Dazmondo77

Do I need to rasterise every time I edit a montage????

Boldlinedesign --- you nailed it as far as I'm concerned - all the above would give us the bare basics to complete work solely using Affinity - vector-based distortion tools would also be my most needed "NEED" - Mesh fill would be a nice addition for version 2 or 3 as there are really easy workarounds to achieve the same result now - simplify path tool would also be handy

I'm guessing that the workaround would be to duplicate the montage and rasterise and switch off the editable layer? which seems a load of faff - I'll give it a try on Monday

Just finishing up a trifold dl leaflet and noticed a screen redraw problem when zooming in and out, which kind of makes it really hard to make text changes as all you can see when zoomed in is either a load of pixels or blurred text characters. see attached screen clip: I have noticed that if I switch off the montage on the left in the grab, that the screen redraw seems to improve - is this a known issue? Screen_Recording_2020-10-03_at_17_14_18.mov

Yes please - Only current options is ADOBE or Callas pdftoolbox(£500) - I use acrobat pro 9 which is ten years old and 32 bit but it still does the job to preview separations and check PDF compliance and all the stuff you NEEEED to check before sending off to your print service provider - you can also output proper vector CMYK proofs from Acrobat (and acrobat reader) which is something you can't do in Affinity apps (WHAT!) this really needs to change, five years is a long time to wait for basics

Great Idea - must include the ability to tick 'scale with object' for strokes and FX which would save loads of bother when the vast majority of your works needs to be scalable

I've been moaning about this for years, how hard could it be to make the tick boxes for both strokes and FX sticky so you set them once and not have an hour or twos worth of bother going through nested layers to put things right

- Yes please -

I've probably already done a +1 on this post but here's another for 2020

I always use path/ simplify and dial it to 95 to 99 - does a pretty decent job. Like all the missing basics, a blob tool would be most welcome - but would prob need a simplify path tool to be great

Even a very basic 'destructive' vector distortion tool would be great and really should have been available years ago - still no light at the end of the tunnel

Like many other graphic designers / illustrators, I currently have no choice but to go down that route, I still have Java installed in Mojave as I need to use Illustrator CS5 to do the things that Designer can't yet do (vector distortions, perspective grid, simplify paths etc.) and is a little slow and choppy for 10 year old software but it works and it also enables accurate screen representation of PDF's for passthrough!?!?!

Damn!

Like Affinity, Preview can't print straight CMYK ?!?!?!?!?!? - Acrobat reader does and it's FREE it also retains Vector information on output rather than Affinity's feeble pre-rasterising - I really hope this changes in the future as it's an essential part of many workflows - just mind boggling that great software aimed at design and print professionals can't print a CMYK file to a CMYK rip or printer without first converting to RGB and rasterising then sending to a RIP to be rasterised and printed in CMYK - resulting in a total botched proof

AGGAGGAGGGAGGAGGGAAHHHHHHHHH ...... "we'll see" --- now I'm exited!?!?!

Just uploaded Jon 👍 - the Passthrough test.afpub which I've been testing today, is comprised of 1 page from 4 different PDF's layer up on an A3 sheet. - PDF(for print) works great - all PDF/X formats bomb Publisher as soon as the export screen shows - the only way back is to open a new document which lets me go back to other export formats without bombing

It's all the pdf's I've tried - PDF(for print) works - I only get the problem when using all PDF/x

like dcarvalho84 I've only been able to get passthrough to work using PDF (for print) and maybe half of the PDF's I tried to import just bomb publisher - very unstable but its early days -

As PDF/X is a print industry standard I would have thought passthrough would have worked - bombs every time for me

Maybe a low rez preview with passthrough watermark would enable the user to export with a bit more confidence - it would also be useful for a backup plan for when the inevitable deadline takes a dive, simply because of PDFs not passing through, so maybe a quick rasterise in place function???

Tried more tests and doesn't work using PDF/X-1a:2003 so tried PDF/X-4 and just bombs but now can't even get that far as as soon as the export screen comes up it bombs so can't even change the settings - tried making new documents and trying existing documents - as soon as I go to export it bombs

PDF PASSTHROUGH YAAAAAAAY! Unfortunately I can't get it to work, each pdf i've tested shows up as passthrough but theres still font issues

All working now boss ---- great work Andy

Just found it - looks like you have to go to: view - customise tools to enable

Select same ----ACE------ potentially save hours - can't seem to find the contour tool? BRILLIANT WORK!