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I can only see this as bad news in the long term, the way I see it there will eventually be only two options, each with their own mass customer base - Adobe for the pros and Canva for the amateurs. Unfortunately, after reading this news I have already started to lose interest in Affinity. There doesn't feel much point in dwelling on it, I will continue to use Affinity until the time comes when I have no real option but to head back to Adobe.

It does seem to be a pointless feature if the 'default' palette isn't actually selected as the active palette on creating a new document, just a minor niggle in the end.

Hi @smadell Thanks for taking the time to reply, I did work that one out for myself eventually, simply changing the name of the colour palette I wanted as the default to make sure it was at the top of the list alphabetically. However on mac at least there is an option to set the current palette as the default for various colour modes, unfortunately it doesn't seem to work.

I work with two 27" screens and like to make full use of the workspace, so like some others I activated separated mode pretty much straight off when using the V1 apps, though it was quite flawed in reality. But being a mac user since the late 80's (and a bit stuck in my ways) it is the natural way of working with graphics apps for me. Since realising that separated mode is no longer available in V2 I took the approach that if I want to move forward with Affinity I just need to get used to the application window approach. Personally I am finding it OK in V2, once I had undocked tools and pulled out all the pallets and positioned them on my second screen I can move my workspace around as I want, so not that different to the way I am used to working. It's only really the top tool bar that is stuck in the main application window. The float to window feature could prove to be more useful if it gets some improvement, but the old separated mode was quite poorly implemented so maybe not such a big loss after all.

I for one was happy to pay for the new Universal Licence, to me the 40% discounted price represents fantastic value for money considering what we are getting for it. Everyone gets the same offer price - personally, I am happy with that. In my mind it looks like this: 3x macOS apps at £25 each 3x iOS apps at £5 each BARGAIN!

This is an issue I had with V1 of all Affinity apps and are still seeing the same behaviour in V2. Way back, I created an application palette of a few, basic CMYK colours. At various times when the palette is in use I have used the option in the swatches panel to set it as the default for CMYK/8, however the setting never seems to stick. I have done this with all 3 macOS desktop apps multiple times, but every time I create a new CMYK document the colour palette has reverted to the usual 'Colours'. It would be nice to open or create a CMYK document and find that my chosen CMYK colour palette is automatically active. Is this a bug, or am I doing it wrong, or misunderstanding the functionality of the setting?

The Affinity apps are all 'young' in the scheme of things and I am not suggesting a substantial update wouldn't be welcome, but who remembers the 'good old days' of the early - mid '90's when software was updated on a very infrequent basis? Quark Xpress V3, Photoshop V2.5, Illustrator V5 and the Mac System 7 - all of which were the daily tools of so many in the design and print industry for what was in fact years. Small updates came along every once in a while and we found tricks and workarounds to compensate for the quirks and bugs. We all expect everything without delay these days.

@Maigriet, Thats great, just shows how some apps fit in with your workflow better than others.

I am aware of the need to use the interception of font requests setting, it may have been related to my own system but I still found it to be generally unreliable. This wasn't just an Affinity issue, integration with Adobe never seemed to be as good as expected either. Right Font is working out for me at present so I am happy with the change.

Yes, it was really the auto activation aspect. Also, after manually activating a font I would always have to relaunch the app I was working in, whether that be Affinity or Adobe for the new font to be available. Right Font is much better in this regard.

@Margriet I think it is sometimes down to the way you work as to what is best, TypeFace just didn't seem as good for me as Right Font did. Testing the options yourself is the way to go.

After being a long time user of FontExplorer (since V1) I recently gave up on it, it really isn't that great. I tested pretty much all the options and eventually settled on RightFont, this is currently working well for me, not perfect of course but it's doing a good job and the auto activation works well with all Affinity apps. It actually works better with Adobe apps than FontExplorer and it's (usually out of date) activation plugins.

@Jon P Yes, a ctrl start has sorted that out, I can confirm the preflight panel will now display in separated mode.

I see the same behaviour - Preflight panel does not display in Separated Mode on Mac OS 10.14.6

I tend to use separated mode with all Affinity products as I like to take full advantage of 2 screens when working and move things around quite a lot, I couldn't find the preflight panel until I switched Separated Mode off, then it is available.