Wish list for Designer

[George3]

Here is a list of things that would improve Designer

1. Text on a path

2. Select and find similar colors in fills and strokes

3. Ability to import native files into Quark and InDesign (instead of needing to create a separate file)

4. Ability to trace an image

5. Import AI files and retain layers and grouped objects

Thanks!

[Pšenda]

10 hours ago, George3 said:

1. Text on a path

https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Text/pathText.html

[George3]

Thanks! for the text on path tip.

[dcr]

On 2/27/2019 at 9:12 AM, George3 said:

5. Import AI files and retain layers and grouped objects

I would like to see improved AI import as well.  As far as I know, Designer still only imports from the PDF stream and loses things such as objects outside the page/artboard and so on.  In my own tests, other than Illustrator, only CorelDraw and VectorStyler seem to be able to open .ai files and capture everything.  (As a note here, I use Illustrator CS3 so I haven't tested .ai files made with Illustrator CS4 and later.)

Granted, Affinity Designer plus VectorStyler is still less expensive than a subscription to you-know-who, but if I could do things in just one illustration program, that would certainly be preferable.

[fde101]

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https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/53-feedback-for-affinity-designer-on-desktop/

[walt.farrell]

On 2/27/2019 at 9:12 AM, George3 said:

2. Select and find similar colors in fills and strokes

You can select objects that have the same (not similar) fill or stroke color as another object. I'm not sure if that's what you mean.

https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/select.html

[Boldlinedesign]

On 6/30/2022 at 4:01 PM, dcr said:

Granted, Affinity Designer plus VectorStyler is still less expensive than a subscription to you-know-who, but if I could do things in just one illustration program, that would certainly be preferable.

I can understand your thought and agree it would be nice if one program could handle everything we need and not be a subscription as well. Everyone had their own definition of what they need and every program has a niche they are trying to fill. Even when I used illustrator, and still now when I use primarily vectorstyler and some affinity, I purchased programs dedicated to a specific task. I have vectoraster and patternodes to make halftones and patterns, respectively. I also bought vector magic to do vector tracing. 

Back in the day I owned both adobe and Macromedia suites and used them as I felt it best suited my workflow.

Affinity designer has some benefits and suites a certain workflow, but I suspect they will never catch up to the capabilities of Vectorstyler and I also do not believe it's their goal to do so. As you mentioned, thankfully both affinity and vectorstyler are so cheap and together they can provide a solution to cut the cord on adobe if you're primarily a vector designer