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This is an option under preferences

I tried to paste text from excel into a table, but this does not seem to work, and it pasts the contents somewhere else on the page, but not as a table?

you are right, thanks a lot!

yes, i did find those, but none lets me wrap the frame to the contents. The content is either completely shown or fills the frame (but is stretched)

I can seem to find a way to wrap an image box to the image to get an exact fit. In indesign I would double click a handle to resize the box to fit the containing object. This is a very important feature for precision layouts.

I can't find a way to use other shapes for text than a rectangle? I hoped I would have more options like a circle or even a pen drawn shape... Or at least the ability to round the corners and such. I hope you plan to expand this in the future? I do like the way text wrap is handled, it is more flexible than Indesign.

Hi, I rotated the canvas with my wacom, but can not reset the rotation. In ADe & APh I have rotation disabled by gesture, and have it set to hotkeys, but I can not find it in publisher?

I would like to have more flexibility in color picking too.

Hi There, I really like to use Affinity products, but have a request to improve: as it is now I can only select the color wheel OR the color sliders, but I can not combine the two. This would be very useful, as I can make quick adjustments to the color with the wheel, and use the sliders and the values to fine tune the colors

I too would wish for some kind of auto-activation. This will become especially crucial with Publisher, so I hope they have some kind of solution in place. I use FontAgent on Mac, which is not perfect in any way, but works with my older Adobe CS5 apps. I can activate fonts and they do appear in Affinity, but when I have a document open with fonts missing, even after activating them in FontAgent, the fonts don't update, even if they appear in the menu. I have to close and reopen the document for it to work. What I am also missing is a Used Fonts dialogue. This is essential to show which fonts are used in the documents, if some cause problems. Also if I want to replace a font in the entire document, this is the best solution. I hope Affinity can add this to Publisher as well as Designer & Photo in the near future

Thanks for the update. I still have problems using bigger assets, importing them crashes the app. When I try to use them, I get graphic glitches and crashes every time. I am using the assets from Frankentoon's Propaganda Design kit

Hi, I would like to be able to alter the global pressure curve of the Apple Pencil in AD & AP on iPad. Right now the curve is too stiff for me, and des not suit my way of drawing. Procreate and Clip Studio both give the option to change the curve to ones liking. Drawing would be a lot more fun in Affinity on iPad if I could do this, as right now I have to put too much pressure to get the line I want, which might even scratch my screen. I could set the curve for the individual brushes, but this is a lot of extra work, and a global setting would be much easier to use. I hope you could give this idea a chance, thanks!

+1 to this. I really need this feature for complex illustrations. Having to select each individually is a chore. I like AD a heck of a lot more than illustrator for most things, so having to fire up my old illustrator CS5 again to do this is disappointing. It has been in the pipeline for so long now, but I consider this one of the basic for a good vector program. I know you have limited resources, but this one has more practical use than a line stabilizer, for instance.

I may be confused, but I seam to remember there was a way to link the brush and eraser (and other brush tools) so when you switched between it kept the same brush and brush size. Can this be switched on?

The wacom line glitch on raster brushes, which created jagged lines and weird pressure readings seams to have improved. Thanks a lot, as it really made affinity designer unusable for me!

I don't know if this is a bug, but in the app store version of AD, when I switch between brush and eraser (or any other brush tool like dodge, burn, smudge etc.) it keeps the brush settings the same. In the Beta this is not the case. I don't know if this is a setting that I can change, but i would really like to keep the behaviour of the current version, as I often change quickly between brush and eraser when doing illustration. I really like the stabilizer. I just wish the stabilizer setting could also be applied to lasso selections, as this is an area where the extra precision and steady hand would be very useful.

Just bumping this tread, because it is now possible to have live symmetry in AD, by using symbols. Create a symbol (can be any simple shape) Then place a copy of this symbol from the symbols pallete to the canvas, right next to the other one. Then use the mirror option. Now go back to the original shape, on which the symbol is based, in the layers panel. Click the symbol, which is like a folder which includes the shape you made. Now you can just hide this shape and add a pixel layer and draw on it ---> The symbol is automatically updated and you have a mirrored drawing! You can add as many layers and effects as you like, as well as add multiple symmetry axes.

Is there any news on the publisher app that is supposed to accompany the other two affinity apps. I am really looking for ways to get away from adobe, but there aren't really any decent affordable alternatives to indesign. I hope there will be some news on this soon, as it has been quite long in the making. Seeing that the other Affinity apps seems to be quite succesfull it could be very good

I tried it today, but Designer seems to have become more laggy with more complex pixel brushes. I used the Pigmento brushes by DAUB in 1.4 and they worked fine there, now I get a delay especially when drawing faster. It does not seem to be a problem with the other brushes, like DAUBs free brushes, or the ones included in Photo. Any idea why??

Hi Paolo, I love these brushes, great work. The only thing that bugs me is that I find it hard to find these brushes in the brushes window in AD, as it does not show names (only on hover). Do you know if this can be changed?

Hi Affinity Developers, First of all a huge word of thanks for all the efforts and good ideas that went into Affinity Designer. It is really refreshing to have someone make a clean start on a vector drawing program. I think the interface in general is a big improvement over AI. I also really love the way AD handles masks, which I find is a pain in AI. The ability to combine raster and vector in one program is a huge plus, and it's main selling point, I think. AD is still in its early stages of development, so a direct comparison with AI is unfair (also because of the price difference), yet, because I have AI CS5 installed, I still don't use AD as often as I would like. The main reasons for this are the path editing tools and the freehand drawing of vector paths. These two functions are the bread and butter part of any vector drawing program, and AI still handles some things better than AD. Let me elaborate: I think the pen tool is way better than it's equivalent in AI (actually I hate the pen tool in AI!). But I confess that I have the plugin Inkscribe installed and this makes a big difference. This is basically a combination of the pen tool with path editing tools. When comparing inkscribe and ADs Pen & path editing tools there are some things I really miss. The first thing is the way Inkscribe deletes nodes: instead of the curve just falling apart it spreads the load between the next two nodes and attempts to keep the curve intact. This is a BIG deal for me, as it makes cleaning up paths much easier. Also it give the ability to add nodes to the tangent point on a line, so you get handles at 90 and 45 degree angles, which is a great way to make editing paths easier. Overall I think the pen tool is very good in AD, but I miss the ability to snap handles (to the grid, for instance) or constrain them to 45 or 90 degrees, also after this is drawn. This is better in AI and I hope AD will try to replicate this behavior. Something I find one of the most annoying things in AD though is that it is very hard to delete a segment of a line. This should be as easy as clicking on a segment and deleting it. Now I can't really figure out how to do it at all properly, and it needs way to many steps :wacko: Another thing that keeps me using illustrator is the freehand drawing tools. IMHO these are still superior to AD at the moment, for the following reasons: Being able to adjust setting for smoothness and accuracy The ability to redraw paths The ability to extend a drawn path the ability to smooth a path the ability to easily connect or close a path These 5 things are lacking in AD, and it makes the pencil tool rather unusable at the moment for me, even if I think the brush engine is much nicer. Another thing I would love to see is a functionality like the Dynamic Sketch plugin for AI. This adds to great features to the regular pencil: a path eraser, which erases up to an intersection, really speeding up a drawing workflow. It also will automatically connect paths in some situations. intelligent path joining, meaning you can draw two intersecting paths and the program creates a connected line from it, this is really great when drawing paths freehand, as you don't have to be to fussy with angles and edges Also the ability to change setting for smoothness and accuracy after the path is drawn is nice. I hope that AD would be able to integrate some of this functionality in its program in the future so I can forget about AI… :P Some other things I would like to see: (mentioned by others as well, this is just my list) Multiple strokes & fills live paint, or an even better way to fill shapes quickly Symmetry tools (like Manga Studio / Sketchbook pro) Artboards and/or pages Knife & Scissors tools I hope this post is not too negative. As I said AD is onto great things and I really hope to see it grow as the best in the business!

Thanks for the Lion Fix! Some observations: -The character and paragraph palettes are really nice, but there is a bug in font selection: Only if I select a font from the context bar on top does it actually change the font, changing it from the character palette does not work. - I think the typography panel is a bit of an afterthought, I would rather have it integrated in the characters palette, or have it as a palette in the same order as character & paragraph. - non-destructive Boolean operations on paths with smart nodes do not work, i.e. give weird results - boolean operations on open paths or lines give really weird results: I guess these operations are not supposed to work on these paths, but instead of giving no results, it creates some weird sh** :-) - Expanding strokes gives way too many points and is not really usable in this form at the moment - I am still hoping to have more control over the amount of smoothness and accuracy in the pencil & brush tools in the designer persona, also a way to rework/redraw the paths by drawing over them or connecting with them as it is present in illustrator would really be good! Thanks for all the hard work!

yeah, i have the latest MAS Version installed and working....

I cannot open the beta version on my Mac with OSX Lion... :-( It says it does not work with this Version of OSX, is this true?

Is there not a trial version of AP like with AD?