MmmMaarten

I just wanted to agree with this. It's pointless having two shape tools that are exactly the same! But it is quite handy to have both rectangle and rounded rectangle to save extra steps and having to keep changing one tool.
By the way, it does seem to apply to all the apps, not just Designer.

Hi All,
It looks as though the default is shared between both of these tools. I have made a log with our developers to look at potentially changing this in the future.
Thanks
C

I think, without too much effort put into thinking it, that the Rectangle Tool should always draw new rectangles with squared corners no matter which settings were used in the Rounded Rectangle Tool or what the last rectangle was changed to use while using the Rectangle Tool.
And the Rounded Rectangle Tool should always draw new rectangles with the settings which were last drawn with that tool (unless the user has pressed “Revert Defaults”).
Otherwise what’s the point of having separate tools if they both ‘borrow’ settings from each other?
(The 'roundedness' can, of course, still be changed after the rectangle has been drawn.) 
This seems sensible to me – if I want a new non-rounded rectangle I use the Rectangle Tool rather than the Rounded Rectangle Tool.

Context toolbar → "Corner" section
You may have accidentally saved the setting as your tool default (Edit → Defaults).

Hehe, at the moment I have four: the Tascam 38, then a 2-track Revox B77 15 ips for mastering, and from my late dad I have inherited two home hi-fi Akai recorders from the 1970s that both need fixing. Given that my studio is just 12 m^2, that's at least two too many… 
Those are fun!

Forgot to share this one, but still happy with it 
The graphics were fully designed using Affinity Designer and animated using Moho Pro. The music I made using Ableton Live.
Hope you like it!
 

Yes!! Super glad I can finally share this Music Video Visuals with Character Animations now. Put a lot of work, time and effort into this one and had to 'kill many darlings' during the process, but with no regrets! 

Design and Illustrations were all made in Affinity Designer. Also the new Spiral tool was great for doing the inner wound tapes! That tool arrived just in time! 

Animation was completely done in Moho 14 Pro. I've made and audio mastered the music, and also programmed Moho plugin scripts to use the Affinity Designer Spine JSON export to export all graphics as trimmed PNG's and import these with all auto-positioning into Moho quickly and easily. I've also written a script to animate the tape deck by keyframing on speed and accelerations instead of animating on angles.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I had while creating it! 🙂 
And if you do, please also like it on Youtube for the algorithm and stuff! Would be nice!

Video (for backstage/making of; see below in this thread! ) :
 
 

Apps: All
Platforms: Windows, macOS and iPad
Within alignment options you will see three new options to make all items in your current selection adopt the same width, height or rotation. By default this will transform all objects to match the first item selected, or alternatively if a key object has been nominated (alt-click) it will use that as the source.
Additionally you can choose to maintain the aspect ratio of the objects being resized.
On desktop this is available via the alignment dropdown:

And on iPad via the alignment options panel which you can get to via the transform panel:

 

Apps: All
Platforms: macOS, Windows and iPad
Previously when you cycled your selection box this was only a temporary operation. You can now make this permanent...
From the select menu there are two options:
- Cycle selection box (this was the existing option)
- Set selection box (the new option)

Also note the shortcut for these - [Full Stop] to cycle and [CMD + Full Stop] to set on macOS and iPad or [Ctrl + Full Stop] to set on Windows.
The new feature is that after cycling to the selection box you want you can now permanently set that for your current selection by using the Set Selection Box command.
In the example below, I have two shapes which are rotated by the same amount. Therefore when they are selected by default the selection box is oriented to match the shape's rotation. Now if I want to permanently make those shapes have a selection box which is oriented to my page I can cycle to regular bounds and then Set Selection Box, which will now make that persist every time I select those items in future.

 
A couple of other notes on this feature:
As well as cycling to the base box and regular bounds of an object, if you have a grid set which has a different rotation to your page (or, are working on an isometric plane for example) you will additionally get the option to cycle and set the selection box to be aligned with the the current planar bounds of the selection. If you have a multiple selection which includes objects rotated by different amounts, if you wish to set your selection box for all objects in your selection to match the orientation of one of them you can set the one you want to match to be your key object. Then when you cycle your selection box the "base box" option will match that object's rotation.  
 

Apps: Designer and Publisher (+ some changes to the existing feature in Photo)
Platforms: Windows and macOS
We have now added the States panel to Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher which previously only existed in Affinity Photo. Layer states allows you to either:
Capture the current visibility states of your layers across your document Create queries based on various criteria to use to make a selection or toggle visibility of layers This feature is particularly useful to manage different variations of your work. As an example, one of the social ad campaigns for our recent Black Friday promotion was created in Affinity Designer across multiple artboards. Each artboard had 4 variants for English, Japanese, German and French language.

 
Previously if you wanted to toggle between the English and French version for example you would need to toggle the visibility of the appropriate layers on each artboard separately - not particularly workable when you have many artboards / spreads. The new states panel gives you a new way to work with designs like this. 

In this case I could set up a query with criteria which captures all my Japanese layers. From the states panel click "New Query" at the bottom, I called the query "JA" and set up my criteria to be "All Art Text and Frame Text layers that have a layer name which ends in JA" as below:


Because on each artboard we had used the consistent naming convention that all Japanese text has a layer name ending in JA, all English text has a layer name ending in EN, etc. it made it easy to then set up 4 queries for each of the languages. We could alternatively have used a convention like all French variants are tagged yellow, English tagged Red, etc. 
So now to switch from English to Japanese across all artboards I can just turn off everything that fulfils my EN query, and turn on everything which fulfils my JP query using the visibility on/off buttons next to the queries in the states panel - so in two clicks end up with the below:

 
While this example is only including text, of course I may have had different imagery for each locale and could have included those in the same queries to still have one button to toggle text and images of each language on and off. Also, as it's set up a query like this, should I add additional Japanese specific layers to any of the artboards and name them ending in "...JA" my JA query will automatically pick them up.
In Publisher the same principles apply giving the ability to globally toggle different layers on and off across all spreads in your document which match the criteria you have specified. While building complex expressions is easy, you may also find you wish to have a query for something simple like "Layer Type is Images" giving you an instant way to turn all images on and off across your whole document.
Additional Notes
As well as toggling visibility of queries there is an additional button to make a selection of all layers which fulfil the criteria specified in the query. This is also a new function not previously available in Affinity Photo. For those who used the States panel in Affinity Photo you will notice we have changed the name of what were previously called "Smart States" to "Queries". This reason for this is in the future we anticipate adding a new feature to this which would be better described as a Smart State (this will be something you can build from multiple queries). This will be something which we add in a future update. There is other new functionality we plan to bring to this in the future - namely ability to create presets and some level of integration with export options - but again that will be something for a future update.
 

Hi All,
Below is the list of all new feature and improvements which are included in the 2.4 beta (bug fix list is available here).
To learn more about these features please click on the link to go to each feature's dedicated post. To give feedback or report bugs against any of these features please reply to that same post (also check out bug reporting and feedback tips).
Layer States added to Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher DWG and DXF Export added to Affinity Designer Set Selection Box Double click / tap to switch from node to move tool Filename available as variable in Export Persona Ability to lock insertion target Space modifier for Lock Children Space Horizontal / Vertical now considers key object Size / Rotate objects to same 32-bit HDR PNG support added (PNG Third Edition) Additional RAW format support Getting the 2.4 beta
If you have not enrolled into the beta program yet and would like to take part, you can do so here. This will immediately give you access to the latest 2.4 beta builds to try for yourself.
If you are already enrolled in the beta program you have two options:
1. If you still have the 2.3 beta installed, you can now run up those beta versions and you will be prompted to update them to the 2.3 beta.
2. If you have uninstalled the 2.3 beta, you will need to go back to Your Account -> Downloads and product keys and find your previous order for the Affinity Beta Software Program, and you can download the 2.4 beta from there.
Thanks,
Ash

The reel tape recorder is nice!
The counter box comes from a Tascam. I have an 8-track 1/2" Tascam 38 recorder which has the same counter box design.
However, machines with this type of counter already had electronic transport buttons, not mechanical. 

If you are referring to the tags..
1. Edit your Post
2. Add a 'tag' or several tags
3. Use Item Prefix to select the one you want to use!... There are some common | predefined ones but can add your own!

Yes!! Super glad I can finally share this Music Video Visuals with Character Animations now. Put a lot of work, time and effort into this one and had to 'kill many darlings' during the process, but with no regrets! 

Design and Illustrations were all made in Affinity Designer. Also the new Spiral tool was great for doing the inner wound tapes! That tool arrived just in time! 

Animation was completely done in Moho 14 Pro. I've made and audio mastered the music, and also programmed Moho plugin scripts to use the Affinity Designer Spine JSON export to export all graphics as trimmed PNG's and import these with all auto-positioning into Moho quickly and easily. I've also written a script to animate the tape deck by keyframing on speed and accelerations instead of animating on angles.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I had while creating it! 🙂 
And if you do, please also like it on Youtube for the algorithm and stuff! Would be nice!

Video (for backstage/making of; see below in this thread! ) :
 
 

Yes!! Super glad I can finally share this Music Video Visuals with Character Animations now. Put a lot of work, time and effort into this one and had to 'kill many darlings' during the process, but with no regrets! 

Design and Illustrations were all made in Affinity Designer. Also the new Spiral tool was great for doing the inner wound tapes! That tool arrived just in time! 

Animation was completely done in Moho 14 Pro. I've made and audio mastered the music, and also programmed Moho plugin scripts to use the Affinity Designer Spine JSON export to export all graphics as trimmed PNG's and import these with all auto-positioning into Moho quickly and easily. I've also written a script to animate the tape deck by keyframing on speed and accelerations instead of animating on angles.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I had while creating it! 🙂 
And if you do, please also like it on Youtube for the algorithm and stuff! Would be nice!

Video (for backstage/making of; see below in this thread! ) :
 
 

Yes!! Super glad I can finally share this Music Video Visuals with Character Animations now. Put a lot of work, time and effort into this one and had to 'kill many darlings' during the process, but with no regrets! 

Design and Illustrations were all made in Affinity Designer. Also the new Spiral tool was great for doing the inner wound tapes! That tool arrived just in time! 

Animation was completely done in Moho 14 Pro. I've made and audio mastered the music, and also programmed Moho plugin scripts to use the Affinity Designer Spine JSON export to export all graphics as trimmed PNG's and import these with all auto-positioning into Moho quickly and easily. I've also written a script to animate the tape deck by keyframing on speed and accelerations instead of animating on angles.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I had while creating it! 🙂 
And if you do, please also like it on Youtube for the algorithm and stuff! Would be nice!

Video (for backstage/making of; see below in this thread! ) :
 
 

Why are you so obsessed with how many views a thread you start gets? Just because people look at a thread it does not mean that they agree with you, or even that they are interested in it. I'm sure that many people, like myself, look at many threads, but having seen the content, then decide that they are actually of no interest!

Sadly again the same procedure as every time. - The forum and forums section rules are usually clearly defined and pretty much every one understands those ... instead of you as it seems. I don't know why you do always speak against everything people tell (and already have told) you here and do always question every one of the forum rules. - In addition, you always overtax the general patience of Affinity forum members.
Clickbait  (and NO, this is no Bing AI generated link)
 

Speaking as a user of these forums: People post photographs that they created, and then adjusted or modified using the Affinity applications. They don't just point their phone or camera at something, snap a picture, and put the picture into an Affinity document unmodified, and say they made it with Affinity. We expect the Affinity application to be involved in a significant aspect of the creative process. 
 

@Dan C This is getting a bit weird now. And it strongly gives me the impression that there is just no intention to even look into this. You ask me again now to send a file, as if this is a file specific issue. Which it is clearly not. Because it's happening to ALL FILES generated with the latests Affinity version(s) and this was never an issue in earlier version 1 versions of Affinity. Also I'm not using any Affinity user account and this has nothing to do with any Windows user-account. I don't have anything out of the ordinary here, just Windows Pro on a powerful machine. It's dissapointing you keep pointing your finger at me (and Windows 11) instead of just fixing the issue or even show any sign of wanting to do any fixing. I'm happy to try things out if you need help fixing it, but please stop blaiming things that are far fetched, like Windows itself, while no other software has this issue, Affinity didn't have this issue before, and it just doesn't make sense either.

Here's a list of the bugs which have been fixed in the build 2.3.1 patch
(fixes since the post above for 2.3.0)
Changes/Bugs affecting all platforms
Saving a file with a SVG/PSD embedded automatically switches the policy to linked when re-opening the file AF-1416 Bugs affecting Desktop (Windows and macOS)
Data Merge can no longer parse JSON files AF-1429 Bugs affecting Windows
Add Pages from File- Page number value cannot be specified Can't edit colours in second document palette AF-1545 Bugs affecting macOS
Floating and redocking a document creates an empty floating window which cannot be closed AF-1499 Bugs affecting iPad
Files containing SVGs crash on open AF-1413

2.3 Features and Improvements
This post is the list of all new features and improvements included in the 2.3.0 release, and the following post is a list of the main bug fixes.
Features and improvements affecting all platforms
Spiral Tool Choice of styles including Linear, Decaying, Fibonacci and Plotted Optional straight-line edges Spiral Tool tutorial:  Pixel grid options in all apps Automatic Grid returns to Photo Pixel Grid tutorial:  Place and export password-protected PDFs, including the ability to individually allow: Document printing Content modification Content copying Password protected PDF tutorial:  Export PDF files to PDF 2.0 (ISO 32000-2) standard Change Asset Panel background colour (Publisher) Image tagging for accessible PDFs Tags Panel for Alternative Text:  (Publisher) Find and Replace panel uses inbuilt and custom fields in search terms and replacement text (Designer) ‘Keep selected’ preference in Pencil Tool (Publisher) Independent formatting of cross-reference field In addition to those features on all platforms above, these are the Windows and macOS features and improvements
Move Data Entry improvements Scale option to resize by a given percentage Insertion Mode options to insert duplicates in front of or behind the original object Edit object properties as you transform Improved Number of copies slider behaviour Data Entry tutorial:  Brush names show by default on the Brushes panel Create new documents from assets by dragging from panel to title bar Create shapes of same type and properties from an existing shape selection In addition to those features on all platforms above, these are the iPad features and improvements
Optionally deselect shapes after creation (Photo) Curves adjustment graph editor shows all coloured channel curve Localised versions of the changes in 2.3 (and those in earlier releases) can be found here
Affinity Designer Feature List Affinity Photo Feature List Affinity Publisher Feature List As well as all those improvements above, listed below are the most important bugs that have been fixed

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer 2, version 2.3.1
This build is available as a (sandboxed) MSIX application installer and as an (unsandboxed) MSI/EXE traditional installer.
Please see this FAQ thread for instructions on how to access the unsandboxed MSI/EXE version.
The changes in Affinity Designer 2 for Windows 2.3.0 (those made since the last release Affinity Designer 2 for Windows 2.3.0) are listed in this FAQ forum post:
To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer ).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store — each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The Windows builds only automatically checks once per day. In the Help menu there is a manual "Check for Updates". The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (those installers are NOT for customers who made Microsoft Store purchases).
If you've purchased from the Microsoft Store — Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show. 

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo 2, version 2.3.1
This build is available as a (sandboxed) MSIX application installer and as an (unsandboxed) MSI/EXE traditional installer.
Please see this FAQ thread for instructions on how to access the unsandboxed MSI/EXE version.
The changes in Affinity Photo 2 for Windows 2.3.1 (those made since the last release Affinity Photo 2 for Windows 2.3.0) are listed in this FAQ forum post:
To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Photo).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store — each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update .The Windows builds only automatically checks once per day. In the Help menu there is a manual "Check for updates". The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (those installers are NOT for customers who made Microsoft Store purchases).
If you've purchased from the Microsoft Store — Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show. 

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Publisher 2, version 2.3.1
This build is available as a (sandboxed) MSIX application installer and as an (unsandboxed) MSI/EXE traditional installer.
Please see this FAQ thread for instructions on how to access the unsandboxed MSI/EXE version.
The changes in Affinity Publisher 2 for Windows 2.3.1 (made since the last release Affinity Publisher 2 for Windows 2.3.0) are listed in this FAQ forum post:
To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Publisher ). 
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store — each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The Windows builds only automatically checks once per day. In the Help menu there is a manual "Check for Updates". The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (those installers are NOT for customers who made Microsoft Store purchases).
If you've purchased from the Microsoft Store — Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.