WalterBeiter

Should be the default in my opinion, but Affinity really needs to add this functionality into the rounded rectangle tool and any other rounding algorithms.
 
Short answer: "Squircles" are what make Apple products have "more than rounded" corners.
 
Great article here:
https://hackernoon.com/apples-icons-have-that-shape-for-a-very-good-reason-720d4e7c8a14

I am having a question / feature request: 
why is Affinity photo (and designer) not Auto saving a document that I just created? I always have to hit „save“ via the custom context menu (which I wish btw will be an iOS 13 context menu at some point) in the gallery view. On iOS, I am used to that all documents I create will auto save to iCloud or to the local storage at least. 
is there a specific reason why Affinity photo does not auto save a new document? 
I use affinity photo to focus stack macro shots on the go, and then edit them on the Mac. It took me a lot of time to figure out why those affinity photo documents where not visible on iCloud Drive on the Mac. Until recently I hit the save button in that context menu. I am not used to save something on iOS... 
Please implement this auto saving feature which would make Affinity a little bit more iOS friendly. Remember, this is not macOS, some elements could be a little bit more iOS-ish.
And I hope that some point, contextual menus find there way into affinity as well as other normal iOS UI elements.
 

I am having a question / feature request: 
why is Affinity photo (and designer) not Auto saving a document that I just created? I always have to hit „save“ via the custom context menu (which I wish btw will be an iOS 13 context menu at some point) in the gallery view. On iOS, I am used to that all documents I create will auto save to iCloud or to the local storage at least. 
is there a specific reason why Affinity photo does not auto save a new document? 
I use affinity photo to focus stack macro shots on the go, and then edit them on the Mac. It took me a lot of time to figure out why those affinity photo documents where not visible on iCloud Drive on the Mac. Until recently I hit the save button in that context menu. I am not used to save something on iOS... 
Please implement this auto saving feature which would make Affinity a little bit more iOS friendly. Remember, this is not macOS, some elements could be a little bit more iOS-ish.
And I hope that some point, contextual menus find there way into affinity as well as other normal iOS UI elements.
 

As Adobe has decided to make the import screen in Lightroom suitable for Instagram users, I have concerns wether Lightroom should be replaced in the future. Adobe makes this concerns even bigger by publishing buggy apps too early which ruin lives of professionals. 
 
Last year, Serif came out with this Affinity-suite and I have high hopes that they will release a Lightroom alternative. I am serious about that, since Capture One, well, does not work for me. 
But if you do, make sure that people can transfer 100k photos with any adjustments non-destructively. 
 
I don't know if you have plans for this, or if you have resources for this. But if you have, well, I would be the first to buy.
 
Adobe is going for Instagram users with all their iOS-photoshop-mix-fix crap, which is not what professionals want. I know that one day, I will enjoy Affinity Designer on my iPad without compromises.
And I hope you guys could rescue the professional photography business. 
 
I know this post has not the right spot in the forum, since everything is about Designer or Photo. But I just want to post this to see wether this could be the future of photography. 
 
Any name suggestions for a Lightroom alternative?

I am trying to export to pdf, so that I can print my map. 
 
 
I figured it out:
A stroke on the mask will cause rasterization. Just make your the mask shape has no stroke width (see screenshots). Select the mask shape and change the stroke width to zero (screenshot 2). Then voila, nothing gets rasterized (screenshot 3: "nichts wird gerastert").
 
So to recap: 
The solution is to draw a mask shape and then place it like you see in screenshot 1 (or right click - > mask to below, when you place it on top of the actual layer).
 
I am so happy that it works now, I made a crappy gif (which is way to large in file size..).
 
Thank you all for you participation and support. 
 
 

Designer should tell me which part will be rasterized. I almost always choose "rasterize not supported areas" but I just want to have more information than just saying "some areas will be rasterized". I often come in a situation where it is just not clear why rasterization happens and giving more information will help tracking down those areas which will get rasterized for whatever reason. 
 
Just a little "show more" button which leads to the appropriate information in the export menu directly under "some areas will get rasterized" would help.

At first, I was going to say that does not work for me on a hastily drawn test file that (sort of) duplicated a few of the features of your map. But where you had created a "Kurven" (in English "Curves") container object for the collection of curves representing the roads, I created mine as a "Compound" container object instead.
 
(For those that might not know, Compound objects are created the same way as Curves objects, except that the alt/option key is held down when applying one of the Geometry operations like "Combine" to them.)
 
As it turns out, exporting the Compound version to PDF always seems to cause rasterization, whether the mask has a stroke or not. The two attached test files, roads (compound).afdesign & roads (combined).afdesign (I hope) demonstrate the difference.

I am trying to export to pdf, so that I can print my map. 
 
 
I figured it out:
A stroke on the mask will cause rasterization. Just make your the mask shape has no stroke width (see screenshots). Select the mask shape and change the stroke width to zero (screenshot 2). Then voila, nothing gets rasterized (screenshot 3: "nichts wird gerastert").
 
So to recap: 
The solution is to draw a mask shape and then place it like you see in screenshot 1 (or right click - > mask to below, when you place it on top of the actual layer).
 
I am so happy that it works now, I made a crappy gif (which is way to large in file size..).
 
Thank you all for you participation and support. 
 
 

Designer should tell me which part will be rasterized. I almost always choose "rasterize not supported areas" but I just want to have more information than just saying "some areas will be rasterized". I often come in a situation where it is just not clear why rasterization happens and giving more information will help tracking down those areas which will get rasterized for whatever reason. 
 
Just a little "show more" button which leads to the appropriate information in the export menu directly under "some areas will get rasterized" would help.

I want to be able to snap control handles to any object or to the grid. It would be great, if those control handles act the same as every other object when it comes to snapping.
That way, I could draw very precise curves, because I can simply lay out helping objects to define spaces and specific angles to snap to with the frontal handles of a node.
 
See the screenshot. 
It would be nice if that blue control handle of the selected node would snap to the red rectangle.

I want to be able to snap control handles to any object or to the grid. It would be great, if those control handles act the same as every other object when it comes to snapping.
That way, I could draw very precise curves, because I can simply lay out helping objects to define spaces and specific angles to snap to with the frontal handles of a node.
 
See the screenshot. 
It would be nice if that blue control handle of the selected node would snap to the red rectangle.

I want to be able to snap control handles to any object or to the grid. It would be great, if those control handles act the same as every other object when it comes to snapping.
That way, I could draw very precise curves, because I can simply lay out helping objects to define spaces and specific angles to snap to with the frontal handles of a node.
 
See the screenshot. 
It would be nice if that blue control handle of the selected node would snap to the red rectangle.

I want to be able to snap control handles to any object or to the grid. It would be great, if those control handles act the same as every other object when it comes to snapping.
That way, I could draw very precise curves, because I can simply lay out helping objects to define spaces and specific angles to snap to with the frontal handles of a node.
 
See the screenshot. 
It would be nice if that blue control handle of the selected node would snap to the red rectangle.

As Adobe has decided to make the import screen in Lightroom suitable for Instagram users, I have concerns wether Lightroom should be replaced in the future. Adobe makes this concerns even bigger by publishing buggy apps too early which ruin lives of professionals. 
 
Last year, Serif came out with this Affinity-suite and I have high hopes that they will release a Lightroom alternative. I am serious about that, since Capture One, well, does not work for me. 
But if you do, make sure that people can transfer 100k photos with any adjustments non-destructively. 
 
I don't know if you have plans for this, or if you have resources for this. But if you have, well, I would be the first to buy.
 
Adobe is going for Instagram users with all their iOS-photoshop-mix-fix crap, which is not what professionals want. I know that one day, I will enjoy Affinity Designer on my iPad without compromises.
And I hope you guys could rescue the professional photography business. 
 
I know this post has not the right spot in the forum, since everything is about Designer or Photo. But I just want to post this to see wether this could be the future of photography. 
 
Any name suggestions for a Lightroom alternative?

As Adobe has decided to make the import screen in Lightroom suitable for Instagram users, I have concerns wether Lightroom should be replaced in the future. Adobe makes this concerns even bigger by publishing buggy apps too early which ruin lives of professionals. 
 
Last year, Serif came out with this Affinity-suite and I have high hopes that they will release a Lightroom alternative. I am serious about that, since Capture One, well, does not work for me. 
But if you do, make sure that people can transfer 100k photos with any adjustments non-destructively. 
 
I don't know if you have plans for this, or if you have resources for this. But if you have, well, I would be the first to buy.
 
Adobe is going for Instagram users with all their iOS-photoshop-mix-fix crap, which is not what professionals want. I know that one day, I will enjoy Affinity Designer on my iPad without compromises.
And I hope you guys could rescue the professional photography business. 
 
I know this post has not the right spot in the forum, since everything is about Designer or Photo. But I just want to post this to see wether this could be the future of photography. 
 
Any name suggestions for a Lightroom alternative?

As Adobe has decided to make the import screen in Lightroom suitable for Instagram users, I have concerns wether Lightroom should be replaced in the future. Adobe makes this concerns even bigger by publishing buggy apps too early which ruin lives of professionals. 
 
Last year, Serif came out with this Affinity-suite and I have high hopes that they will release a Lightroom alternative. I am serious about that, since Capture One, well, does not work for me. 
But if you do, make sure that people can transfer 100k photos with any adjustments non-destructively. 
 
I don't know if you have plans for this, or if you have resources for this. But if you have, well, I would be the first to buy.
 
Adobe is going for Instagram users with all their iOS-photoshop-mix-fix crap, which is not what professionals want. I know that one day, I will enjoy Affinity Designer on my iPad without compromises.
And I hope you guys could rescue the professional photography business. 
 
I know this post has not the right spot in the forum, since everything is about Designer or Photo. But I just want to post this to see wether this could be the future of photography. 
 
Any name suggestions for a Lightroom alternative?

I know, this feature has been requested several times, but I have to bring this up again, since it is still not included in AD 1.5.
 
Please let me center a text vertically in a text frame. This is so important to get a text perfectly in the center of an object, ect. The only way I can do it, is by either do it manually with my eyes, or convert to curves and then center it. Which is destructive. 
 
I love all those new constraint features in 1.5, but having a simple button which would center the text vertically would be so useful for any graphics designer, especially UX-designers. 
 
Please consider this soon, I don't want to wait until it is implemented to Affinity Publisher and then added to Designer eventually. This is a feature that I am waiting since AD 1.0. 
Every graphic or image editor has that feature. 
 
 
Thanks. 

I would like to have some control over how much noise I apply to an object. Currently I move the slider (which should be in the normal color panel as well, not just in the toolbar) as far as I want. But I don't know that value. If I have an other object and want to apply the same amount of noise, I have to move the noise slider to the point I think it was on the other object. Adding an actual number next to the slider would make it easier. I could enter a number (amount of noise), and I could copy that number and apply that exact same amount of noise to another object.

As Adobe has decided to make the import screen in Lightroom suitable for Instagram users, I have concerns wether Lightroom should be replaced in the future. Adobe makes this concerns even bigger by publishing buggy apps too early which ruin lives of professionals. 
 
Last year, Serif came out with this Affinity-suite and I have high hopes that they will release a Lightroom alternative. I am serious about that, since Capture One, well, does not work for me. 
But if you do, make sure that people can transfer 100k photos with any adjustments non-destructively. 
 
I don't know if you have plans for this, or if you have resources for this. But if you have, well, I would be the first to buy.
 
Adobe is going for Instagram users with all their iOS-photoshop-mix-fix crap, which is not what professionals want. I know that one day, I will enjoy Affinity Designer on my iPad without compromises.
And I hope you guys could rescue the professional photography business. 
 
I know this post has not the right spot in the forum, since everything is about Designer or Photo. But I just want to post this to see wether this could be the future of photography. 
 
Any name suggestions for a Lightroom alternative?

As Adobe has decided to make the import screen in Lightroom suitable for Instagram users, I have concerns wether Lightroom should be replaced in the future. Adobe makes this concerns even bigger by publishing buggy apps too early which ruin lives of professionals. 
 
Last year, Serif came out with this Affinity-suite and I have high hopes that they will release a Lightroom alternative. I am serious about that, since Capture One, well, does not work for me. 
But if you do, make sure that people can transfer 100k photos with any adjustments non-destructively. 
 
I don't know if you have plans for this, or if you have resources for this. But if you have, well, I would be the first to buy.
 
Adobe is going for Instagram users with all their iOS-photoshop-mix-fix crap, which is not what professionals want. I know that one day, I will enjoy Affinity Designer on my iPad without compromises.
And I hope you guys could rescue the professional photography business. 
 
I know this post has not the right spot in the forum, since everything is about Designer or Photo. But I just want to post this to see wether this could be the future of photography. 
 
Any name suggestions for a Lightroom alternative?

As Adobe has decided to make the import screen in Lightroom suitable for Instagram users, I have concerns wether Lightroom should be replaced in the future. Adobe makes this concerns even bigger by publishing buggy apps too early which ruin lives of professionals. 
 
Last year, Serif came out with this Affinity-suite and I have high hopes that they will release a Lightroom alternative. I am serious about that, since Capture One, well, does not work for me. 
But if you do, make sure that people can transfer 100k photos with any adjustments non-destructively. 
 
I don't know if you have plans for this, or if you have resources for this. But if you have, well, I would be the first to buy.
 
Adobe is going for Instagram users with all their iOS-photoshop-mix-fix crap, which is not what professionals want. I know that one day, I will enjoy Affinity Designer on my iPad without compromises.
And I hope you guys could rescue the professional photography business. 
 
I know this post has not the right spot in the forum, since everything is about Designer or Photo. But I just want to post this to see wether this could be the future of photography. 
 
Any name suggestions for a Lightroom alternative?

I really hope it is more than "likely" the ability to align text vertically and horizontally will be added to Designer. It's a graphic design software. Full control over text alignment is essential to graphic design. Please do not let this be one of the "features" that distinguish Publisher from Designer.

Well, you could do it with a stroke indeed and use the Layer > Expand Stroke command before applying your Boolean operations, but unfortunately the results of the mentioned command are a bit messy at the moment.
 
So if you don’t want to do the math, I would suggest setting up an appropriate grid and create your rings by Boolean operations on concentric circles that are snapped to this grid. (You won’t be able to use the Pie Tool in that context, since the control points of dynamic shapes obviously don’t snap to grid positions.)
 
Hope that does make sense …  :)
Alex

Hi WalterBeiter
 
Do the opposite, drag the picture as a child of your oval layer.
If you select the oval, you'll move both, if you select the picture layer (the children), you'll be able to reposition you photo  ;)

Simple password protection of a document. Much like Pages, Numbers has. 
There are certain documents I would like to encrypt and protect. 
For professional work which sometimes requires some protection, or clients who have classified projects, I would like to have some password option.