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Sorry, I just saw your message. This has been working now. Like in Illustrator. I don't know why it did not work before... Maybe a question of build version.

We can now color with the shape builder tool : Select all your lines, click shape builder and the + button, select the place to color and if it doesn't work just press Enter!)

I appreciate your effort though I am afraid it is not exactly what I would need..txs anyway

Thanks for your reply.

Hello there Can we expect an update for AD which will take advantage of the M! Chip? I know M1 desktop and laptop computers had this update. thx for your time

If anyone would like a terrible workaround, copy and paste into Apple Notes, perform all your soft returns by holding shift+return (you won't see the result but it's happening), and then copy the text back into Affinity Designer.

When drawing with Apple Pencil in designer I rest my hand on the screen like you naturally would when drawing on paper. But so often it recognizes my hand as a touch and hold input to use the color picker. Then all of a sudden I'm drawing with white instead of black. If we had the option to turn off the touch shortcut for the color picker it would incredible. Otherwise you have to hover your palm over the screen and you lose a lot of fine detail control.

Thanks Callum 🙏🏻. I’ve said it before on here, will say it again now. AD is more intuitive, the functionality and UI way superior, and the price a bargain. Your app is invaluable to me as a professional. Cheers mate.

Hi Mark, In my experience the best format for this is almost always PDF however you will find your text becomes ungrouped and some layers might be scattered on import into AI hopefully this is something that improves in the future. Thanks C

….uuucks! Can you please include an vectorize tool, and compatible format with settings that allow us to export as is, without having to rent this pos app just because most clients and other professionals are idiots. If anyone knows of a format and certain settings to export for AI without having to tweak in AI, I would be most grateful. Thanks! PS the last time I threw shade at adobe on this forum, I had an adobe shill try to undermine my position… please don’t waste your time.

When I open the app your splash screen opens first, it is very beautiful and everyone I show loves it... That's great however I want to show people my art using your app. Can you please let us change the splash page.

So I know there's a thread that has been going on since 2018 asking for this, but your Twitter social manager mentioned posting again Being able to import palettes, similar to brushes, is such a key feature that's missing from the iPad version of Affinity Designer and Photo, and it's honestly a painfully awful user experience not having it. Please add this to your roadmap to increase QoL for your users and to help your apps have a greater impact, as I'm positive a lot of people would appreciate it. Thanks!

You can select multiple nodes with the following methods and then delete them in one action Node-by-node selection: With one finger held down, tap individual nodes in turn. Marquee selection: Drag a marquee selection area over nodes to include them in your selection. Lasso selection: With three fingers held down, either: Draw freehand around nodes to encompass them in the blue selection area. Draw a polygonal area around nodes taking a tap-by-tap approach. To select multiple layers, with a layer selected, a two-finger tap on another non-adjacent layer will select all layers in between.

What, because it’s not going to happen? Well I understand your position, but you expressed it like a w******. I have personally found it frustrating ref the lack of response to certain issues, but to find out that AD on the ipad is superior to AI was refreshing, the latter doesn’t have free transform either, so the only other big one is rulers. That was my point, but you’re free to sound like a child if you want. Edit: I’m guessing you assumed I posted on this thread, I didn’t….. so your initial “😂” was even less called for. I probably agree with most that was said, but again, you’re ranting about a cheep and overall great app, I’f you really don’t like it, you should pull out your wallet and get your cheep ass to pay the $9 a month for AI.

I think you would need to spend much more time with both to really see the differences and what each is better and worse at. That being said, Adobe has going for it that it is the standard. You have seen this yourself, your client wants .AI files because they are used everywhere and are the standard for vector work. This is not going to change anytime soon and if you are working or collaborating with other people you may find you need an Adobe subscription in order to properly work with them.

I misread your comment and agreed with you. I actually disagree with you. "Duplicate layer" should be its own button. It should not be in any burger menu. Thats too many touches just to get to it and a slow workflow. It needs to be its own button next to the delete, group, and new layer button in the layer studio. I wouldnt say all over the place. Theres 3 workflows in the app. The canvas, the layers studio, and the edit menu at the top left of the iterface. A duplicate button should be in all 3 of these workflows but its only available in 1 workflow, the edit menu. There should be a duplicate button in the layer studio while you work inside the layers studio and there should be a duplicate button in the long press clipboard menu while youre building your design on the canvas.

Hi SenorYME, welcome to the forums, We use both LIBRAW and Apple core image RAW (default) on iOS, Apple core image RAW doesn't yet have compatibility with the A7iv, but LIBRAW does have it supported, but only recently. These will be pushed to our software once we release an update, you should be able to open the file though just without lens information etc, make sure your firmware, software and OS are both up to date). I've currently got an a7iv image open on an iPad running the latest OS, and version of Affinity Photo. Lee

Here, here! To all of the above Moonatic Destiny…….when your trying to use this app for work, it does become a bit of a joke. I certainly wouldn’t recommend it to anyone whilst it’s in this condition.

Absolutely agree. And these brushes should be divided CLEARLY and each with its named category "vector brushes" and "bitmap brushes". That brushes are drawn on a vector path is not enough to give it the name vector brush. It is directly misleading marketing. Moreover, as a customer you cannot even see which brush is actually vector in the list of brushes. But it seems to be only one. Repeat, one simple real vector brush. The big disappointment of Affinity Designer on iPad and desktop is that the program offers almost no vector features. And clearly not designed as a professional vector design program. It seems more like Designer is pieced together from components of Publisher and Photo - and little extra. That doesn't give much hope for the future. Come out of the closet as a drawing program for artists (in your marketing) - or make sure the missing vector features are delivered in a steady stream, is my advice. We rarely give major disappointments or deviations from marketing two chances. The history is that in almost all cases the miracles do not occur. Fool me once... /Eddie

Hi Alfred, Thanks for taking your time to reply. I am using the "Bulgarian" keyboard, but the only Bulgarian thing about it is the layout. The actual letterforms are still traditional CYR, not localized. Even on the keyboard itself. For instance I will compare what a letter "i" in Russian (traditional) and Bulgarian (rounded) Cyrillic should look like. It's: и (RUS) > u (BGN). You can gain a better understanding if you review this link: https://www.fontfabric.com/blog/rounded-bulgarian-cyrillic-narrative-and-comparison/

If you use the Russian keyboard you’ll get Russian letters! For other Cyrillic alphabets you need to install additional keyboards via the Settings app (‘Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards > Add New Keyboard…’). The availability of Stylistic Sets, Contextual Alternates and other OpenType features will depend on your choice of font.

Below is an image of the desktop version of AD. I created a square with a blue fill and a red stroke. To the right of it are several studios. You can have any studio open in the desktop version of AD. To the right I have the color and stroke studio. Notice how theyre freely open on the screen and if you wanted to change your fill or stroke you could easily do so by going to that studio. No toggling between studios. No needing to open a studio. Properties are not separated. Both studios are there for you to change the fill or stroke.

I madly believe this. The color studio and stroke studio need to combine. They need to combine. I don’t know how but they REALLY do need to combine. Its not a debate. They need to combine. Before I go into any further details, the main issue for this reason of these 2 studios combing is because multiple studios can NOT be opened at the same time in the app. Only 1 studio is allowed to be opened. Its this rule in the app where only 1 studio can open at a time due to the iPad having less screen real estate and not being able to have every studio open. Thats the real main issue here. Please let me explain. An object. We work with objects. You create it and then you can change 2 things about it. The fill of that object or the stroke of that object. This object that you created has 2 properties. A fill and a stroke property. Remember that. Whats happening in the app is my properties are being divided into 2 studios by the serif team, the color studio and the stroke studio. You can only open 1 studio at a time in the app. You can only edit 1 property of your object at a time. It shouldn’t be like this. It shouldn’t be like this because its limiting. Its slow. Its too much toggling back and forth between these 2 studios and its slowing my workflow down. Its making me do extra taps when it could be less taps in 1 studio. This workflow of having 2 studios is splitting my brain up into 2 sides. 2 work flows. What do I mean by this? If I have an object, my brain splits that object into 2 studios. My brain is saying “ok. If I want to edit the color of this object I have to go to the color studio. If I want to edit the stroke I have to go to the stroke studio.” It shouldn’t be like that. I should look at my object as a whole and say “ok. I have my object selected. Now I can edit the color and stroke in this one studio that holds my color and stroke properties. I don’t have to do any toggling. All my object’s properties are here in this 1 studio.” So everything is being changed inside this 1 studio that has combined the color and stroke studio. On the desktop version of AD its a different workflow. Theres more screen Real estate there so you’re able to have all your studios open. Theres no limit to just having 1 studio open. Everything is wide open. Everything is there. There are no rules. Its this whole studio of several studios in it. The screen is a studio and you have all these studios open inside your studio. You can have layers, fx, color, stroke, and other studios all open at the same time. Its awesome because you’re not limited to 1 studio being open like in the app. You’re free. You can have any studio open. So when you have the color and stroke studio open on the desktop version you pretty much have these 2 studios combined into 1 studio because you can freely have them open. If you need to change the color you go to the color studio. If you need to change the stroke you go to the stroke studio. Theres no toggling or opening up these studios. They’re already open and you can go into them with no issue. On the app, you can’t have that. You can’t have them both open. You can only open 1 studio at a time and its so annoying. I have no issues with the other studios. My issue is specifically with the stroke and color studio because these 2 studios are IMPORTANT. They relate to my objects and I need to have them both open at the same time so I can make my changes to my object. I can’t be toggling between them. They need to be combined. They need to work together. I need to be able to click my object and change its stroke and color easily. No toggling. No opening 2 studios. Just going into this 1 studio and changing everything there. I can do that on the desktop version with ease but not the iPad app because the iPad app forces me to open up the color and stroke studio individually and its all this toggling and closing. Its really slowing down my workflow. Its limiting. I should be able to click my object, tap 1 studio, and have my color and stroke studio inside this studio. I don’t know what to call this studio. I was thinking the Properties Studio, a studio that has the color and stroke studio combined inside of it where you can change your objects properties with ease and not toggle between 2 studio. Its all done inside this 1 studio. Heres why I bring this issue up. Lets say you want to change the color of your STROKE. Ok. So If Im working with my STROKE then I need to go to the STROKE studio and change it there. Nope! You have to go to the color studio to change your STROKE color there. Ok. Now lets lower the opacity of your STROKE. Ok. Let me go to my STROKE studio to change the opacity of my STROKE there. Nope! You have to go to the color studio to do that. …….Ok. You finished changing your color and opacity for your stroke. Now I want to change its width. Is it in the color studio? Nope! I have to go to the stroke studio and change it there. Its like why? Why are my properties divided? Why am I toggling between these 2 studios. Why are my stroke related properties in the color studio? Why aren’t they in the stroke studio? Why are you diving my properties, serif? This is why they need to combine. Its all this toggling. Properties are every where. Users are being forced to work like this. Its not ok. Its not. The color studio and stroke studio REALLY need to combine. They need to combine. Users should be able to click their object and change anything fill or stroke related to that object inside this 1 studio that has combined the color and stroke studio. The serif team needs to break this rule of having only 1 studio open at a time in the app SPECIFICALLY AND ONLY for these 2 studios. Like, the whole serif team needs to all raise their hand up in the air and say, "We, the serif team, break this limiting ipad app rule of studios being open 1 at a time by combing the color and stroke studio so that users have a better workflow." They slam their hands on the desk and the rule has been broken for users. An override is need for this rule, for the color and stroke studio. The color and stroke studio need to combine. You know what else? For some reason the color studio and the stroke studio are specifically grouped together and are divided from the other studios. Its almost as if they work together. Like they should combine. You can not separate these 2 properties. They correlate to each other. They work together to make up an object. This is not a computer. This is an ipad we're working on. They need to be combined. Also, you know how you can 1 finger gesture over the icons of the studios? Like, if you 1 finger gesture over the color studio you can change the shade range of your color. or if you 1 finger gesture over the stroke studio you can change the width of the stroke? Okay. Since youll be combing these studios that 1 finger gesture wont be available since it will now be 1 studio with a different icon. Dont worry about this 1 finger gesture feature. Its a cute feature. It would just be better to trade in this feature for a better workflow for users. Maybe you can even keep this feature by putting it some where inside the newly design combined studio? I will upload some images to show what I mean below.

Why is Noise in the color studio? I think it so weird to have it there. Noise isnt a property of color. Its an effect. Its an effect that can be applied to an object to give it a grainy, noise effect. Noise isnt even in the color studio of AD on the desktop version. Why even have it here in the color studio? Ive never needed to add noise to my color and its never been of THAT importance to add noise. I get that some artists may want to add noise to their object but they really should be going to the fx studio for that. Noise is an effect. Its not a property of color. It dosnt relate to color. Its like gaussian blur. Gaussian blur is an fx effect. It blurs your objects and it can go from 0 pixels to 100 pixels. Noise works the same way where you can add noise to your object and go from 0 to 100 percent. So noise just shouldnt be in the color studio. Its an fx and it needs to be turned into one. The serif team needs to remove "Noise" from the color studio, turn it into an fx effect, and add it to the fx studio. I did the work for you. Below is an image showing what I mean.

😅 This is reminding me of vectornator when they allowed you to change your preferences to your liking but when you started a new document you had to change all your preferences all over again. It was SO annoying!