eindietmar

Cool, thanks so much for the video, made it so much clearer. I did use the form tool for making a square and did not transform the square to curves before doing this. When transforming the square to curves and then using the scissors tool everything seems to work fine. Thanks

Can you please guide me how this exactly works? If i go to geometry > seperate curves, this is greyed out. What do i need to select after cutting a curve with the scissors tool?

Although the knife tools works as expected, the scissors tool does not. If you just open up one node, it behaves correctly. But if you open up more then one node it actually creates 2 lineobjects that are not seperated on two layers, I use the scissors tools (in Illustrator) mainly for cutting objects that should stay open (no fill, just two open line objects) In this scenario the scissors tool is not usable since you then have two nodes on top of each other on the same layer making it impossible to select the correct node. Please fix this.

The warp tool is a nice addition but without the nodes of the warp grid to snap to helper lines, grids or anything else it is not so handy. There is also no way of dragging points of a warp grid just vertically or horizontally by holding "shift key". I need the warp grid points to align on something, currently this is just possible freely.

Same here, items only visible on canvas kind a limitates the space i could use to draw on. What i am used to is, to have the artboards itself beeing white whereover the pasteboard area is light grey, which perfectly works for me, to differentiate.

Today i have played around with that issue. What i found out is really suprising: What MattP is saying only accounts for Illustrators AI files. Now i found a workaround wich does much more then just allowing me to import my illustrator pasteboard. I exported a rather complex document with a heavily used pasteboard into SVG and EPS. When opening the exported SVG file with Affinity Designer it shows the initial canvas siuze to be the same as the original in Illustrator When you select all items (CMD-A) all the pasteboard items are also present but not shown, You can just see the blue selection rectangles around those items, but outside of the initial canvas. So SVG would work for me with one issue, the blending options within an SVG are not displayed correctly (seems to be a file format issue not supporting all blending options. When opening the EPS file with Affinity Designer the initial canvas size is not the same as the illustrator Canvas size, it actually adopts the size of all the pasteboard items to the initial canvas size so all the pasteboard items are inside the initial canvas size. (Problem with EPS is moreover the format of the document type, it won´t let you edit your graphics (if you have FX like blur or alike) because it creates slices of your vector arts.) Is there any know format i could export to within illustrator apart from SVG and EPS that will include my pasteboard items? thanks!

My biggest problem with the current implementation of the Pasteboard is, i currently have all my illustrator files created with the use of illustrators pasteboard, which just shows everything even if it is off the canvas/artboard. As mentioned above this could be similar versions to the item of the artboard, a pallette or else. The main problem for me is that i haven´t found a way of importing illustrator documents showing the whole content of the illustrator pasteboard. Even if i resize the current artboard, only the items will get visible that where clipped before. Files that where created in illustrator by having an empty artboard (I usually just use the artboard to put things on while printing, and then put it back from the artboard to the pasteboard, so an empty artboard could happen often) but a filled pasteboard don´t show any content in Affinity Designer. So all my current Files which have been created in Illustrator show nothing but a blank canvas, since the pasteboard is not supported. And currently this is the only reason why i am still bound to illustrator. Is there any solution on how to import illustrator documents that heavily rely on illustrator artboards? If this is possible, i can finally make the switch. Thanks guys.

To start off, saying that i am not in favour with the old icons, indeed i feel that they look dusted, don´t really reflect the vibrant UI look and feel of Yoxsemite color palette change. That siad, i also wouldn´t go with the new ones: As i see it, an icon should reflect what the app itself is able to help me with. In best case it gives you a sense of the featureset without even knowing the name of the app. I can´t really see how the new icons are doing that trick here. Usually simpler is better, but this looks more like an aged church glas window then anything of the topic here. I am not saying that they are not pleasing to the ey, they are, but they just don´t tell you the story. An icon is much more than just branding. And looking back to Adobe, i think those CC icons are just a plan b option: "as we can´t find a way of using iconography for doing the trick we´re now using abbreviations." And as moentioned before, please don´t even consider to make an option for changing an icon via the preferences. Otherwise this would maybe even end up in a UI sandbox. Sometimes in life of a UI/UX designer you just do those decision to focus on what you want to achive. In best case the 80/20 % rule takes account, meaning 80 % support what you do, 20% do not. In my opinion Apple is a good example of doing icons which tell you the right story… cheers Dietmar