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Friends of Affinity-Serif add the Smart Fill Tool or something similar in Affinity Designer is of great importance to every designer.

I am willing to pay more for Affinity Designer.

See example video: CorelDraw Tutorial - Smart Tools
Courtesy YouTube Channel: ComoHacerPara

 

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Note: This seems like a feature request, not a question. As such, it needs to be in one of the Feature Requests & Suggestions forums, not here in the Questions forum. Otherwise it won't be seen by the right team at Serif.

Perhaps a moderator will move it for you.

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15 minutes ago, Andrés Rivera Gómez said:

I am willing to pay more for Affinity Designer.

Well, there's likely a reason why e.g. the Corel Draw "Technical Suite" costs 1260 bucks, and not just 25

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But what is the problem with not adding a tool like the SMART FILLER TOOL or something similar. Affinity has to put the pile, because then it will not be able to compete with CorelDraw, Adobe and we users are not going to be able to immigrate 100% to Affinity applications for a whim of Serif.

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3 hours ago, loukash said:

Well, there's likely a reason why e.g. the Corel Draw "Technical Suite" costs 1260 bucks, and not just 25

Yes, CorelDraw is more expensive, but that function exists in CD 2019 Suite SE costs which costs about 120 EUR with no discount. (I got mine for 89 EUR, about a year ago.)  And the price has to be compared against APh plus AD at least as the CD suite also includes CorelPaint (among some more tools like a font manager etc.). Considering the non-discount price of Affinity apps Photo + Designer, the request isn't really that far off limits, I suppose.

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9 minutes ago, Andrés Rivera Gómez said:

But what is the problem with not adding a tool like the SMART FILLER TOOL or something similar.

Very likely limited development staff resources at Serif.
They're hiring, by the way.

8 minutes ago, Andy05 said:

the request isn't really that far off limits

Fair enough.

However, keep in mind that it will only work reliably if they finally fix the utterly broken boolean operations.
And my gut feeling is that they are deliberately holding off adding too many of such nifty features because they know that at the moment it won't work as good as all of us expect. :/

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10 hours ago, loukash said:

And my gut feeling is that they are deliberately holding off adding too many of such nifty features

True. I also still see some of the major features intentionally not happening before V2 as some kind of buying inducement for upgrading. I might be wrong, but from a business' point of view, it would make sense.

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