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@thomaso that is good approach, at least for the concentrical stuff ! I just started to put all stuff on single circles instead of multiple on the same diameter, that already makes it easier though editing of the text a bit trickier. And resorted everything. Still not solving the background issue but I can get around this by locking the group with the texts.

Yes I know the different way to select objects. A cycle through layers by multiple clicks would be a solution to this or select by selecting the actual object, not the bounding box. For the text on a circle Designer even takes the whole circle as bounding box, instead it should just allow the outer diameter to be picked, that would solve a lot. I thought of splitting at least the circles into curves but then it is impossible to set the rotation pivot. Actually it can be set but it has no effect. 😕

Here we go, imagine there will be text in each box that can be seen, it is already difficult now. I have no idea how that would work with thousands of entries 😕 256_.afdesign

Hi, is it just me, am I missing something or is the object selection really annoying? I am working on a Designer document that contains tons of layers and a lot of text on curves. Because of the amount of layers it is almost impossible to select the part to work on by layer so I would like to select in the document. But once you put text on curves over some background this gets really painful as you always select the text curves but not the background. It even gets more horrible when you have multiple overlapping texts on curves. The only way to get around this is to lock the layers you don't want to edit, but this is mad when you have a couple of layers to lock/unlock all the time. Don't know if that was understandable, attached a video to show the problem. textlayerselection.mov

I whish there would have been plugin capabilities. Could solve a lot of requested features.

That is pretty much whining. Lifetime free upgrades was never promised nor were additional customer requested features ever promised to be in free updates. Do you buy a car and ask if you can get free tires years later? Take it or leave it, this is not a wishing well.

Noone is forced to buy 2.0. These programs are worth every penny, however if you don´t need new features or future updates you can still use 1.x for years. What would you do if there woudn´t be a 2.0 NOW? The developers need to live somehow and you did get tons of updates for the 1.X for free.

+1 Yes please grids for true perspective. That would be pretty helpful to add fiction to photos.

+1 native or the ability to use the HotDoors CADTools Plugin.

Hi, I would love to see a shortcut to "add a selection to the assets". Or at least in the right-click context? regards Xy

Hi, I just tried to copy the fx in publisher to another layer, in my case an inner contour of 6px, it ends up at target with different width but not 6px, while scaling with object is off and the object is the same size as the source. As these are cropped images to 2*2cm I believe it scales it to the original dimension of the images but that is just a guess. regards Xy

Same here, just tried it. Besides also the update crashes when the disk is full. I am not so sure why this is such a problem today, to check the capacities before doing anything. This is not only a AP problem, I have seen this on many programs, also with MS native stuff. Try to print something if your spool disk is full. This problem is like 20 years old. ;-)

I am working on a book with >200 pages. There are a lot of photos in it and I´d put it on the memory consumption but publisher stalls with about 600 MB (of 16GB RAM) usage and 0% CPU (of 8 core Threadripper) when I want to move pages or insert pages. After some time the crashpad_handler.exe starts and publisher permanently hangs.

Why would that make a difference for printing? Invisible parts don´t get printed anyway, no matter if masked or cut away. Unless Affinity Designer would have a mask with bleed feature of course. (Now that would be a great thing too.) But currently the contours are put on top anyway. At least that is the way we do it. I agree that often documents for print come from customers in a bad complicated style with many masked parts and for integrating graphics in PDF and alike trimming would really reduce the filesize. However my wish wasn´t about printing or PDF documents, I just figured out that most cartoon animation programs import masked vectors pretty bad. So I have to boolean all the shading. That is an annoying thing and I don´t think the boolean operation is too difficult to approach, since technically the trimming already happened for the display if you mask parts.

No, masking doesn´t cut the geometry, it just sort of hides it. It IS possible achieving that like seen on the screenshot but it is just a bad workflow, I thought there could be an easier way. Something like the right click "rasterise and trim" just without the "rasterise". So... it is a feature request now ;-)