Please update typography tools

[dcrosby]

Hi folks. I've been a supporter of Affinity since I first found out about your program. One thing that's keeping me from using it as my go to vector program is its type handling though. I was glad to see that points and picas were added to the ruler, I use them frequently. I'm a bit surprised over the fact that there seems to be no hyphenation in text boxes. Did I miss something? That's pretty basic.

I'm also not a fan of text falling outside the text box and would greatly appreciate the option to turn off that behavior. Better yet would be a way to link text frames as is done in Publisher. 

I know Designer is not a page layout program but I frequently make flyers, posters or tri-folds outside of inDesign and would very much like to use Designer for this kind of work. Thanks.

[walt.farrell]

Publisher (currently in public beta) had those features. We don't know whether Serif will choose to add them to Designer, or when they might do so.

However, when Publisher is available for sale, if you own both Publisher and Designer you should be able to move between them easily as Publisher will supply a Designer Persona. 

The Personas for Designer and Photo are not yet enabled in the Publisher beta, though, so we don't know exactly what features they will provide.

[dcrosby]

Hi Walt. Yes Publisher would HAVE to include those features, hopefully they can be moved over easily and it's not a matter of them trying to differentiate the softwares.

I plan to buy Photo at some point and assume I'll end up with Publisher as well but not sure when. I'm eager to see how they merge the different programs in the Publisher personas. Maybe it will be so smooth that you don't even notice you're using different programs. That would be a paradigm shift.