SandraM

Hi SandraM,

Thanks for letting us know - I'll get this issue bumped with development.

Hi,

Thanks for letting us know, I've passed on your comments on development to reinstate the ability to switch tools using the double tap!

Many thanks to iuli @Iulisvectordesign and gabriel @GabrielM,
I'm working with the latest big iPad Pro and the latest AD version on the iPad.
I already had the problem in April that the size of the AD app on the iPad has grown to over 70GB. At that time I deleted the app and had to restore the brushes, color palettes, folder structures of my files, etc. with a lot of effort. The result was a reduction from 77GB to 690 MB of disk space.

 
In addition, I always deleted the entire history in the individual drawings. Since that time I have only created smaller drawings, which in total occupy a data volume of about 45MB in the iCloud, nevertheless the app on the iPad has swollen to 70GB again. Under file sharing in iTunes I don't see an Inbox folder.
 

 

 
Update: the backup of all afdesign. Files in the iCloud has a total volume of 1.02 GB . In every single file I deleted the logs for the history. 
It would be good if I could see an overview of the files and their file size in the settings of the app and delete them directly there if necessary.
70 GB of storage space for an app that needs 1.3 GB and uses another 1.02 GB of net space for documents seems to me to be a bit eerie hoc.
Regards Sandra

Hello,
this is the thread; @GabrielM came with the solution; it helped me out a handful of times in the past, hopefully you’ll find it useful as well.
Regards.
 
 

I use the option to switch between Pentoole and Notetool very often. If someone reads from Support, please reinstall.

Hi Shokstar,

We're aware the documentation is currently outdated for the iPad. We're trying to get it updated as soon as possible!

I use the option to switch between Pentoole and Notetool very often. If someone reads from Support, please reinstall.

@SandraM I agree. A list of active 'logged' bug reports would be great. Before posting, just check the list to see if it’s already recorded. It would save everybody some angst and time. 
 

Sorry for multi-posting on my own thread, but i was mulling this over last night and thought of a novel approach to solving this issue.  Illustrator has a selectable point/handle size adjustment made for pen/touch screen input for wacom users. This approach would likely solve the precision issue, given the main issue is that the target nodes and handles are very small for pen point input. Thoughts? 

Hello,
in Affinity Designer 1.6 on the iPad the double-click had the function of, for example, switching Pentool to the Notetool and back again. That was perfect for my workflow on the couch. Now I just have the option to choose between undo and fit the screen. Is it wanted like that? It does not make any sense for me because I can tap the screen with two fingers without any problems. I would be happy if this is further improved or there is the option to switch to the old function of 1.6.
PS: i know at some Points i have the Option to chose the Eraser

Hi, thanks for the update!
I bought Affinity Designer for Mac OS through the Appstore. I can't find the product key on Apple's invoice. Did I download the update from store.serif and am now asked for the key?
UPDATE:
SOLVED!
I downloaded the update from the App Store and didn't need a key anymore.

Thank you , I already noticed my bug and wrote it to my original post as an update  

(split from this announcement post)
Thanks for a great update.
As a  quick test, I played with the appearance panel. Specifically, I tried drawing a  basic street map, as you might see in a leaflet for a local business. 
Using the new multiple strokes capability, it’s  possible to do to such work quickly Affinity Designer. 
First I drew the roads using a heavy dark stroke. Then in the appearance panel, I added a second stroke, in a lighter colour, above the first stroke. 
That produced the effect of parallel lines, with a fill in between.
The technique will work only if another new feature in 1.7 is used: when using the pen tool, the "Add new curves to selected object object" button on the context toolbar must be selected.  Then the lines blend together.
The second stage in this exercise was to duplicate the artboard containing all the elements. On the second the strokes have brush styles to give a more hand-drawn style.
This is a quick, very rough test, and I’m looking forward to exploring the latest Affinity advances in more depth!
 

THANK YOU! I've been struggling with this exact problem, getting parallel, but also intersecting lines. Awesome! I tried drawing letters with two strokes enabled, and now it's easy as a breeze..!

 
EDIT: PS, I also just discovered you can draw open ended roads by setting one stroke to "butt cap" and the other to "square cap"

Lol, yours is fixed,  now we just need Serif devs to add it to ours. 

Would love to see ability to import colour palettes.

I have a 10.5 iPad Pro and my last update on Affinity Designer was Oct 20th. This issue seems to only get worse for me? It's counter intuitive to how I work and I swear I spend half of my time trying to select and move items only to accidentally resize and transform them just to hit undo and repeat over and over until it finally works. I REALLY need an option to JUST move an object when I want to move one, and a separate option to transform... or at least a way to disable transforming an object in the sub-menu for the move tool. This is driving me crazy and I've gone from thrilled to finally have Designer on my iPad to disappointed that it's still way faster to work on my computer with a Wacom tablet I really don't want to use anymore! 

I just noticed there is a new thread in the desktop section about submitting a support ticket. Check that out too.

Hello, again,
Do submit a post to the bug reports section. 

Hi gdenby,
thank you for your encouraging words.
I started drawing on the iPad in 2013 and have a very long journey behind me through Paper53, Sketches, Concepts, Graphics, Procreate.  Believe me, I have an IT background and am used to pain.  When I was allowed to draw a strategy picture in the format 1.70m x 2.75m for a customer in September, I was absolutely happy to have found the AD iPad app.  Since then I have invested a lot of time in learning the app.  The last customer projects ran out of time, because I lost a lot of time by the frustrating search for lines.  I wanted to recommend the app tomorrow on a barcamp to a lot of colleagues, but under the current circumstances I can hardly do it without restrictions ... 
 
I have the impression that this ticket is simply ignored.  Although DM1 and you confirmed my observations - zero reaction from the AD team.
We have a lot to do with software development, but that a ticket not responded to by the vendor for over a week has never happened to me before. 
The other problems with the Move tool have existed since summer and there is no ETA yet when these problems will be fixed.

Thank you! 
I hope so much for a solution to the existing problems. I have also read the other tickets with the selection tool problems. It is for me one of the most important tools and should definitely work.
If basic problems in the existing apps designer and photo are not fixed the users lose confidence in these apps.
I have tried in this post to give the support everything to reproduce the problem on the basis of my AD file and to make the error description as clear as possible, so I hope for a quick solution .... please AD developer team
 

I think so too.

Hello toltec,
Unfortunately, the Move tool does not work reliably with groups in the background either. Select under and inside do not work reliably. I think the tool should be fixed.
 
 

I'd like to request a tool from illustrator that would be an amazing addition to AF on ipad, especially with the apple pencil combo.
Blob tool is a tool that looks like a regular brush, but when you draw with it, it fills in a whole area and vectorizes around the solid area. It's basically the vector eraser tool but opposite. 
It would be amazing to have a blob, eraser combo tool that would switch between the functions with a one-finger modifier (with an option to set default erase or draw).
Adding to and erasing from vector shapes would make filling in vector areas and drawing full shapes really easy to do on ipad, especially with apple pencil!
Video attached so you can see what these tools do (in case anyone here has never used them) This is shown in illustrator as 2 tools, but in true Affinity style, these could totally be combined with a modifier since it doens't need to be that complicated. (illustrator is great at making 6 tools to do do the work of one).
 

Blob eraser combo.mp4

If you look down the bottom, on the Context Toolbar there is the option to set the selection mode to, New , Add or Subtract.

Then just use your finger or a pen, as normal.