg. Bottom image was re-created in Designer. Took about 20 min. Thanks for posting this thread because it inspired me to push more limits in Designer.

I bought it a long ago for general use and i'm very happy with, specially with the beta of publisher (life savior).
This work in particular was one time only, but I hope that they integrate the right tools soon. we never know when we will need to do other stuff ;)
I got Inkscape too this week but still didn't use it much.
Thanks!

Hi everyone. Thank you all for the suggestions.
Since the Logo was NAME+Symbol, i managed to rotate each piece and place it as good as possible along the line to create the bend effect.
It was for something very small so it didn't need to be perfect.
As I suspected, and as told here, the affinity designer doesn't have the tools (yet).

@Pariah73 I had some text to bend to, but that i managed because the tool exist, it was easy. the problem was really with the logo because it was totally in curves, and the name is not in a regular font. But thanks for the tips, i will try to use some of your suggestions in the future ;)
Thanks everyone.

So in short @RM10, no, it is not possible to design and construct a logo and bend it like you described. Affinity Designer is simply not made for this kind of work. The features are not in the program.
Whatever is on the roadmap now (and has been for years) does not help now - and we don't know what it will be like when it is eventually implemented. Or when. The future is for the dreamers.
Inkscape sports an impressive array of features for free, give it a shot. It is free but the user interface is not great.
You simply purchased the wrong program for that kind of professional, creative and important work. Sorry.

Pariah73's advice is great for text but it only works for text, it doesn't work if you want to bend anything else such as curves, shapes or anything imported from other software.
Designer - currently, as of 1.7.0.209 - doesn't have any complex automatic distortion tools, such as shape-on-path, perspective or mesh warping, but I'm fairly sure that the Affinity team have said those types of thing are on the roadmap so maybe sometime in the future.
In the meantime, you could try using Inkscape to get the vectors into the shape you require and then import the modified vectors into your Designer project.
Inkscape is totally free and has some very sophisticated tools - the one I think you need is in the "Extensions -> Generate From Path -> Pattern Along Path" menu - but the learning-curve can be quite steep, so be prepared to practice and experiment.

@RM10 
CC:  @Jowday
If you own Affinity Photo, and are willing to work with a rasterized copy of the artwork, you might consider building the composited mock-up image of the bottle with the logo bending round the form by using both the Mesh Warp tool and the Perspective tool. (See example screenshot below.)
Working with a duplicate of your AF Designer source file, go to the File > Edit in Photo ... menu command to take the art into AF Photo. Use the Mesh Warp tool to apply a bend to your logo that matches the perspective of your bottle's form. Use the Perspective tool (Dual Plane mode) to foreshorten the ends of the logo a bit to try to fake the natural compression of the image you'd see if it were actually wrapping around a bottle. It requires some manual manipulation and a good sense for thinking in 3D, but it's better than nothing. Short of working with a real 3D rendering application, this is probably your best shot.
Good luck.

Assuming you're in Photopea, grab the text tool and type something out in whatever font you like, then access the warping options by clicking the button there and choosing your options  Make sure to export as svg to keep it vector. Then you can import that into AD or AP and use as you like. Hope this helps. If you need more info, let me know

Hello.
I need some help for a work i'm doing right now.
I have a logo that needs to be apply to a flask.
Already got a file with the lines and curves.
But i need to bend the logo and I can't find a way to do it.
Any help? Thanks!
example (the logo is straight and i need it to be like that line):

I recommend for that the free, open source & portable version of the PDFTK Builder.
https://portableapps.com/de/apps/office/pdftk_builder_portable

I really like your character concept artwork.

Death, green Jack,red A and red King are my favourites.
Very good!

Here's another attempt with coloring. The color of the K,Q,J, and A letters share Red/Black colors while the pips are still 4 colors. I still need to redo the numbered cards with this design but I have the court cards updated so far. Thoughts?

 

Hi Guys, 
I was browsing the forum, reading tips, previews etc. and then I remembered I had a thread here. 
Ahh, where to start - I have been using Designer solid for the last few years - with commercial, personal work etc. 
I will just start with some recent stuff, and slowly work my way back (or forward with newer). 
So I've been doing, amongst other stuff, a lot of editorial illustrations, so here are a few (I will spare you the topics of the articles, they're mainly business related, but at least I try to put a fun spin on them).
Here are 5, more soon
best
r.
 

Four more
 
 

Hi, it's me, wavef again.
 
I've made a Real-Perspetive (not shear things) mockup in AD and you can see the demo in the gif below ( ad source file provided ).
 
it's a unreleased and unstable function in AD, maybe crash your app, damage your un-saved files, blow up your computer~ I don't know.
 
And you may notice "Mockup-3" in the demo has some render issus and it also bring that problem to the exported bitmap, that's why it's unreleased.
 
Keep in mind DO NOT copy and paste anything from this file to your working project !!!
 
 
 
[ GIF Preview ]

 
 
 
 
 
[ Download .afdesign source file ]
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-kA5GV7MxICMWZyT3hSalF3UUE

It would be nice to have coffee like that on work.
Impressive stuff

I have that error too.
A solution is to refresh the display of the thumbnails on the top corner "small/medium/large".
But it happens a lot even when we are working on the document, not only when we open it.

This thread is locked, there is a newer beta available from the thread pinned to the top of this forum
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Any problems actually using this version please post to post in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Many thanks for your continued feedback.
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Fix List
Document / Page Management
- Fixed crash opening some documents containing images on a Master Page
- Pages Panel updated to improve layout and performance
- Add Page buttons now enabled correctly after converting Artboard based document to Spread on Windows
- Removed bleed setup from Add Master Page dialog, it is a document setting
- Select Anchor to page should be selected by default for scaling in spread properties
- Fixed Page redraw after deleting artboards

General Tools and Menus
- Added Layer > Arrange, Alignment, Geometry, Transform, Insertion
- Added Layer > New Layer, Layer > New Adjustment
- Preferences options missing from dialog drop down menu
- Fixed marquee zoom when using the <Space>+<Ctrl>
- Fixed Find and Replace text field drop menus on Mac
- Fixed toolbar customisation - Distribute, Operations on Mac
- Fixed Guides editing default for Select Tool on Mac
- Updated minimum Zoom Out for view
- Fixed crash when assigning keyboard shortcut to File > Place on Windows

Text Tool
- Symbols indicating overflowing text added to text frames
- Fixed bug redrawing text flow after unlinking text frames
- Text wrap options dialog fixed for light UI on Windows

Text Panels / Text Style Editor
- Tidied Paragraph style dropdown drawing on Mac
- Fixed application of Kerning by dragging icon on Mac
- Text Styles Panel fixed to display description fully
- Fixed deselection of Stylistic Sets from Character Panel
- Fixed Initial Words not applying in Text Styles
- Fixed hyphenation Minimum Score not applying in Text Styles
- Fixed bullet character style for bullet not applying if tab stop value is 0 in Text Styles
- Fixed 'Ignore space if same style' not applying in Text Styles on Windows

Tables
- Icons added to table row / column extenders to advertise their purpose
- Table tool headers now reflect insets
- Frame settings now applied correctly to new tables
- Double-click on default format now edits that format rather than creating a duplicate

Resources / Resource Manager
- On File > Open, if linked resources are missing, request to locate

Assets
- Fixed Asset thumbnails when asset include image in CMYK document

Picture Frames
- Fixed Convert placed image to Picture Frame
- Custom zoom and placement maintained when Picture Frame is resized

Print / Export
- All formats now export with optional bleed
- Fixed export of Artboards in embedded afdesign files
- Print model not saved with pre-set on Windows
- Double sided prints always flips on longest side on Windows
 

@RM10
Yes this file loads without issue for me in the new build ( called #128 surprisingly) that will be available very shortly I think.

Small celebration. I've now uploaded 100 Affinity Photo video tutorials to my InAffinity YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOnLUmyPHr2rayOHVHWsHVw
Mostly, they are for beginners, though I throw in recent discoveries, effects, etc.
To properly celebrate, I'm now off on a photographing jolly, up the American East Coast, as far as Nova Scotia, no less.
TTFN.

This thread is LOCKED there is a later beta build in a thread pinned at the top of this forum
Click here to download the latest beta for Windows
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Purpose: General Testing
Requirements: None
As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity where you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. 
We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems installing or running up, please don't hesitate to post here.
Any problems actually using this version please post to post in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Many thanks for your continued feedback.
Please post any bug reports here. Please feel free to leave general suggestions and comments in the Discussion Forum.
Fix List
Installer
- Fixed failure to start on some systems due to font issues
Start up
- Reset Table Formats and Title Exceptions missing from Ctrl+Run on Mac
Document / Page Management
- Offer option to convert Artboard documents to Spread documents on open
- Bleed guides / visible bleed now available in the main view
- Fixed document bleed not being automatically applied to new spreads and master spreads
- Fixed bleed from masters not drawing on applied spreads
- Snapping grid now draws on current spread rather than always the first spread
- Transparent background is a document setting, not a per-spread setting
- Adding a pages to a facing page document generates the wrong page labels
General Tools and Menus
- Fixed Pop up Sliders not closing on Mac
- Fixed priority issue with Select Tool / Placement Tool
- Fixed Zoom Out causing unwanted Pan
- Fixed Gradient Tool to add stops correctly
- Added Paste FX to Layout Persona Edit Menu
- Added Geometry operations to the Customise Toolbar dialog on Mac
- Fixed applying style from Styles Panel when in list mode
- Rearranged View menu to separate guides and rulers
Text Tool
- Fixed diacritic entry via dead keys on Mac
- Drop Caps now have a 'Scale for Descenders' attribute
- Fixed Leading entry glitches on Windows
- Fixed Kerning entry glitches
- Fixed Tracking entry issue
- Fixed intermittent crash when adjusting the Fill and / or Transparency for Decorations
- Fixed spelling error highlights not updating whilst editing Text Wrap settings
- Fixed crash setting Text Wrap option on EPS images
- Text flow handles now hide when view is zoomed a lot, out to prevent view clutter
Text Style Editor
- Layout improvements
- Fixed Style description truncation in Text Style Editor on Windows
Tables
- Setting Table cell size from Table Panel not working correctly
- Fixed Keep with next lines breaking Table layout
- Table Save as Default could cause app to crash 
- Right click on table header not deleting multiple columns / rows
- Table Formats should include Frame fill, stroke and insets
Resources / Resource Manager
- Document policy for Embedding / Linking images available from File > New / Document Setup
- Better prompting when missing Linked Images encountered on Document Open
- Resource Manager now always shows resource thumbnails
- Placement sort in Resource Manager fixed
- Resource Manager columns are now resizable
- Fixed Resource Manager grid scroll issues
- Fixed Properties read out for pasted Affinity Documents
TOC
- Fixed glitch when TOC was deleted leading to incomplete removal
Print / Export
- Double sided prints always flip on longest side (partial fix)
- Fixed converting colour for PDF/X-3 export rasterising elements
 

The Affinity Publisher 1.7 free public beta is now available for Mac and Windows.
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Welcome to the forums MojoTojo!
I'd recommend watching our tutorial video on Symbols if you need further info  
 

Affinity Designer DOES have this feature, its called Symbols. Go to View > Studio > Symbols to show the Symbols Panel.

Hi Everyone!
Today I published first episode of 1-minute graphic tips series called "Minutnik graficzny" (graphic stopwatch)
#1 How to set the contrast of a photo:
 
I decided to make it in polish, because there is a lot of english content already, however if someone non-polish-speaking would like to check it, there are english subtitles.
I believe there are some polish people on this forum, so I hope to get some feedback. I'm going to publish here updates, especially for episodes connected with Affinity sofware.
Lets affinitize Poland!