VectorCat

I agree that it makes more sense to enable editing placed text straight away. In the (my?) typical use case, you place the filler text, then do some level of formatting to it so that it serves the purpose of showing what the real / final text will look like in the design. I can’t envision a scenario in which you’d place some lorem ipsum, then leave it as-is.

Not sure what you’re saying here, Alfred. Sounds like you doubt that Affinity Publisher will be released for iPad, but that when it’s released, you expect it to work on iPad Air 2 or newer? Am I reading correctly? Schrodinger’s version of Publisher for iPad? 😉

Agreed. It’s the best creation environment for 2-D imo.

Thank you, Walt

Thank. you, DM1 - Do you mean that, even when we switch to Pixel person on iPad, we aren’t seeing the full set of raster tools we ought to? To be honest, I’m diggin’ the iPad so much, I haven’t used the desktop Affinity tools since Hector was a pup. I look forward to the increase in iPad designer’s UI capability..that and when Publisher for iPad is released..will be a very fine day for artists everywhere… Been trying to use Designer the way I’d use Publisher - through the use of artboards. Perhaps others are as well…

I guess the corresponding tool would be Links in a page layout program. I’m assuming that in Designer, Placed raster images are in fact placed, and not parsed. Once a raster image is placed in Designer, is there a link from Designer, through iPad OS, to the image file? Or is the image somehow tucked into the Designer file? FWIW, the use scenario is: I placed an image in a Designer layout and wanted to touch out some schmutz in the photo. Pixel persona doesn’t appear to have such tools, so Affinity Photo is my next stop. Was hoping Designer could take me to where the file resides. Thank you!

Thank you!

This is great for getting the multi-artboard document put to a paper size, which is great and I thank you for this idea. However, still remains to be..adjusted is Designer’s ability to put a multi-artboard document to PDF to artboard dimensions, irrespective of electro-mechanical printing machines and / or paper sizes. Contrast to the way Pages produces PDFs from a custom-page-size and multi-page document: if your page is 8” x 8” you get a PDF of that dimension. On-screen, viewer sees a square-page PDF, without a margin of “paper” surrounding it. Naturally, were you to print said 8” x 8” PDF onto paper, you’d end up with blank paper surrounding the live area. If I understand correctly, Designer should be able to do this, but at this time, is unable to do so.

Sad news, but thank you for sharing that, DM1 I’d assume that this issue is more an A-list item to be corrected since PDF is such an important part of modern workflow. Meanwhile, do people simply avoid printing PDFs from iPad Designer?

I began a multi-page document in the Pages app in which the pages are square..IIRC, they are 8” square. I made a PDF from this document which I opened in Designer to complete the project. Everything looks great in Designer - the artboards are indeed square - but PDFs made from this document are cut off vertically. When I resize the document, I’m not shown square-page dimensions! Where is Designer taking its marching orders from in terms of page size? Thank you!

I don’t have this issue only on Affinity software: careful as I am after moving something, the moment I lift the Apple pencil or my finger tip, the object will move. I have very steady hands, no tremors, fairly well coordinated. How do people deal with this bit? Thank you

Just tried to reproduce and failed. I'd quit Designer, then re-launched to try it again. I booted up from shut down first thing, so you could say that the Mac and the software each got a fresh start, so to speak... Perhaps it was lingering halloween ghosts up to mischief..

also..what made this really weird for me is that I didn't see "Untitled" in the Window menu, where I'd think we could rely on to get the straight dope about which documents were open at the time.

I am / was not in Separated mode. Thank you!

Why would this be? If one is in full screen mode, and one creates a new document, why wouldn't the newly-created document appear visually on the screen of the computer where the newly-created document was created? When I exited full screen, I could see 8 untitled documents - my 8 attempts to Create New. Does apple need to improve things to enable software to show things in full screen mode? Thank you

FYI, the update to 1.10.3 didn’t improve this for me. Perhaps it wasn’t addressed in this update. Just providing info.

Not for me..I upgraded the other day to 1.10.2. Just went into the same document where I’d discovered the bug, and tried again to enter a Custom leading value. Type had been at 24pt leading. I typed 32. The result was 7.7! To be methodical and scientific, I made a fresh document, a text frame, and into it pasted a bit of lorem ipsum. type was at 13.9 upon pasting - a curious value, imo. I went to leading > custom, typed 32, and the value of 297.4 was returned. If it would be helpful, I’m happy to take a screen recording of this, then upload the file used to make the recording.

With today’s update, I can now delete guides. the trash can on the guides toolbar appears as soon as you create your first guide. Huge help. Thank you to the devs for addressing this.

well then, that does make it more curious, doesn’t it? I immediately tried the same thing in my non-beta version and did not see the trash can, and was not able to transform a blue guide into it’s red dotted, trashable form.

Works in the Beta, Walt, as you suspected. I noticed instantly when I made guides (in the beta) the appearance of the trash can on the guides panel. I don’t see the trash can in the non-beta version. Guess I’ll have to wait for the devs to go fetch the Flit…

I’m trying this right now. made a new document, made a horizontal and a vertical guide. they now appear as blue lines. when I tap and hold on either line, I get none of the options you mention. Guides are visible and unlocked. Designer 1.10.1, iPad OS 15.02 when I tap and hold with either arrow, I see a blue dot, registering my tap and hold. when I release I get the standard Deselect - Copy - Cut - Paste, but none of these choices affects the guides. thank you!

not on my iPad, I can’t.

It helps greatly. Thank you, Dan.

Where do I look to use / load them? Thank you!

My goal was to have 24-pt type in a 300 dpi document which is a print standard. for the type size to vary according to resolution seems a bit weird to me. I suppose there is a reason for this? BTW.. I got values like 342pts and 5.8pts, whether I set the resolution to 300 dpi or 72 dpi