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Thoughts about features so far


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I work mainly on visual identity projects and have used both Affinity Designer and Photo since they came out on the market. While Affinity Designer is certainly a promising piece of software I could not unfortunately (at this point) use it for professional purposes. I continue to support the developers for their work however I will have to stick to illy for the time being. The features I'll list may have been discussed before but I'll get them in one place to illustrate my point on this. These are a couple of missing features that I bumped in with some attempted projects in Affinity Designer:

 

  • Most important PDF export as vector. Most clients work with Adobe products so I need to deliver files that will support multiple stop gradients/transparency and eliptical gradients as vector.
  • Bezier handle snap to the grid. This is especially useful for logos and typography
  • Delete control points and break the curve at the same time. Having to break lines separately is a tedious workaround.
  • Shape offset and a better algorithm for point distribution. The current workaround with strokes creates many useless vertices along the path.
  • Split shapes with a single line. Right now the only way I could split a shape is by using another closed shape.
  • Line width control points. I know there is currently a pressure option but it just doesn't cut it for complex situations.

 

I'll be watching the app's updates and activity in case this will get added in a near future. Really looking forward to completing an entire project using Affinity Designer.

 

Cheers and godspeed.  :)

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Hi filip89,

just be patient. There is a lot work to do. As you can see both apps are at version 1.5. Just look behind and see what features Illustrator and Photoshop offered at version 1.5. Up to version 2.0 of Designer and Photo you will have myriad of features to play/work with.

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