Jan Peek

That did it. Thank you.

The explanation of grids in help was good but for changing colors you get the following: To customize grid color: From the Grid context toolbar, tap the Grid or Divisions line swatch (left and right, respectively) to display a pop-up panel to set the line color(s) I can usually work from context but I don’t understand “grid context toolbar” or “grid or divisions line swatch” Could someone point them out on the attached screenshot? Thanks

OK, I stand corrected. But is there something I can do to recenter the grid?

I put together a floor plan of my new apartment in the old designer. In V2 the grid has shifted to the left so that it’s no use for determining measurements. Anyone have an explanation?

When I go into Settings to check memory usage I get the following: Affinity Designer App - 1.45 GB ‘Documents and Data - 210 GB Adding up the memory used by all the documents - < 12GB What is using the unaccounted for 200 GB?

Fair enough. I’ll try the things you suggested. I’m now pretty much convinced that I’m playing the fool trying to use iPad for any kind of serious work. I really like AD a lot but the Desktop version seems to be Serif’s sole focus and I’ll be heading there from now on. Don’t like Illustrator’s UI and both Lightroom and Photoshop for the IPad are useless, for too many reasons to detail. It’s all a dirty shame because the basic vector editing capability of AD combined with the Apple Pencil is really nice. Sadly there are too many important things missing/broken and apparently no intention to add/fix them. I wish Serif had just put an label on it saying: “Just a toy“ and saved me the trouble of having to find out through long trial and error. Ah well, you can’t always get what you want.

I have now spent many hundreds of hours using AD for iPad using an Apple Pencil and iPad Pro 12.9. It has been mostly a great pleasure. There is no other iOS app that comes close to it for doing vector graphics and it’s pixel persona is fine for all but a few things which can be finished up in Photoshop. (Affinity Photo is good also but I’m so used to good old Photoshop I haven’t really pursued it.) I understand that Adobe is promising an iOS version of illustrator, but they have a lot of catching up to do to match AD, and if Photoshop for iPad is any indication I’m not holding my breath. So kudos to the design team! But... (I’m sure you could see this coming) there are a few strange behaviors and omissions that prevent it from being a 5 star app (call it 4.5 at present) So.... 1) A minor issue, but a significant waste of time, no way to turn off spell check in settings. Yes, it can be turned off in the Text Studio burger menu. But it has to be turned off on EVERY entry. To add insult to injury when you deselect spellcheck, Guides are turned on. So that’s several unnecessary clicks, including turning off guides again on every entry. I realize that this issue has been raised repeatedly, but it doesn’t seem like it should be much effort to put it in settings. 2) No rulers. Bad deficiency. I need to know precise measurements for documents. 3) The units seem stuck on points. In settings there is “Text in points” and “Lines in points”. What if I want it in pixels or inches? Some adjustments can be done in pixels but the main display remains in points. 4) Dragging layers to arrange order is error prone. Very easy to miss your target. Which can make the object disappear into the ozone. Thank God for undo. 5) Here’s the one that makes me scream. When editing text I select the text string. But if there are several paragraphs in the selection the virtual keyboard pops up and covers the target. And (this is the problem) when I try to use 2 fingers to bring it into view, it snaps back behind the keyboard. What is this about? Maddening. As always I know I may be missing something, so I’d be happy to know if I can get results another way. Regards - Jan

Thanks for the explanation. I have wondered what “scale with object” was for. This raises a question though: Why isn’t this default behavior? I can’t think of any reason you’d want to NOT scale an object with its container. Can you explain?

I don’t fully understand how scale with object works, but here is the source file. This issue is obviously not a showstopper but it’s something that shouldn’t happen in a pro app. Untitled.afdesign

Attached are two exports from a file I created for a class on font design. Looking at the bottom of the “i” there is a distinct displacement between the first (showing my intent) and second export. This effect is produced by resizing the canvas with a pinch. Unless I am missing something here this is one for the design team./

Is ram usage referring to limits specific to AD or is it an OS limit of ram allocation to apps? I j have a new a new IPad with 1 TB ram, so no overall lack of ram, but I have no clear idea how iOS manages memory. Can anyone enlighten me on this? Also, could this be specific to my current project? Anybody with experience of the how and why of AD crashing? Last time I .

I spend several hours a day using AD. In the past 24 hrs it’s become progressively more unstable, crashes every couple of minutes. Anything I should know about.? Next thing I’d try is a re install, which is tedious. Advice appreciated.

I have a simple pattern I drew using curves, like a pencil drawing, (see the attachment). What I would like to do is apply some styles to the shapes created the by intersections of various lines. The idea is very simple, is there an easy way to implement it in Affinity Designer?

When editing a project I find that trying to select a curve with the pencil only works sometimes. There’s no pattern to it. (Assuming that another curve within the group it belongs too has already been selected). This is annoying because I have to find the curve in the layers studio and often it is one curve in a group of 20 or 30 that all look pretty much the same. Any auggestions? Also, when working with the pencil I find that hand contact will often select whole regions, also very annoying. I was under the impression that the app was capable of ignoring the hand and recognizing finger and pencil. What’s up with that?

Thanks for the tip. This forum delivers.