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I've recently been contacted by a member of the Affinity team, I'm now on board with you guys and have been sent a code to use for Affinity Designer, however if I wanted to download it have to pay upfront. Is there any way to download it without paying so I can then put the code in?

When I open the Affinity Designer Help from the Help window I see the Affinity logo in the centre of the window but no help topics. If I click on the 'Affinity Designer Help' text, the Topic list briefly appears but then disappears again. I've included a screen shot. I can search for items and locate them, but whatever I do I can't get the topic list to display. Has anyone else experienced this issue? I've tried this forum and also googled to see if this is a OSX issue - but not found anything. Does anyone know of a fix? I'm using a MacBook Pro 2012, running OSX 10.9.5 (up to date) Thanks

Inline Help. Touch something to see what it does, its nomenclature and then read about the intentions and ambitions of the developers. One thing that makes software somewhat understandable is a naming convention for all that it does. But it’s only understandable once the foundations of how to think about how the designers and developers responsible for an app thought about what they were making. Which is the inverse of helpful. Once you master something you know it. Already. But getting to know something as complex as an alternative drawing program is a bit of a hill climb. Not because it’s a mountain, it’s not. It just takes time that most people simply don’t have. Recreational hill climbing simply isn’t on most people’s lists, so they hop back on the Adobe treadmill they know, despite realisation that it’s not going to get them anywhere near as fast as actually learning to walk up a hill. So the path to success for Affinity Designer is making the interface, operability, features, functions and paradigms of AD as intuitive and innate (and memorable) as soon is possible for any new user. That’s probably best done with one of those “?” buttons that activates a special mode whereby the user can click on anything and learn more about it. BUT… not in the limited manner these things have been done before, please, if you consider this, add some of these things: A lexicon/nomenclature descriptive passage of what and how this thing that’s been clicked on came to be named, and make this a link, so the user can then click on these words and goto more content specifically about these things as seen through the eyes of the AD creators. A quick “how to” and “WHY” and WHAT FOR!!! passage about this thing, whatever it is. Links to any further information about this thing that might be of use. Videos, tutorials, help files, related features, etc All in little categories, so that they know what they’re going to be clicking on. SUPER IDEAL: program a little animated demo of the thing doing its magic. I know. I’m asking a lot. But some thought has to go into how to make AD have affinity with the designers of the world, en masse. It has the guts to do it, it’s just a matter of putting on a good face, now.

Hi all I have imported a EPS file i live traced on another program. I am able to bend and move nodes fine, but I am not able to group certain sections, such as eyes, mouth etc. any idea if this is possible? https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B66fxiOBO1cGREJ3Rnl2MTNPaWM/view?usp=sharing above is a link to the file.

Hi all, I am planning on getting Affinity Designer for Xmas and i have a few questions before I get it. I currently use Photoshop for website design, is this a programe which could do web design in or is it just vector art? Am I able to import and export to photoshop? Am I able to import and export PDF? I am not sure I can think of everything I need to ask now, but that is most of it. Is it compatible and how does it compare to Illustrator. I look forward to your responses Jon Fuller

Hi, I have just started using this great piece of software today and I want to apply a different grunge effect to two different layers. However when I use the mask it masks out all my layers. Is there any way to make the mask apply only to chosen layers? Thanks for any help :)

@matt, @andy, your reply in https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/560-selection-marqu%C3%A9-tools-constrain-aspect-ratio-and-slow-speed/&p=2336 does irritate me. I don't see any tool called "select" besides a various marque tools in pixel mode – whereas a beta mail mentioned "Select tool ... constrain aspect ratio" and matt asked/replied "I assume" concerning my initial question. Just in case Affinity has more than the the rich bunch of Marque Tools of pixel mode ("persona"? you might want to consider to define/name them accordingly in the later manual & online help. (compare 2 screenshots attached: "marque", "selection") (i'll check in next beta: marque: constrain aspect ratio – and let you know here)