Thomahawk

Thanks. Well, all this still results in the same, a PDF with crop marks present outside the page. I manually deleted the crop marks on the first couple pages. At least, after that the online printer did no longer set the page size and placement wrong, it seems it only takes the first page(s) as a basis. But it is still unsettling that the PDF export does not actually respect the settings I made. I see this as a bug.

all disabled, no bleed no printer marks. i even tried set document setting to 0 bleed on top of no bleed in pdf export setting. The marks are still there. Of course not visible in PDF view but when I open it in affinity, outside the canvas the marks are still there and the online printer shop takes the whole document size including marks.

I have a PDF from my Book I made in Indesign (no Indesign anymore). That PDF has bleed and cutting marks. I just need the same 500 pages but without the cutting marks. The PDF opens well in Publisher, page size set well, cutting marks outside the pages, but when I export it, the cutting marks are still there, despite not visible in the pdf, but opening it in Designer for example. And the Online Printer still sees them and includes them in the page size and everything gets placed wrong. I tried eliminate all bleed settings and export without bleed and mark. The cutting marks are still there. How can I get this exported, without having to manually delete the marks on every of the 500 pages?

Most basic thing like find and replace at least for text, and affinity does not have it. Very poor.

I see this exactly like you do. This is a game changer for me and all my colleagues. We can not afford to skip such a feature, our competition will crush us. We change back to Adobe as soon as that feature is included into the official Photoshop version. Sad to say, but if Affinity does not very soon add AI to afPhoto, they are done.

How was this solved? I have objects on an artboard and I need to play around with parts of the object that lay outside of the artboard. But since I can not see them, I can not change them. This is really annoying. Dont understand why Affinity does not allow me to deactivate stick to canvas for artboards too. makes no sense.

Shadows, despite set to 100% black and multiplicate, are NOT. They should work exactly the same like overprinting, just overlaying the underlaying colors. Even worse in separation they show to LIGHTEN the underlaying color. This is extremely bad! See example files attached. test.afdesign test.pdf

monotype V 1.00

Still the same Problem, only with Century Gothic. Changing over to AvantGarde, no problem. The strange thing is, when I take those Century Gothic text blocks over to Designer and export from there, the PDF is fine. The problem only occurs from Publisher export. And no, not an export setting problem. Happens in any standard setting.

Mac OS X Monterey 12.6.3 Affinity Designer 2.0.4 This is so annoying. I have to set the same color fill again and again each time I draw a new form with the pen tool. I mean thats one of the most basic functions, that when I change something, fill or brush or line, the next thing I draw continues with the last setting I used. It is LOGIC or not? Why does this not work anymore? I can even hit the top button for overtaking the actual setting as a standard and STILL the next thing comes up empty. --- Answer: The keyword being "empty" I am guessing that you have the Use Fill checkbox (in the Context Toolbar) unchecked. --- You are right. There is indeed a checkbox i never saw - AND NO ONE NEEDS. Its working after I activated it. Thanks! But this is exactly what I am always talking about - unnecessarily complicating things! There is a fill and empty function in the color palette where it belongs. This second and independent one is only good for confusions. So it is still a mind bug that needs to be corrected. --- Answer: Thanks for your report @Thomahawk, this is expected behaviour with the Pen Tool when the Use Fill checkbox has not been enabled - though I certainly understand you may find this to be unnecessary. I'd recommend posting a Feedback suggestion thread for our dev team, to consider changing this tools behaviour in the future --- OK, here it is. Affinity: There are so many missing important features like color Swatch flexibility which are really needed to make Affinity into a professional software. Instead you are losing resources creating unnecessary complicating stuff like this check box.

Thanks. I´ll do that. "Expected behaviour?" I am creating illustrations since 30 years and can see no reason whatsoever for such "behaviour". But I see a lot of missing functionality in Affinitys software that is missing in order to make them professional tools.

You are right. There is indeed a checkbox i never saw - AND NO ONE NEEDS. Its working after I activated it. Thanks! But this is exactly what I am always talking about - unnecessarily complicating things! There is a fill and empty function in the color palette where it belongs. This second and independent one is only good for confusions. So it is still a mind bug that needs to be corrected.

I reported that for brush already long ago, same annoying thing

Mac OS X Monterey 12.6.3 Affinity Designer 2.0.4 This is so annoying. I have to set the same color fill again and again each time I draw a new form with the pen tool. I mean thats one of the most basic functions, that when I change something, fill or brush or line, the next thing I draw continues with the last setting I used. It is LOGIC or not? Why does this not work anymore? I can even hit the top button for overtaking the actual setting as a standard and STILL the next thing comes up empty. Come on Affinity!

Not only that you can not even change from cmyk to spotcolor or vice versa, the painful way through selecting same fill and apply a new swatch does not even work consistently through the whole document. There are always objects left out, despite them being set exactly the same way. Plus you have to do that for each obacity variant of that color individually. This is a nightmare!