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Same as always 😞
 

I will pass the mic to the educated, dedicated full time user experience designer working for Serif Software:
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Same as always 😞
 

Just to share a bad experience, even after almost 20 years in the creation process…
Hope this can serve someone else than me.
Hi dear Affinity Team,
Almost since the beginning of your adventure, I'm a big fan of your apps. Bought them all, trash any single piece of Adobe files on my system, I just love your work.   Well… until today… A few days ago, I've designed an Affinity Designer file, which contain 3 very precisely scaled shapes planned to be laser cut (document set in cm). The laser company needed separated files, so, for each of the three shapes to be cut: • I copied the group shape and pasted it on a new document (⌘ ⌥ ⇧ n). • Saved the new document for reference and exported it to PDF. • Sent it to cut to the company.   I paid 209,33€ for the job (inox plates, 2mm thick)   Today, I received the plates, and they are too small!!! I immediately checked my exported files, and indeed, they are too small!!! So: • Yes, this is my fault for not having double checked the exported files and the company has made no mistake, so their is nothing I can complain • BUT, YOU changed the scale during the copy/paste process!!! Why such a bug exist??? I was trusting you, didn't pay attention… This bug can be reproduced at will, cannot believe it!!!   I'm absolutely revolted right now, both against me by my excess of confidence in the quality of your work, and by you because your lack costed me so much money!   I don't know what to think anymore.   Regards

Evidently there is a New from clipboard bug 
 

I will pass the mic to the educated, dedicated full time user experience designer working for Serif Software:
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No offense, but your comment seems to imply that there is something offensive about having your own opinion and actually voicing it.

Affinity Publisher uses the Hunspell Engine for spell checking and it also allows for additional Hunspell dictionaries to be added. You can download additional dictionaries from LibreOffice's GitHub page here but you can find direct links in the below post. 

Once you've downloaded the correct file(s), you can use them in Affinity Publisher by following the below instructions:
Please note: There are some differences between how you install Hunspell dictionaries for macOS/Windows, since we use the default spelling dictionaries available within macOS but it's also possible to add custom Hunspell dictionaries too.
macOS
You may already have Spelling dictionaries available but not active within macOS. To check, go to:
System Preferences >  Keyboard > Text and select Set up... from the Spelling drop down menu. Please check the required language if available. If it is, check the required language and restart Affinity Publisher for the dictionary to appear within the app.
If the required language is not available within macOS, you can install standard Hunspell dictionaries for use with Affinity Publisher. Hunspell dictionaries consist of two files, xx_XX.dic and xx_XX.aff. Copy both the .dic and .aff files to: ~/Library/Spelling
Once you have done this the language should become available to select from the Spelling drop down menu in System Preferences >  Keyboard > Text. Once you've checked the required language, restart Affinity Publisher for the dictionary to appear within the app.
Hyphenation dictionaries can also be installed in a similar way but they must be installed into a subfolder. Navigate to ~/Library/Spelling/ as above and create a subfolder with a name in the format of xx-XX ( substituting xx-XX for the locale id ). The dictionary comes as a single file with a name in the format hyph_xx_XX.dic - this file should be copied to the subfolder. Now restart Affinity Publisher for the dictionary to appear within the app.
Windows
You can add additional dictionaries and hyphenation dictionaries by going to Edit > Preferences > Tools. The default Additional dictionary folder used by the app is C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries but you can change this location by clicking Browse... - Please make sure that you specify a folder that holds all subfolders for each locale and not one specific locale folder as this will not work!

To copy any downloaded dictionaries and hyphenation dictionaries to the Additional dictionary folder click Open... but before copying your files to this folder you will need to create a subfolder with its name in the format of xx_XX ( substituting xx_XX for the locale id ). Once you’ve done this you can copy your xx_XX.dic, xx_XX.aff and hyph_xx_XX.dic files to the subfolder. Now restart Affinity Publisher for the dictionaries to appear within the app.

Please note: Any changes to dictionaries require that you restart Affinity Publisher

Check out these silly, silly rulers I have in Designer & Publisher (all 3 personas)... Everywhere and anywhere seems to be the exact same place! Oh! This seems to support certain philosophical ideas but it is not the condition I would want when working on a layout. I bet you can't guess how to get this!
Actual area we are looking at is A4-ish, so it is not micro scale. What seems to trigger this? Rotating canvas 90 degrees and then moving mouse pointer, or zooming. Yup, rotating canvas will create a fine zone of singularity. I would expect rulers to merely switch X and Y axes, but the singularity. I'd never! Can you make your rulers silly, too?
(Oh, to go back to euclidean universe just rotate the artboard back as it was.)
 

I will pass the mic to the educated, dedicated full time user experience designer working for Serif Software:
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I will pass the mic to the educated, dedicated full time user experience designer working for Serif Software:
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Hi, I am also here to add another extra vote to this issue because it just happend to me as well.
I am following the Affinity Designer Workbook project Lace Frame Galleries 1, and when preparing the Distressed Look version of the logo for export in SVG, the book says the following: 
When I select the distressed stroke shape and use Expand Stroke, all of the lines become disastrously damaged. 1st image is before expanding the stroke, 2nd image is after the stroke is expanded. Notice how the most damage happens where the stroke pressure varied the most in terms of weight, which was done using the Pressure pop-up panel in the Stroke Panel as the Workbook instructed to do.



Excuse me, but let this become first priority for the Development Team as this has been reported years ago. Absolutely disappointing!

Yeah it's unfortunate it has taken this long to correct the feature. I'm not usually keen to complain, but Expand Stroke is such a major feature for shape-building. It's part of my "typical" workflow. I tend to keep my simpler designs for Affinity Designer and anything super complex, I do in Illustrator because I tend to run into too many bugs or limitations. I still prefer Designer as Illustrator is getting rather slow & clunky.

I just got a similar thing I believe with  it being inaccurate. Some points are made correctly some are changed to points that don't match the shape. The tips of my paths aren't expanding and matching the shape with curves. What are you guys doing to work around this or should I refund my purchase? 2 years is quite a long time for a bug. 
 

Don't hold your breath for this fix @debraspicher. This issue was reported over 2 years ago and there's no sign of it being even considered let alone fixed. All I've heard since I reported it is a message like this from the moderators saying that it's a known issue and that it's been passed on to the dev team. 
 

Well, still due to business decisions behind it all and the priorities their leadership (not the devs, apologists) make as they go - even at this stage. To add insult to injury their marketing oversold the products all they way since before releasing the first versions.
The decision to develop too many products with an extremely small crew in a bunker in Nottingham seemingly without much of a business network and without user experience designers was not forced upon Serif by natural laws or a dictatorship. The challenges Serif mentioned here can be solved or mitigated - if they make the necessary decisions. They stick to what they know and customers are stuck for years and years with the result of their decisions. 
What is even more interesting is not what the fanboys and apologists here - a tiny group of amateurs and hobbyists mostly - repeat without end; It is what made others not choosing Affinity. Customers that could make the products grow and mature once inside a non-forum based feedback loop.
But the hardcore forum enthusiasts will never know. Not with their beginner workbooks in their ears and their hands in front of their eyes. And Xara-Inkscape as desperate fallback solutions. Their presence and activity shields Serif from people with ambitions and bigger needs. Without user experience specialists it is also obvious that Serif shields itself. They focus on... marketing.

Hi,
I've made this request before, but I'll make it again briefly because I think it's important.
Why is there no 'Content Overlay' FX, like there is a Color Overlay and a Gradient Overlay.
With Content Overal FX you overlay the content over itself, with a different blend mode for example, and opacity, maybe some transform/offset controls.
This way you can mix blend modes without making Symbols all the time.
What do you think?
Thanks.

I'm not exactly sure what @MxHeppa is asking for in that last comment, but I think it would be an excellent idea if Affinity somewhere listed in comprehensive detail exactly which features of OpenType were supported.  This subject has come up before, for example in discussion of support (or lack of support) for various Indic languages.
And by "comprehensive detail", I do not mean a marketing list of one- and two-word bullet points, but rather a thorough discussion of all the standard features, with limitations and optional extensions clearly identified.  If Affinity is using, in full or in part, a third-party text rendering engine, that engine should also be identified (assuming that contractual terms permit it).
Further, as we reasonably expect text support to grow over time, this detail document should clearly identify which version of the Affinity suite it refers to.

Hi,
In Designer, you can add several contours and surfaces via the Appearance panel. I also know this function from Adobe Illustrator, but I have to say that Illustrator offers many more options in terms of settings than Designer.
Above all, I find it really bad that you can only add additional contours to objects and not to editable text, as is the case in Illustrator.
When I look at the video from Corel, the function is actually similar to Illustrator, except that you use a tool there. And I agree, if such a tool is already added in Designer, it should be possible to use it in a similar way as in Corel.
Since I work with Illustrator for a living, I would be more pleased if you could expand the functionality of the Illustration panel by adding effects and adjustments. And of course it should also be possible to apply these functions to editable texts.

This appears to be a good beginning to a contour tool, but not really all that useful yet.  I would love to see a setting for multiple contours where we could type in a number and get that many contours around the object.  Also it would be useful to be able to select each contour  set the colour of each contour individually and different from the object.  and  perhaps baking ( which is pretty much just converting to curves unless I'm missing something?) could have some settings to allow either the current behaviour or the creation of multiple objects ie the original object and the contours each rendered as separate vector objects.

Not the person in question but the reason every single publisher I have worked with wants original files so they are contractor independent. Some publishers also independently massage the files for various reasons, add various bits, etc.
Really, I am at a loss as to why people who may not work with publishers are even arguing their points.

Hi,
I'd also like to suggest adding the golden section (or golden ratio, phi ratio) grid to the crop overlay as its effect is more subtle than the thirds.  In the Renaissance it was called the divine proportion.

Well, still due to business decisions behind it all and the priorities their leadership (not the devs, apologists) make as they go - even at this stage. To add insult to injury their marketing oversold the products all they way since before releasing the first versions.
The decision to develop too many products with an extremely small crew in a bunker in Nottingham seemingly without much of a business network and without user experience designers was not forced upon Serif by natural laws or a dictatorship. The challenges Serif mentioned here can be solved or mitigated - if they make the necessary decisions. They stick to what they know and customers are stuck for years and years with the result of their decisions. 
What is even more interesting is not what the fanboys and apologists here - a tiny group of amateurs and hobbyists mostly - repeat without end; It is what made others not choosing Affinity. Customers that could make the products grow and mature once inside a non-forum based feedback loop.
But the hardcore forum enthusiasts will never know. Not with their beginner workbooks in their ears and their hands in front of their eyes. And Xara-Inkscape as desperate fallback solutions. Their presence and activity shields Serif from people with ambitions and bigger needs. Without user experience specialists it is also obvious that Serif shields itself. They focus on... marketing.

LOL. So you believe it is just about the order of the bricks?
Seriously, apologists. Let Serif do the explaining - you guys always forget (or do not understand) business priorities and (long term) strategy. FX how to keep you in the fold for years.
As an "IT person" you should understand the regime you are working under - and why that regime really makes decision and priorities. Technical requirements and architecture are rarely dictating much. More often you build the architecture to support the business priorities. And improvise. 

LOL. So you believe it is just about the order of the bricks?
Seriously, apologists. Let Serif do the explaining - you guys always forget (or do not understand) business priorities and (long term) strategy. FX how to keep you in the fold for years.
As an "IT person" you should understand the regime you are working under - and why that regime really makes decision and priorities. Technical requirements and architecture are rarely dictating much. More often you build the architecture to support the business priorities. And improvise.