[laurieg]

I'd love to switch to Affinity from Adobe Illustrator, but there's one feature I just can't live without:

In illustrator you can make a dashed line that nicely lines up with the corners of a square (putting one dash in each corner). Nothing else seems to handle this case. [1]

I use Illustrator to make stitching patterns and lining up the corners in this way is absolutely essential, otherwise the stitches come out looking lopsided.

[1] https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/145760-how...

[azalemeth]

The other thing I really miss is the simple artboard tool to effectively crop pdfs. Designer does have this, but it's not quite as "nice", iirc.

[regular]

But Illustrator is ruined by a glaring omission that people have been complaining about for years (if not decades): There's no way to select only the objects that are totally within the selection marquee. Every other vector art application offers this critical selection mode (Affinity Designer defaults to it, I think).

I consider Illustrator unusable as a result. It's also essentially abandonware.