fredolone

I waited so long for a worthy competitor to Adobe. I work with Illustrator for nearly 30 Years and it took so long for the program to be so powerfull as it is. Yours is powerfull and with a completely new concept from the start. BUT: Every Designer must work with construction plans … even in print. You programmed everything one need to know with your fantastic measuring tools … which are completely worthless without the ability to stay. This is the reason why I cannot use your software. The time when we had to draw measurements by hand ended in 1997 with Adobe Illustrator 7 and CADTools. How long will you wait? Tactics? Failure? Licence issues? Play all the cards you have before you go under in some other takeover …

Thanks Pšenda, it‘s a workaround … it sometimes feels like in the early days of Illustrator … I hope I still work when AD is ready No joke … in so many fields it's so modern and I love it. I hope I soon can replace AI.

I'm reworking an illustration. on the lower layer is the original shape. the layer is locked. I am working on a copied version on the layer above. It has now happened several times that I accidentally caught the lower shape while working on the points and curves and was able to change it ... EVEN THOUGH the layer is locked! How can that be?

misunderstanding … I imported the Illustration from AI via pdf. I work on it in AD. What you see in the images is that I try to copy parts of an compound shape from one layer to another within AD (i.e. because I deleted them in an early stage of my work). Even when I copy only the little form (as you see activated in img-2) it pastes the whole form and not only the small part of it. I don‘t unserstand this behaviour. I can delete points, move points … but not copy-paste them. I was used to do things like this in AI very often … I hope, sooner or later, I no longer need any workaround (like copy the shape on a extra layer, devide it and copy-paste it from there).

Good evening community, I work over an illustration (I have to simplify it). It‘s a form which is imported and what in AI is called a compund shape. The original Illustration is on layer-1 (in blue) … im working on the red copy. I missed or deleted some forms in the progress of my work. I‘m used to get it back from the original (in AI) by copy/paste … aktivated parts and points of a compund shape. i also use very often parts to dublicate within this form. Problem: Affinity designer pastes not only the selected points but the whole shape. Is there something I didn’t find or does it really not work? Is there a workaround?

Thanks! You cannot image how hard I missed this. For anyone else: you have to hold down the control-Key for moving the object but finally it works also with any othe corner point. Juhu!

Dear fellows, I'm an illustrator user for more than 20 years. I now try to figure out how to draw in Affinity designer as precicely as I’m used to … honestly, it feels like the early days of Illustrator, (waiting decades for features, always looking for workarounds for the easiest tasks). This time I built some free forms i.e. with the boolean functions. I then try to align a new forms center magnetically to a point which lies NOT on the outer side of the existing form … I can‘t!?! Does anyone know how to do this (without a helping 3rd form like a rectangle or any other anoying workaround). See image. Kindest regards, freddy