Basic tools!

[Raymondo]

Hi

As great as the new update 1.5 is, I feel Designer is not yet ready to rival Illustrator.

 

Basic tools not yet available in Designer:

 

1) Shape Builder tool

2) Spiral tool

3) Distort & Tranform

4) ZIg Zag, Roughen and Transform tool

5) Envelope Distort tool

6) Edit colours  - recolour artwork facility

 

The above are just some of the obvious basic tools which by now Designer should have in it's arsenal. I have once before mentioned the shape builder tool and so have others but clearly it's not considered important enough, shame. I would also say that that a 3D feature like Illustrator is very very useful in the creation of Logo's but from what I've read it also is not considered important.

 

It seems to me that the team are concentrating on too many whistle and bells production improvements without first making sure designers have a good bag of basic tools.

Don't get me wrong, Great product and I applaud what you are doing but please walk before you run and make sure Affinity Designer can truly rival Illustrator which at present it can't, there are too many creative tools missing. By the way, unless I'm not looking in the right place, I don't see any update road maps. Any comments please.

[Alfred]

By the way, unless I'm not looking in the right place, I don't see any update road maps.

 

The Affinity Designer Feature Roadmap is here.

[Raymondo]

Yeah but that was over two years ago and I don't see many of these items in the latest update. So just where are they with these, would help to have an update roadmap. Just seems the team are more concentrating on UI and web base capabilities and not so much on illustration production tools.

[MEB]

Hi Raymondo,

The roadmap list all updates planned for the 1.x cycle. It was a lot bigger two years ago. Implemented items were removed from the list. Those that are still there will be implemented in the next 1.x updates.

[Oval]

Implemented items were removed from the list. Those that are still there will be implemented in the next 1.x updates.

Text styles and symbols are still there …

[MEB]

True, those should be removed soon...

[Alfred]

So just where are they with these, would help to have an update roadmap.

 

A roadmap lists new features which are planned but not yet implemented. It sounds as though you're looking for a changelog; i.e. a list of new features which have been implemented.

 

Each update announcement includes a list of new features and bug fixes. What else were you hoping to see, Raymondo? :unsure:

[Petar Petrenko]

TonyB wrote:

Please find below the current feature roadmap for Affinity Designer. The list is a selection of features from our own internal roadmap we would like to share with our users. If a feature you would like isn't on the list then feel free to create a new post so everyone can discuss it. We read all the feature suggestions and consider each one very carefully.

 

The idea is the list will never get longer. As we complete and release features then we will replace those features with new ones.

 

But, there are still not new ones.

[Raymondo]

I was hoping Alfred that whilst expanding capability for UI and web production that there would also be an undertaking in the list to provide more of the basic tools, and I might add, very useful tools that Illustrator has in it's tool box such as I have listed. At present I still have to use Illustrator as I find at the moment to many short comings and work around's that slow me up in the AD toolbox. Most of the items I have listed have also at different times been asked for by others as being very useful and should after what, two years now be in the toolbox as standard. I still don't see any prospect of these being added to the roadmap which makes me feel that the AD development team are straying from the path a wee bit. Yep we all know this is a fledgling software but when you enter into an established market you can't start at the very bottom and therefore basic tools come first, whistle and bells second. This is in many ways is a very competent piece of software but it's still very clunky and awkward in it's approach and a way off yet to truly rival Illustrator, at least for me for now. It seems the team are listening to much to web designers and not enough to illustrators. 

I would suggest you take a look at the website here and the logo designs done with Illustrator http://www.creatnprocess.net A lot of these were achieved using the 3D feature and other tools I have listed which you can't at present create in AD in the same way.